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by torsionbar
Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:26 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: time per frame
Replies: 9
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Re: time per frame

no do not get too excited. this is not bigadv units, this is regular old smp units. it's an older machine. dual socket 940 with a pair of dual-core opteron 285's. total of four cores @ 2.6 ghz each and 8 GB of memory. nothing to write home about, but i have it laying around so might as well do some ...
by torsionbar
Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:43 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: time per frame
Replies: 9
Views: 2502

Re: time per frame

Open the file fahlog.txt with notepad or some similar text editor and read it. You can run a monitoring application like HFM and it will provide you with all the info about the work in process and history that you could ask for. HFM-NET: This hfm tool looks like Microsoft stuff? I don't have any mi...
by torsionbar
Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:42 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: time per frame
Replies: 9
Views: 2502

Re: time per frame

Ah, ok, so each line of output corresponds with one frame? And one frame is equivalent to 1/100 of a work unit? I guess that makes sense. Sort of. In that case, my time per frame is about 10 minutes.

thank you
by torsionbar
Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:28 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: time per frame
Replies: 9
Views: 2502

time per frame

I'm a folding newbie, running the smp client on my quad-opteron linux box now. I've been told I need to have a "time per frame" of ~40 minutes at the absolute most, and preferably much shorter than 40 minutes. How do I know what my average time per frame is? How big is a frame and how do I...