Some Questions About the Client

[Dyyryath]

OK, I've read Larry's FAQ over at the really cool looking TER website :D, and I've looked through our forums, but I still have a question...

What's with the Machine ID option during advanced client configuration? It gives me the option of setting it between 1 and 4. I don't think this is the unique client ID because that appears to be assigned by the F@H server on the first startup.

So, what is it? :confused:

[Beyond]

For mult-processor machines. Probably should have been named "clients" 1 thru 4

[Angus]

OH! rut-roh... /me runs off to check new installs....

[Dyyryath]

Ah, thanks, Beyond. Since you're batting a thousand so far, how about another one?

How much difference is there speed-wise between the Linux and Windows clients. I've read conflicting reports on the subject...

[Beyond]

TBH, it is hard to say. I have not been running the clients long enough to get a feel for the (if any) speed differences between OS's. I think it would take several weeks of close study to see any differences as there are so many different proteins being released at any given time.

[Beyond]

Originally posted by Angus
OH! rut-roh... /me runs off to check new installs....

Be sure to run with the -advmethods switich on those P4's, there are some Gromac's proteins that take advantage of the P4's SSE code making them fast. :)

[Angus]

P4s? What P4s? What is -nonet?

/me looks innocent :)

er- What is 'Gromacs' ? I saw two cores in the install choices - f@h and g@h . I selected f@h since that's what I thought you were all talking about.

[Beyond]

That be it ;) there 3-4 cores depending on what proteins are available and your selected core choice, you will get Gromac's,Tinker, Genome workunits. The Gromac's are the newest, biggest, highest scoring workunits..not to mention the toughest on your hardware. :D

[IronBits]

Anyone found out which client is faster yet?
*nix or Windows 98, se, nt 4.0, w2k, xp...

[Beyond]

This (http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=4348) may be putting a damper on things until it is cleared up. :swear:

[magnav0x]

Throwing the -forceasm at my F@H client on the Cellies has helped speed out some, I'll see how much it helps the P4 and Athalon XP later this evening.

[Beyond]

A word to the wise....

If you are running a pharm and monitering the clients with EM, EM does not catch the error,client not producing work as stated in my second problempost on the FAH forums (http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=4348) Check those clients!!!!

Oh one more thing...the clients I had (key word "had") running the "genome core" exclusively as a test have for some odd reason changed to the folding "tinker" core on thier own! :bang: :swear: :confused:

[Beyond]

:swear: 4 clients down to knackered workunits/cores/god knows what else :mad:

[Paratima]

I'm running 2 boxen, both started late last night.

1. Athlon 2100+ under Win2K with Gromacs core. This one locked up middle o'night & had to be restarted this morning. It's now on "step 32", whatever that means.

2. Athlon 2200+ Linux box with Tinker core is at "frame 252". It ran all day, all night, Marianne.

These numbers sound way, way off or about right? :confused:

BTW, both are text-only clients - no fancy-schmancy stuff.

[Beyond]

Sounds about right, taking into consideration the "shutdown" on the first one last night. They are more than likely '73' point workunits. My XP1700/1800's take about 28-29 hrs to complete one.

[Paratima]

Ah! Thanks, Beyond. I haven't run F@H since April of '02 & I've lost the feel for how fast it goes.

(Not to mention I've got better firepower nowadays. ;) )

If these two keep running, I'll toss in a couple more & see how it goes.

[Beyond]

It is Alot slower now, but the wu's for the most part are larger and the score is better than ever. :|party|:

[magnav0x]

After some curiosity set in on the Athalon XP and P4 machines they got the feel for the -forceasm switch.

Without -forceasm and with -advmethods
p671_TZ2_EXT_EXP on P4 1.6 0:21:00 per frame
p671_TZ2_NAT_EXP on Athalon XP 1800 00:16:00 per frame

With -forceasm and with -advmethods
p671_TZ2_EXT_EXP on P4 1.6 01:12:21 per frame (retesting)
p671_TZ2_NAT_EXP on Athalon XP 1800 00:31:12 per frame (retesting)

[Beyond]

Please get back to us....if the forceasm is as good as it seems on the XP's then we may very well be able to go "flying" up the charts.

[magnav0x]

Seems well EMIII still hasn't update, I'm thinking the real numbers will be quite a bit higher, but should be less than 20mins /me hopes.

*edit* I checked back and the numbers were way off on the Athalon XP with forceasm. I'll be sure to watch em longer before I say anything, but i'm gonna try out some more things. And retest it on the P4. I'll do some tests with -forceasm and no -advmethods, but I probably won't be able to sit and watch em long enough before I have to leave tonight. I gotta get down to the 1/8 tracks tonight and do some racing :D

[Beyond]

Originally posted by magnav0x
Seems well EMIII still hasn't update, I'm thinking the real numbers will be quite a bit higher, but should be less than 20mins /me hopes.

*edit* I checked back and the numbers were way off on the Athalon XP with forceasm. I'll be sure to watch em longer before I say anything, but i'm gonna try out some more things. And retest it on the P4

ok :D

[Paratima]

Based on magnav0x's experience, I changed my one W2K Athlon 2100+ to -advmethods and -forceasm. I'm not using EM yet, so I just sits & watches the console. :p

It just did its first full update a few minutes ago & it looks like the frame time went from 37 minutes to (are you ready for this?)... 25 minutes!

As long as it doesn't increase the crashability, it sure looks good to me! :thumbs:

[IronBits]

Are you saying to use the following?
fah3console -advmethods -forceasm -local

[Paratima]

Dat be's what I'se yoosing, Jah! :cool:

I'll update this thread in an hour or so.

[magnav0x]

What exactly is the -local switch doing? I see it mentioned a lot but not sure what it does.

The -forceasm switch didn't do a great deal for the Celly 1.4's, but it did knock a minute or two off of the frame time, which for a 100 frame WU is still an extra 100-200 minutes :) and on a 400 frame unit a whopping 400-800 minutes.

[Supp]

It tells F@H to stick all its activity into current folder - useful mainly on multiprocessor machines.

[magnav0x]

I'm going through my logs from when the machines were running with just -advmethods to see what the original numbers were, because I was just guestimating earlier :jester:

[magnav0x]

ruro! Didn't watch my log files good enough! I've been terminating F@H via task manager on the Win2k machines (all of the F@H machines lol) because I'm running it hidden with hideit.exe. Well......

--------clip from logs when staring the client up---------
01:16:58] Preparing to commence simulation
[01:16:58] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[01:17:15] - Looking at optimizations...
[01:17:15] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[01:17:15] - Previous termination of core was improper.
[01:17:15] - Going to use standard loops.
---------eof---------

No wonder they've been going so slow! Doh! I had to start em up and close em right :bang:



Without -forceasm and with -advmethods
p671_TZ2_EXT_EXP on P4 1.6 0:21:00 per frame (numbers with optimization enabled)
p671_TZ2_NAT_EXP on Athalon XP 1800 00:16:00 per frame (numbers with optimization enabled)

With -forceasm and with -advmethods
p671_TZ2_EXT_EXP on P4 1.6 01:12:21 per frame (retesting)
p671_TZ2_NAT_EXP on Athalon XP 1800 00:31:12 per frame (retesting)


I noticed that when I shut it down incorrectly and it went to using standard looping, the WU's were taking double, yes double, amount of time to do. Be sure to check on this guys! I'm retesting the clients with -forceasm with correct optimization. I'll have the new numbers for those when I get from the races, late tonight.....er about breakfast time Saturday morning :|party|:. The numbers with just -advmethods enabled are correct now.

[Paratima]

I'm not seeing what I thought I saw earlier. :rolleyes:

This here is gonna take a re-test or two.

(At least it hasn't froze up again!)

[magnav0x]

With -forceasm and with -advmethods
p671_TZ2_EXT_EXP on P4 1.6 00:22:00 per frame (with optimization)
p671_TZ2_NAT_EXP on Athalon XP 1800 00:16:12 per frame (with optimization)

So after letting them both sit in a long time with -advmethods -forceasm switches they acutaly seem almost identical as without -forceasm. This may not be the case with smaller protiens? That's something that will need to be tested as well, but I got finals starting on Monday so I need to hit the books this weekend. And figure out what to do about this ticket I got on the way home (94mph in a 60). :bang: :bang: :bang:

[Darkness Productions]

Suck magnav0x. And you're the first person to actually beat my speeding record. Mine was 97 in a 65. Anyway, call yourself a decent lawyer. Remeber, anything over 15+ is reckless driving, and that's a felony. Get a lawyer, see if he can't get it reduced. The money you spend on the lawyer will save you far more than paying the inflated insurance rates.

[Beyond]

Sorry people but this client is just not going to play nice, I've spent a considerable amount of time since starting the project trying to keep things running. With what is obviously a bad core, bad workunts, supposedly non-existent workunits being released and God (or perhaps Vijay) knows what the hell this lastest "bug" (http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=4348) is, I am no longer willing to fight this client to keep producing useful work. :mad:

[magnav0x]

Beyond....how come you get the good bugs!? :shocked:

Sorry to hear you weren't able to get your clients running to par. I finaly got mine the way I want them, took me 3 days into the gauntlet to get em that way though which is quite discouraging. Especialy seeing how it was only 4 machines. F@H has been around for a while and I figured the client would be rock solid and very easy maintanance wise, but I guess all projects have their kinks and wrinkles. I'll stick with it through the gauntlet, but I doubt I'll participate in F@H afterwards.

[Beyond]

After running most of the evenimg with no problems get 2 more of the orginal problems cropping up again. F@H "bug" forum (http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?p=33956#33956)

[magnav0x]

Hey Beyond, on those couple of machines that you are having problems with, you should try to throw them the -verbosity 9 switch, which will display the maximum amount of information while the client is running. Maybe it will give more detail as to exactly what's going on. Just a thought

[Beyond]

It is across the whole pharm, every machine has encountered one or more of them problems described in the F@H "Bug" forum thread I started. I (as well as Bruce@FAH Forums) believe it is down to "bad" workunits, and I cannot seem to get to a different server for the "good" workunits. It has been reported that others are experiencing the same type of problems...so it is up to Vijay and company to "correct" things on thier end. Until that happens I am off F@H.

[Darkness Productions]

Work units are handed out differently for each server. AKA, each server has it's own type of WUs that it hands out. You may try restricting access to those servers and see if you still have problems...

[magnav0x]

I need to find which server hands out the big ones :D

[Chinasaur]

Was over at MacNN.. they have similar problems.

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=4380

See Vijay comments at bottom

[Angus]

I finally had one of the bugs appear -

the Celeron 708 (Win 98) with the monster 73 pointer slowly died about 72 hours in... Using Taskinfo, i was able to see that FAHCORE_78.EXE had over 10,000 handles open. This made the system very slow and unstable.

After shutting it down politely and restarting, it is back to normal. I think perhaps the faster proteins would finish and restart FAHCORE_xx.EXE before the system ran short of resources.

[Beyond]

Piece of crap :swear:

[00:40:09] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[00:40:09] Entering M.D.
[00:40:15] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[00:40:15]
[00:40:15] Writing local files
[00:40:18] Extra SSE boost OK.
[00:40:20] Writing local files
[00:40:20] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[00:42:38] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[00:42:38] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[00:42:38] Deleting current work unit & continuing...


[00:43:08] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[00:43:08] Entering M.D.
[00:43:15] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[00:43:15]
[00:43:15] Writing local files
[00:43:17] Extra SSE boost OK.
[00:43:19] Writing local files
[00:43:19] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[00:43:46] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[00:43:46] Going to send back what have done.
[00:43:46] logfile size: 8149
[00:43:46] - Writing 8685 bytes of core data to disk...
[00:43:46] ... Done.
[00:43:46]
[00:43:46] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END

[00:44:03] Project: 909 (Run 13, Clone 21, Gen 2)
[00:44:03]
[00:44:03] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[00:44:03] Entering M.D.
[00:44:10] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[00:44:10]
[00:44:10] Writing local files
[00:44:12] Extra SSE boost OK.
[00:44:14] Writing local files
[00:44:14] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[00:47:01] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[00:47:01] Going to send back what have done.
[00:47:01] logfile size: 8149
[00:47:01] - Writing 8685 bytes of core data to disk...
[00:47:01] ... Done.
[00:47:01]
[00:47:01] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END


[00:47:20] Project: 909 (Run 19, Clone 68, Gen 1)
[00:47:20]
[00:47:20] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[00:47:20] Entering M.D.
[00:47:27] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[00:47:27]
[00:47:27] Writing local files
[00:47:29] Extra SSE boost OK.
[00:47:31] Writing local files
[00:47:31] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[00:52:32] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[00:52:32] Going to send back what have done.
[00:52:32] logfile size: 8149
[00:52:32] - Writing 8685 bytes of core data to disk...
[00:52:32] ... Done.
[00:52:32]
[00:52:32] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END


[00:52:48] Folding@home Gromacs Core
[00:52:48] Version 1.48 (May 7, 2003)
[00:52:48]
[00:52:48] Preparing to commence simulation
[00:52:48] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[00:52:48] - Not checking prior termination.
[00:52:48] - Expanded 352839 -> 1761861 (decompressed 499.3 percent)
[00:52:48] - Starting from initial work packet
[00:52:48]
[00:52:48] Project: 543 (Run 8, Clone 24, Gen 2)
[00:52:48]
[00:52:48] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[00:52:48] Entering M.D.
[00:52:54] Protein: p543_BBA5_N
[00:52:54]
[00:52:54] Writing local files
[00:52:55] Extra SSE boost OK.
[00:52:57] Writing local files
[00:52:57] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0)
[01:01:44] Writing local files
[01:01:44] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1)
[01:10:31] Writing local files
[01:10:31] Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps (2)
[01:19:19] Writing local files
[01:19:19] Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps (3)
[01:28:08] Writing local files
[01:28:08] Completed 20000 out of 500000 steps (4)
[01:36:56] Writing local files
[01:36:56] Completed 25000 out of 500000 steps (5)
[01:45:43] Writing local files
[01:45:43] Completed 30000 out of 500000 steps (6)
[01:54:30] Writing local files
[01:54:30] Completed 35000 out of 500000 steps (7)
[02:03:17] Writing local files
[02:03:17] Completed 40000 out of 500000 steps (8)
[02:12:05] Writing local files
[02:12:05] Completed 45000 out of 500000 steps (9)
[02:20:52] Writing local files
[02:20:52] Completed 50000 out of 500000 steps (10)
[02:29:41] Writing local files
[02:29:41] Completed 55000 out of 500000 steps (11)
[02:38:29] Writing local files
[02:38:29] Completed 60000 out of 500000 steps (12)
[02:47:15] Writing local files
[02:47:15] Completed 65000 out of 500000 steps (13)
[02:56:02] Writing local files
[02:56:02] Completed 70000 out of 500000 steps (14)
[03:04:48] Writing local files
[03:04:48] Completed 75000 out of 500000 steps (15)
[03:13:35] Writing local files
[03:13:35] Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps (16)
[03:22:22] Writing local files
[03:22:22] Completed 85000 out of 500000 steps (17)
[03:31:09] Writing local files
[03:31:09] Completed 90000 out of 500000 steps (18)
[03:39:57] Writing local files
[03:39:57] Completed 95000 out of 500000 steps (19)
[03:42:58] Quit 101 - Fatal error:

[03:43:15] Folding@home Gromacs Core
[03:43:15] Version 1.48 (May 7, 2003)
[03:43:15]
[03:43:15] Preparing to commence simulation
[03:43:15] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[03:43:15] - Not checking prior termination.
[03:43:16] - Expanded 511012 -> 2524929 (decompressed 494.1 percent)
[03:43:16] - Starting from initial work packet
[03:43:16]
[03:43:16] Project: 909 (Run 10, Clone 82, Gen 1)
[03:43:16]
[03:43:16] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[03:43:16] Entering M.D.
[03:43:22] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[03:43:22]
[03:43:22] Writing local files
[03:43:24] Extra SSE boost OK.
[03:43:26] Writing local files
[03:43:26] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[03:46:12] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[03:46:12] Going to send back what have done.
[03:46:12] logfile size: 8149
[03:46:12] - Writing 8685 bytes of core data to disk...
[03:46:12] ... Done.
[03:46:12]
[03:46:12] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END


[03:46:30] Preparing to commence simulation
[03:46:30] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[03:46:30] - Not checking prior termination.
[03:46:31] - Expanded 510212 -> 2524929 (decompressed 494.8 percent)
[03:46:31] - Starting from initial work packet
[03:46:31]
[03:46:31] Project: 909 (Run 11, Clone 75, Gen 3)
[03:46:31]
[03:46:31] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[03:46:31] Entering M.D.
[03:46:37] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[03:46:37]
[03:46:37] Writing local files
[03:46:39] Extra SSE boost OK.
[03:46:41] Writing local files
[03:46:41] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[03:47:57] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[03:47:57] Going to send back what have done.
[03:47:57] logfile size: 8149
[03:47:57] - Writing 8685 bytes of core data to disk...
[03:47:57] ... Done.
[03:47:57]
[03:47:57] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END


[03:48:17] Preparing to commence simulation
[03:48:17] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[03:48:17] - Not checking prior termination.
[03:48:18] - Expanded 353286 -> 1761861 (decompressed 498.7 percent)
[03:48:18] - Starting from initial work packet
[03:48:18]
[03:48:18] Project: 543 (Run 3, Clone 10, Gen 3)
[03:48:18]
[03:48:18] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[03:48:18] Entering M.D.
[03:48:24] Protein: p543_BBA5_N
[03:48:24]
[03:48:24] Writing local files
[03:48:24] Extra SSE boost OK.
[03:48:26] Writing local files
[03:48:26] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0)
[03:57:13] Writing local files
[03:57:13] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1)
[04:05:59] Writing local files
[04:05:59] Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps (2)
[04:14:47] Writing local files
[04:14:47] Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps (3)
[04:23:35] Writing local files
[04:23:35] Completed 20000 out of 500000 steps (4)
[04:32:21] Writing local files
[04:32:21] Completed 25000 out of 500000 steps (5)
[04:41:09] Writing local files
[04:41:09] Completed 30000 out of 500000 steps (6)
[04:49:55] Writing local files

.....

[18:08:52] Completed 490000 out of 500000 steps (98)
[18:17:40] Writing local files
[18:17:40] Completed 495000 out of 500000 steps (99)
[18:26:29] Writing local files
[18:26:29] Completed 500000 out of 500000 steps (100)
[18:26:31] Writing final coordinates.
[18:26:32] Past main M.D. loop
[18:27:32]
[18:27:32] Finished Work Unit:
[18:27:32] - Reading up to 1025520 from "work/wudata_08.arc": Read 1025520
[18:27:32] - Reading up to 0 from "work/wudata_08.xtc": Read 0
[18:27:32] goefile size: 0
[18:27:32] logfile size: 18160
[18:27:32] Leaving Run
[18:27:34] - Writing 1052404 bytes of core data to disk...
[18:27:34] ... Done.
[18:27:34] - Shutting down core
[18:27:34]
[18:27:34] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[18:27:37] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[18:27:37] Sending work to server[18:33:08] Project: 909 (Run 28, Clone 19, Gen 0)

[18:47:23] Preparing to commence simulation
[18:47:23] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[18:47:23] - Not checking prior termination.
[18:47:23] - Expanded 509869 -> 2524929 (decompressed 495.2 percent)
[18:47:23] - Starting from initial work packet
[18:47:23]
[18:47:23] Project: 909 (Run 5, Clone 4, Gen 3)
[18:47:23]
[18:47:23] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[18:47:23] Entering M.D.
[18:47:30] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[18:47:30]
[18:47:30] Writing local files
[18:47:32] Extra SSE boost OK.
[18:47:34] Writing local files
[18:47:34] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[18:48:58] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[18:48:58] Going to send back what have done.
[18:48:58] logfile size: 8149
[18:48:58] - Writing 8685 bytes of core data to disk...
[18:48:58] ... Done.
[18:48:58]
[18:48:58] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END
this error 4 more times

[Beyond]

18:33:08]
[18:33:08] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[18:33:08] Entering M.D.
[18:33:14] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[18:33:14]
[18:33:14] Writing local files
[18:33:16] Extra SSE boost OK.
[18:33:18] Writing local files
[18:33:18] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[18:41:12] Writing local files
[18:41:12] Completed 2500 out of 250000 steps (1)
[18:41:56] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[18:41:56] Going to send back what have done.
[18:41:56] logfile size: 9541
[18:41:56] - Writing 10077 bytes of core data to disk...
[18:41:56] ... Done.
[18:41:56]
[18:41:56] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END

[18:42:15] Project: 909 (Run 5, Clone 4, Gen 3)
[18:42:15]
[18:42:15] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[18:42:15] Entering M.D.
[18:42:22] Protein: p909_vill_str0
[18:42:22]
[18:42:22] Writing local files
[18:42:24] Extra SSE boost OK.
[18:42:26] Writing local files
[18:42:26] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[18:46:53] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[18:46:53] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[18:46:53] Deleting current work unit & continuing...


[09:31:13] - Shutting down core
[09:31:13]
[09:31:13] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT

then

[09:31:15] + Attempting to send results
[09:31:32] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:31:32] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[09:31:32] - Error: Could not transmit unit 06 (completed May 10). Keeping unit in queue.


[09:31:32] + Attempting to send results
[09:34:41] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:34:41] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[09:34:41] - Error: Could not transmit unit 06 (completed May 10). Keeping unit in queue.
[09:34:41] + Attempting to get work packet
[09:34:41] - Connecting to assignment server
[09:34:50] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:34:50] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[09:34:59] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:34:59] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[09:34:59] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[09:34:59] - Error: Getwork #1 failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry
[09:35:04] + Attempting to get work packet
[09:35:04] - Connecting to assignment server
[09:35:13] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:35:13] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[09:35:16] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.125).
[09:35:16] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[09:35:16] Loaded queue successfully.
[09:35:24] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:35:24] + Could not connect to Work Server
[09:35:24] - Error: Getwork #2 failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry
[09:35:36] + Attempting to get work packet
[09:35:36] - Connecting to assignment server
[09:35:44] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:35:44] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[09:35:52] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:35:52] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[09:35:52] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[09:35:52] - Error: Getwork #3 failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retry
[09:36:22] + Attempting to get work packet
[09:36:22] - Connecting to assignment server
[09:37:14] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:37:14] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[09:37:22] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[09:37:22] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[09:37:22] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[09:37:22] - Error: Getwork #4 failed, and no other work to do. Waiting before retr


This seems to be typical across the whole pharm. At first I could shut the client down, delete the queue and work files and upon restart they seem to be able to connect and get a workunit that would more often than not run and complete normally, however now that is not happening. It is taking several attempts to get one that will even get past the first few iterations. I must note that it is only on the AMD kit that I seem to be experiencing this problems, especially the XP's.

[Dyyryath]

I'm going to agree with beyond. I don't really like this client very much. Looks like I'll be staying with Distributed Folding for the time being. I will, however, still be adding F@H stats to the Arachnid site.

[Angus]

We'll miss the Dyyryath power in the gauntlet.... it's great fun mashing [H]ard ones and Arsians.



I hope they do get their AMD issues fixed, for the good of the project. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the Intel edge.:smoking:

With 23 Intel CPUs runing for 2 weeks now, only had one client stop at the end of a protein, and no crashes.

[Beyond]

First time I've seen this in a log file :sad:


[01:58:56] Writing local files
[01:58:56] Completed 125000 out of 500000 steps (25)
[02:14:43] Writing local files
[02:14:43] Completed 130000 out of 500000 steps (26)
[02:30:29] Writing local files
[02:30:29] Completed 135000 out of 500000 steps (27)
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[IronBits]

Never saw that before :confused:
/me breaks out the de-coder ring
drat!
/me bangs de-coder ring on corner of table
GIGO :bang:

[-Xp-]

Maybe I can help clear things a little here :)

With -forceasm and with -advmethods
p671_TZ2_EXT_EXP on P4 1.6 00:22:00 per frame (with optimization)
p671_TZ2_NAT_EXP on Athalon XP 1800 00:16:12 per frame (with optimization)
The -forceasm argument IMO only works for Gromacs (FAHCore_78), as it forces your CPU to use its assembly optimization codes (such as 3DNow! and SSE for AMD CPUs), so IMO it won't work with Tinker (FAHCore_65) WUs like those p671s.

Here's a list of the currently running projects
Project Summary (http://folding.stanford.edu/psummaryC.html)

-advmethods is used if you'd like to be assigned new WUs which may be in development and testing. So, you'll more likely to get instable WUs.