Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 1st February 2007
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. I want that top 50! (have to find some more host pcs grr).
SiriusB said:Unforgiven - remind us, what are you running again? SMP and GPU on a C2D?
Nearly 15K is madness
SiriusB
That score is just crazy on one machine.
Will hopefully get my new 1950 today. Will be interesting to see what points that can bring me, along side my SMP. Thanks to all the guys for helping me set it up.
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First and formost thanks for the news rich - loving the improved gain on the teams above 
great work team!
As for the farm - I'm below my target 7k a week
but all the machines are crunching 8-10 frames a day on crappy Wu's so it's not really a surprise. I've had 85 2124's so far 
Finally got my home rigs swapped over last night (having major issues with my Oc atm can't get over 2.7 stable - must be missing someting in the bios as its so different to the asus one's I'm used too )
Might be a ram issue as their are no dividers below 1:1 but I've had my ballistix and geil both above 800 before and currenly system is un-stable above their stock speeds 667 (330x8) could just be a coinsidence....
But In terms of noise and power consumption I'm really happy so far.
Anyway - some serious SMP crunching going on currently - great work people, I'll get my home rig joining the party soon (roll on mid feb)
Finally a warm welcome to the new fokes
great work team!As for the farm - I'm below my target 7k a week
but all the machines are crunching 8-10 frames a day on crappy Wu's so it's not really a surprise. I've had 85 2124's so far Finally got my home rigs swapped over last night (having major issues with my Oc atm can't get over 2.7 stable - must be missing someting in the bios as its so different to the asus one's I'm used too
)Might be a ram issue as their are no dividers below 1:1
but I've had my ballistix and geil both above 800 before and currenly system is un-stable above their stock speeds 667 (330x8) could just be a coinsidence.... But In terms of noise and power consumption I'm really happy so far.
Anyway - some serious SMP crunching going on currently - great work people, I'll get my home rig joining the party soon (roll on mid feb)
Finally a warm welcome to the new fokes
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Thanks again for the news Rich,
I may have to switch back to windows and run my SMP clients in vmware and bring my GPU into play if i'm going to get past Unforgiven in the single crunchers league.
I'll see what its like running two SMP's for a full week and check if my weekly production has gone up or down.
I may have to switch back to windows and run my SMP clients in vmware and bring my GPU into play if i'm going to get past Unforgiven in the single crunchers league.
I'll see what its like running two SMP's for a full week and check if my weekly production has gone up or down.
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Thanks for the news Rich as ever. 
Another disappointing week for me... ah well, I guess I'll slog on and see what happens when better WUs come around
Another disappointing week for me... ah well, I guess I'll slog on and see what happens when better WUs come around
You gone done something wrong :/
As much as I wish it could, there is no way on earth my 3500+ clocked up 5,453 points in a week.
8 . divinemadness - 5,453
My highest score for an entire month so far has only once breached 4,000
Try 768 for my score
As much as I wish it could, there is no way on earth my 3500+ clocked up 5,453 points in a week.
8 . divinemadness - 5,453
My highest score for an entire month so far has only once breached 4,000
Try 768 for my score
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divine_madness said:
So that where all the missing Wu's went
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nice work stan - should we be expecting the 5k next week*
*at 15 WU's a day you'll be at 5k first week in april (if you don't visit a rig that is)
*at 15 WU's a day you'll be at 5k first week in april (if you don't visit a rig that is)
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Yup exactly that. Estimated output from my initial testing is here. As you can see the estimates aren't far off at all and (for me at least) seem to be better than what I would get with 2 instances of SMP running in VMWare, but this difference is slight at best. I also find that this combination means that neither CPU nor GPU are getting overly hot (or noisy).
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first time i've seen this
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=10
everyone in the top twenty is a nice red colour ( 1600+ per day ).
Good job all.
Babyface UK
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=10
everyone in the top twenty is a nice red colour ( 1600+ per day ).
Good job all.
Babyface UK
Thanks for the news as always, ive quit folding for a while, im clearing my head of :
noise - g'damm its quite in here now
power - have considered running dry for a week or two to see how it affects the bills/meter, only using my laptop which uses a paltry 35w, chances are it wont make a big change but meh.
im also learning how to use both linux and windows server 2003 enterprise so i can make a comeback with more knowledge and maybe smp.
noise - g'damm its quite in here now
power - have considered running dry for a week or two to see how it affects the bills/meter, only using my laptop which uses a paltry 35w
, chances are it wont make a big change but meh.im also learning how to use both linux and windows server 2003 enterprise so i can make a comeback with more knowledge and maybe smp.
Woohoo! Finally broken the 1K PPD barrier on EOC. I have been running at about 1.4K PPD for the last few days but the stats so cleverly decided to base it on a 5 day average and not actual value!
Anyway, my upgrade is imminent I have been paid by one job, waiting for the pay cheque for the second job and I'm laughing.
EDIT: Check out the graph http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=187105
Crazy
SiriusB
Anyway, my upgrade is imminent
I have been paid by one job, waiting for the pay cheque for the second job and I'm laughing.EDIT: Check out the graph http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=187105
Crazy
SiriusB
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SiriusB said:Woohoo! Finally broken the 1K PPD barrier on EOC. I have been running at about 1.4K PPD for the last few days but the stats so cleverly decided to base it on a 5 day average and not actual value!
Anyway, my upgrade is imminent
EDIT: Check out the graph http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=187105
Crazy
SiriusB
Start laughing
If you want a hand silencing it give me a shout.lay-z-boy said:Thanks for the news as always, ive quit folding for a while, im clearing my head of :
noise - g'damm its quite in here now
If you're willing to throw a little money at it a lot can be done.
I just finished fitting my xp-120 to the media centre, so tomorrow its clocking time. At stock folding its barely 40 degrees. And whoever said the xp-120 mounting system is a bit tricky (ahem spcr) was having a laugh, its the easiest thing i've ever done, far better than the ninja.
The same cannot be said for the removal of the stock cooler however. I must have come so close to ripping the socket from the board, it took me almost half an hour to get it off.
The thermal paste just completely stuck the hsf to the cpu. It would slide about and twist, but it had actually sucked itself on. I warmed the heatsink up with a hair-dryer to no avail, because it did nothing about the suction. I could actually pick the whole thing, case and all, up by holding the heatsink and it just sat there.
It took 25 minutes of pulling and heaving and eventually it popped off and the suction broke, but damn that was the toughest heatsink i've ever had to remove.
Note to self: Never use too much arctic silver. I reckon this is the reason they recommend you put a circle of paste in the middle rather than spreading it over the whole thing (which i always do), because if it gets over the edge and there's enough of it it makes a complete suction seal and does not come off.
Had the same problem with my 2800 clawhammer the other day, moved from a freezer 64 to a x2 stock cooler (xp-90 style one), it was stuck so hard i could actually hold the case, mainboard all through the cpu! 
Needless to say, it eventually came out with 3 broken pins (which null fixed), i realised i might have been a bit over zealous with the ceramique, i did have about 20 tubes at the time
Thanks for the offer on silencing the pc's.
But seriously, its a thermaltake xaser III with 7 hard drives, 7 case fans and a 9500, hardly quiet.
Will be moving it into my akasa eclipse (will solve all the problems) when i decide on a new case that fits 4-6 hdds and a 120.2/4 w/c'ing system
Seems i will be getting back to folding sooner than i thought, spent the day testing out settings and configs on enterprise (total n00b to networks and domains) and i now have a working domain, loopback/dns and dhcp server
Needless to say, it eventually came out with 3 broken pins (which null fixed), i realised i might have been a bit over zealous with the ceramique, i did have about 20 tubes at the time
Thanks for the offer on silencing the pc's.
But seriously, its a thermaltake xaser III with 7 hard drives, 7 case fans and a 9500, hardly quiet.
Will be moving it into my akasa eclipse (will solve all the problems) when i decide on a new case that fits 4-6 hdds and a 120.2/4 w/c'ing system
Seems i will be getting back to folding sooner than i thought, spent the day testing out settings and configs on enterprise (total n00b to networks and domains) and i now have a working domain, loopback/dns and dhcp server
Completely off topic but I can't find a better place for it.
Stan - how is your daily post average so ridiculously high? You're not doing close to 60/day at the moment (more like 2-5) which means you must have had a lot of really crazy posting days in the past.
Stan - how is your daily post average so ridiculously high? You're not doing close to 60/day at the moment (more like 2-5) which means you must have had a lot of really crazy posting days in the past.