Folding no Intel V8 com os vários clientes. Dados interessantes

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Estes resultados são muito interessantes e trazem muita informação útil para sabermos qual é o cliente melhor para os nossos sistemas.
Este sistema para os mais distraidos é composto por:

2x Intel Xeon X5365 (ou seja oito croes no total já que cada cpu tem 4 cores)
4GB RAM
Gráfica ATI X1959XTX

Foram usadas 4 configurações:

1. Two instances of the Windows SMP Client on Windows XP Professional 32-bit
Our first configuration was simply running two instances of the Windows SMP folding client. Two instances were necessary because we found out that one instance only spawns 4 threads, thus, only putting load on 4 cores. Running two instances yielded 100% system load.


2. Four VM's running Ubuntu 64-bit with the Linux SMP Client
Many of our folders have found that running 64bit Linux in a Virtual Machine (VM) yields more points per day than running the Windows SMP client. However, most of those folders only have a dual core processor. We discovered that VMWare Server only gives you the option to set a max of two cores to a given VM. So in order to use all 8 cores in VMWare, we had to create 4 separate VMs running Ubuntu 64-bit Linux on top of Windows XP 32-bit. We dedicated 1 GB of memory to each VM as well.


3. Three VM's running Ubuntu 64-bit with the Linux SMP Client and one instance of the GPU Folding Client
We decided to get a little creative with this setup. We ran 3 VMs running Linux and also ran the GPU Folding Client on our ATI x1950XTX 512MB Crossfire Edition video card. When watching the system monitor with this configuration, the system was under a steady 95% load, so we didn't run another folding client to have the system at 100% load since there didn't seem to be enough processing resources available.


4. Two instances of the Linux SMP Client on Ubuntu 64-bit
It was then time to wipe the drive and install Linux natively. Like the Windows SMP client, a single instance of the Linux SMP client only put load on 4 cores. So two instances were run.
Em pontos por dia:

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Como sempre achei o cliente SMP para Linux é o melhor em termos de pontos. Não confundir com poder para processar informação. Ai o GPU é melhor a seguir é a PS3 e só depois os processadores. A questão é que se virmos pelo prisma da atribuição de pontos o cliente SMP para Linux é imbatível. Para quem não quer usar Linux nativo. O Vmware é prativcamente igual.

Esperemos que em Outubro saia um novo cliente SMP para Windows que seja melhor que o actual.
 
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