Folding@Home on Core i7: Bonus points for 8 core Linux VMs

Jet said:
You sure you have your VM set so it has all the Ram allocated?
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It ran 43% of the -bigadv unit running my cpu 100% and RAM @ 5Gigs.
Pretty sure it's set up properly, since I've changed nothing.

Jet said:
copy the VM data contents to a folder on my windows computer, and then copy them back into the VM data when I restart the VM (after login, before actually starting the backup).
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Where is that and what contents exactly?

The data that's created when the VM starts up in the image directory?
And disappears when it's shut down?

EDIT: Just finished the wimpy unit and starting a big unit. CPU and RAM usage back up to what it should be.
For some reason, it corrupted my last unit and grabbed a normal smp unit. Go figure.
 
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Lame...I did nothing. It just stopped. Frustrating.

Code: 
02:58:08] Completed 175000 out of 250000 steps  (70%)
[03:21:02] 
[03:21:02] Folding@home Core Shutdown: INTERRUPTED
[03:21:11] CoreStatus = FF (255)
[03:21:11] Sending work to server
[03:21:11] Project: 2681 (Run 1, Clone 2, Gen 72)
[03:21:11] - Error: Could not get length of results file work/wuresults_02.dat
[03:21:11] - Error: Could not read unit 02 file. Removing from queue.
[03:21:11] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[03:21:11] Cleaning up work directory
[03:21:13] + Attempting to get work packet
[03:21:13] - Connecting to assignment server
[03:21:14] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.22).
[03:21:14] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home

CMD.exe run as Admin doesn't accept the IP

I can navigate to the VM unit in "My Network Places" but access is denied to most items.
 
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you need to put in your login info (ie, fah, fah1234) when you try and access the VM through My Network Places.
 
I did. Denied.

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Just finished my first unit this morning. Results successfully sent but they haven't posted yet.

I haven't played any games for over 3 days, just to get a big unit done. :eek:

Afraid if I shut it down, the unit would get hosed. Again...
 
I get one unit done, and it ditches the next.

I've changed nothing, except I have new RAM. I don't get it. I've folded many big units, with some failures, but they've never done this.

They've always failed when I tried to restart them.

Code: 
[02:59:05] Completed 70000 out of 250000 steps  (28%)
[03:10:05] CoreStatus = 0 (0)
[03:10:05] Sending work to server
[03:10:05] Project: 2683 (Run 12, Clone 9, Gen 22)
[03:10:05] - Error: Could not get length of results file work/wuresults_07.dat
[03:10:05] - Error: Could not read unit 07 file. Removing from queue.
[03:10:05] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[03:10:05] Cleaning up work directory
 
Bodaggit23 said:
I get one unit done, and it ditches the next.

I've changed nothing, except I have new RAM. I don't get it. I've folded many big units, with some failures, but they've never done this.

They've always failed when I tried to restart them.

Code: 
[02:59:05] Completed 70000 out of 250000 steps  (28%)
[03:10:05] CoreStatus = 0 (0)
[03:10:05] Sending work to server
[03:10:05] Project: 2683 (Run 12, Clone 9, Gen 22)
[03:10:05] - Error: Could not get length of results file work/wuresults_07.dat
[03:10:05] - Error: Could not read unit 07 file. Removing from queue.
[03:10:05] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[03:10:05] Cleaning up work directory
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Your bigadv unit will most likely get trashed if you restart the client, in my personal experience. Look on evga's bigadv VM thread and see if you can get some of the backup scripts to work...I haven't been able to.
 
Jet said:
Your bigadv unit will most likely get trashed if you restart the client, in my personal experience.
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I didn't restart the client.

When it finally completed the first unit, it started a new one, and failed after 28%.

Before I replaced my RAM, I restarted my big units daily so I could game, with only minor issues. I lost a couple, but I've had 3 failures and only one completed unit.

It may just be the particular units at the moment, idk.


Code: 
[09:08:40] Completed 250000 out of 250000 steps  (100%)
[09:08:53] DynamicWrapper: Finished Work Unit: sleep=10000
[09:09:03] 
[09:09:03] Finished Work Unit:
[09:09:03] - Reading up to 52713120 from "work/wudata_06.trr": Read 52713120
[09:09:08] trr file hash check passed.
[09:09:08] - Reading up to 47103148 from "work/wudata_06.xtc": Read 47103148
[09:09:11] xtc file hash check passed.
[09:09:11] edr file hash check passed.
[09:09:11] logfile size: 208208
[09:09:11] Leaving Run
[09:09:14] - Writing 100189392 bytes of core data to disk...
[09:09:28]   ... Done.
[09:12:21] - Shutting down core
[09:12:21] 
[09:12:21] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[09:12:41] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[09:12:41] Sending work to server
[09:12:41] Project: 2681 (Run 0, Clone 14, Gen 65)


[09:12:41] + Attempting to send results [January 21 09:12:41 UTC]
[09:42:24] + Results successfully sent
[09:42:24] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[09:42:24] + Number of Units Completed: 32

[09:43:11] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[09:43:11] Cleaning up work directory
[09:43:12] + Attempting to get work packet
[09:43:12] - Connecting to assignment server
[09:43:13] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.22).
[09:43:13] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[09:43:14] Loaded queue successfully.
[09:45:24] + Closed connections
[09:45:24] 
[09:45:24] + Processing work unit
[09:45:24] Core required: FahCore_a2.exe
[09:45:24] Core found.
[09:45:24] Working on queue slot 07 [January 21 09:45:24 UTC]
[09:45:24] + Working ...
[09:45:24] 
[09:45:24] *------------------------------*
[09:45:24] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[09:45:24] Version 2.10 (Sun Aug 30 03:43:28 CEST 2009)
[09:45:24] 
[09:45:24] Preparing to commence simulation
[09:45:24] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[09:45:31] 
[09:45:41] - Files status OK
[09:45:45] teArray: compressed_data_size=30237390 data_size=159270593, decompressed_data_size=159270593 diff=0
[09:45:47] - Digital signature verified
[09:45:49] 
[09:45:53] Project: 2683 (Run 12, Clone 9, Gen 22)
[09:45:55] 
[09:46:07] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[09:46:07] Entering M.D.
[09:46:19] (Run 12, Clone 9, Gen 22)
[09:46:19] 
[09:46:19] Entering M.D.
[09:46:54] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps  (0%)
[10:24:43] Completed 2500 out of 250000 steps  (1%)
[11:02:25] Completed 5000 out of 250000 steps  (2%)
[11:39:59] Completed 7500 out of 250000 steps  (3%)
[12:17:29] Completed 10000 out of 250000 steps  (4%)
[12:54:55] Completed 12500 out of 250000 steps  (5%)
[13:32:02] Completed 15000 out of 250000 steps  (6%)
[14:08:35] Completed 17500 out of 250000 steps  (7%)
[14:45:19] Completed 20000 out of 250000 steps  (8%)
[15:22:51] Completed 22500 out of 250000 steps  (9%)
[16:00:19] Completed 25000 out of 250000 steps  (10%)
[16:37:48] Completed 27500 out of 250000 steps  (11%)
[17:14:51] Completed 30000 out of 250000 steps  (12%)
[17:51:56] Completed 32500 out of 250000 steps  (13%)
[18:28:59] Completed 35000 out of 250000 steps  (14%)
[19:06:02] Completed 37500 out of 250000 steps  (15%)
[19:42:24] Completed 40000 out of 250000 steps  (16%)
[20:18:49] Completed 42500 out of 250000 steps  (17%)
[20:55:11] Completed 45000 out of 250000 steps  (18%)
[21:31:34] Completed 47500 out of 250000 steps  (19%)
[22:07:59] Completed 50000 out of 250000 steps  (20%)
[22:44:22] Completed 52500 out of 250000 steps  (21%)
[23:20:46] Completed 55000 out of 250000 steps  (22%)
[23:57:08] Completed 57500 out of 250000 steps  (23%)
[00:33:33] Completed 60000 out of 250000 steps  (24%)
[01:09:55] Completed 62500 out of 250000 steps  (25%)
[01:46:19] Completed 65000 out of 250000 steps  (26%)
[02:22:43] Completed 67500 out of 250000 steps  (27%)
[02:59:05] Completed 70000 out of 250000 steps  (28%)
[03:10:05] CoreStatus = 0 (0)
[03:10:05] Sending work to server
[03:10:05] Project: 2683 (Run 12, Clone 9, Gen 22)
[03:10:05] - Error: Could not get length of results file work/wuresults_07.dat
[03:10:05] - Error: Could not read unit 07 file. Removing from queue.
[03:10:05] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[03:10:05] Cleaning up work directory
 
So, after another partial unit failure for no apparent reason, I deleted my whole FAH directory where my VM runs and started over.

Before I did anything this time, I gave full modification control to "Everyone" in the folder location and all subfolders in case
there was an data write issue, just in case.

I downloaded the newest image and reconfigured everything, so we'll see how it goes.
 
Buzz1927 said:
You don't need to run a vm any more, just use the smp2 client in windows. The bonus has been reduced, but I still get about 16k ppd :)
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you running an i7 now? congrats on hitting 1st in points btw. :)

Glad to see you back on board as well bodaggit.
 
Buzz1927 said:
You don't need to run a vm any more, just use the smp2 client in windows. The bonus has been reduced, but I still get about 16k ppd :)
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Even though I don't need to, can I still run the VM?
I set it up and refuses to retrieve a packet.
The SMP2 doesn't utilize my RAM like it should.
Probably just a setting I missed.

mep916 said:
Glad to see you back on board as well bodaggit.
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Thanks mep. :good:
 
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