SMP taking a long time

Darkstar · Post by **Darkstar** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:19 am

Running the windows smp on E6600 machines and after the first fold they are now only finishing about 1% per hour!!!
WTF? They all pretty much seem to get the Gromacs 2610

shadco · Post by **shadco** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:24 am

I'm not much on Windows MP folding but this may shed some light

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=438264

Darkstar · Post by **Darkstar** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:31 am

thanks for the link, unfortunately they dont seem to have a solution.

shadco · Post by **shadco** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:44 am

Darkstar wrote:thanks for the link, unfortunately they dont seem to have a solution.

Pardon the opinion but...

I'd install vmware then run Linux under that with the Linux SMP Client.

That's what I do on my main family pc and it's a lot more stable and consistant, it also yields better ppd for what that's worth.

I ran 1 wu through on the Windows SMP Client and that was enough for me.

Darkstar · Post by **Darkstar** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:46 am

thanks Shadco,

but if i do that some of the engineers that will be getting the systems might get a little upset

i am going to try that when i get my own system built!

Darkstar · Post by **Darkstar** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:07 am

OK, did a reinstall on one system,now projected to 20 hours for the 2651 @ 1459 PPD