One for the books-5 hour 11 minute TPF (P10742 R0 C1680 G9)
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:16 pm
Hardware: HP a475c Pent 4/HT 3.2 GHZ (single core - two threads) with GT430GPU / WinXP / FAH 7.2.9
Current progress. HFM is projecting 21 days 16 hours work unit duration, with a Quick Return Bonus (!!??) leading to a total ppd of 133, on a total credit of 2884.2.
I just picked up one for the books today. P10742 R0 C1680 G9.
I looked in on the rig this morning, checking both the FAH Control GUI and HFM. Both were showing that the client was at about 3 hours into the work unit, but neither showed any progress at all - zero percent. Even the FAH Control GUI, which typically shows incremental progress in hundredths of a percent was showing zero. i checked Windows Task Manager, and the task was humming along at 48-50% (remember this is a single core Hyperthreaded CPU - so each thread is 50% of the CPU). This is full utilization for the uniprocessor core.
A couple of hours later, I see that both HFM and the FAH Control GUI are reporting 1%, and that the Control GUI has started clocking over the incremental hundredths of percents, once it is over 1%. (it takes over 3 minutes to increment this counter by 0.01%!!)
I checked back at other long units this uniprocessor successfully folded, and found others - close but not THIS slow:
Aug 5 to Aug 24 2012. Project 10732 TPF 4 hours 35 minutes for 165.1 ppd
Aug 24 to Sept 12 2012. Project 10732 TPF 4 hours 58 min 57 seconds for 150.7 ppd
The good news is that the V7 client protects the work units across shutdowns and restarts. And that the HP is sufficiently stable it can successfully complete these weeks-long work units. And, now that I am folding with an Nvidia GT430 GPU (getting 3,200 ppd for "ordinary" Core 15 work units), they can coexist very well.
Current progress. HFM is projecting 21 days 16 hours work unit duration, with a Quick Return Bonus (!!??) leading to a total ppd of 133, on a total credit of 2884.2.
I've run a Uniprocessor client for about two years on the HP, secondary to the lion's share of points that the GPU produces. Over hundreds of WUs on the uniprocessor, I typically get ~130 to 150 ppd (pretty pathetic - but there it is).Project ID: 10742
Core: GRO-A4
Credit: 1813
Frames: 100
Name: HP a475c Slot 00
Path: Bud-s-hpa475c-36330
Number of Frames Observed: 1
Min. Time / Frame : 05:11:31 - 133.3 PPD
Avg. Time / Frame : 05:11:31 - 133.3 PPD
Cur. Time / Frame : 05:11:31 - 133.2 PPD
R3F. Time / Frame : 05:11:31 - 133.2 PPD
All Time / Frame : 05:11:31 - 133.2 PPD
Eff. Time / Frame : 06:32:50 - 94.2 PPD
I just picked up one for the books today. P10742 R0 C1680 G9.
I looked in on the rig this morning, checking both the FAH Control GUI and HFM. Both were showing that the client was at about 3 hours into the work unit, but neither showed any progress at all - zero percent. Even the FAH Control GUI, which typically shows incremental progress in hundredths of a percent was showing zero. i checked Windows Task Manager, and the task was humming along at 48-50% (remember this is a single core Hyperthreaded CPU - so each thread is 50% of the CPU). This is full utilization for the uniprocessor core.
A couple of hours later, I see that both HFM and the FAH Control GUI are reporting 1%, and that the Control GUI has started clocking over the incremental hundredths of percents, once it is over 1%. (it takes over 3 minutes to increment this counter by 0.01%!!)
I checked back at other long units this uniprocessor successfully folded, and found others - close but not THIS slow:
Aug 5 to Aug 24 2012. Project 10732 TPF 4 hours 35 minutes for 165.1 ppd
Aug 24 to Sept 12 2012. Project 10732 TPF 4 hours 58 min 57 seconds for 150.7 ppd
The good news is that the V7 client protects the work units across shutdowns and restarts. And that the HP is sufficiently stable it can successfully complete these weeks-long work units. And, now that I am folding with an Nvidia GT430 GPU (getting 3,200 ppd for "ordinary" Core 15 work units), they can coexist very well.