Folding on 12 core / 24 thread Dual Xeon Setup

[Decon]

I recently acquired two E5645's (2.4ghz hexacore HT xeons) which I am running a SuperMicro X8DAH+-F motherboard with 48gb Reg. ECC Samsung memory.  I don't need all the compute power until a month from now; would this setup be good for any specific CPU-intensive F@H or boinc tasks, especially ones supporting 16+ threads?  I'm rather new to folding...

 

thanks

[rjfaber91]

I recently acquired two E5645's (2.4ghz hexacore HT xeons) which I am running a SuperMicro X8DAH+-F motherboard with 48gb Reg. ECC Samsung memory.  I don't need all the compute power until a month from now; would this setup be good for any specific CPU-intensive F@H or boinc tasks, especially ones supporting 16+ threads?  I'm rather new to folding...

 

thanks

 

I personally find that CPU folding gives such poor returns that I only fold on my GPU these days, but then again I don't have dual Xeons...

[Gofspar]

I get 65k PPD with my 5820k @ 4.6ghz.

 

All of it counts.

[rjfaber91]

I get 65k PPD with my 5820k @ 4.6ghz.

 

All of it counts.

 

Ok, I wasn't doing so bad then, with about 35k PPD on my CPU. Still, I get about 250k PPD on my 970, so the CPU points were never more than a drop in the ocean...

[Whaler_99]

You can definitely fold on those and they should be able to power through CPU WU's pretty nicely. Unfortunately the BIGADV project was cancelled a while ago which allowed us to leverage the larger server builds to really crank out the work.

[tobben]

This is a couple months ago now, but my 4p machine was still doing bigadv work. Just following the traditional

point system, so you are getting the ppd of a normal wu.

 

I fired it back up today, all 48 cores pinned at 100%. But i didn't have time to check exactly what wu i got,

based on my progress i can say with 99.9997% certainty it was indeed a bigadv wu. I don't think they have

said anything about for how long they are going to continue handing out those wu's though.

[Imakuni]

I recently acquired two E5645's (2.4ghz hexacore HT xeons) which I am running a SuperMicro X8DAH+-F motherboard with 48gb Reg. ECC Samsung memory.  I don't need all the compute power until a month from now; would this setup be good for any specific CPU-intensive F@H or boinc tasks, especially ones supporting 16+ threads?  I'm rather new to folding...

 

thanks

As far as I know, there aren't any tasks (either on F@H or Boinc) that specifically make use of multithreads. I means, sure, you could run 24wus at the same time, both programs will support it, but there won't be any benefit from the fact that you have multiple cores per si. They are all 32 bit apps afteral....

 

Still, that would be a beast of a machine for CPU crunching. You can obviously do Folding, but I'd also recommend Boinc's World Community Grid: their apps (apart from the recently released Fight Aids Home 2 app) don't make use of newer instruction sets, so non AVX CPUs such as yours do almost as good as modern AVX CPUs.

 

I just don't recommend Primegrid, as not only you lack AVX 2.0, you'd also run into SEVERE RAM bottlenecks if running on more than 3~4 cores on the bigger subprojects.

 

 

 

Those are the options I personally know and trust, but if you'd like to venture somewhere else (say... SETI), be my gest.