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Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 27th January 2006
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I have had a really great week.
1920 this week... illegal stuff removed
Compare that to last week... when 24/7 folding at full tilt only got me 920, and the week before when pretty much the same got me 200.
I think the current downward trend in the teams ppd and my wacky luck with WU's self destructing and 50 pointers for weeks on end are somehow related. That and Sammy's absence... which looks to have been going on for a week and a half now.
1920 this week... illegal stuff removed
Compare that to last week... when 24/7 folding at full tilt only got me 920, and the week before when pretty much the same got me 200.
I think the current downward trend in the teams ppd and my wacky luck with WU's self destructing and 50 pointers for weeks on end are somehow related. That and Sammy's absence... which looks to have been going on for a week and a half now.
MajorPart said:
Uh oh. I saw this over at the official forum
Vijay Pande said:
Linky: http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?p=121186#121186
That is not good news for those OcUK folders who depend on a constant stream of 250+ ppd WUs to maintain current production levels.
Ahh, nice find. Makes better sense now.
Looks like we're dependent on the 364-pointers for the best PPD now, and they're really rare right now. Other than that, there's still a few DGromacs around which aren't bad...
At least it's only a few weeks.
Looks like we're dependent on the 364-pointers for the best PPD now, and they're really rare right now. Other than that, there's still a few DGromacs around which aren't bad...
At least it's only a few weeks.
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I dont know what i posted which was illegal... how embaressing.
Pity about the QMD's, but this will effect everyone fairly equally wont it?
Pity about the QMD's, but this will effect everyone fairly equally wont it?
BlackAqua said:Thanks
I can only find a fragment of the log in F@H_prev.log or similar. (However it is the server assigning the work unit)
http://blackaqua.com/fahlog.txt
It was worth 600 exactly
Can you tell him they have a record of it being uploaded and the fact I cant find that bit in the log now? It was over 2 WUs ago.
Man of Honour
Could try toggling advmethods on/off. Might at least get you different work (though whether it's any better...)
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VeNT said:
Thats the idea I'm going with. Once I've re-imaged them, I'll have another 72 1.8Ghz smellerons with 512Mb ram folding. They probably wont get much in the way of high point work units, but they will at least boost output.
Plasmoid said:
You'd think so. But some people on the Folding forums have some pretty funny ideas about equality of points. Even more annoying when I write a great long post about it and when I try to post it a mod has locked the thread! Grr.
I was flame-warring with some blokes on there today about that very thing, Mattus. Feel free to share the post with us.
To Mr. Aqua:
They don't think you're trying to cheat or anything but they need to know to be sure. I suspect the answer is no becasue I've never seen qdat mentioned on this forum before.
To Mr. Aqua:
That should mean that your credit is restored to the correct number. Nobody seems to know why it crapped out but all is OK now. They need to know if you might have used a program like qgen.exe or modified your dueue.dat in any way.dlucent said:
They don't think you're trying to cheat or anything but they need to know to be sure. I suspect the answer is no becasue I've never seen qdat mentioned on this forum before.
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My actual post has vanished, but the thing I found particularly ridiculous was the suggestion that AMD systems should get a 25% points penalty because they are 25% faster. Arbitrary 'punishments' because an AMD 3200 is faster than a P4 3.2 at Folding are totally nonsensical. Points should be awarded based on actual work done and the resources used to do it, not on the ratings AMD and Intel give their CPUs. How can you give different systems different points for doing the same work? The whole system would fall to pieces.
There are also people suggesting a '1 point for each WU' system. Even with SETI Classic, where all the WUs were roughly the same size, people complained at being hard done-by under this system when they happened to get a slightly bigger WU. To implement it in Folding, where some units take ten times longer to crunch than others, would cause uproar.
The system isn't perfect but I can't believe that people are seriously considering these suggestions.
There are also people suggesting a '1 point for each WU' system. Even with SETI Classic, where all the WUs were roughly the same size, people complained at being hard done-by under this system when they happened to get a slightly bigger WU. To implement it in Folding, where some units take ten times longer to crunch than others, would cause uproar.
The system isn't perfect but I can't believe that people are seriously considering these suggestions.
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My absence
Unfortunately I am in the process of re-installing 400+ machines. When I do this Folding@Home will be removed from the machines and never put back on.
I am having some problems with the Head of ICT here,who has the mistaken belief that F@H causes machines to crash. He did this to me with S@H Classic a few years back too. Unfortunately I'm at the stage where I'm removing it and never putting it on so I can shut the #£$@:!" up!
Unfortunately the days of me outputting 14Kppd are gone. The only machines that will output now are borgs plus personal machines.
Sorry about this people, having been a victim of cancer twice in three years I thought F@H was a really worthwhile cause, but it seems this troublemaker I work with would rather just complain. It's a pity really has he hasn't had one machine crash on him in the last month either!!
Unfortunately I am in the process of re-installing 400+ machines. When I do this Folding@Home will be removed from the machines and never put back on.
I am having some problems with the Head of ICT here,who has the mistaken belief that F@H causes machines to crash. He did this to me with S@H Classic a few years back too. Unfortunately I'm at the stage where I'm removing it and never putting it on so I can shut the #£$@:!" up!
Unfortunately the days of me outputting 14Kppd are gone. The only machines that will output now are borgs plus personal machines.
Sorry about this people, having been a victim of cancer twice in three years I thought F@H was a really worthwhile cause, but it seems this troublemaker I work with would rather just complain. It's a pity really has he hasn't had one machine crash on him in the last month either!!
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I'm not going to say what we should do to people like him, because I'm too nice...
He sounds like a right little Hitler.
He sounds like a right little Hitler.
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If I you, I'd go to the next person above him and tell them the benefits of running folding and demonstrate that it doesn't cause computers to crash.
That way you might have a chance of keeping your borgs going.
That way you might have a chance of keeping your borgs going.
BillytheImpaler said:
Should have thought about it earlier... I transfered that one (I think, or it may have been the previous WU (~586 points) from my Sempron box to this machine so It would get through quicker (as that box is up on auction) as suggested on the forums here by copying the work folder and core however the other WU pre and post have gone through fine.
I dont know what you mean about qgen.exe or dueue.dat.
Thanks
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