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7th Annual Holiday Season Race in Folding@Home

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Thanks Peter for the stas !

On another note, by first bigadv has done 46% in 24 hours (give or take 30 minute), so I should make the deadline ??

Edit: 50% at 26 hours worst case. Thats 52 for the unit, and I heard that 2.4 days or 57.6 hours is the max. At 52 hours, I make it pretty easy., right ?

Thats a lot of horsepower. I thought with 24 cores, I would make it easy. Maybe easy with 16 cores @ 2.8 or more on the Intel platform
 
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Markfw900 said:
Thanks Peter for the stas !

On another note, by first bigadv has done 46% in 24 hours (give or take 30 minute), so I should make the deadline ??

Edit: 50% at 26 hours worst case. Thats 52 for the unit, and I heard that 2.4 days or 57.6 hours is the max. At 52 hours, I make it pretty easy., right ?

Thats a lot of horsepower. I thought with 24 cores, I would make it easy. Maybe easy with 16 cores @ 2.8 or more on the Intel platform
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In this thread, 10e posted these bios settings for your motherboard:

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=16840


In the BIOS do the following:

1) Make sure in the memory configuration that "node interleaving" is enabled. It disables NUMA BIOS support and tends to show a very large improvement in folding performance in the order of 25 to 30%
2) Make sure your maximum P-State is set to 0 (zero)
3) Disable Cool 'n' Quiet
4) Disable "PowerNow"


Looks like I had it backwards for node interleaving. It should be enabled I guess.
 
Thanks biodoc, after this unit finises I will look and fix. At 80% now and I think I will make the deadline.
 
The last day of the PrimeGrid Race! Tomorrow I'll rebalance the teams!

FAH20121220.JPG
 
OK, now I have a critical problem. Its been at 99,99% for 20 minutes, but the ETA said 23 seconds, something is wrong. What do I do ?
Log file below:
OK, I fixed the HFM problem, but it won't finish the 8101 that it spent 2 days running, and if I don't get it working soon, I wil loose the 200k bonus. WTF ??? Log file below:

*********************** Log Started 2012-12-21T03:01:25Z ***********************
03:01:25:************************* Folding@home Client *************************
03:01:25: Website: http://folding.stanford.edu/
03:01:25: Copyright: (c) 2009-2012 Stanford University
03:01:25: Author: Joseph Coffland <joseph@cauldrondevelopment.com>
03:01:25: Args: --child --lifeline 1125 /etc/fahclient/config.xml --run-as
03:01:25: fahclient --pid-file=/var/run/fahclient.pid --daemon
03:01:25: Config: /etc/fahclient/config.xml
03:01:25:******************************** Build ********************************
03:01:25: Version: 7.2.9
03:01:25: Date: Oct 3 2012
03:01:25: Time: 10:34:06
03:01:25: SVN Rev: 3578
03:01:25: Branch: fah/trunk/client
03:01:25: Compiler: GNU 4.4.7
03:01:25: Options: -std=gnu++98 -O3 -funroll-loops -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math
03:01:25: -fno-unsafe-math-optimizations -msse2
03:01:25: Platform: linux2 3.2.0-1-amd64
03:01:25: Bits: 64
03:01:25: Mode: Release
03:01:25:******************************* System ********************************
03:01:25: CPU: AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6234
03:01:25: CPU ID: AuthenticAMD Family 21 Model 1 Stepping 2
03:01:25: CPUs: 24
03:01:25: Memory: 31.36GiB
03:01:25:Free Memory: 30.76GiB
03:01:25: Threads: POSIX_THREADS
03:01:25: On Battery: false
03:01:25: UTC offset: -8
03:01:25: PID: 1206
03:01:25: CWD: /var/lib/fahclient
03:01:25: OS: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic x86_64
03:01:25: OS Arch: AMD64
03:01:25: GPUs: 2
03:01:25: GPU 0: NVIDIA:2 GF104 [GeForce GTX 460]
03:01:25: GPU 1: NVIDIA:2 GF104 [GeForce GTX 460]
03:01:25: CUDA: 2.1
03:01:25:CUDA Driver: 4020
03:01:25:***********************************************************************
03:01:25:<config>
03:01:25: <!-- Folding Slot Configuration -->
03:01:25: <gpu v='true'/>
03:01:25:
03:01:25: <!-- Network -->
03:01:25: <proxy v=':8080'/>
03:01:25:
03:01:25: <!-- Remote Command Server -->
03:01:25: <command-allow v='127.0.0.1,192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255'/>
03:01:25: <command-allow-no-pass v='127.0.0.1,192.168.1.2-192.168.1.255'/>
03:01:25:
03:01:25: <!-- User Information -->
03:01:25: <passkey v='********************************'/>
03:01:25: <team v='198'/>
03:01:25: <user v='Mark_F_Williams'/>
03:01:25:
03:01:25: <!-- Folding Slots -->
03:01:25: <slot id='0' type='GPU'>
03:01:25: <client-type v='beta'/>
03:01:25: </slot>
03:01:25: <slot id='1' type='GPU'>
03:01:25: <client-type v='beta'/>
03:01:25: </slot>
03:01:25: <slot id='2' type='SMP'>
03:01:25: <client-type v='bigadv'/>
03:01:25: <cpus v='-1'/>
03:01:25: <max-packet-size v='big'/>
03:01:25: </slot>
03:01:25:</config>
03:01:25:Switching to user fahclient
03:01:25:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:32762
\x1b[93m03:01:25:WARNING:Attempting to update GPUs.txt: Could not get IP address for assign-GPU.stanford.edu: No address associated with hostname\x1b[0m
03:01:25:Trying to access database...
03:01:25:Successfully acquired database lock
03:01:25:Enabled folding slot 00: READY gpu:0:\"GF104 [GeForce GTX 460]\"
03:01:25:Enabled folding slot 01: READY gpu:1:\"GF104 [GeForce GTX 460]\"
03:01:25:Enabled folding slot 02: READY smp:24
03:01:25:WU03:FS02:Starting
03:01:25:WU03:FS02:Running FahCore: /usr/bin/FAHCoreWrapper /var/lib/fahclient/cores/www.stanford.edu/~pande/Linux/AMD64/Core_a5.fah/FahCore_a5 -dir 03 -suffix 01 -version 702 -lifeline 1206 -checkpoint 15 -np 24
03:01:25:WU03:FS02:Started FahCore on PID 1241
03:01:25:WU03:FS02:Core PID:1247
03:01:25:WU03:FS02:FahCore 0xa5 started
03:01:25:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
03:01:25:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
\x1b[93m03:01:25:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Failed to connect to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80: Network is unreachable\x1b[0m
03:01:25:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
\x1b[93m03:01:25:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Failed to connect to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80: Network is unreachable\x1b[0m
03:01:25:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
\x1b[93m03:01:25:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Failed to connect to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080: Network is unreachable\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:01:25:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
\x1b[93m03:01:25:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Failed to connect to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080: Network is unreachable\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:01:25:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
03:01:26:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
\x1b[93m03:01:26:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Failed to connect to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80: Network is unreachable\x1b[0m
03:01:26:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
\x1b[93m03:01:26:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Failed to connect to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080: Network is unreachable\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:01:26:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
03:01:26:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
\x1b[93m03:01:26:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Failed to connect to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80: Network is unreachable\x1b[0m
03:01:26:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
\x1b[93m03:01:26:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Failed to connect to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080: Network is unreachable\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:01:26:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
03:01:26:WU03:FS02:0xa5:
03:01:26:WU03:FS02:0xa5:*------------------------------*
03:01:26:WU03:FS02:0xa5:Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
03:01:26:WU03:FS02:0xa5:Version 2.27 (Thu Feb 10 09:46:40 PST 2011)
03:01:26:WU03:FS02:0xa5:
03:01:26:WU03:FS02:0xa5😛reparing to commence simulation
03:01:26:WU03:FS02:0xa5:- Ensuring status. Please wait.
03:01:29:WU03:FS02:0xa5:- Looking at optimizations...
03:01:29:WU03:FS02:0xa5:- Working with standard loops on this execution.
03:01:58:Server connection id=1 on 0.0.0.0:36330 from 127.0.0.1
03:02:26:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
03:02:26:WU00:FS00:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:02:26:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
03:02:26:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
03:02:26:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
03:02:26:WU00:FS00:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:02:26:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:02:26:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
03:02:26:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:02:26:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
03:02:26:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
03:02:26:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:02:26:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:02:26:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
03:02:26:Server connection id=2 on 0.0.0.0:36330 from 192.168.1.2
03:04:03:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
03:04:03:WU00:FS00:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:04:03:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
03:04:03:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
03:04:03:WU00:FS00:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:04:03:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:04:03:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
03:04:03:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
03:04:03:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:04:03:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
03:04:03:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
03:04:03:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:04:03:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:04:03:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
03:06:40:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
03:06:40:WU00:FS00:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:06:40:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
03:06:40:WU00:FS00:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
03:06:40:WU00:FS00:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:06:40:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:06:40:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
03:06:40:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80
03:06:40:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:06:40:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:80': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
03:06:40:WU01:FS01:Connecting to assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080
03:06:41:WU01:FS01:News: Welcome to Folding@Home
\x1b[93m03:06:41:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'assign-GPU.stanford.edu:8080': Empty work server assignment\x1b[0m
\x1b[91m03:06:41:ERROR:WU01:FS01:Exception: Could not get an assignment\x1b[0m
 
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Markfw900 said:
OK, it finally finished, I hope I get credit
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Jeez, your log file is littered with requests for gpu WU assignments. FAH doesn't support GPUs on linux! How do you find out if you got the bonus? I don't see any way to track specific WUs.
 
biodoc said:
Jeez, your log file is littered with requests for gpu WU assignments. FAH doesn't support GPUs on linux! How do you find out if you got the bonus? I don't see any way to track specific WUs.
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I removed them and rebooted, but I did not get credit, at least not with the bonus, but I made it in less than 2.4 days. If I don't get credit for the next one, I am quitting F@H. I have used this passkey for years, and turned in bigadv units with it when only 8 threads were required for years.
 
Markfw900 said:
I removed them and rebooted, but I did not get credit, at least not with the bonus, but I made it in less than 2.4 days. If I don't get credit for the next one, I am quitting F@H. I have used this passkey for years, and turned in bigadv units with it when only 8 threads were required for years.
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Did you make the changes in the bios? Hopefully that will make a difference.
 
MarkFW, I just took a look at your thread over at the folding forum. They posted the solution to the very long write times with ext4 filesystems at the end of bigadv WUs. Here's the solution instruction thread. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1695762


paste this into a terminal window and hit return:

sudo sed -ri '/barrier=/ {p;d}; /ext[34]/ {s/([ \t]ext[34][ \t]+)([^ \t]+)([ \t])/\1\2,barrier=0\3/}' /etc/fstab

then:

cat /etc/fstab

You should see something like this:

UUID=52813dfc-e0e6-461b-9652-49c2ccff0077 / ext3 errors=remount-ro,barrier=0 0 1

then reboot.

You are almost there, I think! :thumbsup:
 
biodoc said:
Did you make the changes in the bios? Hopefully that will make a difference.
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Yes, I could only find 2 of the 4 things to change. It looks like its doing 31 minutes a frame.

but I have 2 more problems.

edit: I saw above, and it worked. Now to the downloading problem....

Second, it keep downloading a unit in advance, so I will never get a bonus. How do I stop that in v7 client ? I can't find a setting for that.
 
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Markfw900 said:
Yes, I could only find 2 of the 4 things to change. It looks like its doing 31 minutes a frame.

but I have 2 more problems.

edit: I saw above, and it worked. Now to the downloading problem....

Second, it keep downloading a unit in advance, so I will never get a bonus. How do I stop that in v7 client ? I can't find a setting for that.
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I thought downloading the next wu in advance was a good thing. It affects the bonus? I'll do some searching. Wait, now I understand.
 
Markfw900 said:
Second, it keep downloading a unit in advance, so I will never get a bonus. How do I stop that in v7 client ? I can't find a setting for that.
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Ok, found the solution. You know where you added the extra slot option, like client-type, bigadv? Add another:

Name: next-unit-percentage
Value: 100

This setting will download the next wu when you hit 100%.
 
Here are the Friday's stats:

FAH20121221.JPG


Today the PrimeGrid race ended. I have rebalanced the teams.
This is how it looks like now:

FAH20121222.JPG
FAH20121221b.JPG


If anyone has some serious objections, please post here.
But - as we have done in the previous races - now the real race starts. The teams will not change after tomorrows stats. Fold on, TeAm!
 
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petrusbroder said:
If anyone has some serious objections, please post here.
But - as we have done in the previous races - now the real race starts. The teams will not change after tomorrows stats. Fold on, TeAm!
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Ok with me! 🙂

Thanks for the stats, Peter! :thumbsup:
 
Hopefully the Firecats are holding back some hardware.

If not, it won't be much of a race! :twisted:

Hey, someone has to start the trash talk! :biggrin::whiste:
 
biodoc said:
Hopefully the Firecats are holding back some hardware.

If not, it won't be much of a race! :twisted:

Hey, someone has to start the trash talk! :biggrin::whiste:
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Well, with Mark’s big rig now in the race you might be right; maybe santa will bring the Firecats some additional horsepower……….….. Santa?? You there? Hello? ()🙂
 
biodoc said:
Hopefully the Firecats are holding back some hardware.

If not, it won't be much of a race! :twisted:

Hey, someone has to start the trash talk! :biggrin::whiste:
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I have another 100k in power, holding back since its too warm here, If we get below freezing, I might be able to fire one of them up. (and if it doesn't blow the breakers.)
 
Still kind of weird that I don't get bigadv units on my 32 thread boxes... I've been crunching on this passkey since that last time I raced a few years ago.
 
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