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pelligrini
19th March 2007, 15:52
Stanford has started an open Beta of the new 32bit Windows SMP client.
http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic18531.html

From what I understand it's aimed at high end hardware for now.
MikeTimbers
20th May 2007, 13:52
Been running this at home since Friday. Wish I'd done it earlier! My AMD X2 is achieving almost 1000ppd on its own! I've also been running it on an Intel dual-core laptop I've been ahem soak-testing and it's achieving the same sort of ppd tally. The X2 if running two standard FAH cores gets nowhere near 1000ppd - not even half of that - so the SMP client is definitely worth running if possible.

Just for the record, the X2 is running at 2571MHz and using DDR on an NForce3 mobo. Each frame took around 24mins totalling 40 hours for 1760 points.
pelligrini
22nd May 2007, 12:12
I've got it running on a 3Ghz P4d at the office and I get 641 PPD on a 2652wu.

On an almost identical rig, there are two CPU clients running and between the two of them they get 224.76

There's a couple SMP WU that take a long time to crunch and the deadlines are tight. The dual 2.8Ghz Xeon HT server at the office would just miss the deadline (the 512 cache hurts).
MikeTimbers
22nd May 2007, 17:06
avoid the 2610 unit if you have anything less than 2MB cache per core!
pelligrini
22nd May 2007, 20:06
The system that I have running the SMP client has only 1MB per core and it will crunch a 2610 within the deadlines, but not by a big margin.
MikeTimbers
23rd May 2007, 02:04
I could do with longer deadlines on these to be honest. I have a work laptop now but running it 24/7 means lugging it home (wasting two hours of travel time per day) to keep it within the deadline.
pelligrini
23rd May 2007, 10:34
Yea, longer deadlines would be nice, but the client was really designed for 4 core systems (and it's still in beta). There's a pretty good thread over at the folding forum about this very subject. http://forum.folding-community.org/ftopic19910.html

I think the client will be made scalable in the future running as many client cores as there are CPU cores.

I just had to test it, but:
Quad P3 Xeon, 600Mhz 1Mb cache, 3gig ram
Project 2610
1:23:54 per frame average (not quite fast enough)
It would miss the deadline by ~44 hours
MikeTimbers
23rd May 2007, 17:03
I need a Solaris client - then I could do some damage