Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 13th December 2007

[Biffa]

Pretty much what I was thinking Rich. I'd be most upset if I'd spent over 2 grand replacing my A64 farm with Core 2s only to have the advantages I paid for removed.

Uh... hang on a minute....

 

[theheyes]

More standard points would be nice. I'm chugging away with two standard clients on a part time borg at the moment and its hardly worth it point-wise. I do it for the science though.

I think the PS3 could do with a slight bump too as at the moment I think its in no-mans land between casual and serious folders:

To the serious folder, the PS3 isn't that good for the money. High cost, only 900 ppd and high electricity cost. You may as well replace a mobo and cpu for the price.

Its not that great for the casual user either. It takes 8-9 hours to complete a WU last time I checked which ties up the whole box. I think it would be FAR FAR better if you could watch a dvd, play music, play arcade games while the client was running. The deadlines are too short too.

Then again I don't work for Stanford so just ignore everything I just said.

 

[Berserker]

Berserker-powar at full strength!

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

Nope, just got the last C2D box SMP-ing (couldn't do that previously due to a BIOS problem).

 

[Cob]

*dribble

 

[Mad old tory]

Hmm, I swear my laptop is dying. NM though, sure I can up my totals by sneakily installing on my Dad's C2D 2160

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Have fun

Thanks, guys. It's peeeeeeeerfect.

A shot from this afternoon on Aspen Highlands at the top of the Loge Peak lift:

 

[Stan_Lite]

Wow, what an amazing view. It'd be worth going there for the view alone - lucky you

 

[shadowscotland]

That looks amazing, have a 'winter wonderful' time and cut some turns for me.

I miss sking, - but then sking doesn't give you a big smile and say 'daddddddddieeeeee' when you get home from work

*big smile spreads across face*

 

[booyaka]

well done all - finally back folding after a number of down weeks due to busted ram.

Started yesterday - hoped to dump 3000 odd points last night but my wireless network lost connection and the win SMP client seems to stop when that happens. Should be done today mind you.

welcome to all the new guys/girls (you never know!) and FOLD ON TEAM 10

 

[rich99million]

well done all - finally back folding after a number of down weeks due to busted ram.

Welcome back

Started yesterday - hoped to dump 3000 odd points last night but my wireless network lost connection and the win SMP client seems to stop when that happens. Should be done today mind you.

That'll be the localhost gnomes - they get confused if you diddle with anything directly connected to your network adapter (or via magic air waves in this case). If I reboot my wired router I get the same thing happen though it seems to be fine if you stop with ctrl+c then restart it again afterwards.
The icicles that start to form after a few minutes of non-crunching are a dead give-away though

 

[Snapshot]

It's a known 'feature'. The client is still in beta, after all (and probably will be for as long as any of us are still folding).

 

[shadowscotland]

Dropped a new chip in my home rig last night, currently at same speed 2.9 but 15% faster on super Pi (now 17.2sec's)
Stress testing but no error so far (8h) so it's looking good.

it's unlapped and running 7c cooler* that my mirror finish E6400! running two standard WU's

If my connection is back up at home tonight I'll let you know more,

*coretemp .94 is not correctly identifying it so I take that with a pinch of salt.

I

 

[booyaka]

Dropped a new chip in my home rig last night, currently at same speed 2.9 but 15% faster on super Pi (now 17.2sec's)

*coretemp .94 is not correctly identifying it so I take that with a pinch of salt.

I

coretemp 0.95.4 is the lastest and most accurate one.

 

[shadowscotland]

Thanks - I did know, I just didn't have any connection last night to update
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