Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 19th May 2006

No, just click start>run and type in services.msc. Then look for a service beginning with FAH@C or similar, click on it, and then click on 'Start the service'. No reboot needed :)

Hope this helps, null :)
 
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Nice Tiffy Billy :)

My week was much better than last week although still a little down on where I'd like ( 6K+ would be nice ).

Seems to be a fun little battle going on between Billy, Huddy and Myself as we stomp the slackers in the 40's.
 
BigDom said:
Nice Tiffy Billy :)

My week was much better than last week although still a little down on where I'd like ( 6K+ would be nice ).

Seems to be a fun little battle going on between Billy, Huddy and Myself as we stomp the slackers in the 40's.
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yep :D although you are making some head way again.. Those machines of yours are doing well :)


it's getting tougher now.. still something not right going on with my set-up.. I'll see if i can find some better fuel.. :p I'm sure it's something to do with the way the are congured.. maybe i've not chosen the best options when installing them :confused:
 
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just turbocharged my output with a pentium d 930 at 4.2ghz with a gig of patriot at 1120mhz 4-4-4-12 :D

i cant go any higher on air as it gets too hot for my liking, but this thing is storming through the wu's :eek: rasied output from 600-700 to 800-900 as well, so im quite impressed, see what happens after a few days when i give it time to smooth out.

In the mean time, whatch out, appleby about :cool: :p
 
To anyone who thought they were catching up on me - hard luck :p (with the exception of Ricko).

I got back home today and have got all rigs up and crunching again - looking at a total ppd of over 1700 atm thanks to some Double Gromacs goodness. All of the problems were simple except the Opty 170, I can't see any reason for it's problems other than an unstable overclock, which is easily fixed :)

I am currently pricing up a cheapish X2 3800 system which should edge me over the 2000 ppd barrier (WUs permitting, of course) :cool:

Stan :)
 
Welcome back Stan! :cool:

glad to hear there was nothing too serious - possibly that Opty 170 is just getting a bit toasty with windows shut and nobody coming and going letting fresh air in while you're away

Bigstan said:
I am currently pricing up a cheapish X2 3800 system which should edge me over the 2000 ppd barrier (WUs permitting, of course)
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:eek:

Think I'm gonna go for a very cold shower ;) :p
 
Got a problem with fetching a new WU. Internet access is fine to the pc, as Im using it now, sent the completed one but cant get a new one :( Anyone know why?


[16:03:26] Completed 500000 out of 500000 steps (100)
[16:03:26] Writing final coordinates.
[16:03:26] Past main M.D. loop
[16:04:26]
[16:04:26] Finished Work Unit:
[16:04:26] - Reading up to 129956 from "work/wudata_07.arc": Read 129956
[16:04:26] - Reading up to 20248 from "work/wudata_07.xtc": Read 20248
[16:04:26] goefile size: 0
[16:04:26] logfile size: 30725
[16:04:26] Leaving Run
[16:04:28] - Writing 1439169 bytes of core data to disk...
[16:04:28] ... Done.
[16:04:28] - Shutting down core
[16:04:28]
[16:04:28] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[16:04:33] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[16:04:33] Unit 7 finished with 98 percent of time to deadline remaining.
[16:04:33] Updated performance fraction: 0.971436
[16:04:33] Sending work to server


[16:04:33] + Attempting to send results
[16:04:33] - Reading file work/wuresults_07.dat from core
[16:04:33] (Read 1439169 bytes from disk)
[16:05:20] - Uploaded at ~29 kB/s
[16:05:20] - Averaged speed for that direction ~28 kB/s
[16:05:20] + Results successfully sent
[16:05:20] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[16:05:20] + Number of Units Completed: 31

[16:05:25] Trying to send all finished work units
[16:05:25] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[16:05:25] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[16:05:25] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:05:25] - Will indicate memory of 767 MB
[16:05:25] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:06:25] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.136).
[16:06:25] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[16:06:25] Loaded queue successfully.
[16:06:26] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[16:06:26] + Could not connect to Work Server
[16:06:26] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[16:06:39] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:06:39] - Will indicate memory of 767 MB
[16:06:39] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:06:40] + Could not authenticate Assignment Server response
[16:06:40] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.136).
[16:06:40] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[16:06:40] Loaded queue successfully.
[16:06:41] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[16:06:41] + Could not connect to Work Server
[16:06:41] - Error: Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[16:07:02] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:07:02] - Will indicate memory of 767 MB
[16:07:02] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:07:03] + Could not authenticate Assignment Server response
[16:07:03] + Could not authenticate Assignment Server 2 response
[16:07:03] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[16:07:03] - Error: Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[16:07:30] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:07:30] - Will indicate memory of 767 MB
[16:07:30] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:07:30] + Could not authenticate Assignment Server response
[16:07:30] + Could not authenticate Assignment Server 2 response
[16:07:30] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[16:07:30] - Error: Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[16:08:11] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:08:11] - Will indicate memory of 767 MB
[16:08:11] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:08:12] + Could not authenticate Assignment Server response
[16:08:12] + Could not authenticate Assignment Server 2 response
[16:08:12] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[16:08:12] - Error: Attempt #5 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[16:09:40] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:09:40] - Will indicate memory of 767 MB
[16:09:40] - Connecting to assignment server


Thanks...
 
Bennah said:
[16:06:40] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.136).
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I'm pretty sure that's the same server which someone else was having problems connecting to.

Tried stopping the service and restarting?

if that doesn't work you could delete the queue.dat file and the work folder and hope it assignes you to a new server



the error messages don't look exactly the same but it's the same basic pattern - maybe just displayed differently due to different verbosity level :confused:
 
[17:12:33] + Attempting to get work packet
[17:12:33] - Will indicate memory of 767 MB
[17:12:33] - Connecting to assignment server
[17:12:34] + Could not authenticate Assignment Server response
[17:12:34] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.136).
[17:12:34] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[17:12:34] Loaded queue successfully.
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Went for a drink, came back and its on a new WU. Finally got a new one.

Yet to come up how long is left for this WU. Its a big one though :D

Thanks for the help anyway Rich. Its very much appreciated. Where would we be without you :D
 
Bennah said:
Thanks for the help anyway Rich. Its very much appreciated. Where would we be without you :D
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well 370k points lower I guess :D

you're assuming I was right about that server of course :p
I could have been way off the mark but I'm sure that's the same one that was giving problems connecting the other day - maybe some of the servers that appeared when google first got involved are now getting a bit long in the tooth :o
 
I think this will be my last week in the updates, my internet connection gets cut in the next couple of days and then the machines are off for the summer :eek: My laptop may still be folding but that will be slow work. Been good folding for team 10, be back folding for the team about september time.
 
aceface57 said:
I think this will be my last week in the updates, my internet connection gets cut in the next couple of days and then the machines are off for the summer :eek: My laptop may still be folding but that will be slow work. Been good folding for team 10, be back folding for the team about september time.
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:eek:


Have a fantastic summer - shame you can't keep the crunching going but as long as you'll be back in september I guess we can't get too grumpy about it :p
 
one of my machines just took a few tries to get work from server 136 too

from the server status page the NETLOAD is currently 49...
NETLOAD tells how busy the server is by netstat (i.e. how many current connections the server is handling). Too many connections (eg more than 30-40) means that the server is heavily loaded. Exceptions include the Assignment Servers which commonly exceed those values without difficulty (they can easily handle 80-120).
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luckily it only took a couple of attempts for me to get work so no real harm done - worth keeping a close eye on your rigs though and backup clients might be worth considering


on good thing though is that i realised that machine is still set to limit WUs needing over 256MB RAM as it used to be the internet sharing machine at home and my brother used to moan like an old woman :p
will get that sorted out before next WU grabbage ;)
 
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