Switched to Linux, PPD up 30k+! stabilized now @205k ppd with 6901!

[somethingsketchy]

Not sure about the first question, but for the second question, you can do a virtual Linux install if you don't want to dedicate too much hardware towards F@H (I used to do the virtual Linux install myself).

Preferably the more cores you dedicate to F@H, the higher your PPD will be (for SMP that is).

 

[biodoc]

So my last two questions (for now) are,
1) What is the energy consumption (if you have something to measure it with) of your SB system...I'm looking to get a baseline here (for anyone else that wants to jump in) of just the 2600k folding with no gpu folding.

2) Are there differences between a virtual linux install and the full meal deal on a separate partition/drive as far as ppd?

Ok, I got it up to 4.6 GHz @1.345 Vcore. It passed mprime blend for about 30 minutes.

Measured with Kill-O-Watt EZ (w/o LCD monitor); The Video card is ATI 4850 w/ nothing running on it and no AMD driver installed)

Idle watts =110
F@H smp bigadv watts = 220

I don't know the answer to question #2.

I do know if you run a GPU client + SMP on linux, your ppd on SMP will suffer significantly. The GPU will take about 12% of one thread/core. I haven't tested the v7 client though.

 

[Lightflash]

Most likely with a true install of your favorite linux client, you will get a 3 to 5% increase over running a VM linux. However a VM linux will normally net you a 5 to 15% increase over a windows install right now.

This is with F@H client v6. Not sure about with F@H client v7 beta.

 

[brownstone]

VMWare Server or VMWare player...or does it matter?

*edit* ...and how do I get it to use all 6 cores? I only see options for 1,2,4,8

 

[theAnimal]

VMWare Player.

I think you can edit the vmx file and add: numvcpus = "6".