DF production question

[Mloot]

Got a question for DF veterans. I have my little Dell at home happily folding most of the day, and it's production is about 100K folds/day. I have the extra ram portion enabled (for speed), but I was wondering if there were any way to increase daily production, without overclocking anything (this is my first rig, thus I'm paranoid about voiding any warranties by oc'ing). Also, does oc'ing have any effect on folding speed? I am running a 1.7G celeron w/512mb RAM. Thanks.

On a side note, I am curious as to what kind of setup does one need to spit out 2+ million folds/day, such as TA Magicman or Sun's top producer?

 

[Kris]

mloot
Supposedly the quiet mode will help, but only a little and mostly in 9x if I remember correctly. As far as the big numbers, an xp2200+ is doing a little over 250,000/day for this protein. So signing up 8 (if I had them) on the same account would give me 2 million/day. Let us know when your warrenty is up. Maybe we can help you o/c that thing!

 

[muttley]

Well for my processing power
Dual 1800MPs with the DF switch running XP pro.
1700XP with the df switch Redhat 7.2
1600XP df switch OFF cause I'm running Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo dedicated server and don't have enough memory on hand. OS XP pro
P-3 800 DF switch on OS XP home.

muttley

 

[FoBoT]

if you use the dfGUI , you can make nice little benchmarks, like this

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Distributed Folding Windows dfGUI v1.7 Benchmark

Sample Size : 1447825 structures over 555982 seconds.
Protein Size: 105AA

Structures Per Second: 2.60
Structures Per Minute: 156.2
Structures Per Hour : 9375
Structures Per Day : 224993

OS : Microsoft Windows XP MHz: 1392
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Client Switches: -df -qt -rt -s 9000
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this box has 512MB of DDR PC2700

linky to dfGUI

 

[Mloot]

Thanks for the info, guys. I'll definitely try out the GUI when I get home (at work, now). However, I was unsure what Muttley meant by df switch. Is that the process that enables the program to use extra RAM for greater speed? Also, how much of an effect does processor speed have on production? For example, would a P4 2.0 or 2.2Ghz running in an identical system (512mb pc2100) to mine have a much greater production speed than my 1.7 celeron?

 

[Baldy18]

Yes, the df switch he is talking about is the one that uses extra RAM. A P4 2.2 would have better production than a C 1.7 simply because of the high running speed and extra L2 cache of the P4.