Windows 7 Folding?

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Post by DanGe »

A simple Google search says that Windows 7, once released, will be able to scale up to 256 processors. Whether or not the RC supports that many at the moment, it will definitely support 8.
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Post by Lgringo »

roger on the 256 core PR notices, but they sounded a bit like future "GPMS" (Grand Plans & Mad Schemes) and I was curious if someone had actually tried it already. You'll be the 2nd to know 8 is for sure after I install it in a few days.
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Post by 7im »

In the past, Windows didn't license the number of cores. It licensed the number of processor slots/sockets. And I documented all of that for previous versions on Windows at the bottom of this post: http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=50

I assume Win 7, being Vista 1.1, follows the same licensing of sockets, but I don't know for sure. I am sure they will add a higher socket count, if not just to license a more expensive version of Windows, but to also support the parallelization trend in the computing industry. M$ doesn't care about the number of cores. To them, it's just more threads. But socket counts are physical items, and can therefore be licensed, i.e. generate revenue. ;)
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Post by gwildperson »

It sounds to me like Microsoft is anticipating Larrabee and other such developments during the lifetime of i7.
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Post by Lgringo »

win 7 32-bit RC sees 8 cores & 2 procs ala 7im's note above.
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Post by ElectricVehicle »

FYI, I've been running Windows 7 64 bit RC1 with two SMP clients and affinity changer on a quad core Q8400 (stock 2.66 GHz for now) and 2 GPU clients. The computer has two (overclocked :) ) Nvidia 9600GSO video cards. 1 GPU client per video card, of course.

No worries, it's been running flawlessly.
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Post by ashdaw84 »

I am using a GPU client on this OS and have had NO trouble at all. :)
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Post by lilrabbit129 »

So far running Win7 64-bit on 2 machines with Q8400's and HD4870's. GPU folding only for now. I want to sort out the issue of the GPU client taking up a whole CPU core on its own also. After that I'll probably run SMP + GPU on each rig.
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Post by PaJaSoft »

Under Windows 7 and NVidia GPU console client I got this:

c:\PaJa\Folding@home-Win32-GPU_XP-623>[email protected]

Note: Please read the license agreement ([email protected] -license). Further
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement.

[13:23:23] RDPDD Chained DD detected
[13:23:23] At present your GPU is not supported or you need a current driver.
You may wish to consider running our standard client,
which you can download at folding.stanford.edu.

c:\PaJa\Folding@home-Win32-GPU_XP-623>


Google doesn't help me. I try run under admin rights too, but result the same.

Info: Chipset X38, Intel E8400 CPU, NVidia drivers 191.07 WHQL, Windows 7 Prof. 64-bit Czech (RTM version), NVidia (Gigabyte) 250GTX card.

Any ideas?
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Post by codysluder »

PaJaSoft wrote:Under Windows 7 and NVidia GPU console client I got this:

c:\PaJa\Folding@home-Win32-GPU_XP-623>[email protected]

Note: Please read the license agreement ([email protected] -license). Further
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this agreement.

[13:23:23] RDPDD Chained DD detected
[13:23:23] At present your GPU is not supported or you need a current driver.
You may wish to consider running our standard client,
which you can download at folding.stanford.edu.

c:\PaJa\Folding@home-Win32-GPU_XP-623>


Google doesn't help me. I try run under admin rights too, but result the same.

Info: Chipset X38, Intel E8400 CPU, NVidia drivers 191.07 WHQL, Windows 7 Prof. 64-bit Czech (RTM version), NVidia (Gigabyte) 250GTX card.

Any ideas?
I doubt that this is related to Windows 7. Depending on which GPU you have and how it's set up, this may be fixed with the -force_gpu setting. You'll have better luck getting an answer if you ask in the nvida forum and list your hardware setup (along with a mention of Win7).
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Post by Grandpa_01 »

Sounds like a compatibility problem with the other software you are trying to install use. I have 4 computers running Windows 7 64bit and 1 was XP pro 32bit. I used a Disk from Microsoft to upgrade all of them and I am having no problems with folding on any of them.
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2 - SM H8QGi-F AMD 6xxx=112 cores @ 3.2 & 3.9Ghz
5 - SM X9QRI-f+ Intel 4650 = 320 cores @ 3.15Ghz
2 - I7 980X 4.4Ghz 2-GTX680
1 - 2700k 4.4Ghz GTX680
Total = 464 cores folding
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Post by RML2811 »

I had installed F@H on my Vista 32bit windows. I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) and it discarted vista alltogether (as it should lol). Anyway, the software still works. I launched the application and it did not present any errors or disfunction. No problems at all.
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Post by fredjones »

I don't have a clue if it is working or not. The machine is a HP DM3 with windows 7 64 bit. I tried to run it under XP service pack 2 compatibility mode. I'm not very smart you need to provide window 7 64 bit core before I try again.
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All current cores work under windows 7 32 and 64....
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Post by jrweiss »

I just did a clean install of Win7 Pro 64-bit on my Q9650/HIS4670 rig. Installed Cat 9.10 SMP and GPU are running fine side-by-side. Transferred partially-completed WUs from the old XP install; both completed normally.

Had only 50% GOU load until I bumped FLUSH_INTERVAL from 32 to 64. Added FAH_GPU_IDLE=5; get 93-99% GPU load, no noticeable gfx delays.

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