Can you run more than one distributed computing program at once??

[RU482]

I am currently running Genome@home and wouldn't mind doing folding@home also...is it possible to do 2 programs at the same time?


Curious

 

[Slahr Dzhe]

Yes, but you will take a hit on 'effectiveness' of each process if you run them at the same time. Easiest way to do this is by time sharing using a script(or batch file) to start and stop each project you would like to do. I personally would just buy another computer... you can never have too many computers. 😉

SD

 

[RU482]

That's kinda what I figured. Already have 2 PC doing Genome @ home...maybe I'll switch one

 

[cakin]

You need to add one more for Seti. We have to find intelligent life out there somewhere, cause there isn't any here.....

 

[TNOguy]

As was mentioned, you definitely can run multiple different clients, with the performance hit to both. Actually, the performance hit to SETI wasn't all that bad because it pretty much shut out other DC clients on my box. I have pretty good results running ECCp and UD in tandem though, on three different machines. I have tried:

SETI/UD - UD end up DOG slow
SETI/FightAids - this combo was pretty good but I stopped FightAids
UD/FightAids - another good combo
UD/ECCp - not too bad, but occassionally I have to stop ECCp in order for UD to make some serious percentage gains

TNOguy

 

[Syntax]

F@H and UD work well together.. Share 50 / 50 Clock Cycles..... However Seti takes over all processing.. I was getting like 97 / 3 with Seti and F@H......

FYI...I was using Seti Driver and maybe I didnt set it up correctly.....

 

[Confused]

Although they say that it ONLY uses idle cycles, the Seti client isn't at the lowest priority. Unlike most DC clients which are at priority 1 (the lowest possible), Seti is at (i believe) priority 4 (all out of a scale of 20 if i remember correctly). That is why Seti seems to take priority over other DC projects, and also cause some of the problems with some other programs.

Not the best situation, but Seti and UD were an OK combo, because with UD you got more points the longer it took IIRC.

Other thing is to run one project on one computer, one project on another computer.

Post your rigs here and we'll be able to tell you what rig is best for what project, and you can make your mind up based on what is best 🙂

ConfusedBW

 

[Rattledagger]

Seti runs at priority 4
Genome runs at priority 4
UD runs at priority 1
Since ud/folding gives 50-50, folding must also be running at 1.

Generally, two clients with the same priority gets a 50-50-split. If different priority, the split is 99+ to highest client...

I don't know how folding responds to changing priority in Task Manager, but UD doesn't respond to anything except real-time... till the current wu is done.

If you're running seti or genome and wants to give priority to something else, you'll most likely have to download a program that can change the thread-priority.
For NT, bvslice can do this.
Now it's just to set seti or genome's thread to idle also, and you've got a 50-50-split to something else.
If the client isn't resetting the priority for every wu like UD does, you can also increase the thread-priority to the other client, giving this a 99+-advantage over either genome or seti.