Folding@Home news 20-27th January

shadowscotland · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:53

Sorry for the delay - been having a bad day - but it ended well but enough about me.

Well the midweek stats break has stan still as top dog
But KE1HA, Biffa, piggott, vertica, Happy and Team MS have all pull out the big guns :cool:

On the flip side some major drops too - you know who you are slackers

But overall the team has really made a major push this week.
The EOC graphs are rising instead of the peak and valley of the last few weeks.
And our average team PPD is on the rise.

Nice to see a few old faces rejointing - great first week verbal!
(and sorry to see a few leave) hope you all can stick around.

And finally a big welcome to all the new members

P$P
olomus
SGCWill
asdfasf
Will282
ReclaimedLight
APPLE
Agent0range

Single cruncher league to follow - most likely tomorrow (but with same stats snapshot) as I've no pc at home untill Sat

Marine Iguana · 27 Jan 2010 at 18:56

Cheers for the news SS

Looks like i will be a slacker next week

These new a3 bonus's are killing my output down to 17k not cool

eggcup · 27 Jan 2010 at 20:05

awesome!!

NightmareXX · 27 Jan 2010 at 20:14

Just you wait for next week after I've had a week of stomping

dekez · 27 Jan 2010 at 21:26

Cheers for the news SS, down 4 places - doh!

Need to give that new SMP client a go I think.

didgemaster · 27 Jan 2010 at 21:30

Thanks for the news - love to run my machine 24-7 but I just can't afford the the leccy bill

verbal · 28 Jan 2010 at 03:22

shadowscotland said:
Nice to see a few old faces rejointing - great first week verbal!

Thanks! However that was just whatever points I got while I was tinkering and my PC wasn't crashing (can't seem to do the overclock I had before I left). I've got it (Q9300) running at stock now and should see 6000ppd just on A1 SMP WUs and my 8800GS. I have yet to be blessed with an A3 WU (or even A2) so I don't know what I'll get for them... just started my 3rd A1.

Thanks for doing the news, it's a fundamental part of this forum being active IMO.

KE1HA · 28 Jan 2010 at 04:38

Tnx fer the news SS.

I certainly was not at full output this week thus far, with trouble shooting one box, reconfiguring others, re-imaging machines etc etc .. was all over the place but thingk I've got things working properly now.

Should be getting some of this Bonus goodness in the next couple days, need to get up over the 10 spot on A3 I guess.
.

Stan_Lite · 28 Jan 2010 at 09:16

Woohoo, still top - for now.

If KE1HA gets all his stuff running at full tilt, I'll be toppled. I'm a machine down now as the media rig in the living room seems to be playing silly buggers and there's nothing I can do about it from here. That's over 5,000 ppd down but I'm making some of that back on the A3 WUs on the other rig I can do stuff with from here. Should still be around the 40,000 ppd mark.

JonJ678 · 28 Jan 2010 at 10:47

I'm down for the count, motherboards given up on me. Catch you all in a few weeks

dekez · 28 Jan 2010 at 11:10

JonJ678 said:
I'm down for the count, motherboards given up on me. Catch you all in a few weeks

That sucks, hope you can get it sorted / RMA'd soon

KE1HA · 28 Jan 2010 at 12:21

Stan_Lite said:
Woohoo, still top - for now.

If KE1HA gets all his stuff running at full tilt, I'll be toppled. .. .. .. ..

It's there, running all that's available:
4x Quad SMP Clients
8x GPU Clients

None of these monitors HFM, FaHmon etc etc are calculating things properly, so I have no way of knowing what's really going on. However, both are saying => 48K PPD. Thus far (knock on wood !! ) HFM is reporting (0) failed A3 WU's or any failed WU's for that matter.

SiriusB · 28 Jan 2010 at 15:32

I think I need my head looked at. The prospect of folding some of these new A3 cores is tempting me to click "Submit"! I am trying to hold off until I am paid before I go spending

Please make it stooooop! :eek:

Marine Iguana · 28 Jan 2010 at 15:46

Do it, do it, do it, do it it will ease the pain now not when you get paid

KE1HA · 28 Jan 2010 at 21:33

SiriusB said:
.......... The prospect of folding some of these new A3 cores is tempting me to click "Submit"! I am trying to hold off until I am paid before I go spending .. .. .. ..

That is always a good plan, have the duckies first, makes putting it together allot more fun

.

miniyazz · 29 Jan 2010 at 23:02

Hopefully I may start to move up the ranks soon, splashed out on i7 :eek:

and am now stable at 4.1GHz

No bigadv for me at the moment though, only 6GB RAM so since I like to use my computer (lots) at the same time, it's out til I can afford to buy more..
On the A3 cores now, wondering if/when I'm gonna get any bonuses, it's dropped my PPD from ~5k on my Q6600 with A2 to ~2k

NightmareXX · 30 Jan 2010 at 11:45

Oooo get you

Just be patient with the A3 core, you do occasionally get an older unit and they suck

miniyazz · 30 Jan 2010 at 12:20

NightmareXX said:
Oooo get you

Just be patient with the A3 core, you do occasionally get an older unit and they suck

Will be happy when they phase out the older cores! Also kinda hoping the new ATI core would be released sooner rather than later as I've a couple of 4850s knocking around that I'm considering plugging in.

SiriusB · 30 Jan 2010 at 12:56

AAAAH!!!!

I get paid in a day or two... *starts speccing up*

Woot toot!

Probably the wrong place to ask this, but is any SSD even remotely worth the money at the moment?

KE1HA · 30 Jan 2010 at 13:14

SiriusB said:
AAAAH!!!!

I get paid in a day or two... *starts speccing up*

Woot toot!

Probably the wrong place to ask this, but is any SSD even remotely worth the money at the moment?

IMHO

None of the SLC's that are on the market at the moment warrent their price points apart from the one I've listed, at least for the average person. Micron has one comming out that smokes anything on the market, but also costs more than the best CPU you can buy.

My Choises would be:

Corsair P256 CMFSSD-256GBG2D 2.5" 256GB SATA II MLC
Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M160G2XXX 2.5" 160GB SATA II MLC
Corsair P128 CMFSSD-128GBG2D 2.5" 128GB SATA II MLC
Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M080G2R5 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC
Intel X25-E Extreme SSDSA2SH032G1 2.5" 32GB SATA II SLC
.

If you get one, let us know how it does for you.

Folding@Home news 20-27th January

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