Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 26th August 2005

rich99million · 26 Aug 2005 at 18:39

Folding@Home Team News - w/e 26th August 2005 - Evening Edition

Current Team Position - 71
Current Team Score - 5,341,504

Next on the stomping horizon

67 CaRNaGGe - 12 days
68 Team Austech.Info - 10 days
69 PCStats Folding@Home - 7 days
70 Mustangworld.com - 3 days

Teams stomped this week

73 Hellas@Folding
74 ADSLgr - Greek aDSL Users

Ones to keep an eye on

72 kcgeek - 6 days
77 Overclock.net - 171 days

This Week's Top Dumpers

DarthEndViper - 37611
sculptor(OcUK) - 22275
KE1HA - 15109
froggy - 11652
Otacon - 9788
Sammael(OcUK) - 9216
hornytoe - 8653
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 8404
Sadgeek - 6652
happytechie - 6106
ShaunBrewer - 5983
kinnison - 5553
diogenese - 4698
rich99million - 4146
dr.who - 4021
Bigstan - 3759
Kyzia - 3541
Raithmir - 3450
sr4470 - 3412
Haly - 3242
duggyruss - 3119
MetalGuru - 2994
NeedleGunner - 2545
TheTross - 2254
Mattus - 2168
_Berserker_ - 2096
sphen - 1833
Gunda - 1689
dynabol - 1637
Tifosi - 1441
Dun - 1414
nicholas_yiu - 1323
beatvar - 1269
Dean_Vile - 1200
david - 1176
Trick - 1168
Dwayne - 1101
casale - 1059
dan7827 - 1036

This Week's Top Stompers

sculptor - 182
FatRakoon - 152
Raithmir - 126
V_K_Guy_Ltd - 50
helpinghand - 36
Kuso - 33
Rollie - 24
beatvar - 23
geiger - 21
sr4470 - 21
Rees - 8
TheTross - 7
Halk - 6
Acolyte - 5
Garp - 5
Ken - 5
WeeRapscallion - 5
Ricko - 4
dan7827 - 3
Dun - 3
Dwayne - 3
Gunda - 3
Haly - 3
NeedleGunner - 3
WWnUT_Frank - 3
cococlownboy - 2
Kyzia - 2
Mandex001 - 2
Mattus - 2
nicholas_yiu - 2
oscheng - 2
Skimmo - 2
theredguy - 2
Tob3z - 2

This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

KE1HA - 280,000
DarthEndViper - 260,000
sculptor(OcUK) - 220,000
Sammael(OcUK) - 220,000
froggy - 200,000
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 160,000
diogenese - 140,000
hornytoe - 70,000
kinnison - 70,000
Bigstan - 40,000
NeedleGunner - 30,000
Mattus - 30,000
Haly - 20,000
TheTross - 20,000
Acolyte - 10,000
ThyFlame - 10,000
sr4470 - 5,000
cococlownboy - 5,000
adamp1 - 5,000
Foiled - 5,000
Kuso - 1,000
Rollie - 1,000
Rees - 1,000
V_K_Guy_Ltd - 1,000

This Week's New Members

FatRakoon 08.25.05
sculptor 08.22.05 - whooops

Welcome FatRakoon - watch out for the nublet next to you

This Week's Unlucky Cruncher 13

13 diogenese - getting bored

This Week's Slacking Black Sheep

kinnison - For crimes of mis-configuration
Mattus - Doing the same WU 3 times and having a rubbish modem
Trick - Setting up a firewall between himself and his crunchers :O

This Week's Super-Dooper Gold Slacker Medal Winner

Tolien - Biggest slacker this side of ol' Spanky
plus it's either that or I get banned again

Well a weird week for the stats, all turned out well though it would seem.
It's great to have DarthEnd back too... oops I meant Darkend of course
Sorry anyone who's not been mentioned - you know what to do now

Stats compiled from Stanford official stats page and EOC stats page
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 17:30 August 19th and 17:40 August 26th
Previous Week's News: August 26th, August 12th, August 5th, July 29th, July 22nd.

rich99million · 26 Aug 2005 at 18:42

wow - soooo many tiffy's this week - also think i missed a couple of 30,000's last week so i added you two this time round

congrats all you tiffy winners

All you slacking types - congratulations, especially to our special slacking guest Tolien

Don't forget to wear your sigs with pride

Courtesy of Mister NeedleGunner:

rich99million · 26 Aug 2005 at 19:20

Concorde Rules said:
Oi, why I aint a black sheep for a 2nd time eh? Being on hols and all

However, well done all.

Concorde

hehe - well i already had 3 black sheep and our special gold sheep so wasn't any room for you

though i should have made a new award for you this week for most distracting slacker sitting on a beach on holiday with a slacktop connected through stolen wireless network - hmmm doesn't roll off the tongue so well

rich99million · 26 Aug 2005 at 20:37

sr4470 said:
Hehe I got more than haly this week

AMD power

sorted your tiffy out too - blame EOC and the silly way the tiffy's are arranged there now

didn't account for you moving so fast

rich99million · 26 Aug 2005 at 20:55

NeedleGunner said:
Don't know if anyone else has seen this hidden in the original post?

who put that there? :eek:

honestly these Don's and their sneaky stealth edits :rolleyes:

Kyzia the general rule is if you recognise someone as being active and likely to read a parp warning then parp them - if not then don't bother, plus you don't need to give them much notice at all, Sculptor parped me yesterday and I think he's virtually breathing down my neck

he'd have been better off if he didn't mess up the config on one machine by missing off his (OcUK) from his name

rich99million · 26 Aug 2005 at 21:53

Berserker said:
You're just asking for trouble there.

hehe - who? me?

I'm on my best behaviour remember

rich99million · 27 Aug 2005 at 00:21

diogenese said:
So bored in fact that I'm after the gold sheep award I'm off on holiday next week and contractually obliged to do something very nasty to my crunchers 'nuff said

I think Kyzia's already said what she thinks of that

where you going anyway? borging potential?

rich99million · 27 Aug 2005 at 01:09

diogenese said:
I'm off to the Great Dorset steam fair

ahhh excellent

any event whose main sponsor is a brewery named after an animal has got to be good

i hope you'll be making the most of the brew - but remember that drink and steam don't mix well...

...whoooops :eek:

sorry it had to be done

rich99million · 27 Aug 2005 at 12:32

NeedleGunner said:
Got an 3700 SD through the post this morning, so it will give me a chance to sort out my comp. In dire need of a format too, so I will be slacking for a bit, until it's OC'd to the max.

good luck with the clocking - i think Concorde has his at 289x10 before it starts failing stuff, you'll have to annoy him for specifics though - then stomp his benchy scores

rich99million · 28 Aug 2005 at 01:36

I think next week the slacker awards should be awarded to things that have made us slack over the course of the coming week - as serious or as funny as you like

I'd like to nominate FahCore_78.exe v1.84 and it's beautiful use of the "ERROR 0x79" which have so far this week been responsible for 2x600pts, 1x364pts, and 1x336pts WUs going to the big WU-bin in the sky. Total slackage so far - 1900 points :eek:

But i'm not bitter

rich99million · 29 Aug 2005 at 01:05

NeedleGunner said:
I nominate myself, why?

Because you're FahCore_78 v1.84 in disguise?

rich99million · 29 Aug 2005 at 18:47

Kyzia - a good trick I've heard is to say that it's scheduled for Windows Updates or System Optimisation over the weekend so it's all spritely for you to come back to next week

rich99million · 29 Aug 2005 at 20:02

NeedleGunner said:
Before installing my new SD I updated the BIOS to the newest one in readiness for some OC'ing. Alas it failed and I can't get it to post. Even after removing the chip. Mobo is dead

next time you'll flash it from windows - though i remember the day when that seemed crazy compared to the relatively safe option of a boot disk

can you RMA the board?

rich99million · 29 Aug 2005 at 21:40

Kyzia said:
I reckon there's a bit of lowkey sabotage going on personally

in that case just reconfigure it to team 10

even better get your username in there aswell

you think he'd take the joke?

rich99million · 29 Aug 2005 at 21:52

Haly said:
I went away for the weekend yet got away with leaving all but one cruncher on without any getting switched off

errr in that case - the machine that wasn't on isn't the one that has the modem connection is it?

linky - no sign of work for the last couple of days

hope they had enough work to keep them busy

rich99million · 29 Aug 2005 at 22:08

Haly said:
Nope That's all sorted by the router.
Hopefully they've all got 600 pointers then as those 3 will all take a while to crunch.
I know one of them has got a 600 pointer but can't check the other two.

phew - well i hope so

watch out for the dreaded gromacs error that has been beating me severely over the weekend, they've released a new core now that will solve the problem so hopefully you'll have escaped

NeedleGunner - doh! Hope it's not too expensive

rich99million · 30 Aug 2005 at 01:00

Haly said:
How can I check that? I'm a bit thick at the best of times and I've not slept much in a week

Just check back through the log file (FAHlog.txt) or using EMIII and see if the all WUs have finished happily (ie. they get to frame 100 and say finished) if you see the following then you've got a problem:

Code:

[03:15:57] Completed 207500 out of 250000 steps  (83) 
[03:20:59] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[03:26:01] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[03:31:03] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[03:36:03] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[03:41:03] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[03:46:03] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[03:51:03] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[03:54:03] Writing local files 
[03:54:04] Completed 210000 out of 250000 steps  (84) 
[03:59:06] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[04:04:06] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[04:09:07] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[04:14:07] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[04:19:08] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[04:24:09] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[HIGHLIGHT][04:29:09] - Couldn't open work/wudata_08.chk 
[04:29:09] Timered checkpoint triggered. 
[04:32:10] Writing local files 
[04:32:10] Gromacs error. 
[04:32:10] 
[04:32:10] Folding@home Core Shutdown: UNKNOWN_ERROR 
[04:32:13] CoreStatus = 79 (121) 
[04:32:13] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x79[/HIGHLIGHT]
[04:32:13] Deleting current work unit & continuing... 
[04:32:33] Trying to send all finished work units 
[04:32:33] + No unsent completed units remaining.

I wouldn't worry too much - like you said they could just have 600-pointers and are ready to drop soon.

If you do find that you've had errors and the client is still using the v1.84 core (it will tell you what core at the start of each WU - see below) then stop the client, delete FahCore_78 from the folding@home directory, then restart the client and it should get the newer core

Code:

[14:24:23] 
[14:24:23] *------------------------------*
[HIGHLIGHT][14:24:23] Folding@Home Gromacs Core
[14:24:23] Version 1.84 (July 27, 2005)[/HIGHLIGHT]
[14:24:23] 
[14:24:23] Preparing to commence simulation
[14:24:23] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[14:24:23] - Not checking prior termination.
[14:24:29] - Expanded 2966965 -> 16166417 (decompressed 544.8 percent)
[14:24:29] 
[14:24:29] Project: 1140 (Run 31, Clone 73, Gen 15)

probably best to leave it until you're more awake - party animal

rich99million · 30 Aug 2005 at 22:17

i like the sig

reminds me that i really must play with the HowTo a bit so that the first post explains what the project does before getting into the setup

rich99million · 30 Aug 2005 at 23:59

Kyzia said:
I might still do that reconfiguring though... boss probably wouldn't notice for quite a while

haha - dare you to dress all in black and wear a balaclava while you're doing it though

nomination for stupid asbestos workmen accepted

rich99million · 31 Aug 2005 at 01:05

kinnison said:
Why, is Kyzia going to be delivering a box of chocolates to the boss?

yes - diversionary tactic you see

be sure to glue the chocs to the inlay so that he struggles to get them out and the ingestion of the glue should have him on regular trips to the toilets to give you extra fiddling time