[CentOS] More Folding At Home

[Mark LaPierre]

On 01/31/16 22:10, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 09:42:43PM -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> On 12/30/15 23:03, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>>> Hey Y'all,
>>>
>>> I have the Stanford University Folding At Home project running on three
>>> of my machines.  I had them all set up so that I could control them all
>>> from my main machine, 192.168.15.101, but some time ago something
>>> changed so that I can no longer connect to the FAH clients on the other
>>> two machines.  I figured it wasn't really important so I would look into
>>> it later.  Well time has passed and my Christmas break is almost passed
>>> too to I guess this is the time to figure it out.
>>>
>>> I can still SSH onto both machines.  I can ping both machines.
>>>
>>> When I open the FAH Control on my machine connection to clients running
>>> on 192.168.15.105 and 192.168.15.107 fails.
>>>
>>> I'm assuming that there would be an entry in a log on those two machines
>>> detailing the failed connection attempt.
>>>
>>> What log file should I be looking at?
>>>
>>
>> Hey CentOS FAH team members.  Do any of you have a GPU that is actually
>> folding in CentOS 6?
> 
> I tried GPU folding in Centos-6, but the FAH log file showed continuous
> errors for the GPU (which was, at the time a Nvidia n460GTX). Inquiries
> on the FAH forums indicated that there are library incompatibilities 
> on Centos-6 and that it would be difficult or impossible to make it
> work.
> 
> I eventually upgraded to Centos-7 and then easily got GPU folding to
> work on the same video card without difficulty.
> 
> FYI, I had previously (couple of years ago) attempted GPU folding on 
> C6 using a 9800GT, and was told (again, on the FAH forums) that that
> GPU was no longer supported. I'd guess that your 9600GT is also too
> old.
> 
> Here's the FAH forum thread on that GPU compatibility issue:
> https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=25284&p=252427&hilit=9800GT#p252427
> 
> I've recently replaced the 460GTX with a new 750ti card, and found
> two amazing benefits:
> 1. according to my KillaWatt meter, the computer's power draw dropped from
> 275-295 watts to 190-195 watts,
> 2. my PPD total per week has gone from around 200K to more like 400K.
>    In fact, the last 3 weeks have all been around 440K, some slightly
>    lower, some a little higher.
> 
> The 750ti was a fairly cheap card, at $129.
> 
>> If you do please tell me exactly what video card and what driver you are
>> using?
> 
> I'm using the Nvidia 340 driver from the elrepo repository. Be sure to
> install the dkms package from epel before installing these nvidia drivers.
> 
>>
>> I have a GeForce 9600 GT card that will not fold.  FAH finds the GPU and
>> sets up a slot for it but it always says "Update Core" in the slot
>> status field with zero progress.  I'm not happy with that.
> 
> See above for compatibility comments on this card.
> 

Thanks for the input Fred.

The GeForce 9600 GT is listed in the GPUs.txt file as of Jan 20.  It
should be compatible but I guess it won't work on C6 though.  I'm not in
any hurry to move to C7.

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