Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 25th January 2007

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rich99million

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Folding@Home Team News 18th - 25th January 2007


Current Team Position: 33rd
Current Team Score: 31,639,172
Crunched This Week: 639,477 (24hr avg. 91,354)
Change from Last Week: -13,130


Next on the stomping horizon

31 Team Engadget - 188 days (-92 days) :eek:
25 The Knights Who Say Ni! - 171 days (-5 days)
26 General [M]ayhem - 149 days (-9 days)
30 Futuremark.com - 87 days (-6 days)
32 SpeedGuide.net - 34 days (-7 days)

Teams stomped this week

34 Sud Media

Ones to keep an eye on

still none - we are currently 16th in team production :cool:


This Week's Top Dumpers

1 . sculptor(OcUK) - 67,817
2 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 47,568
3 . growse - 25,213
4 . Neil - 23,847
5 . Gazzza - 20,682
6 . DreederOcUK - 20,561
7 . Borged_by_MGP - 19,654
8 . KE1HA - 17,528
9 . Dunc - 17,505
10 . hornytoe - 16,391
11 . Cob - 16,094
12 . 2bullish - 16,019
13 . dr.who - 14,478
14 . vent - 12,804
15 . croni486 - 11,266
16 . magman - 10,981
17 . Babyface_UK - 10,632
18 . polandro - 10,107
19 . Unforgiven - 9,990
20 . _Berserker_ - 9,030
21 . LordShadow - 8,973
22 . Wozz - 8,929
23 . feriso - 8,435
24 . A_N_Other - 8,127
25 . Freefaller - 7,895
26 . Huddy - 7,870
27 . snapsh0t - 7,113
28 . rich99million - 6,824
29 . br - 6,739
30 . deej - 6,507
31 . StevenG[OCUK] - 6,156
32 . lightning512 - 5,690
33 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 5,550
34 . lemonman - 5,263
35 . dangerousdave - 4,893
36 . Steevo38_(OcUK) - 4,549
37 . jaric - 4,300
38 . oceaness - 4,261
39 . Concorde_Rules - 4,192
40 . duggyruss - 4,073
41 . marktime - 4,027
42 . Buxx - 3,914
43 . JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 3,878
44 . Appleby - 3,825
45 . DarkendViper - 3,649
46 . penfold - 3,436
47 . shady - 3,355
48 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 3,161
49 . Lowe - 3,156
50 . FatRakoon - 3,114
51 . 1337z0r_Josh - 3,101
52 . piggott - 3,026

53 . DR_D - 2,907
54 . verbal - 2,761
55 . froggy - 2,561
56 . br83taylor - 2,381
57 . Joe42 - 2,356
58 . _Viking_ - 2,184
59 . OcUKWildweasel - 1,949
60 . Bigstan - 1,908
61 . Beenom - 1,906
62 . MadFruit - 1,836
63 . mikeymike - 1,798
64 . aceface57 - 1,774
65 . Rincin - 1,557
66 . BigDom - 1,544
67 . Pilgrim57 - 1,484
68 . Poolybit - 1,391
69 . Assasin-uk - 1,249
70 . [OcUK]Cybershot - 1,217
71 . Dean_Vile - 1,172
72 . pmbuzz - 1,169
73 . aXeR - 1,161
74 . RobOC - 1,161
75 . Ken - 1,160
76 . Sammael(OcUK) - 1,105
77 . kinnison - 1,092

78 . Walter_Anderson - 932
79 . Galifrey - 792
80 . iBot - 792
81 . Woodsup - 792
82 . casale - 790
83 . FizzyLogic - 788
84 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 788
85 . ken1307 - 788
86 . Ricko - 788
87 . bossk128 - 784
88 . Hudzy - 784
89 . Zymurgy - 784
90 . Achitophel - 769
91 . Fatiain - 769
92 . Broon - 765
93 . Prescott28 - 760
94 . Dunky - 756
95 . monkeygremlin - 756
96 . Baxtor(OcUK) - 716
97 . Saetia - 578
98 . FTW - 491
99 . happytechie - 455
100 . sagaboy2 - 409
101 . [madoldtory] - 396
102 . Adnams_Drinker - 396
103 . benneh - 396
104 . blitz2163 - 396
105 . Brown_Sparrow - 396
106 . CSO2_B0rked - 396
107 . Gunda - 396
108 . Haly - 396
109 . jidh007 - 396
110 . nikebee - 396
111 . Quacky - 396
112 . sp217147 - 396
113 . SquAmy - 396
114 . ThyFlame - 396
115 . uk_viper - 396
116 . xyphic - 396
117 . xZIBIT - 396
118 . Zefan - 396
119 . Andrew - 392
120 . cokecan72 - 392
121 . DemonFolding - 392
122 . escape_sanity - 392
123 . lemonan - 392
124 . MaxPower - 392
125 . Silent_Bob - 392
126 . DevilsGT2 - 373
127 . Ever - 373
128 . Garp - 373
129 . Nathan_Gaskin - 373
130 . diogenese - 365
131 . -[OcUK]-Xplo - 364
132 . divinemadness - 364
133 . Nomisf - 364
134 . FISHGUTS - 298
135 . Klo - 226
136 . RossOCUK - 226
137 . fumbles - 149


Single Machine Folding League

Colour Key: MultiCore/MultiCPU, SingleCore, Unclarified

1 . Cob - 16,094!!!! - 2 active only
2 . croni486 - 11,266 - 2 active only
3 . Unforgiven - 9,990
4 . LordShadow - 8,973
5 . StevenG[OCUK] - 6,156
6 . dangerousdave - 4,893
7 . jaric - 4,300
8 . Concorde_Rules - 4,192
9 . marktime - 4,027
10 . br83taylor - 2,381
11 . _Viking_ - 2,184
12 . Beenom - 1,906
13 . MadFruit - 1,836
14 . Rincin - 1,557
15 . Pilgrim57 - 1,484
16 . pmbuzz - 1,169
17 . ken1307 - 788
18 . Zymurgy - 784
19 . Adnams_Drinker - 396
20 . CSO2_B0rked - 396
21 . nikebee - 396
22 . Zefan - 396
23 . cokecan72 - 392
24 . DemonFolding - 392
25 . lemonan - 392
26 . MaxPower - 392
27 . divinemadness - 364


This Week's Top Stompers

Baxtor(OcUK) - 306
fumbles - 162
Andrew - 66
jaric - 65
escape_sanity - 64
sp217147 - 63
monkeygremlin - 59
croni486 - 45
Woodsup - 41
1337z0r_Josh - 39
Silent_Bob - 27
xyphic - 23
[OcUK]Cybershot - 22
Lowe - 22
DR_D - 21
FISHGUTS - 20
Wozz - 16
snapsh0t - 15
DemonFolding - 13
RossOCUK - 11
benneh - 10
Nomisf - 10
Nathan_Gaskin - 9
Poolybit - 9
Assasin-uk - 7
Cob - 7
dangerousdave - 7
Hudzy - 7
Zymurgy - 7
2bullish - 5
Broon - 5
feriso - 4
LordShadow - 4
_Viking_ - 3
Adnams_Drinker - 3
FizzyLogic - 3
Klo - 3
MadFruit - 3
marktime - 3
MaxPower - 3
mikeymike - 3
Neil - 3
SquAmy - 3
[madoldtory] - 2
Achitophel - 2
bossk128 - 2
br83taylor - 2
divinemadness - 2
DreederOcUK - 2
Dunky - 2
Galifrey - 2
lemonan - 2
A_N_Other - 1
Borged_by_MGP - 1
CSO2_B0rked - 1
deej - 1
Garp - 1
Gazzza - 1
iBot - 1
JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 1
Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 1
lightning512 - 1
oceaness - 1
penfold - 1
StevenG[OCUK] - 1
Unforgiven - 1
xZIBIT - 1
Zefan - 1


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

Whitestar (LigerZero) - 2,500,000
sculptor(OcUK) - 2,300,000
hornytoe - 750,000
KE1HA - 675,000
rich99million - 600,000
growse - 550,000
polandro - 450,000
magman - 425,000
Gazzza - 400,000
Walter_Anderson - 350,000
dr.who - 325,000
DreederOcUK - 300,000
Huddy - 300,000
Borged_by_MGP - 275,000
Concorde_Rules - 250,000
2bullish - 200,000
Neil - 180,000
A_N_Other - 140,000
Unforgiven - 140,000
Cob - 100,000
penfold - 100,000
Dean_Vile - 90,000
LordShadow - 90,000
FatRakoon - 80,000
OcUKWildweasel - 60,000
Fatiain - 50,000
dangerousdave - 30,000
Wozz - 30,000
_Viking_ - 25,000
croni486 - 25,000
snapsh0t - 25,000
Saetia - 20,000
Assasin-uk - 10,000
Lowe - 10,000
Poolybit - 10,000
1337z0r_Josh - 7,500
jaric - 7,500
Zymurgy - 7,500
[OcUK]Cybershot - 5,000
SquAmy - 5,000
Woodsup - 2,500
monkeygremlin - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners :cool:


This Week's New Members

Baxtor(OcUK)
fumbles

A great big warm welcome to the team! :)
If you haven't done so already then why not check out the Folding@Home Setup Guide and the Quickie Guide for more foldy-tastic tips especially for when you're in a rush

Seems as though the effect of the bad WUs is wearing off, plus with the addition of several SMP clients this week output should once again be on the up and up quite soon :)
Sorry anyone who's not been mentioned - you know what to do now
***Only got one machine crunching? - Have a looky here***

Stats compiled from Stanford official stats page and EOC stats page
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 20:30 January 18th and 19:40 January 25th

Previous Weeks' News:
January 18th, January 11th, January 4th

2006 News Archives:
December 28th, December 21st, December 14th, December 7th, November 30th, November 23rd, November 16th, November 9th, November 2nd, October 26th, October 19th, October 12th, October 5th, September 28th, September 21st, September 14th, September 7th, August 31st, August 24th, August 17th, August 10th, August 3rd, July 27th, July 20th, July 13th, July 6th, June 29th, June 22nd, June 15th, June 8th, June 2nd, May 26th, May 19th, May 12th, May 5th, April 28th, April 21st, April 14th, April 7th, March 31st, March 24th, March 17th, March 10th, March 3rd, February 24th, February 17th, February 10th, February 3rd, January 27th, January 20th, January 13th, January 6th

Single Machine Crunchers:
Adnams_Drinker, Bean0, Beenom, benjo1989, br83taylor, Cob, cokecan72, Concorde_Rules, croni486, CSO2_B0rked, dangerousdave, dead_martyr, DemonFolding, divinemadness, jaric, Jagman2k, ken1307, lee87, lemonan, LordShadow, MadFruit, marktime, markyp23, MaxPower, Mikebert4, nikebee, pikeypriest, Pilgrim57, Plasmoid, pmbuzz, Pumpkinstew, Rincin, sr4470, StevenG[OCUK], Stormrider(OcUK), TheTross, ToLearn, Unforgiven, Viking, Zefan, Zip, Zymurgy ...
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Holy crap! That's some massive dumpage. :eek: :D

Thanks for the news as always, Rich.
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Indeed - and only 2 active processors, though I actually don't know what the SMP client shows up as in terms of active processes (since it automatically starts 4 instances) but with the PPDs that are being seen it's certainly correct :)
 
joeyjojo said:
Have they intentionally nerfed non-smp folding to get us to switch? The wus are horrible :(
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I know it certainly feels that way but there are infact a couple of new projects out/nearly out on -advmethods which have just gone through beta.
No sign of them on my machines yet but you may find you need to mess around reconfiguring to get yourself off the server you're currently stuck on.

That said though I can't recommend the SMP client enough - particularly if you have anything C2D flavoured it will be the best thing you could do for production by a long way :cool:
 
Bigstan said:
I will get home tomorrow and should find out what's happened. All the rigs at home appear to have stopped at the same time, so it's either a catastrophic power failure or the net connection has gone down (or somebody unplugged the home hub).

:(

Stan :)
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we did have some pretty nasty wind last week so that could have done it - depends what would have come back on after a power cut and if everything connection wise had come back on nicely :o

hope it's nothing serious anyway - and can definately understand why you're so hacked off with it :(
 
sculptor said:
Ive not tried the VMware / Ubuntu / SMP, mix.
Can you still use Windows whilst Ubuntu is running in VMware?
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yep it works fine - though with SMP running in Ubuntu under VMware and a GPU client running in windows (as VMware seems to be limited to use only 80-90% total CPU time) to take up the slack you can start to get a little short on RAM if, like me, you only have 1GB to play with.

I just minimise the VMware window and carry on using windows as usual - bit more laggy than usual but combined output makes it worthwhile :)

I'm getting about 11 mins a frame for a p3025 on my [email protected] - not sure what I'd be getting if run natively but the small amount of slack will run a GPU client at about half speed completing a GPU frame in about 12 mins.
Combined output of the SMP and GPU clients is about 1100PPD which is a pretty good improvement over what I've been getting previously. :cool:
 
I can't remember the last time the project suffered such bad server performance :o
It used to be a little sketchy way back in the day but of course the WUs were much smaller then and most people hadn't spent huge amounts of money on farms so even when things went wrong it was only a minor inconvenience - these days there is a lot more at stake with the competition being a lot more fierce plus the problems seem to be getting both more serious and more frequent :(

@Cob - no worries, a lot of people's CPU counts will be totally messed up this week anyway - I only posted the active count last week to stop people jumping to the wrong conclusions when they saw insane outputs :p

Ho hum - I guess this is just the nature of F@H testing, I'm sure that the extra PPD we've been getting from it (and will get again once it's mended) will more than make up for any loss.
 
oceaness said:
Would you get more ppd for running Windows in Linux as you would then be running the SMP client in Linux and not via VMware :confused:
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I don't have a clue - for me it's purely the fact that I don't have a clue what I'm doing in Linux yet so want to run it inside Windows so I can just shut the window down if I get scared :p

You would definately get better PPD running the SMP client natively in Linux - however VMware only seems to make use of 80-90% of the total CPU time which leaves enough CPU time to keep a GPU client running at about half speed.

My X2-3800 is giving about 750PPD for the SMP client in VMware and around another 380PPD for the half-speed GPU client - according to Sculptor's post the combined output using the SMP and GPU is actually higher than what I'd get by just running the SMP natively under Linux with 100% usage.
 
wow the Tiffy that talks - it says "Booooo" to BT Home Hub and its rubbishy software dependancy :p


lovely tiffy Stan - with the SMP goodness you'll be making up for lost time by the bucket full :)
 
I would expect it to be back on tonight - they are 8 hours behind if I remember correctly so they will want to have it sorted by the end of their work day I would imagine (so by around midnight UK time?)


edit: according to the server page and viewing the IP in a browser it should be working - have you tried restarting the client to see if it finds another way through?
 
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A.N.Other said:
SMP is designed to use up to four cores per client on a multicore CPU - why do you have two running at the same time?
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If you pull up the system monitor in Ubuntu you'll see that the maximum CPU usage for one SMP client is about 80% - when you run two clients that spare 20% is used aswell so you get slower times per WU but you are getting two finishing in less time than if you ran one after the other.

With most AMD machines this isn't really an option unfortunately as running two clients would push the completion past the preferred deadline and would lead to repetition of the same work (which is essentially wasted work).
 
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