Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 19th October 2006

Will the real siriusB please stand up

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An X-ray image of the Sirius star system. The bright source in this image is the white dwarf star Sirius B. The fainter x-ray source is Sirius A, the brightest visible star in the northern sky.

SiriusB is invisable to the naked eye. - so that's why he's not coming to the meet. If he did we wouldn't be able to see him :p :D

Edit: A white dwarf that invisable to the naked eye - sounds like magic to me ;) (more tolkien than rowling mind)
 
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Probably better off with an osteopath or chiropractor, last time I saw a quack for back pain all I got was painkillers but no fix. But hey that's verging on medical stuff so no doubt I'll get a slap from Mr Berserker :(

Hope you get the back sorted soon.

Meanwhile anyone know why some of my crunchers won't dump their WUs, yet can pick up new WUs?
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Perhaps they're trying to send the WU back to a server that's off for maintenance or some'at. It'll keep old WUs in queue until it finds that it can contact the proper server.
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Seems to be sitting there quite happily trying from time to time. Just wonder how many times it tries before it gives up. I can see this one specifically as I use this PC, if it's happening on the borgs which are harder to monitor, that's worrying. Seems like the server involved is 171.65.103.100:8080. with a log message saying can't connect :(
 
hmm, page cannot be displayed. Looks like I might have to do some more digging.

Might be just this laptop looking at the logs - perhaps it can't get stuff via a proxy on the office network.
 
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yep it's not happy with the 8080 bit at the end of the connection, issue now is how to get it to ignore or bypass that. Don't think the other borgs are affected looking at their logs.
 
Thanks for the kind words (star man, I love you too :p ), apparently it's fine and is gonna sort itself out. I feel better already :)

Just ordering the bits for the 805. Mobo from B grade, some XMS2 off MM, freezer (still want an Infinity though :/ ), seagate, seasonic psu, X800 gto2. Total approx £300, bloody great :)
 
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Pound for pound, a 6300/S3/Geil will kick the 805s arse. I'm getting the mobo/cpu/memory off the MM, so big discount, but new from OcUK the difference is small, only a couple of hundred quid. Unfortunately it's for the family, so no point in anything more powerful. I toyed with the idea of upgrading my rig, selling the other bits and leaving them with their Athlon XP :o but decided I'd be nice :)
 
BillytheImpaler said:
I don't know SS. A DS3 and an E6300 can get some mighty scores and they don't cost very much at all. Methinks Stan is the man to contact on this.
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You're right. My E6300 rig cost me £540. I already had some bits but mine also included Windows XP - I could have done it all for a little over £600.

On the lowest output WUs the E6300 gets about double the ppd of the 805, on 600 pointers, it gets nearly treble and on 364 pointers, better than quadruple.

I'd have an E6300 over an 805 any day.

Stan :)
 
Your E6300 rig only cost £540? (all new or other, and is that every thing including case, OS, HDD, etc).

Lets do the stats then - nominations for WU's people.

And set costs on Ocuk Prices for mobo/cpu/memory (PSU/HDD/case/screen/HSF/OS all being equal)

Ok just looked at prices no 955x boards - only b-grades and an E6300 rig can be brought for little more that my 805 when new 6 months ago.

805D=£200 (new 965 board)
E6300=£300

and E6300 is better that 1.5x faster agreed - should have waited 6 months me thinks, and that S3 board is a steal :eek: pesky overpriced Asus Boards :p

Oh well that my theory blown out of the water. Fast and Affordable the E6300 rules.

On the lowest output WUs the E6300 gets about double the ppd of the 805, on 600 pointers, it gets nearly treble and on 364 pointers, better than quadruple.
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Edit: But my highest PPD per core is 580 best ppd i've seen posted so far is 2100ppd per core and that was a E6600! so the E6300 can't be 4 times faster
 
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shadowscotland said:
Your E6300 rig only cost £540? (all new or other, and is that every thing including case, OS, HDD, etc).
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The £540 was for everything except case, HDD and GFX card.

I could get a case for £35, an HDD for £30 and a GFX card for £40 all from OcUK total = £645 (inc OS).

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Edit: But my highest PPD per core is 580 best ppd i've seen posted so far is 2100ppd per core and that was a E6600! so the E6300 can't be 4 times faster
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Project : 1495
Core : Gromacs
Frames : 100
Credit : 364

-- Marge1 -- (805)

Min. Time / Frame : 18mn 09s - 288.79 ppd
Avg. Time / Frame : 18mn 09s - 288.79 ppd


-- Krusty2 -- (E6300)

Min. Time / Frame : 4mn 58s - 1055.36 ppd
Avg. Time / Frame : 5mn 04s - 1034.53 ppd

My apologies - that's only 3.6x - I was looking at the E6600 which is 1400 ppd :o
Still much better though ;)

Stan :)
 
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