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Stan_Lite

Stan_Lite

Stan_Lite

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Time to start with a few parps as I will be on page two soon. The following people will be stomped in the next week or so - prepare to vacate your cells and move aside :D
(I have only listed those members with a 24 hour average over 1,000 as they are the most likely to actually check - there will be several other stomps in between these).

iancampbell4
miniyazz
TheTross
AuriconXS
 
One down, three to go. iancampbell4 fell under my size 11 stomping boots last night. EOC stats say the other three will all fall in 7 days.
 
:eek:

I have a few months breathing space...

In fact, by the time Stan gets close I should be running two GPUs and two SMP! So I might be able to keep him away for a while! :D
 
Another two gone. miniyazz & TheTross fell today, AuriconXS should fall tomorrow.

Might give the -bigadv thing a try when I get back on Wednesday to speed things along. Maybe set up VMWare on the i7 rig to run it while I'm away (I'm off to work on the 4th).
 
Dammit :(. Ah well, there's no way I could ever have matched your output.

I'm actually back on SETI for the time being though. Folding causes my GPU to squeal much more than SETI, which interferes with just about everything (music being a major one, and it proves to be rather annoying when trying sleep as well...). It's also not really worth folding on just the quad, so I've switched everything back for the time being.
 
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Might give the -bigadv thing a try when I get back on Wednesday to speed things along. Maybe set up VMWare on the i7 rig to run it while I'm away (I'm off to work on the 4th).
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Do it! I completed my second -bigadv WU yesterday and started getting bonus points which at least doubled the value of the WU. 50k points every 64 hours is not to be sniffed at. I topped 70k points for the day! :eek:
 
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AuriconXS has fallen.

Not much on the horizon for the next week. Only one member with 1000+ ppd and that's Labatyd - consider yourself parped :p

Stanford show me as only having 6 active clients over the last 7 days (been showing that for some time) - should be 8 so I can only assume that one of my rigs went down as soon as my back was turned - some things never change :rolleyes: Will get that seen to when I get back home tomorrow. Will also have a look at this bigadv thing and hopefully get that set up before I head back to work on Monday.

As a result of all this, output should be up soon. Will see how it all goes.
 
I used the guide here and it was easy. The trick is that, once you've got your passkey, A2 core WUs on any PC count towards the ten you need before you start getting bonuses.
 
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I used the guide here and it was easy. The trick is that, once you've got your passkey, A2 core WUs on any PC count towards the ten you need before you start getting bonuses.
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Yeah, I've got that guide bookmarked already. I'm considering installing it on a dedicated Ubuntu partition instead. It's my main gaming rig and will be Folding 90% of the time.
Is there much advantage PPD-wise running it on a native linux install? Also, if I run it in VMWare, will I need to switch of the VM before gaming or can I set priorities so I don't have to faff about switching it on and off?

When I get home this afternoon, I'll be bunging the passkey I got yesterday into all my clients - should get the ten A2 units within a couple of days :cool:
 
I've just discovered a flaw in my plan. All but 2 of my clients are Windows SMP and they use the A1 core. The only two clients running the A2 core are the two on my Ubuntu box. I'll need to make some changes but I CBA this afternoon so will get onto it tomorrow (if I can be bothered).
 
As a non-gamer, I can't give you a definite answer but I set VMWare's priority to low and the PC still seems pretty responsive. Running native Ubuntu will probably give a slight performance advantage but it's a lot easier (for me, anyway) to set up a VM under Windoze.
 
Made a few changes this afternoon and ppd seems to be up according to FahMon. Before the changes, fahMon was estimating ppd of a little over 19,000. last time I checked, it was estimating ppd of over 23,000 :cool:

Changes made were to put the 8800GTX back into the old gaming rig which is now my photo editing rig - it's now running 1 GPU2 client and one SMP client in a VM on a Q6600 @ 3.4GHz with the 8800GTX. The new gaming rig is running native Ubuntu with one SMP client on an i7 920 @ 3.8GHz. The two HD4890s are, of course, idle inside the gaming rig, ready for gaming as and when required. I'm just running one SMP client on the i7 for now until I get my 10 A2 WUs in, then it will be switched to bigadv WUs and we'll see what happens then :D

Edit: Just checked FahMon again and it's estimating over 26,000 :eek:
 
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I would suggest not gaming and running a VM at the same time. The -bigadv WUs need a huge amount of RAM. I believe you need a minimum [safe] 512mb of RAM per core. All 8 cores would amount to 4GB of RAM. Assuming a 6GB system, 2GB is not a lot left for the OS, apps and your games. The guide linked to recommends up to 5GB!

So in short, it is either a full time folder or a part time folder! Unless of course you have something insane like 8 or 12GB of RAM :p

I am still not sure about how well the VM gives up CPU time - I noticed just running a standard SMP client on my machine a bit of lag when something else needed a chunk of CPU. You might not even notice it in games at all, I just know when playing any modern game you want to have as much RAM and CPU available as possible! Even if you can run your game smoothly, your folding performance will hit rock bottom which is not a good thing for the -bigadv science. Vijay Pande himself has stressed that while it is possible for high-end desktops to run these WU's, they need to be doing it flat out to make the deadlines. Gaming and folding would mean you're slowing down your WU's progress and potentially increasing the chance it EUE's.

My suggestion would be to sell a couple machines and just get another i7 rig! :p
 
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I understand what you mean - and for the most part I agree. The i7 rig will be Folding 99.9% of the time. I game very rarely and most of the games I play (Painkiller, HL2 etc.) can be played on my old rig. The i7 rig will only be needed for high spec games and for very short bursts (less than 2 hours for the most part) which, in the long term, will not impact it's Folding activities by a huge amount.

If the bigadv thing works well, I may consider flogging off the three lower spec rigs to build another two cheap(ish) i7 rigs - we'll have to wait and see :p

I'm not noticing too much lag on the old rig running the VM and GPU2 but it's only running one SMP client with 2GB RAM allocated to the VM. As mentioned above, the new gaming rig is used for so little gaming, it'll be running bigadv on native Ubuntu for the foreseeable future - with only the odd 1 hour break for a bit of Crysis.

From what I've read, deadlines shouldn't be too much of a problem. Apparently the bigadv WUs have 4 day deadlines and rigs with similar spec to mine have been doing them in less than 3 days so the odd hour of gaming shouldn't hurt too much. Obviously, If I'm close to the deadlines, I'll keep away from the gaming until I get it under water when I get back home in February. I'm hoping to get it to 4.2GHz+ when it's got some proper cooling :D
 
Well if it is just for a few hours of gaming then turning off the VM [or rebooting into Windows] is the easiest option I think. If you have almost a day to spare on the deadline then you won't have an issue.

I don't know how you can only spend an hour on Crysis though! Once I started I played through most of Crysis in one day! :p
 
Just for comparison as my setup is at maximum points at the moment, I'm running one SMP 4-core VM on a stock Q9450, one 7-core -bigadv VM on an overclocked i7-860 plus a GTX260, one console client on a stock E8400 to keep the 9800GTX+ company. Total PPD is currently 30,400 but the effective PPD is more like 40,000 with the -bigadv bonuses. I do have 8GB in the i7 PC. :D
 
Finally got it on one of the bigadv WUs at the back of 2 this morning - fuelled by large amounts of alcohol :p

Ended up putting it on a VM. For some reason, when I tried to add the bigadv flag on the native Ubuntu install, the client refused to work - completely :confused: After much swearing I decided to give up on Ubuntu and install the VM. I must say, the guide was excellent and it was a breeze setting it up.

It's currently chugging away on a P2681 worth 25,403 points. ETA is 08.40 on Sunday morning. TPF is 32m 34s giving me a ppd of 11,226 according to FahMon. The bonus calculator tells me the total time for the WU will be 2.26 days and the bonus factor will 2.3 - giving me a total of 58,515 points for the WU and an estimated ppd of 25,873 :eek: :D

FahMon currently estimates my total ppd at around 30,000 but with the bonus points, that should come up to around 44,600 :cool: That's assuming I didn't **** up entering my passkey manually with about 20 units of alcohol inside me :o Also, that total ppd is while running those annoying 548 point GPU WUs - if I get some 353 pointers, that total ppd could be over 45,000.
 
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