Folding@Home News 11th - 18th Feb 2011

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Team OcUK Folding@Home News 11th - 18th Feb 2011

Current Team Position: 36th
Current Team Score: 496,402,731
Crunched This Week: 7,018,112 (24hr avg. 974,017 ) down 146,700

Change from Last Week: -769,472


Next on the stomping horizon

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Teams stomped since last news

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We are currently 32nd in team production


This Week's Top Crunchers

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The Team 10 Leaderboard - Top 100

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This Week's Top Stompers

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Top 20 Producers (PPD)

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This Week's New Members

Wolfpackflt670
swizzle
Brian_Brumfield
Above_name
smeg9
Conorb
Sinisa

A warm welcome to the team :)

Info for new people

Help on setting up folding@home:
OcUk F@H Sticky
Stanford Windows SMP Guide
Stanford GPU guide
OcUK SMP guide
Bigadv guide
F@H Monitoring Programs:
HFM.NET
FahMon
FahSpy
Folding Stats:
EOC Folding Stats
Stanford Stats
Kakao Stats
Stats sigs:
EOC Stats sigs
Fancy image sigs :cool:
Other:
Folding@home server status

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Down a bit this week but hey ho we weren't going to be able to sustain the mega production for ever! :p

Still a few new users which always helps, welcome guys :)

Personally I have everything working as I want it to! :D *touches wood* sandybridge is pulling in 55K with the right workunits, although I think that is reduced a bit by the time it takes to upload and download a new work unit :( I never seem to get near to what HFM thinks I should get in real life.
My overclock is stable at 4.5ghz, so all good and the fan controller means it is fairly quiet as well.

And lastly I know magman isn't producing any more but a PARP! out of respect - 6 days
 
Ty for news again, keep up the good work.

Strange that HFM reports 55k PPD for you @ 4.5Ghz. I've got a SB, 2600k @ 4.5Ghz and it only says 42k PPD on a P6900 wu. hmmmm i'm being jipped!
 
I think HFM lies to me! :mad: I never seem to get near that kind of PPD in EOC, HFM just likes to lead me on! :p
 
Thanks for the news Dekez:)

Had another slow week, Hydra still down for water refit and case mods.

Im taking the Toxic slow but sure route:D
 
I think HFM lies to me! I never seem to get near that kind of PPD in EOC, HFM just likes to lead me on!
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Check the kind of average it is using for its estimate. :D I think it is only using the last three frames of a work unit for every value update, by default. So technically it is not lying, albeit it gets overly optimistic on incomplete information. If you have this covered already - disregard. xD
 
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It was set to last frame :rolleyes: I've changed it now to all frames so hopefully it will be a bit more accurate from now on! Cheers :)
 
No worries. :) I think the last frame setting is more akin to burst production speed. While three frames is a moving average, and the measure for the set will take all extremes into account. Each is useful in its own way.
 
My media rig is producing a little better now. Only an Athlon 235e and it won't go any higher than 3.1ghz on the cheap carp board its in but its pushing out another 1600ppd on top of the 8k the Phenom produces. Just waiting to see what bulldozer brings to the table. If 8 cores are a reasonable price and perform well Big rig will be upgraded to Bulldozer and media rig will get the Phenom Quad
 
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Yeah I'm looking forward to see what bulldozer is cabable of, I'll be looking to upgrade my Q6600 later this year, either bulldozer or sandybridge.
 
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bulldozer is shaping upto be very good if it clocks as well as or better than Phenom II.

Not taking into account for clock for clock improvements as F@H scales almost 100% across core increases Bulldozer @ 4ghz we'll be seeing just shy of 24k PPD on standard A3s.

Assuming a 15% increase over Phenom II clock for clock then we'll see just shy of 30k ppd.

And finally our best case scenario.
Assuming a 15% increase clock for clock and similar clocking ability to Sandy Bridge due to the die shrink we could well see as much as 36k @ 4.5ghz.

However in reality I'm sure this won't be the case and its just wishful speculation on my part.
 
Bulldozer is also set up for a major instruction set update compared to the previous generations of AMD CPUs, and on paper at least, it looks very attractive. Provided there are no glaring bugs or chispet issues at launch ;), it could become the bargain folder's dream chip; especially, if the new AMD workstation dual socket boards remain at their current price level :D
 
I think AMD are saying 50% increase in flops going from Phenom II 6 core to Bulldozer 8 core.

IF this is correct then with how well folding scales my quad G34 rig if upgraded to 64 cores could do 6.30 frames on 6900's for 370K+ ppd.

Now that would be somthing to see:D
 
BaBa that would be beastly! FYI Bulldozer based Opterons will be coming out first :O, so get that wallet ready. ;) I think we may be going up to 16/18 core count at the high end, plus the obvious benefits of the new modular approach with shared FP resources. Make sure to post pictures of the rig when/if you get it upgraded. Just hoping they won't decide to swap the G34 platform for something else with more pins, but we will see soon enough, won't we?
 
First generation Bulldozer should be G34 drop in with bios upgrade:)

This rig is down at the moment for its water cooling and case move which is taking lots longer than i expect:(
 
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