Folding@home news 11th -18th April 2013

andy_mk3 · 23 Apr 2013 at 22:48

Ooh, I'm almost in the top 200! Sat on 206 currently!

Biffa · 24 Apr 2013 at 02:32

Nice one Andy!

satanicguardian · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:49

Hey guys, left it crunching overnight, still on 2057PPD on my 6970

ozaudio · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:58

has the work unit finished that its on? once it finishes that one , the next one will be better

satanicguardian · 24 Apr 2013 at 10:30

ozaudio said:
has the work unit finished that its on? once it finishes that one , the next one will be better

ETA 11 hours

can't I just dump it and go fresh?

ozaudio · 24 Apr 2013 at 14:28

thats up to you lol

satanicguardian · 24 Apr 2013 at 15:20

How is that done I mean

ozaudio · 24 Apr 2013 at 15:30

satanicguardian said:
How is that done I mean

remove the slot then re add it

to remove the slot follow the top pic, remove the slot then save, to add a gpu the 2nd pic, make sure you select gpu as you can see you there is cpu and gpu, it will come up as been on cpu you need select gpu

Biffa · 24 Apr 2013 at 15:54

Generally however, cherry picking work units is frowned upon, because well mainly because we are doing this for the science not the points. I'd be mad to invest the money I have into the project for the points, what does that give me? I do it because of the people in my life I have lost to the sorts of diseases that Folding and the other science projects are researching. Also because most of the project send out the same work unit to multiple participants so that they can correlate the results and check for errors, if you dump a unit you delay its verification.

So although there is almost 50% or more difference between one WU and another, I'd never dump a WU just because its a bit low.

ozaudio · 24 Apr 2013 at 16:09

what he said lol i was just showing you how you can do it.

just leave your pc folding..... as much as you can, it'll fly throw it in no time

satanicguardian · 24 Apr 2013 at 16:11

Biffa said:
Generally however, cherry picking work units is frowned upon, because well mainly because we are doing this for the science not the points. I'd be mad to invest the money I have into the project for the points, what does that give me? I do it because of the people in my life I have lost to the sorts of diseases that Folding and the other science projects are researching. Also because most of the project send out the same work unit to multiple participants so that they can correlate the results and check for errors, if you dump a unit you delay its verification.

So although there is almost 50% or more difference between one WU and another, I'd never dump a WU just because its a bit low.

I'm not bothered about the points, I'm doing it for the same reasons you are - I think I misunderstood, I assumed that by using the beta tag it would make my GPU work harder to finish the units faster, hence increased my PPD?

Or have I totally potatoed on that theory

Biffa · 24 Apr 2013 at 16:59

It will when it gets a beta WU, however as its beta there is no guarantee that it will get a beta WU ever time and when it doesn't it will get a regular WU or a slow beta WU, its luck of the draw so to speak

satanicguardian · 24 Apr 2013 at 17:03

Biffa said:
It will when it gets a beta WU, however as its beta there is no guarantee that it will get a beta WU ever time and when it doesn't it will get a regular WU or a slow beta WU, its luck of the draw so to speak

Ah I see, so hypothetically, what should give the most oomph out of my cpu and gpu? I wanna get folding properly :O might get some new hardware am I better off with a higher clock or more cores?

Mattus · 25 Apr 2013 at 00:57

Another reason not to dump is that you only get bonus points if you've completed at least 80% of your WUs. So if you dump too many, you may fall below that and end up with no bonus points at all.

ozaudio · 25 Apr 2013 at 07:09

i know greg was not happy with his electric bill, but he's not stopped folding alltogether

, he stopped turning out work a few days ago i noticed

satanicguardian · 25 Apr 2013 at 20:13

Another point about this GPU folding bit, should it be folding at about 33% activity? Is there anyway to make it properly get stuck in? Apart from the BETA tags, I'm not interested points as much as I am crunching stuff fast

andy_mk3 · 25 Apr 2013 at 20:43

satanicguardian said:
Another point about this GPU folding bit, should it be folding at about 33% activity? Is there anyway to make it properly get stuck in? Apart from the BETA tags, I'm not interested points as much as I am crunching stuff fast

I downgraded my drivers as it was maxing out at about 30%, now runs 90-100%

Yay!

satanicguardian · 25 Apr 2013 at 21:04

andy_mk3 said:
I downgraded my drivers as it was maxing out at about 30%, now runs 90-100%

Yay!

That will mess up my games won't it?

Voicon · 25 Apr 2013 at 21:16

andy_mk3 said:
I downgraded my drivers as it was maxing out at about 30%, now runs 90-100%

Yay!

I had the same problem, went to 13.2 drivers which were beta at the time and it fixed it.

satanicguardian · 26 Apr 2013 at 11:44

Hmm, would the -bigadv tag work on my cpu? or is it purely i7 kinda thing? :O