Not in stats (yet)?

[matrix1337]

Hello everyone.

Today I decided to put a few my servers (each has 8x 2GHZ, 32GB ram) to work for folding@home for a few weeks.
Now just out of curiosity, I went to the userstats page and entered my username.
However, it did not find anything.

Is this because the page needs updating, or did I do something wrong?
CPU usage is 16 GHZ all the time, so it definitely is doing something.

I installed it at like 16:00 (GMT+1) today.

Thnx.

[P5-133XL]

To get into the stat system, you need to have returned a work unit (WU) and then it will commonly take 1-3 hours after that to get into the stat system. Since you just installed folding today, my guess is that you haven't returned a WU yet. You can see the folding log by looking at the FAHLOG.txt file. When you have successfully returned a WU the log will say "Thank you for your contribution".

The things I don't understand is a question of your terminology. Do you actually have eight physical servers (computers) running or is it one computer with eight cores? You say you have a CPU usage of 16GHz running all the time and I don't know of any CPU usage meters that use GHz as their performance metric. The ones I know of return a percent usage so while folding it should be reporting a 100% rather than a GHz number. Are you using the Windows Task Manager to monitor your CPU usage or something else?

[matrix1337]

Thanks for the info about the stats.

Answer to your tech question: It is a virtual linux server to which I assigned 8 cpu's. Each cpu has 2 GHZ.
I use vSphere to see advanced stats of the machine.



I also decided to lower the ram from 32GB to 16GB since almost none is used:

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~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         16090        356      15734          0        133         48
-/+ buffers/cache:        173      15916
Swap:         5122          0       5122

Here is some info when I start the folding@home application

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8 cores detected

...

[15:42:22] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[15:42:22] Entering M.D.
Starting 8 threads
NNODES=8, MYRANK=7, HOSTNAME=thread #7
NNODES=8, MYRANK=4, HOSTNAME=thread #4
NNODES=8, MYRANK=1, HOSTNAME=thread #1
NNODES=8, MYRANK=5, HOSTNAME=thread #5
NNODES=8, MYRANK=3, HOSTNAME=thread #3
NNODES=8, MYRANK=2, HOSTNAME=thread #2
NNODES=8, MYRANK=6, HOSTNAME=thread #6
NNODES=8, MYRANK=0, HOSTNAME=thread #0

Here is some info I get when I stop the folding@home application

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Received the TERM signal, stopping at the next NS step


 Average load imbalance: 0.3 %
 Part of the total run time spent waiting due to load imbalance: 0.1 %
 Steps where the load balancing was limited by -rdd, -rcon and/or -dds: X 0 %


	Parallel run - timing based on wallclock.

               NODE (s)   Real (s)      (%)
       Time:  21700.191  21700.191    100.0
                       6h01:40
               (Mnbf/s)   (GFlops)   (ns/day)  (hour/ns)
Performance:    251.579     16.572      3.559      6.743

Thanx for Using GROMACS - Have a Nice Day

WHoo I also completed a WU

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[22:28:10] Finished Work Unit:
[22:28:10] - Reading up to 20265168 from "work/wudata_01.trr": Read 20265168
[22:28:10] trr file hash check passed.
[22:28:10] edr file hash check passed.
[22:28:10] logfile size: 65320
[22:28:10] Leaving Run
[22:28:13] - Writing 20364764 bytes of core data to disk...
[22:28:14]   ... Done.
[22:28:19] - Shutting down core
[22:28:19] 
[22:28:19] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[22:28:19] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[22:28:19] Unit 1 finished with 95 percent of time to deadline remaining.
[22:28:19] Updated performance fraction: 0.951265
[22:28:19] Sending work to server
[22:28:19] Project: 6025 (Run 1, Clone 29, Gen 326)


[22:28:19] + Attempting to send results [January 18 22:28:19 UTC]
[22:28:19] - Reading file work/wuresults_01.dat from core
[22:28:19]   (Read 20364764 bytes from disk)
[22:28:19] Connecting to http://171.64.65.54:8080/
[22:28:31] Posted data.
[22:28:31] Initial: 0000; - Uploaded at ~1529 kB/s
[22:28:32] - Averaged speed for that direction ~1529 kB/s
[22:28:32] + Results successfully sent
[22:28:32] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.

Why are the upload rates this low (1529 kB/s)? I have a gigabit connection and I normally upload 20MB (thats megabyte) per second

Its running for like half a day now.
I will keep it running for a week or so, and probably even add 1-3 more of these machine's (each again has 8x2GHZ and 16GB ram).
I dont need my computing resources right now, so I decided to 'donate' them for folding@home .

[k1wi]

Welcome to the fold

It's probably not your end of the link that is the bottleneck, rather more likely to be Stanford's end - which has to be shared across thousands of users simultaneously uploading and/or downloading. I'm sure they've got a very big pipe, it's just likely to be being shared across many many users and 1500kB/s isn't too slow, just not quite gigabit

Plus it's only taking 10 seconds to upload, some of that could just be negotiation time...

[matrix1337]

Haha ok.
Sounds fair to me

PS. download rates are even worse, 800kb/sec? stone age...

I now completed 2 WU's and I was awarded 964 points.
I also see other people that completed 15 WU's and only have 762 points.
Is this because my WU's are harder or smth like that?

[k1wi]

Different work units are worth different amounts of points as they are different sizes.

Also, the uniprocessor client earns much less points than the SMP client (which is able to utilise much more powerful computers), but in turn, they require much less computing to complete.

If you are using the SMP client, make sure you're folding with a passkey, as once you've completed 10 work units and maintain an 80% success rate, you'll earn bonus points, which will significantly increase your points. The bonus points are designed to encourage fast, stable work unit completion.

[matrix1337]

Aahh

I will add a passkey.
How can I reconfigure the SMP client to use the passkey?
I know I can request a passkey online. But how do I add it to my already installed linux SMP client?
(I did not enter one during the installation setup)

Another question:
Can you actually do anything with these points? Or are they just for fun

[k1wi]

Once you get your passkey close the client with ctrl-C (I think for linux) and then restart with the flag -config, this will run the config upon restart, where you can enter your passkey.

The points are just so you can measure your contribution against the masses, or your contribution to your team... 'Stacking the deck' with bonus points helps, but if points aren't of interest then the passkey is less of an issue - the same amount of science gets done

[matrix1337]

Thanks for the answer.

Ye point are funny, but the real reason for donating is to do something good .