Folding@Home News 2nd - 8th April 2011

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Team OcUK Folding@Home News 2nd - 8th April 2011

Current Team Position: 36th
Current Team Score: 545,209,505
Crunched This Week: 7,812,992 (24hr avg. 1,116,137)


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We are currently 29th 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

igogirl10
eaglescout43
pedroconsulin
J452
hellarda
JJ452


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
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Another good week guys,
and
PARP to LigerZero!

 
Ta for the news dekez, things are looking good with the GTS450 in, had a few teething issues with clocks but it seems stable at 900 core. I'm not going to be producing for a few days as I'm in scarborough till Monday evening
 
Cheers for the news Dekez......

Nice to see my name up so high for a change :D


Hmmm.......sits and ponders on how to scrape together another 260k ppd so I can get top spot from baba :D and another 100k to keep it :D :D
 
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Top work on the news again Dekez....keep it up - we all appreciate your hard work.

I built my 2600k rig for around the £350 mark (had some bits laying around - ram, psu, hdds) and gives me around 50k ppd @ 4.6Ghz running the VM Linux image. Is this the best bang for buck way to fold or would an SR2 rig provide better ppd/£? Is it more beneficial buying 2 or 3 2600ks that one almighty SR2 rig? What AMD rigs out there compare with the 2600k or SR2 and what ppd can you expect from either?
 
Delboy said:
Top work on the news again Dekez....keep it up - we all appreciate your hard work.

I built my 2600k rig for around the £350 mark (had some bits laying around - ram, psu, hdds) and gives me around 50k ppd @ 4.6Ghz running the VM Linux image. Is this the best bang for buck way to fold or would an SR2 rig provide better ppd/£? Is it more beneficial buying 2 or 3 2600ks that one almighty SR2 rig? What AMD rigs out there compare with the 2600k or SR2 and what ppd can you expect from either?
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Excluding Opteron I don't think any AMD system can run bigadv due to the lack of required threads/cores, so you'd have to wait for Bulldozer.

Biffa would be the best person to answer 2600k vs SR-2. Seems to me like 2600k systems would work out better value if you had other parts lying about like I do.
 
Whats would you say the electricity cost of running my 965 + 5870 stock folding, over idle is over say 10 hours a day?
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Honestly the 5870 would just be a waste of power even with the new client. So I'd recommend clocking the 965 instead and folding bigadv.

The total price obviously depends on you price per kwh, I'd say the 965 at stock would be about 250w to 300w at load with the 5870 idle maybe 325w if you clocked it.

As an example my i7 920 @ 4GHz uses 250w with a low energy GPU, this works out at an average of 5.77 kwh a day folding 24/7 bar upload breaks. I pay 7.577p per kwh now I've switched to Scottish Power which works out at about 45p a day. GPU folding even with nVidia cards is very inefficient and burns through kwh units like crazy, this was why I switched to CPU only folding in the end.
 
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Oooooooooooo! Have to show this one off:D

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Thanks for the news dekez:)

Hydra has got more to come, faster ram arrived yesterday and with a few mods and a bump in the clocks sub 5 min frame times are in sight:eek:

Parp to Muck Spreader, its not long now;)
 
Delboy said:
Top work on the news again Dekez....keep it up - we all appreciate your hard work.
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Thanks, it's been a little irregular of late as things keep on happening on a Friday, I will probably have to move the day next week as well as I won't be near a computer at all next Friday, but it will still keep going :)

Cracking tiffy there BaBa!!
 
So, my output has been down for a few days while I struggled with Ubuntu :eek:

Doesn't look like I'm going to be able to get Gemini on Ubuntu, I can't get Vmware2.0 Server to work on 10.10 :( Seems they stopped developing it when Ubuntu was around version 8.

Good news is that while faffing around I discovered I had NUMA turned on which is a no-no when crunching on the SR-2 so that should hopefully boost output back to what it was before 6.34 came out.

Having said that I've got two P2684, one on the SR-2 and one on the 2600K now :(

So unless I can find a Linux release that works well with 6.34 *AND* I can run vmware server 2.0 on, I'm a bit stuck. I'm not going down the route of dedicated folder for Gemini so building a separate machine "just" for vmware is not in the game plan.
 
2684 seem to be rife at the moment, although I did get a 6901 on a new build I'm stress testing last night.
 
Stomping is passing another user in the score leader board. As many users don't fold for very long they have low scores, so anyone who starts with this team (or any other) using a decent setup will stomp past a huge number of people very quickly.
 
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Or in your case it stops.

Re: Linux crunching on Gemini, can't you run the VMware image on there instead of going native? Or is that how your currently running things.
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Or soon to start going backwards :eek:

Well I would but unfortunately there are no "cheap" (read free) Vmware versions that support 24 threads. 8 is the max with VMWare Player, and even then you have to use an older version to get it to work. ESXi has a 30 day license that gives you 8, then it reverts back to 4 cpu per vm after that. :(

And you can't run Folding on the underlying OS of ESXi so that doesn't work either.

And VirtualBox is poo in terms of performance.

VMWare server is the only thing I can use if I want to dual purpose the rig.

So, I'll try with OpenSuse next, they apperently have a way to get VMWare Server running.
 
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