P7520(120,6,0) - slow? [Resolved- Bad WU]

[Joe_H]

Do the WU's that you see report low PPD's have the correct number of steps as mentioned in earlier posts of this thread? Post your log to at least give some idea what the problem is if that is not the problem.

[orion456]

It is supposed to have 1,000,000 steps it appears to have 500,000 steps. I have been receiving these for several days now. Here is the listing:

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Launch directory: /home/xxx/fah
Executable: ./fah6
Arguments: -smp 4 -verbosity 9 

[22:00:28] - Ask before connecting: No
[22:00:28] - User name: orion456 (Team 32)
[22:00:28] - User ID not found locally
[22:00:28] + Requesting User ID from server
[22:00:28] - Getting ID from AS: 
[22:00:28] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[22:00:29] Posted data.
[22:00:29] Initial: 1389; - Received User ID = xxx
[22:00:29] - Machine ID: 5
[22:00:29] 
[22:00:29] Work directory not found. Creating...
[22:00:29] Could not open work queue, generating new queue...
[22:00:29] - Autosending finished units... [October 8 22:00:29 UTC]
[22:00:29] Trying to send all finished work units
[22:00:29] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[22:00:29] - Autosend completed
[22:00:29] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[22:00:29] Cleaning up work directory
[22:00:29] + Attempting to get work packet
[22:00:29] Passkey found
[22:00:29] - Will indicate memory of 3955 MB
[22:00:29] - Connecting to assignment server
[22:00:29] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[22:00:29] Posted data.
[22:00:29] Initial: 8F80; - Successful: assigned to (128.143.199.97).
[22:00:29] + News From Folding@Home: 
[22:00:29] Loaded queue successfully.
[22:00:29] Connecting to http://128.143.199.97:8080/
[22:00:30] Posted data.
[22:00:30] Initial: 0000; - Receiving payload (expected size: 2396232)
[22:00:33] - Downloaded at ~780 kB/s
[22:00:33] - Averaged speed for that direction ~780 kB/s
[22:00:33] + Received work.
[22:00:33] + Closed connections
[22:00:33] 
[22:00:33] + Processing work unit
[22:00:33] Work type a4 not eligible for variable processors
[22:00:33] Core required: FahCore_a4.exe
[22:00:33] Core not found.
[22:00:33] - Core is not present or corrupted.
[22:00:33] - Attempting to download new core...
[22:00:33] + Downloading new core: FahCore_a4.exe


[22:00:36] Verifying core Core_a4.fah...
[22:00:36] Signature is VALID
[22:00:36] 
[22:00:36] Trying to unzip core FahCore_a4.exe
[22:00:37] Decompressed FahCore_a4.exe (6272504 bytes) successfully
[22:00:37] + Core successfully engaged
[22:00:42] 
[22:00:42] + Processing work unit
[22:00:42] Work type a4 not eligible for variable processors
[22:00:42] Core required: FahCore_a4.exe
[22:00:42] Core found.
[22:00:42] Working on queue slot 01 [October 8 22:00:42 UTC]
[22:00:42] + Working ...
[22:00:42] - Calling './FahCore_a4.exe -dir work/ -nice 19 -suffix 01 -np 0 -checkpoint 30 -verbose -lifeline 18847 -version 629'

[22:00:42] 
[22:00:42] *------------------------------*
[22:00:42] Folding@Home Gromacs GB Core
[22:00:42] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[22:00:42] 
[22:00:42] Preparing to commence simulation
[22:00:42] - Looking at optimizations...
[22:00:42] - Created dyn
[22:00:42] - Files status OK
[22:00:43] - Expanded 2395720 -> 3364888 (decompressed 140.4 percent)
[22:00:43] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=2395720 data_size=3364888, decompressed_data_size=3364888 diff=0
[22:00:43] - Digital signature verified
[22:00:43] 
[22:00:43] Project: 7520 (Run 6, Clone 4, Gen 408)
[22:00:43] 
[22:00:43] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[22:00:43] Entering M.D.
                         :-)  G  R  O  M  A  C  S  (-:

                   Groningen Machine for Chemical Simulation

                            :-)  VERSION 4.5.3  (-:


                               :-)  Gromacs  (-:

Reading file work/wudata_01.tpr, VERSION 4.5.5-dev-20120703-fc032f9-dirty (single precision)
starting mdrun 'Protein in water'
205000000 steps, 410000.0 ps (continuing from step 204500000, 409000.0 ps).
[22:00:50] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps  (0%)
[22:33:31] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps  (1%)
[23:06:14] Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps  (2%)
[23:38:57] Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps  (3%)
[00:11:39] Completed 20000 out of 500000 steps  (4%)
[00:44:22] Completed 25000 out of 500000 steps  (5%)
[01:17:07] Completed 30000 out of 500000 steps  (6%)
[01:49:51] Completed 35000 out of 500000 steps  (7%)
[02:22:35] Completed 40000 out of 500000 steps  (8%)
[02:55:18] Completed 45000 out of 500000 steps  (9%)
[03:28:03] Completed 50000 out of 500000 steps  (10%)
[04:00:29] - Autosending finished units... [October 9 04:00:29 UTC]
[04:00:29] Trying to send all finished work units
[04:00:29] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[04:00:29] - Autosend completed
[04:00:48] Completed 55000 out of 500000 steps  (11%)
[04:33:31] Completed 60000 out of 500000 steps  (12%)
[05:06:14] Completed 65000 out of 500000 steps  (13%)
[05:38:57] Completed 70000 out of 500000 steps  (14%)
[06:11:41] Completed 75000 out of 500000 steps  (15%)
[06:44:24] Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps  (16%)
[07:17:08] Completed 85000 out of 500000 steps  (17%)
[07:49:50] Completed 90000 out of 500000 steps  (18%)
[08:22:32] Completed 95000 out of 500000 steps  (19%)
[08:55:15] Completed 100000 out of 500000 steps  (20%)
[09:27:58] Completed 105000 out of 500000 steps  (21%)
[10:00:29] - Autosending finished units... [October 9 10:00:29 UTC]
[10:00:29] Trying to send all finished work units
[10:00:29] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[10:00:29] - Autosend completed
[10:00:40] Completed 110000 out of 500000 steps  (22%)
[10:33:21] Completed 115000 out of 500000 steps  (23%)
[11:06:02] Completed 120000 out of 500000 steps  (24%)
[11:38:45] Completed 125000 out of 500000 steps  (25%)
[12:11:25] Completed 130000 out of 500000 steps  (26%)
[12:44:06] Completed 135000 out of 500000 steps  (27%)
[13:16:49] Completed 140000 out of 500000 steps  (28%)
[13:49:33] Completed 145000 out of 500000 steps  (29%)
[14:22:17] Completed 150000 out of 500000 steps  (30%)
[14:55:01] Completed 155000 out of 500000 steps  (31%)
[15:27:44] Completed 160000 out of 500000 steps  (32%)
[16:00:28] Completed 165000 out of 500000 steps  (33%)
[16:00:29] - Autosending finished units... [October 9 16:00:29 UTC]
[16:00:29] Trying to send all finished work units
[16:00:29] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[16:00:29] - Autosend completed
[16:33:12] Completed 170000 out of 500000 steps  (34%)
[17:05:56] Completed 175000 out of 500000 steps  (35%)
[17:38:37] Completed 180000 out of 500000 steps  (36%)
[18:11:18] Completed 185000 out of 500000 steps  (37%)
[18:43:59] Completed 190000 out of 500000 steps  (38%)
[19:16:39] Completed 195000 out of 500000 steps  (39%)
[19:49:22] Completed 200000 out of 500000 steps  (40%)

[Joe_H]

Please reread the prior posts. The correct number of steps is 500,000. It would indicate that you had a bad WU if the number was something other than that such as 1,000,000.

You did not post the beginning of your log, which version of the client are you running? The message:

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[22:00:42] Work type a4 not eligible for variable processors

may indicate you are running too early a version, you should be running at least 6.34. A later line appears to indicate your are running the 6.29 version of the client, that may be causing you to run on just one core, not 4. Version 6.29 only supported the uni-processor version of the A4 core as I recall.

Beyond that, have you checked for what else is running on that system and using CPU time?

So far none of the WU's you have posted about have turned out to be bad, just running slow on your system.

P.S. If this is the problem, all Core_A4 projects would be affected, Core_A3 WU's would run on all 4 cores assigned to them.

[orion456]

Your eagle eye spotted the right answer. For some reason 3 of my machines were still running 6.29. I updated them and all is running well. Or at least I am not getting 7520's anymore. THx.