Folding@Home News - Attention Single-Machine Crunchers

joeyjojo · 27 Oct 2006 at 23:12

Resist - it's worth losing your job over!

Not true, unfortunately

shadowscotland · 28 Oct 2006 at 08:36

use this opertunity to upgrade all dells with quite fan and or improved HS

nikebee · 30 Oct 2006 at 09:39

rich99million said:
most Dells I've used don't like being run at full whack anyway - I would doubt they'd have sufficient cooling to deal with any extra heat on top of that

all the ones where I work sound like jets taking off if they get stuck in a loop waiting for some other archaic piece of kit to do something

all the dells we've got at work are dimension 5150's, all with silent heatsinks on the graphics cards and silent CPU heatsinks too.
they have one 120mm fan on the front which is pretty quiet considering its not an enthusiast fan.

although under constant full load my machine is a bit louder than normal

FatRakoon · 1 Nov 2006 at 02:40

I run FAH on 3 PCs 2 are DC and one is an SC ( Opteron 144 )

Does that count, or not cos I am also running DC too?

FWIW running FAH on any of my PCs takes absolutely ZERO time from the PC.

Obviously FAH takes up 100% of CPU time thats doing nothing, thats not what I mean... I mean, that running things like Benches etc even on my lowly K6/2 500 gives the same results whether FAH is running or not!

For those who are not getting this, then their systems are not running right surely?

LordShadow · 2 Nov 2006 at 19:11

Im running F@H on 1 PC currently, E6600 and X1900XT so add me to the list

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joeyjojo · 2 Nov 2006 at 19:18

FatRakoon - it's working perfectly, you explained it yourself. It's priority (check task manager) is set to idle. So it only does stuff when the cpu isn't busy. It uses any spare cycles. So when you're benching, it's letting the benchy take up all the cpu.

BillytheImpaler · 2 Nov 2006 at 19:22

joeyjojo said:
So when you're benching, it's letting the benchy take up all the cpu.

Yes, provbided you have enough memory to spare. Otherwise it'll start swapping and it will drag the system down.

joeyjojo · 2 Nov 2006 at 19:35

BillytheImpaler said:
Yes, provbided you have enough memory to spare. Otherwise it'll start swapping and it will drag the system down.

That still happens to people? Get 2 gigs fool

rich99million · 2 Nov 2006 at 21:03

all updated for the news - also had to re-add Pumpkinstew just incase his K6-3 finishes a WU sometime this month :eek:

edit: news to follow shortly, guess who had two days off work and thought today was Monday

joeyjojo · 2 Nov 2006 at 21:57

rich99million said:
edit: news to follow shortly, guess who had two days off work and thought today was Monday

Real-life slacker as well apparently...

Edit: take it back - news has arrived

rich99million · 2 Nov 2006 at 22:01

joeyjojo said:
Real-life slacker as well apparently...

Edit: take it back - news has arrived

you knows it

annoyingly I only realised just after 19:30ish, I was planning on doing the news an hour earlier to fit with the clocks going back - had to divide the week's output by 7 x 169/168 to get the 24hr average correct

joeyjojo · 2 Nov 2006 at 22:07

rich99million said:
had to divide the week's output by 7 x 169/168 to get the 24hr average correct

Ha, that's why you do the news, an eye for statistical perfection (read: really anal with teh numbers)

rich99million · 2 Nov 2006 at 22:11

joeyjojo said:
Ha, that's why you do the news, an eye for statistical perfection (read: really anal with teh numbers)

ahhahhh - liking the teh there too

joeyjojo · 2 Nov 2006 at 22:29

rich99million said:
ahhahhh - liking the teh there too

That's Billy's hack isn't it? Good find that.

TheTross · 7 Nov 2006 at 18:43

Sorry to be a pita Rich, but could you re-add me to the single crunchers list pwetty pwease?

drunken fool · 14 Nov 2006 at 08:40

Please add me to the single machine crunching list.

Crunching under the name Zymurgy with a XP3200 64.

Cheers

StevenG · 26 Nov 2006 at 11:07

im still a single machine. but was experementing with GPU folding so keep me as a single folder please. im now down to just 2 clients.. one CPU and one GPU

Thanks

rich99million · 26 Nov 2006 at 12:03

StevenG said:
im still a single machine. but was experementing with GPU folding so keep me as a single folder please. im now down to just 2 clients.. one CPU and one GPU Thanks

No problem

StevenG · 2 Dec 2006 at 08:09

just to ask, if someone was to get a quad core cpu, would you accept 4 clients as a single machine if proof was provided of the 4 cores? thinking about getting a quad core early next year..

Thanks.
StevenG

A.N.Other · 2 Dec 2006 at 08:37

StevenG said:
just to ask, if someone was to get a quad core cpu, would you accept 4 clients as a single machine if proof was provided of the 4 cores? thinking about getting a quad core early next year..

Thanks.
StevenG

Don't see why not - one PC after all, isn't it. Doesn't Concorde have that many on 'one'

machine at the moment?

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