Folding@Home News 14th - 21st Jan 2011

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Team OcUK Folding@Home News 14th - 21st Jan 2011

Current Team Position: 36th
Current Team Score: 466,931,286
Crunched This Week: 6,210,208 (24hr avg. 890,424 ) up 116,667

Change from Last Week: +789,344


Next on the stomping horizon

Pande Lab - 3.2 Years
EOC Folding@Home Team - 1.7 Years
SAGoons - 1.2 Years
Team RSF - 8.3 Months
DSL Reports Team Helix - 7.4 Months

Teams stomped since last news

none

Ones to keep an eye on

Pleasuredome Community - 5.2 Months
ASUS REPUBLIC OF GAMERS - 1.7 Years
awachs - 1.7 Years
MozillaZine - 3.9 Years
Team Geekdo - 4.4 Years

We are currently 33rd 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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Milestone Tiffys!!!

If you've got a tiffy show it off!

To come later :o


This Week's New Members

craigm210
DimonDeveloper
DF1986
LiamJ
petriodet
ROHIL

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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Bit of a rebound for the team, back up to a very respectable PPD again :cool:


I have SB arriving on Monday!!! :D So I am very excited about that, although it's going to be a fair bit of work as I have to pinch some watercooling bits from my other system, so will have to drain it and rebuild both. I'm going to do as much prep as I can this weekend though, fingers crossed everything works ok!
 
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just had aa quiz, looooooooooooooooovee all ou guyus! you are all wiackdd. a bit duunk and had a qualit tcxi driver but neeed bed now
 
:o sooooo hungover it's not funny!!! At least I know what time I got home now!

Biffa do you know if 260s have the same effect of dropping the big adv PPD?

If not I may put my 260 into the bigadv SB rig and move the two 460s into my other rig.
 
Cool I'll try that then on Monday.

Yes very good thanks! It was a Macmillan organised quiz for charity, £10 entry and booze is included and you can also bring your own. We came 2nd, and then it all gets a bit blurry after that, I have no idea why I thought my taxi driver was quality!
 
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First part of the prep for my SB build, removing the 240 rad from my other rig is complete, I've just bought a Phobya Xtreme Nova 1080 rad from the MM for this rig which I'm hoping to run semi passive, but until that arrives it's a little 120 I had laying around for now. I'm actually quite impressed the temps are not even at 60 yet with the Q6600 and 260 with both crunching.

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Well 3 blue screens, 1 leak, a complete redesign and 8 hours later I'm finally getting to the part were I can install some software! Yay!
 
Will do, I'm taking it easy for the moment, just running standard smp on stock and keeping an eye on the tubing, always makes me nervous that once the heat starts I'll get a leak.

Temps are at 50 on full load with fans at half voltage on a RS240, so should have some room for overclocking.
 
Problems :(

Code: 
Launch directory: D:\Folding\FAH6.30-win32-SMP
Executable: D:\Folding\FAH6.30-win32-SMP\[email protected]
Arguments: -smp 8

[01:54:59] - Ask before connecting: No
[01:54:59] - User name: dekez (Team 10)
[01:54:59] - User ID: 39D0568928D2C1E4
[01:54:59] - Machine ID: 1
[01:54:59]
[01:54:59] Loaded queue successfully.
[01:54:59]
[01:54:59] + Processing work unit
[01:54:59] Core required: FahCore_a3.exe
[01:54:59] Core found.
[01:54:59] Working on queue slot 01 [January 26 01:54:59 UTC]
[01:54:59] + Working ...
[01:54:59]
[01:54:59] *------------------------------*
[01:54:59] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[01:54:59] Version 2.22 (Mar 12, 2010)
[01:54:59]
[01:54:59] Preparing to commence simulation
[01:54:59] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[01:55:08] - Looking at optimizations...
[01:55:08] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[01:55:08] - Previous termination of core was improper.
[01:55:08] - Going to use standard loops.
[01:55:08] - Files status OK
[01:55:09] - Expanded 1765146 -> 2254429 (decompressed 127.7 percent)
[01:55:09] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=1765146 data_size=22
54429, decompressed_data_size=2254429 diff=0
[01:55:09] - Digital signature verified
[01:55:09]
[01:55:09] Project: 6062 (Run 0, Clone 152, Gen 205)
[01:55:09]
[01:55:09] Entering M.D.
[01:55:15] Using Gromacs checkpoints
[01:55:16] Resuming from checkpoint
[01:55:16] Verified work/wudata_01.log
[01:55:16] Verified work/wudata_01.trr
[01:55:16] Verified work/wudata_01.edr
[01:55:16] Completed 119282 out of 500000 steps  (23%)
[01:55:44] Completed 120000 out of 500000 steps  (24%)
[01:59:03] Completed 125000 out of 500000 steps  (25%)
[02:02:22] Completed 130000 out of 500000 steps  (26%)
[02:05:32] Completed 135000 out of 500000 steps  (27%)

Somethings not right, 23-24% is a tpf of about 30secs, then it drops massively to about 3min :confused:

Task manager is showing all 8 cores at full whack, gpu isn't running, cpuz shows the clock speed at 3.5Ghz. The only thing the pc is doing is copying some files in the background, it couldn't be that could it? :confused:
 
Ah brilliant :) for some reason HFM is saying only 2K PPD.

Excellent tiffy Speed!

edit: just installed FahMon - 17,756PPD :D thats more like it! Don't know what is up with HFM.NET.
 
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Yes I downloaded the projects again and double checked that bonus calculation was enabled, strange I'll reinstall it later and see if that helps.
 
Cheers Biffa, I'll check when back home later what version I'm running.

I'll have a go at overclocking tonight, might not take the cpu voltage that high though! :p
 
Not much overclocking for me, seems there are some issues with the bios on the board I have (P8P67-M Pro), most notably the fact that there is no simple way to change the cpu voltage :mad:
I don't want to spend loads of time overclocking only to have to do it all again once a bios update is out, so have just set it to 4Ghz for now.
 
Do it! :D I might be limited to 4Ghz for a while, the temps now with the gpu folding and blowing hot air inside the case and into the radiator are 65. If I can rework the loop with a bay res I could fit another rad in the bottom of the case though.

I'm trying to avoid watercooling the 460s for now as it's expensive and a bit of a pain when swapping things around. Maybe when some blocks turn up cheap in MM I'll get them. That reminds me I still need to put the other 460 in the other rig.
 
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Really good, temps are around 50-55 and pretty quiet, I had 2 of them folding in my living room 24/7 and it was fine.
 
Ah I've not installed that, just been going into the bios the old fashioned way. I've got windows home server installed on it, which has been a pain as none of the drivers or utilities would install from the CD as it didn't recognise the operating system.

There are some things I really like about whs, like the drive extender and the fact that I can run gpu folding as services and still remote in. But this move has been a right PITA, and transferring data was nowhere near as easy as it would have been if I had just installed server 2003 or 2008 in the first place.
 
I've switched over to bigadv now, picked up a P6900, TPF is 32:55, PPD - 43,466 :D

With the 460 as well that makes 54,867 PPD, not too shabby, I just hope nothing falls over, it was folding at 4Ghz overnight fine so fingers crossed! :)
 
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Was going to get a Msi GTS450 which there around $95/105
But u can get a GTX460 for $10 more. I cant deside between Msi or Asus, both seem to have good coolers on them

Im still sorting out the rma for 9800GT :( :(
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I don't know much about the Asus, there doesn't seem to much in it between them. Any difference in warranties? I'm sure you've already read a ton of 460 round up reviews, but for me this swayed me to MSI (I was going for cool and quiet, that and it was cheapest at the time :p).

MSI has the coolest-running card, likely due to its huge GPU cooler. Yet its full-fan tests weren’t as spectacular. Asus’ fan supports higher-speed operation, resulting in a relatively chilly GPU temperature that’s available to anyone who can tolerate its higher full-speed noise.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-roundup-gf104,2714-18.html

edit: my temps currently are at 55 with the fan speed on auto at 64%
 
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