Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 3rd August 2006

Thanks for the news Rich

Quite a rubbish week for me, I did have two 396 pointers which were both on about 95% complete then I went and formatted my pc forgetting to let it finish. That was 792 points lost :(

On the good side the heatwave has now passed and my cpu is overclocked again and ppd has increased loads, so hopefully this week will be better. :)
 
Thanks for the news Rich, spangley tastic as always :D

at least now thast I'm a single machine cruncher I get in the stats every week :D

in other news swmbo may well have given me clearance for a new PC at home.... :D

lot's of smileys, it must be nearly the weekend

HT
 
Disappointing week for me again - still only on 8 clients at the moment but when I get back home, I'll get the rest sorted out and get the new ones built as well as the new superlappy :D (will take me to 16).

There's been a slight change of plan - instead of putting an X2 4400 in the small case with the 250 HTT mobo, I'm putting a 4000+ SD instead. OcUK are practically giving them away and they are hitting at least 2.8.
I'm going to bung that in with the X1900XT and the TCCD - should make a corking gaming rig (as long as I can keep it cool).

Well done to froggy for the humungous tiffy and welcome to all the new foldy types :)

As always, thanks to Rich for the news and............

Fold on team 10.

Stan :)
 
Thanks for the news Rich :)

Again that was a terrible week for me though not at all unexpected. Last two weeks have been on holiday so all crunchers had to be *ff except my main rig. I managed to get on a few Wifi hotspots while on holiday though and so my laptop got through a few WUs too. Prior to the holiday I was away doing other things which meant my pcs were off then too, so all in all the last five weeks have been really naff. However. For the forseeable future I am not away from from home for any amount of time sufficient to require crunchers being not on and so it is my mission to do something about my output. About two hours ago I borged my server (Celeron 2ghz) and so every computer in the house is now crunching (except my brother's laptop - he won't let me - and a P3 rig which is running m0n0wall, so I can't put FAH on that).

I'm even considering buying a Conroe setup but I shall have to wait and see. Good riddance slacking!

null :)
 
fahtastic, i got a bluetooth hub (my xps had a borked hub) so im going to try and get some work done even out here :)
Problem is, gprs is slower than my brain in a maths test and i dont know how big the wu's are to return and get...

Again good job on the news and another good week of crunching (slacking here, as all my rigs are off :p)
 
lay-z-boy said:
fahtastic, i got a bluetooth hub (my xps had a borked hub) so im going to try and get some work done even out here :)
Problem is, gprs is slower than my brain in a maths test and i dont know how big the wu's are to return and get...

Again good job on the news and another good week of crunching (slacking here, as all my rigs are off :p)
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I managed to upload/download WUs using GPRS whilst in Alexandria waiting to go out to the rig without too much trouble - wasn't particularly fast but I managed.

Stan :)
 
A bloody rubbish week from me there. The computer being switched off since Tuesday didn't help much either :D

Should be home Wednesday and crunching with two machine by this week's news.

Great news as always.

SiriusB - In Germany!
 
SiriusB said:
The computer being switched *** since Tuesday didn't help much either :D
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:eek: Star out that sweary! ;)

I've been doing some playing with Windows setting CPU affinities when crunching multiple work units in simultaneity. I'm getting better scores with each FahCore set to its own CPU rather than letting the NT kernel sort it out on its own.

Does anybody know of a way to automatically set affinity rather than making me do it manually in the task manager every time I reboot?
 
Mattus said:
Don't think it can be done in Windows itself, but you could have a look at this thread. :)
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I'm not sure that would work as it's the core which you want running on it's own core rather than the Console/GUI which would be started

Unless I'm missing something (which I probably am :p)

Worth a try anyway if it makes a difference
 
I'd like to be able to do this. Having windows auto swap everything would logically require bit of CPU itself. I think rich is right though as it's the cores not the console.

The best thing would be to get stanford to put that ability into the next client :)
 
oceaness said:
The best thing would be to get stanford to put that ability into the next client :)
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à la SetiDriver. How I did so love SetiQueue and SetiDriver.

I wish there was a FAH proxy that kept the sort of stats that SetiQ did. It need not cache WUs, just collect data as they pass through. It would make it a lot easier to collect stats for whole farms.
 
if it's just acting as a proxy server it wouldn't be too hard to extend squid to grab the stats as they pass through I guess?

There was someone in the programming section of these here forums looking for some C++ development ideas the other day....

HT
 
My X2 3800+ just arrived. Will probably get it clocked and running tomorrow. Opty will take a few more days while i buy a new heatsink for it. Should get the 3200+ in the htpc tomorrow aswell.

I shall slack no more. :p
 
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