Folding@Home News 11th - 18th March 2011

dekez · 18 Mar 2011 at 14:28

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

Current Team Position: 36th
Current Team Score: 520,992,869
Crunched This Week: 8,733,632 (24hr avg. 1,124,443 ) up 357,138

Change from Last Week: +3,354,496

Next on the stomping horizon

fold4life.com - 1.1 Years
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Teams stomped since last news

none

Ones to keep an eye on

Pleasuredome Community - 6.3 Months
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We are currently 26th in team production

This Week's Top Crunchers

The Team 10 Leaderboard - Top 100

This Week's Top Stompers

Top 20 Producers (PPD)

This Week's New Members

joemo13
Codiak
Fookrux
TYTANIA

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
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FahSpy
Folding Stats:
EOC Folding Stats
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Stats sigs:
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Other:
Folding@home server status

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Big bounce back this week, well done guys

My linux bigadv is stable and doing well, it is running really cool as well so might have to try to bump the overclock a bit

Now just need to get the 460 going in linux now.

And damn you BaBa, stomping me!!! *shakes fist*

BaBa · 18 Mar 2011 at 15:01

Thanks for the news dekez

If my ppd works out as i think it will then you not going to be on your own in the stomped department

It could get upto 400k if things go well, ive already had some 6901's close to that on Hydra alone

Biffa · 18 Mar 2011 at 16:34

Sorry guys, lost some 350K this week in 0xc0000005 errors. All at over 80%

two 6901's and a 2684.

Error normally means memory problems, but can't see how thats suddenly cropped up. Could be anything.

BaBa · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:20

Sorry to here of the problems Biffa, did you make the move to linux?

My sig seems to have died are we still having team ocuk trouble?

BaBa · 18 Mar 2011 at 18:35

Ok it looks like its only my sig, odd not changed anything :confused:

Speed · 19 Mar 2011 at 01:39

Finally:

Now to try Ubuntu!

BaBa · 19 Mar 2011 at 12:57

If any of you guys are running linux then i recommend popping over to amdzone and trying tears affinity wrapper its knocked 30 seconds off my frame times and thats from 6.48 to 6.12

Not sure how much this will work on single processor rigs but Biffa's SR-2 will see a speed up

Speed · 19 Mar 2011 at 13:31

Well I've got a few Ubuntu questions.

Anyone found a decent HWMonitor like programe that works with it to monitor temperatures?

Also how do I go about sharing the folding folder so that my Windows based HFM server can read it?

BaBa · 19 Mar 2011 at 15:04

I think lm-sensors should do the trick for temps.

For the share get the samba package and its gui package to make the easier to use

Speed · 19 Mar 2011 at 15:07

I tried Im-sensors but wasn't that impressed, I was just looking for a simple GUI programe like HWMonitor that shows current and highest.

I'll give the samba package a go thanks.

dekez · 19 Mar 2011 at 15:11

conky is one that everyone seems to rave about, it uses lm-sensors.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/

It sits on the desktop and shows pretty much whatever info you want it to. I've installed it up but not had time to set up (or find from someone else) a config file that has everything I want yet.

Speed · 19 Mar 2011 at 15:13

dekez said:
conky is one that everyone seems to rave about, it uses lm-sensors.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/

It sits on the desktop and shows pretty much whatever info you want it to. I've installed it up but not had time to set up (or find from someone else) a config file that has everything I want yet.

Yeah I did come across that in my search, although again it looked less than straight forward. Something simple like HWMonitor for Linux would be perfect.

dekez · 19 Mar 2011 at 15:16

Actually just seen one in there screen shots (top right one) that has a fah monitor on as well, I'll give that a go later.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

edit: yes it's not straight forward, but nothing is with linux! lol, but it wasn't that hard to set up. I'd be interested in a simple one as well, even things like cpu-z are a pain to find!!

Speed · 19 Mar 2011 at 17:29

Getting some issues on one of my systems:

Then once I close the error message it deletes the WU:

The overclock is higher than I'd normally do (4.2GHz) but it is stable under LinX. Maybe it is a SP1 or 6.34 issue? Anyone had anything like this? Temps are fine (70 tops) and I've tried upping the vCore/QPI.

BaBa · 19 Mar 2011 at 19:41

Biffa posted the same thing a little higher up.

Speed · 19 Mar 2011 at 21:15

Ah yes, so he did. Strangely however the system no longer passes LinX and the other two systems on 6.34 have been fine.

Very odd...

BaBa · 20 Mar 2011 at 11:49

Just got my first 2684 following the switch to linux frame times 9.08 and 150k+ ppd down on other WU's

On the plus side this is close to the frame time i had on 6900 in windows so gives me about 220k

theheyes · 20 Mar 2011 at 13:00

Wow not been in here for a while, nice to see the folding team is still going strong. Surprising how quickly things change - it used to be an acheivement breaking 1m ppw and now it's taking less than 24 hours.

Well done all

loudbob · 20 Mar 2011 at 16:02

Well looks like [OcUK]Delboy may be in a stomping mood some time soon....

But I'm still waiting for the announcement

Congrats all on the improved Team RAC (or should I say congrats BaBa?)

Once again thx for the news dekez

Speed · 21 Mar 2011 at 00:58

Biffa: Did you get to the bottom of the issues you had? The system was rock solid at 4.2GHz and now it won't even pass LinX for more than 8 minutes at 4GHz. Going to have to do some more investigation, the memory is fine, so I'm thinking the motherboard or power supply might have issues.