New F@H Beta Core

scapegoat · 11-February-04, 03:59 PM

If you have had problems with core freezes while running F@H on a AMD proccesser, you will probably want to give the current beta core a spin

"We have been working with the Gromacs developers, AMD, and several mods to fix the AMD freeze issue discussed in the "Freezing with AMD and SSE - Discussion" thread in this section. In internal and beta testing, a newly prepared core has seemed successful thus far. For those who are interested in trying it immediately, we have made the new core available for manual download at http://www.folding.org/beta-core (instructions are listed there as well). Please note that you do not need to download now if you do not want -- if this core continues to look good, clients will soon automatically upgrade to it.
Some release notes:

- It is very slightly faster than the old core
- No bugs have been found in Gromacs, but this includes a workaround which seems to solve the problem
- The FAH team and the AMD team are cooperating fully to reach a final solution
If you check out the new core, please report any problems here. "

Download it Here

Sparky · 11-February-04, 04:17 PM

It seems to have fixed the problem of freezing up. I believe the problem was whenever you had the F@H screen up and clicked on your name or tried to view statistics it would totally freeze up. It all seems good so far so we shall see. BTW is there any way that i can make this sucker fold faster cause it seems like its goin slowwww. A 600 wu takes like 12 hours on my 2500 barton. What gives?

11-February-04, 03:59 PM		#1 (permalink)
scapegoat Apex Tech God	New F@H Beta Core If you have had problems with core freezes while running F@H on a AMD proccesser, you will probably want to give the current beta core a spin "We have been working with the Gromacs developers, AMD, and several mods to fix the AMD freeze issue discussed in the "Freezing with AMD and SSE - Discussion" thread in this section. In internal and beta testing, a newly prepared core has seemed successful thus far. For those who are interested in trying it immediately, we have made the new core available for manual download at http://www.folding.org/beta-core (instructions are listed there as well). Please note that you do not need to download now if you do not want -- if this core continues to look good, clients will soon automatically upgrade to it. Some release notes: - It is very slightly faster than the old core - No bugs have been found in Gromacs, but this includes a workaround which seems to solve the problem - The FAH team and the AMD team are cooperating fully to reach a final solution If you check out the new core, please report any problems here. " Download it Here

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11-February-04, 04:17 PM		#2 (permalink)
Sparky Apex Tech God	It seems to have fixed the problem of freezing up. I believe the problem was whenever you had the F@H screen up and clicked on your name or tried to view statistics it would totally freeze up. It all seems good so far so we shall see. BTW is there any way that i can make this sucker fold faster cause it seems like its goin slowwww. A 600 wu takes like 12 hours on my 2500 barton. What gives?