I'll start this out on the XS Stanford Folding team forum, and duplicate the thread on my "home", the WCG forum.
OK, I don't get out of my WCG cave very often, but I have had some revelations in the past couple of months.So, here I am....
When the forum crashed, I spent some time in the TPU XS refugee camp, here. It wasn't always pretty, but it didn't take us long to find out they had a WCG team trying to start up. Rammie and I brought our full farms over, as did others. We achieved the criteria for them to get a sub-forum, here. We knew we did a good thing by promoting the overall growth of this DC work we all do.
Since this was new to me and I was a folding noob, with a desire to get the WCG team going no matter what, I posted this in the WCG section. Link to original post here.
"Quote:Originally Posted by ShadowFold
I think I will have my CPU boincing and my GPU folding"
My reply....
"That is a recipe many at XS do. It works well. Crunching GPUGrid along with WCG, both on BOINC, also works but you have to watch what version you run on. It's a little trickier.
A thought for this team is to "cross-pollinate" with your folding team. Fold for them with your GPUs, and ask them to crunch WCG for your team.... A quick and easy way to boost both teams."
That's my basic idea here. With that in mind, I have moved three GTX 260-216s over to your XS folding team here. What I'm expecting in return is that some of you running the CPU(or SMP?) folding client cross those over to WCG. We have found that the WCG BOINC client is best at CPU utilization, and the folding GPU client is very efficient at folding for Stanford.
At TPU, they were very pleasantly surprised by the power boost both teams got from this cooperative effort. For me, I didn't realize just how much power I was bringing on by sticking six 260-216s on the rigs I previously ran $3 PCI old Virge GPUs on. I didn't need a good GPU to crunch with, but I added some to fold with.....WOW!
If this works out well, I have at least six more cards to add. Some of the machines have more than one x16 slot in them. I learned how to bring those up too, at TPU. And I will... My other PCIe slots are empty on my farm rigs....I run a total of 16 quads on WCG. They all have decent boards and bigger PSUs than I need. I purposely bought the PSUs big in order to "think ahead".
I know a NUMBER of you already do this, crunch CPUs for WCG and GPUs for the folding team here. SparkyJJO comes to mind. A few of you I see all over the place when I post!! Kudos, you are in front of the "curve". You all said this multiple times, but it didn't sink in to formally make this a team partnership until lately. DUH, on me...I see no reason this couldn't take off. Let me know what you think....
Cross over our way if you have questions on setting up BOINC. "hotwaxisbad" has an excellent "how-to" guide for an easy setup. I'll help out any questions at WCG that come in about folding, as well as MANY others there, or we'll direct them to you folks here. Let's "cross-pollinate"!!
EDIT: Hot suggested I link the guide here. Great idea! Here it is... Is there an equivalent guide for setting up F@H? I'll link it here too, and on my post at the WCG team. :END EDIT
Sincere Regards,
Bob
A rehabilitated WCG cruncher.....
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