New official GPU installation/configuration guides

[Xilikon]

I'm proud to announce that we now have a new section on the official Stanford F@H site. Vijay Pande asked me if I can write those guides to help users install and configure the clients (especially the SMP clients) and I accepted. I believe this will fill the void on the official site where nobody cannot find a good guide, relying only on scattered infos, official or not.

The Guides main page can be found at http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegrou ... lish/Guide and a direct link button will be available shortly.

The guides relevant to the GPU clients can be found at :

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegrou ... inGPUGuide

The GPU guides is written for the 6.20 version in mind. It also include a section to install a multi-GPU setup for advanced users.

You can also find other guides for the Windows SMP and uniprocessor clients, Linux unified client, Macintosh clients (only missing the Macintosh classic client setup) and PS3 client.

Before we can add the button on the top for the whole public to access them freely, I'm asking everyone who use those guides to provide some feedback either in this thread or via PM. The feedback will help me tweak them so it's very easy to understand for a broad range of users.

Regards,
Stephane Renaud

[Prof. Dr. Silver]

Sweet! I'm glad you finally made an official 'how-to' guide. Just about every other site said something a little different! Your guide is the 'clearest' sofar!

[matthewh4271]

I followed the instructions and shortcut GPU1 or actual GPU0 is working fine. But on shortcut GPU2 or actual GPU1 when I try to run it says

"At present your GPU is not supported or you need a current driver"

I am using vistax64 and cuda driver 177.84

Can you help me get it running on boths cards. SLI runs fine so both cards work. Any advice

[Xilikon]

With Vista, you need to have each GPU hooked to a monitor or a VGA dummy and the desktop extended to make it work.

[Xilikon]

Sweet! I'm glad you finally made an official 'how-to' guide. Just about every other site said something a little different! Your guide is the 'clearest' sofar!

Thanks, it's the same feeling everyone has about the guides so far. I'm glad this helped answer a real need of the F@H community.

[matthewh4271]

With Vista, you need to have each GPU hooked to a monitor or a VGA dummy and the desktop extended to make it work.

So all I need to do is plug in another monitor and then select the other shortcut on that desktop?

[Xilikon]

With Vista, you need to have each GPU hooked to a monitor or a VGA dummy and the desktop extended to make it work.

So all I need to do is plug in another monitor and then select the other shortcut on that desktop?

Almost, you also need to extend the desktop. With Vista, just right-click on the desktop, select Personnalize then select Display Settings (last element) and select the 2nd monitor. There is a checkbox called "Extend the desktop onto this monitor" so check this and retry.

[two00lbwaster]

I hope you don't take offence, especially as I'm guessing English isn't your first language, but could we native/fluent English speakers help you with clarifying/tightening up your English usage in the guide? The grammatical errors are relatively minor, but the help is here if you would like it.

I'm on holiday in France for the week so can provide what little assistance that I may, if you would like it in that period of time?

[Xilikon]

I hope you don't take offence, especially as I'm guessing English isn't your fist language, but could we native/fluent English speakers help you with clarifying/tightening up your English usage in the guide? The grammatical errors are relatively minor, but the help is here if you would like it.

I'm on holiday in France for the week so can provide what little assistance that I may, if you would like it in that period of time?

Don't worry, I already have someone doing proofreading for me. However, one more couldn't hurt so you are welcome to collect the errors/weird parts and sending a PM to me. I will fix them in a timely manner.

My first language is french so you guessed it right

[two00lbwaster]

Don't worry, I already have someone doing proofreading for me. However, one more couldn't hurt so you are welcome to collect the errors/weird parts and sending a PM to me. I will fix them in a timely manner.

My first language is french so you guessed it right

Talking of proofreading I should do so for my own messages lol. I shall do some minor changes and PM them to you to see what you think. Then, maybe, we can do some more.

[M-x]

Nice work! I didn't even know a GPU console version was out yet...

[ChelseaOilman]

Can you help me get it running on boths cards. SLI runs fine so both cards work. Any advice

Make sure SLI is disabled in order to fold on each GPU.

[ItsLasher]

Straight forward instructions for Vista.
Some of the guides and FAQ's are a pain to try and figure out.

Keep it SIMPLE and don't try to talk above people .

This is a copy\paste I made for my forum and several have used it with out issue and no questions on how to do something or what something means.

Disable SLI
Hook a monitor to the second card
In Nvidia control Panel set up multiple displays
In Windows Display properties set yo "extend desktop" to second monitor

Download the proper client CONSOLE HERE for your OS.

Set up 2 folders with different names on your desktop or where ever you like.
I use GPU0 and GPU1 as names and the folders are on my desktop.

Once you have your files and folders set up go into each fold and right click on the "folding.exe" file and select create shortcut and the shortcut will be placed in that file.

Once you have your shortcuts right click in each shortcut and select "Properties" and you will need to add a flag to the end of the TARGET line.

Target:C:\Users\ItsLasher\Desktop\GPU0\Folding@hom e-Win32-GPU.exe -gpu 0

Target:C:\Users\ItsLasher\Desktop\GPU1\Folding@hom e-Win32-GPU.exe -gpu 1

This tells the client which GPU to use for folding.

Once you have done this run the first client as normal entering the name and team number and this will default as "Machine ID 2".

The second client run it and enter the name and team number and then when prompet for advanced options enter "yes" and in advance option the only thing you need to change is the "Machine ID from 2 to 1" then just hit ENTER to go through the other options and thats it.

2 folders with different names
2 shortcuts
2 flags added -gpu 0 -gpu 1 NOTE: there is a space after the .exe and the flag
2 different machine ID's
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[Xilikon]

ItsLasher, it may be simle for you or any knowledgeable computers users. However, the official guides cater to a wider audience and the goal is to explain each step both visually and with notes. Your guide might be straightforward but not everyone know where to look or why a change must be made.

Nobody is forced to use the official guides and everyone is free to use whatever guide they prefer

[GoryanskyAleksey]

What if my NVidia cards are in the SLI mode? Can I use the total power in Folding by any manner?