Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 28th October 2005

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Folding@Home Team News - w/e 28th October 2005

Current Team Position - 60th
Current Team Score - 7,472,868
Crunched This Week - 235,263



Next on the stomping horizon :cool:

56 Sharky Forums - 27 days
58 Mississippi State University - 22 days
59 kcgeek - 4 days

Teams stomped this week :D

61 www.overclocking.dk
62 Team EDBpriser.dk

Ones to keep an eye on

176 Team Hack-A-Day - 211 days :eek:


This Week's Top Dumpers

Sammael(OcUK) - 80357
DarkendViper - 18927
hornytoe - 9308
_Berserker_ - 8899
sculptor(OcUK) - 8354
KE1HA - 6277
froggy - 6234
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 5959
polandro - 5298
kinnison - 5206
Walter_Anderson - 4531
rich99million - 4304
Sgoaty - 4055
ShaunBrewer - 4043
Ken - 3844
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 3691
Haly - 3192
aXeR - 3190
jamief - 3133
Bigstan - 2748
happytechie - 2550
Trick - 2320
duggyruss - 2289
Mattus - 2282
Staffy - 2139
NeedleGunner - 1953
KillBait - 1922
Kyzia - 1851
PeterNem - 1769
sr4470 - 1527
beatvar - 1353
theredguy - 1351
nicholas_yiu - 1286
dr.who - 1266
MetalGuru - 1082
Dean_Vile - 1059
Wyrdo - 1021
Acolyte - 1005
Pixel - 964


This Week's Top Stompers

cheets64 - 200
seo2india - 93
johannes001 - 86
Zirax - 73
chris.morgan01 - 48
TinkerBell - 25
madpierre - 24
jamief - 23
Sgoaty - 22
mhalsall - 15
polandro - 14
PeterNem - 11
Staffy - 9
Whitewater - 7
KillBait - 5
Pedrinho - 5
Rees - 5
Walter_Anderson - 5
beatvar - 4
Ken - 4
pmbuzz - 4
theredguy - 4
WeeRapscallion - 4
Wyrdo - 4
chronicfathead - 2
Dean_Vile - 2
sr4470 - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

Sammael(OcUK) - 680,000
DarkendViper - 620,000
froggy 260,000
hornytoe - 160,000
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 140,000
happytechie - 120,000
Trick - 60,000
Mattus 50,000
NeedleGunner - 40,000
Walter_Anderson - 30,000
Ken - 30,000
hilly - 30,000
polandro - 20,000
Sgoaty - 10,000
Staffy - 10,000
WeeRapscallion - 10,000
jamief - 5,000
Rees - 2,500


This Week's New Members

cheets64
johannes001
seo2india

A very warm foldy welcome to all of you


Production was a bit lower this week - back to 33K a day average, still great output from all those who haven't got their borgs turned o** for half term and we're still gaining on KCGeek :D
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 16:50 October 21st and 16:40 October 28th
Previous Week's News: October 21st, 14th October, October 7th, September 30th, September 23rd, September 16th, September 9th, September 2nd, August 26th.
 
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Ye I need to apologise for my output dropping a little. Unfortunately half-term=Rebuilds so all 450+ machines have been re-installed, meaning those machines out of the 450+ that crunch lost their wu's! PLUS the power was o** for 5 hours today in order for the Electricity board to upgrade our local sub-station (we were drawing too much powahhhhhhh!) :( :( :eek:

Back to full speed now though! :D

Congrats to those with tiffys', welcome to those newbies, and more congrats to those who got a mention (even though I'm a little sour for not getting one myself after taking the team #1 spot! :p )
 
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well you managed 80K since last week's news so that's not bad going really, I feel for Whitestar :o :(

edit: oooh ya sneaked in on the sly there Haly - yep a nice bit of team stomping after last week - and with production back up next week hopefully we'll br reeling in some more for the week after too :)
 
I have 2 units that have been going since Tuesday and due to dumpt tomorrow. I think about 1000 points between them so should look better next week. I didn't think there were very large ones about.
 
No, last week was very poor. But I've picked up 4 600 pointers today so I'm looking top 35 for next Friday!
 
My first WUs from my newest cruncher should be finishing up this afternoon. It's the dual Xeon beast I described earlier. I haven't fiddled with the fsb quite yet so I'm still running 2x1.6GHz. I've done the proper "wire trick" mods to the cpu sockets but haven't gotten around to the vDIMM yet. I forgot to put -advmethods on the first time I started the services so I've got trash: 2 20xx units and 2 75x units. I'll do better later today. QMDs all around I hope.

We'll see how the system bus likes being hammered by 4 320MB RAM QMD in simultaneity. :D
 
My production is down a bit at the moment due to my laptop being unwell. It will be for some time as well as it needs a new fan which will have to be ordered from the states (can't source one in the UK at all) :(

As I am offshore for another two weeks and then going up to Shetland to see my folks after that, it will be a few weeks before I can get it sorted - if at all.

On a more positive note: As I will be up in Shetland, I will be able to pick up the bits required to get my other P4 back together (since my brother and dad failed miserably). If I have time to get it built before I go back offshore, I should be able to fend off the attack of some of those who are starting to catch up (sorry Haly :p ).

Stan :)

PS: My brother has recently bought a new PC so I will be attempting to borg that as compensation for failing to send the P4 bits down - it won't be on all the time but every little helps :D
 
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Bigstan said:
As I am offshore for another two weeks and then going up to Shetland to see my folks after that, it will be a few weeks before I can get it sorted - if at all.
Someone might be willing to help out while you're offshore if you give some more details. :)
 
Thanks again Rich. Damn I want an X2 to get my production up, but I know it's a waste of money as all it'll do is fold..!

BillytheImpaler said:
We'll see how the system bus likes being hammered by 4 320MB RAM QMD in simultaneity. :D

Hehe... Berserker (I think it was Berserker?) did some research into this. He found that running 3 QMDs was faster than 4 on dual Xeons. Your mileage may vary!
 
I never got around to verifying this, but I suspect the best bet for Prestonias (and indeed any 533MHz system) is one QMD per CPU.
 
Berserker said:
I never got around to verifying this, but I suspect the best bet for Prestonias (and indeed any 533MHz system) is one QMD per CPU.

I can conduct a scientific experiment to evaluate whether or not the bus can handle it. I can go a step further and do groups of 3 QMDs and groups of 4 QMDs both before and after the 2x overclock to separately evaluate the effect the double fsb had on the RAM bandwidth.

Shall I? :cool:
 
If you wish. :D

Suggestion: Download four WUs, run them until they converge, then start the testing. 5-10% for each test should be enough (discard the first and last % and average the rest).

It's well known that all but the fastest single CPU HT systems are better off with one QMD at a time. My two fast P4s have the memory bandwidth to cope thanks to tight timings, but most don't.
 
I'll try and do it as soon as these are all done. If timings have anything to do with it, I'm running 2-2-2-7 with Kingston HyperX dual channel DDR400 DIMMs.

Gimme a week or two to experiment.
 
Berserker said:
Someone might be willing to help out while you're offshore if you give some more details. :)

The details are HERE if anyone knows where I can lay my hands on one, there's a drink in it :)

Stan :)
 
I seem to get the best results (in ppd terms) by running one QMD and one other unit on my HT boxes. It also frees up a bit of memory making the desktop certanly feel more responsive for those 'other' applications that I really should use at work.

HT
 
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