Trouble wit my G5 ...

Fender2112

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Sep 29, 2003

• #1

I can't seem to get Folding to run on my new G5. I keep getting an instability message which in turn aborts the current work unit and loads another. I tried Singe Processor mode and Dual. Both had the same problem. Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

zimv20

macrumors 601

• Sep 29, 2003

• #2

probably the case that either it or some of the libraries f@h is using needs to be recompiled.

have you contacted anyone at stanford to inquire?

 

bousozoku

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 29, 2003

• #3

The problem has already been reported at Stanford and here. It only concerns Gromacs work units.

 

Fender2112

macrumors 65816

Original poster

• Sep 29, 2003

• #4

So the solution is to let the set up run until it loads something other that a Gromacs unit?

 

bousozoku

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 29, 2003

• #5

That, or don't use it for folding.

They are only aware of the problem. They may have looked into it by now but I have not seen anything to confirm that.

It should scream on Tinker work units, for certain. If it will handle the problem Gromacs work units automatically, I'd probably just let it go and see what happens. If it requires work, I wouldn't bother until you see something posted here that it's working.

 

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bertinman

macrumors 6502

• Sep 29, 2003

• #6

if you used mc68k's scriptm reinstall it without choosing to use the -advmethods flag (I think that is it...)-- that way it will get more tinkers.

I'm not sure if there is a way to choose not to get gromacs for good or not... that would be nice though 🙂

 

bousozoku

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 30, 2003

• #7

Originally posted by bertinman
if you used mc68k's scriptm reinstall it without choosing to use the -advmethods flag (I think that is it...)-- that way it will get more tinkers.

I'm not sure if there is a way to choose not to get gromacs for good or not... that would be nice though 🙂

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The -advmethods flag is mostly to advertise your williness to beta test new cores.

 

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bertinman

macrumors 6502

• Oct 2, 2003

• #8

Originally posted by bousozoku
The -advmethods flag is mostly to advertise your williness to beta test new cores.

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oop, is it the force asm flag the one I'm thinking of? I didn't think that even was on the mac...suffering from too many windows machines. Anyway, I did notice a dramatic decrease in gromacs units when I took that flag off on my G3--this must have been coincidence.

 

bousozoku

Moderator emeritus

• Oct 2, 2003

• #9

Originally posted by bertinman
oop, is it the force asm flag the one I'm thinking of? I didn't think that even was on the mac...suffering from too many windows machines. Anyway, I did notice a dramatic decrease in gromacs units when I took that flag off on my G3--this must have been coincidence.

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I'm sure it was coincidence.

The -forceasm flag should really be -ignoreerrors flag as it makes certain that Gromacs proceeds to use SSE/AltiVec even if there was a crash or other abnormal termination.

 

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bertinman

macrumors 6502

• Oct 2, 2003

• #10

Originally posted by bousozoku
I'm sure it was coincidence.

The -forceasm flag should really be -ignoreerrors flag as it makes certain that Gromacs proceeds to use SSE/AltiVec even if there was a crash or other abnormal termination.

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ok ok, I give up. I didn't do anything to MAKE my g3 not download as many gromacs units... leave me alone 😛.