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Originally Posted by dsio  Anyone tried the SMP client on machines with more than 4 cores? |
Yes, I have a server currently folding with 2 X Quad's. They're folding native in WindowsXP at the moment, with two SMP clients.
One problem I've run across is that if you stop one FAH smp client, it trashes the other SMP client - making it immediately stop folding and deleting the WU it was working on, and d/l'ing a new (or the same) one, to start over!!
The way you have to do a shutdown, is to turn off the box, w/o shutting down either of the clients, first. It helps if you set the check point timer for 30 minutes, because if you shut off the box WHILE either client is in the middle of writing it's check point data - your WU will be hosed.
It's awkward at best, and shows the problems that the FAH SMP client still has. I can't recommend a dual quad box for folding (and this server won't be folding much in the near future).