In case you don't know James, when you come to the end of your folding session, if you add the -oneunit flag, your clients will send results, not download any more work, and shutdown. It's best to finish this way.
Forgive my ignorance here, as I really know nothing about the hardware you're using other than what you have said, dual 6 core procs, do they not have hyperthreading? or is it disabled? because with hyperthreading that would be 24 threads, -smp 24.
I think this is new BD core stuff. Calculating out what you said you have, I'd guess this is the new replacement for Interlagos, C32 socket with AMD SR5690 chipset-nothing else is coming out soon except for the LGA2011 stuff, but it's so far out I don't expect it to be sampling yet. Makes me wish my quad socket F could do that... Briefly had a Proliant G7 with dual G34 here, that was a nutso machine. This seems to take the cake, though. BTW, HT is okay, I guess, but nothing beats real cores. My home machine has 16 real cores. It's pretty nice when it gets to render time.
If it's running on VMWare then HT will probably be turned off (as Vsphere doesn't use HT efficiently)
dunno about the rest of you but whenever i see the number of points he makes a day/ every update i cant help but laugh, as if he was a team on his own his 24hr average would make him 4th when ranking teams by there 24hr average
If he runs HT hardware he's probably running Xen then. And that doesn't have the issues. Heck, Xen can even game. If you know what you're doing. Nah, sounds like a big Linux setup. The clients can be run natively in Linux, and you get more points for the hardware as well.
Yup, ~17.5 mil yesterday and almost 5 mil today from the 'burn-in tests'. It's kinda scary...you think he'll be able to do this every weekend? Impressive!
This is brilliant, well done, and great idea on a burn in test... what are the thermals like on the inner blades? Are the "problems" concentrated nearer the highest heat spots?
The way blades work (if the enclosure is fully loaded with fans) means that there are no hotspots. Even with 16 blades in an enclosure with dual hex cores in each, I find there's no difference in temps on all the blades.
This demonstration of power really makes me want to pack in GPU folding, sell the whole GPU farm and save up for a rack of folding servers. You've made an absolutely amazing contribution to the project and to the teams bottom line James, thanks for every point!
You say that .... but I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of kit that is ... just the processors are worth a few k each and how many did we work out there were? 200?
