Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 3rd February 2006

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Folding@Home Team News - w/e 3rd February 2006

Current Team Position - 54th
Current Team Score - 11,280,972
Crunched This Week - 209,432


***Please take some time to check out the new How To which BillytheImpaler is working on***


Next on the stomping horizon :cool:

50 Slo-Tech - 54 days
53 PC Club Folding@Home Team - 3 days

Teams stomped this week

None :o

Ones to keep an eye on :eek:

59 Team Engadget - 21 days
106 Purdue TLT Labs - 118 days
58 ADSLgr - Greek aDSL Users - 144 days


This Week's Top Dumpers

DarkendViper - 35688
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 27168
Walter_Anderson - 10313
KE1HA - 9850
_Berserker_ - 9215
sculptor(OcUK) - 9021
hornytoe - 8080
polandro - 5064
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 4702
Bigstan - 4304
froggy - 4111
vent - 3841
rich99million - 3718
kinnison - 3633
Sammael(OcUK) - 3452
Hominid - 3359
duggyruss - 3053
aXeR - 3041
Concorde_Rules - 2965
Sgoaty - 2559
Mattus - 2483
ShaunBrewer - 2478
Trick - 2474
Ken - 2105
Haly - 2028
sagaboy2 - 2009
AcidHell2 - 1837
BlackAndWhite - 1615
Staffy - 1521
KillBait - 1350
cheets64 - 1239
casale - 1201
Huddy - 1172
Quacky - 1161
beatvar - 1061
BlackAqua - 1042
Prescott28 - 975


This Week's Top Stompers

OcUKWildweasel - 178
Yhack - 95
leezer3 - 93
MajorPart - 76
Oxygene - 73
xyphic - 56
Hominid - 40
00bob00 - 38
Andy_113 - 32
chunmanwan - 31
Huddy - 19
divine_madness - 18
A_N_Other - 16
Spikes - 15
DiG - 12
Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 12
Pilgrim57 - 12
hooneeawr - 10
SaBBz - 10
blitz2163 - 9
spring85195 - 9
y - 8
sagaboy2 - 7
AcidHell2 - 6
BlackAndWhite - 6
Joe42 - 5
MartinH - 5
stuartbut - 5
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 4
Quacky - 4
spacelobsters - 4
BlackAqua - 3
cheets64 - 3
aXeR - 2
DevilsGT2 - 2
Napalm - 2
Ricko - 2
vent - 2
Zirax - 2
ZX_MUPPET - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

sculptor(OcUK) - 600,000
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 475,000
KE1HA - 425,000
hornytoe - 275,000
Walter_Anderson - 200,000
polandro - 90,000
vent - 40,000
sagaboy2 - 15,000
AcidHell2 - 15,000
Ricko - 15,000
Hominid - 5,000
BlackAqua - 5,000
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 5,000
spacelobsters - 5,000
aceface57 - 5,000
Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 2,500
Joe42 - 2,500
divine_madness - 1,000


This Week's New Members

leezer3
OcUKWildweasel
Yhack

Welcome to the team!!!

A minute's silence to honour Sammael's lost borgs :(
May they one day return to the fold with renewed vigour
Sorry anyone who's not been mentioned - you know what to do now :)

***Please take some time to check out the new How To which BillytheImpaler is working on***


Stats compiled from Stanford official stats page and EOC stats page
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 18:20 January 27th and 17:30 February 3rd
Previous Week's News: January 27th, January 20th, January 13th, January 6th, December 30th, December 23rd, December 16th, December 9th, November 25th, November 18th, November 11th, November 4th, October 28th, October 21st, October 14th, October 7th, September 23rd, September 9th, September 2nd, August 26th.
 
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BillytheImpaler said:
Work on the how-to is coming along. I've been somewhat busy with real work but this weekend should give me some time to get it darn close to done.
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Excellent job so far :)

When you get to a point where it'd happily replace the current how-to have a word with Berserker and I'm sure he'll be only too happy unstickify that and stickify your new one :cool:
 
A.N.Other said:
Sammael's lost some borgs - I wondered what had happened to the production :confused:!
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yup - he posted details in last week's news thread :(
unfortunately the problem with getting permission to run F@H (or any DC project for that matter) is that as soon as anything happens on a machine running it the guy with the power always decides that must be the problem and rather than investigating just decides that the software must go

In Sammael's case he's having to re-install the machines so any crashes are going to be cured whether it was anything to do with F@H or not (in all my years in this project i've never had a machine become unstable as a result of actually being used). I would just love to see his boss' face when they screw up after another 6 months of use without F@H anyway :p


sormicoft - any extra machines you can bring to the cause will be great, if you can get some mass borging going then even better - just make sure everything is cleared by people with the authority to do so as nobody is asking you to risk your job for it

let us know how you get on - and be sure to parp in advance before you go stomping the whole team in the first week :p
 
I've got 2 of these GB 188-pointers,

XP1700@2050MHz
Avg. Time / Frame : 19mn 29s - 138.94 ppd

XP2500+ (stock 1833MHz)
Avg. Time / Frame : 19mn 45s - 137.07 ppd

now since those machines usually vary quite a bit in ppd (the XP1700 is usually 10-20% better off than the Barton due to the clock speed) I can only assume that these WUs are severely bad on memory bandwidth or something

if you are running dual clients try stopping one of them and give it a few hours then see what sort of time you are getting then

other than that make sure you are getting the SSE optimisation message at the beginning of work...
[04:51:19] Writing local files
[04:51:19] GB activated
[04:51:19] Extra SSE boost OK.
[04:51:20] Writing local files
[04:51:20] Completed 0 out of 12500000 steps (0)
 
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divine_madness said:
However, since then i've not seen the damn icon so i can change it back :O

Help me!!!
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as far as i know the only way of getting it back is to restart - either restart the machine (or log off and back on or what-have-you) or end the winfah task (don't kill the core itself - that will usually damage the WU) and then when you see the core has finished it's stuff restart the GUI from the shortcut


unless of course WinXP has just hidden it for you - most likely explorer crashed for some reason and the icon wasn't re-drawn afterwards
 
hooneeawr - welcome to the team :)

greenlizard0 - Billy has a good point, it's more likely to be the RAM that is being used so lowering the CPU usage won't help. Could be worth disabling large WUs or -advmethods (or both) or even selecting deadlineless work as that uses less than 10MB ram generally. Alternatively with the 5.04 beta version you can specify a maximum memory usage in the config which will stop the client downloading WUs which will use more than that amount of RAM.
Check the memory usage in Task Manager and see how much the core is using then that should help you decide which course of action to take.

It'd be a shame to lose any crunching power but at the end of the day this project is meant to run happily in the background (which it's quite capable of not doing with many of the newer projects) so kick that console into shape if it's messing about with your resources :p
 
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