Folding@home News 10th - 17th September

ozaudio · 22 Sep 2015 at 21:29

you don't get the bonus points now but I seen some were on hard forum that you can still run the multi cpu servers for folding

biffa should have an answer I should image, hes quiet these days !

p.s aceme I overtook you, catch me if you can

as I noticed you just submitted some work

Jumper118 · 22 Sep 2015 at 21:40

ozaudio said:
you don't get the bonus points now but I seen some were on hard forum that you can still run the multi cpu servers for folding

biffa should have an answer I should image, hes quiet these days !

p.s aceme I overtook you, catch me if you can as I noticed you just submitted some work

interesting.

just realised its only 2 days till i'm in the top 1000 :cool:

PDW · 22 Sep 2015 at 21:48

ozaudio said:
something biffa might be able to help with,

it would look like this

Hope you managed to get the Girls Chelsea Boots you were looking for

colinmcr · 22 Sep 2015 at 22:50

Is it really worth Folding on cpu, I was just planning using cpu for BOINC stuff

andy_taximan · 23 Sep 2015 at 00:34

not worth folding on cpu unless thats all you got to use

ozaudio · 23 Sep 2015 at 05:21

but he has 40 cores of them, that will still do some good work out put I should imagen ,also he said machines not machine, how many do you have ? lol .

pdw - lol I didn't even notice, its the kids searching crap, youtubes full of peppa pig and my recent visited sites are Matalan , smyths toys lol

currob · 23 Sep 2015 at 05:30

Jumper118 said:
just realised its only 2 days till i'm in the top 1000

Congratulations !

ozaudio · 23 Sep 2015 at 06:22

rob is that 980 of yours doing more than 10 hours now? lol you've putting some points out!

currob · 23 Sep 2015 at 06:30

ozaudio said:
rob is that 980 of yours doing more than 10 hours now? lol you've putting some points out!

Ermmm...

I might have left it on a wee bit longer lately

ozaudio · 23 Sep 2015 at 06:32

I noticed... LOL , that 780ti is been wasted in that CCTV / media pc , isn't there any £30 second hand cards thatll do the job its doing lol

currob · 23 Sep 2015 at 06:38

ozaudio said:
I noticed... LOL , that 780ti is been wasted in that CCTV / media pc , isn't there any £30 second hand cards thatll do the job its doing lol

Yes, but the psu in my test bench is only 650w, not enough for 2x 780ti 24/7 plus the motherboard will not work with 2 vga cards

The one I'm folding on is nearly dead now so the media pc will get a 750ti and I'll pop the 780ti on the test bench to replace the soon to be dead one

ozaudio · 23 Sep 2015 at 10:20

so I took 2 hours out from folding to try something, I took my 970 and stuck it in its own pc with the amd drivers removed and guess what, its working like it should. 292k ppd instead of 160k ppd

currob · 23 Sep 2015 at 11:47

ozaudio said:
so I took 2 hours out from folding to try something, I took my 970 and stuck it in its own pc with the amd drivers removed and guess what, its working like it should. 292k ppd instead of 160k ppd

Congratulations dude

Gonna take me a little longer than the predicted 6 months to overtake you now then

Boycie · 23 Sep 2015 at 11:55

Here is the spec, I have 6 just sat in my office at the moment. Obviously they won't be here forever but if there is something other than folding that they would be better at then I'm all ears. Think I still have a BOINC account from when I used to run SETI

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PDW · 23 Sep 2015 at 12:26

Stick them on DENIS is my suggestion, another medical project, read our thread and make sure you download the optimised app once you've installed DENIS in BOINC Manager on each of the machines.

currob · 23 Sep 2015 at 12:27

Wow !!! 6 x 20 core (40T) ? You could get us up to the top 3 in DENIS with those, very quickly too !!

http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/index.php

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18690276

Edit: lol PDW, synchronized posting

PDW · 23 Sep 2015 at 12:35

I was too lazy to get the links so got in first

PDW · 23 Sep 2015 at 13:00

Additionally, you might want to set a back up project with a resource share of zero in case DENIS has problems supplying work.

If you have a preference for an area let us know, but we have also been asked to help with NFS (see our thread for details).

ozaudio · 23 Sep 2015 at 15:00

Boycie said:
Here is the spec, I have 6 just sat in my office at the moment. Obviously they won't be here forever but if there is something other than folding that they would be better at then I'm all ears. Think I still have a BOINC account from when I used to run SETI

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wow 6, that's a lot of cores which ever project you put them towards lol.
what PPD was folding showing with the 20 core running ? is your account new or an old one? accounts need to do 10 work units before you get a decent PPD from the bonus that kicks in after doing 10 work units

just to try something before you dismiss folding for boinc lol

add these to your cpu slot

name : client-type
value: bigadv

name: max-packet-size
value: big
that SHOULD allow you to get the work units that make use of your cores
see below to see how it would look

edit - not sure if the bigadv one is needed as I think that's for Linux only but the max - packet - size one should work , I found something on hardforum that suggests youll still get decent PPD from CPU folding with what you have

colinmcr · 23 Sep 2015 at 18:35

Are you saying you have 120 cores 240 threads available? Oh my a wee bit of pee came out! I'd suggest you get on denis and nfs to share the love....