New Beta Folding Client

[IronBits]

http://folding.stanford.edu/beta/beta.html
From Calavaro over on [H] and I quote
"
There has been some hard work done by Stanford to eliminate the freezing/crashing bug running SSE enabled Athlon XP's (supposedly the same bug existed for Intels as well, but I never saw a post by someone running an Intel and had this problem).

There is a new gromacs core out. It is now up to 1.48.
This core will let you choose 3DNow or SSE "boost" of the CPU (AXP's only).
The way to do this is to add -forceasm.
If you remove -forceasm it will revert to 3DNow (which is about 30% slower).

There is a new beta client as well.
http://folding.stanford.edu/beta/beta.htm 3.25, changes can be
found at http://folding.stanford.edu/beta/325-changes.txt
To run with SSE enabled all the time you need this new beta client.

Hopefully we will see even more stable operation now.
If you are "out of the loop" you can read this thread
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=3897 and
http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=4409 thread
"
:fireboun:

[IronBits]

Well I have the new Beta client running here.
To make it work right away,
1) I downloaded the new Beta Client
2) Stopped the client
3) replace the old client with it (renamed the .exe file)
4) deleted fahcore_65.exe and fahcore_78.exe (important!)
5) made sure I used the following switches -forceasm -advmethods -local
6) Started it up.
7) waited until I saw
Extra SSE boost OK. :thumbs:

Now, let's see what that does for those 6 w2k boxen. :D
If they are all running when I get home, I'll pop it onto the
02 *nix clients and the other
14 wk2 boxen ;)

[IronBits]

With the new Beta client I'm getting
13 minutes per with my xp2100 (1.73 GHz)
09 minutes per with my xp2600 (2.13 GHz)
500,000 step protein

[Beyond]

me takes a closer look at this "New Beta" to compare it with the "official client" that is really still a beta client. :rolleyes:

[IronBits]

Go Beyond!!! :cheers:

I just now got it loaded up on the other computers :thumbs:
Then I went on to my only two *nix computers and ran into a problem :(
Mandrake 8.2 - everything A ok.
Mandrake 9.1 - Segmentation fault, everytime it tried to DL the FahCore_78 file :bang:
Ran the standard client to download the FAHCore_78 file, got it downloaded.
Fired up the beta client and it took right off, using SSE :D
I'll check on it when it's finished to see what happens on the next protein.

[Beyond]

At least the crashing clients, bad workunits problem in F@H gave me a chance to get my name on the SOB scoreboard for Free-DC :) (not much, but enough to show up anyway). So if all is well with the "new beta" client for folding I'll be back in the race asap.

[Angus]

I installed a couple of new clients today, and got the same old 3.24 version.

?????

:confused:

[IronBits]

/me holds Angus's hand and leads him over to
http://folding.stanford.edu/beta/beta.html
:walking:

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Beyond
if all is well with the "new beta" client for folding I'll be back in the race asap.
:elephant: Bring it, Angus is getting sassy ;)

[Chinasaur]

Check out these guys and THEIR completion times :(

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157132&perpage=50&pagenumber=2


makes you cringe



:cheers:

[Angus]

Originally posted by IronBits
/me holds Angus's hand and leads him over to
http://folding.stanford.edu/beta/beta.html
:walking:


That's not on their 'DOWNLOAD' page....


How is anyone supposed to kow about it?


(danged AMD users anyway)

[IronBits]

You mean this last paragraph on this
'DOWNLOAD' (http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html) page


Beta clients: If you would like to help test our forthcoming clients, visit our beta section to see if there are any beta clients (http://folding.stanford.edu/beta/beta.html) available for your platform and what their new features are.

:jester: I'm just teasing Angus :moon:
Bring it on!!! You are Rockin :thumbs:

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Chinasaur
Check out these guys and THEIR completion times :(

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=157132&perpage=50&pagenumber=2

makes you cringe
:cheers:
47 Minutes a FRAME OMG!!! :bang:

[IronBits]

Here are all the command line options tags available for Folding@home:
** taken from the MacNN forum

-advmethods Request new cores or work units that are just out of beta. Currently, this means Gromacs.

-config Brings up user configuration choices: user name, team number(s), ask before connecting to internet, use a proxy, preferred work type (no-pref/fah/gah), client priority, whether or not to use assembly loops (optimizations), whether or not to use unit deadlines, and Machine ID (1-4).

-delete x Delete work unit #x from work queue, then exit. Use this if the current unit is hanging the client or the box.

-forceasm Force assembly optimizations to be used. Gromacs assumes that if it didn't shut down normally last time, it must have locked up the box, and needs to turn the Altivec/SSE/3DNow optimizations off. This tag causes the shutdown check to be ignored, and turns on assembly optimizations if possible. This tag has no effect on Tinker units.

-help Print out the available command tags and then exit. The list printed out isn't complete.

(comment - this one will get alot of use :rolleyes: - IB)
-license Display the end-user license agreement, then exit.

-local Use config files and work units from the client's local directory, rather than ~/Library/Folding@home. Used for multiple client installs, or installs in unusual locations.

-pause Finish the current unit, then upload results. Do not fetch new work. Equivalent to SETI's "stop_after_send.txt".

-queueinfo Displays Queue.dat info for all 10 work slots. Shows for each unit the current status (READY/FINISHED/EMPTY), unit type (Folding/Genome), originating server, date when the unit was received (GMT), and deadline (if available), then exit.

(comment - Can this true? - IB)
-runfaster This command is not documented on the project site. You do not need to add it to your clients, especially if your stats are near mine.

-send x Send unit #x back to server. Exits after trying to send unit (successfully or unsuccessfully). If unit x is not a completed work unit then the client exits without doing anything.

-send all Send all completed units back to server. Exits after trying to send units (successfully or unsuccessfully).

-verbosity x Sets how chatty the client is, from 1 to 9 (max). If not specified, the default is 3.

(comment - this doesn't work in windows - IB)
& Run in nohup mode. Any program launched with this tag on the end will keep running even if the launching process (or launching User) goes away, or logs out. The Terminal can be quit after launching Folding in this way, and the client will keep running.

-service (windoze only) Run in service mode. This is the Win equivalent of the & flag, which Windoze does not have.

Thanks MacNN!

[Beyond]

I think Angus is going to get really sassy real soon, the P4's really fly with this knew client!

So far so good....so fleet operations in the SOB area is being re-directed to the Folding area of operations. :D

[IronBits]

In that case, time to break out the OC! :D
I just bumped my xp2600 to 180x12.5 = 2250 mem is 180fsb also.
I heard I can take it to 187x12.5 and I know the memory is good for 220fsb.
Doing this on a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe board.
If anyone has linkages so I can take it to 2.4GHz, I would appreciate it.
If this works out, I might upgrade that xp1600 chugging along over there in the corner :)

[IronBits]

This is where I am so far with this xp2600/266 proc. :D

[IronBits]

65th and climbing!!!
Oh ya, Free-DC r0x0rs!!! :elephant: :fireboun: