Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 7th October 2005

kinnison said:
I like that.. not who is your GF? or how is your GF? but, WHAT is your GF? !! :D an alien perhaps??

lol!!

I've done the wife thing.. that didn't work out, not quite back to doing the gf thing again yet!! :p

EDIT: congrats on your no.19 slot, Liger - it's totally mouse-free I swear :)
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LMAO :D

Wow, many of you have loads of computers folding. Are you network administrators or do you get relatives and friends to fold under your name? :)
 
kinnison said:
I like that.. not who is your GF? or how is your GF? but, WHAT is your GF? !! :D an alien perhaps??

EDIT: congrats on your no.19 slot, Liger - it's totally mouse-free I swear :)
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Cheers kinnison

I had an alien girlfriend once, at least i think she was an alien.

Ken said:
Wow, many of you have loads of computers folding. Are you network administrators or do you get relatives and friends to fold under your name?
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Im a network engineer/admin, but i still had to get approval from my boss.
 
sculptor said:
still havent worked out what "lol" means. :confused:
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laugh out loud - so now you know :)


in my case all my output is from home machines, mine and my girrrrlfriends' machines here and 2 machines i left back at my parents house when i left there and my dad's machine which isn't on as much as it could be

that does me good for 3-4,000 points a week usually, depending on how lucky i get with the WUs - i'd give it all for an overclocked X2 :p
 
rich99million said:
that does me good for 3-4,000 points a week usually, depending on how lucky i get with the WUs - i'd give it all for an overclocked X2 :p
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Not sure how you feel about Intel PCs but my Prescott @ 3.75Ghz on air (Vaochill Micro) manages 4,000 points a week on its own crunching QMD WUs.
Expensive to run equivalent to 1.5 A64 rigs, but cheap to build.

The Dual Opteron (939) should be on sale here by Xmas might be better than the X2. Though Im quite supprised mine has got to 2.7Ghz so easily. :eek:
 
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Ken said:
Wow, many of you have loads of computers folding. Are you network administrators or do you get relatives and friends to fold under your name? :)
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My little farm is all my own work. First started with a XP2500+ on a Vapochill in 2 Akasa clear cases bolted together with the center sections taken out so it was one big case the size of two. I use to use F@H to test the stability of my overclocks, much better than Prime95.
Everything just snowballed from there and I now have 13 cpus folding, costs a fair bit on the lecky though. :eek:
Hopefully it all helps towards cures for various forms of cancer and we,re not adding to global warming too much. :cool:
 
Finally. Finished writing my report on why we should be using server 2k3 at work. If the boss accepts, that will mean XP can go on all the computers and i can start using two instances of folding on the HT P4's.
 
:(

Restarted my computer and...
[20:40:00] Completed 150000 out of 250000 steps (60)
[20:50:01] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[21:00:02] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[21:08:28] Writing local files
[21:08:29] Completed 152500 out of 250000 steps (61)
[21:13:40]
[21:13:40] Folding@home Core Shutdown: INTERRUPTED
[21:13:44] CoreStatus = 66 (102)
[21:13:44] + Shutdown requested by user. Exiting.***** Got a SIGTERM signal (2)

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.


--- Opening Log file [October 9 21:14:50]


# Windows Console Edition #####################################################
###############################################################################

Folding@Home Client Version 5.02

http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: C:\Program Files\Folding@Home
Service: C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\FAH502-Console.exe
Arguments: -svcstart -forceasm -verbosity 9

Launched as a service.
Entered C:\Program Files\Folding@Home to do work.

Warning:
By using the -forceasm flag, you are overriding
safeguards in the program. If you did not intend to
do this, please restart the program without -forceasm.
If work units are not completing fully (and particularly
if your machine is overclocked), then please discontinue
use of the flag.

[21:14:50] - Ask before connecting: No
[21:14:50] - Use IE connection settings: Yes
[21:14:50] - User name: Ken (Team 10)
[21:14:50] - User ID: 7E9D2FCD2BC29D49
[21:14:50] - Machine ID: 1
[21:14:50]
[21:14:51] Loaded queue successfully.
[21:14:51] + Benchmarking ...
[21:14:53] The benchmark result is 6096
[21:14:53]
[21:14:53] + Processing work unit
[21:14:53] Core required: FahCore_78.exe
[21:14:53] Core found.
[21:14:53] - Autosending finished units...
[21:14:53] Trying to send all finished work units
[21:14:53] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[21:14:53] - Autosend completed
[21:14:53] Working on Unit 04 [October 9 21:14:53]
[21:14:53] + Working ...
[21:14:53] - Calling 'FahCore_78.exe -dir work/ -suffix 04 -checkpoint 10 -service -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 608 -version 502'

[21:14:54]
[21:14:54] *------------------------------*
[21:14:54] Folding@Home Gromacs Core
[21:14:54] Version 1.86 (August 28, 2005)
[21:14:54]
[21:14:54] Preparing to commence simulation
[21:14:54] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[21:14:54] - Not checking prior termination.
[21:14:59] - Expanded 2963157 -> 16166417 (decompressed 545.5 percent)
[21:15:01]
[21:15:01] Project: 1140 (Run 93, Clone 64, Gen 23)
[21:15:01]
[21:15:04] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[21:15:04] Entering M.D.
[21:15:26] (Starting from checkpoint)
[21:15:26] Protein: p1140_RIBO_FSpeptide_EXT_nospring
[21:15:26]
[21:15:26] Writing local files
[21:15:27] Completed 152500 out of 250000 steps (61)
[21:15:30] Extra SSE boost OK.
[21:25:31] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[21:26:55] Gromacs cannot continue further.
[21:26:55] Going to send back what have done.
[21:26:55] logfile size: 24539
[21:26:55] - Writing 25075 bytes of core data to disk...
[21:26:55] ... Done.
[21:26:56]
[21:26:56] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END
[21:26:58] CoreStatus = 72 (114)
[21:26:58] Sending work to server


[21:26:58] + Attempting to send results
[21:26:58] - Reading file work/wuresults_04.dat from core
[21:26:58] (Read 25075 bytes from disk)
[21:27:11] - Uploaded at ~1 kB/s
[21:27:11] - Averaged speed for that direction ~23 kB/s
[21:27:11] + Results successfully sent
[21:27:11] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[21:27:15] Trying to send all finished work units
[21:27:15] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[21:27:15] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[21:27:15] + Attempting to get work packet
[21:27:15] - Will indicate memory of 1023 MB.
[21:27:15] - Connecting to assignment server
[21:27:24] - Successful: assigned to (171.65.103.156).
[21:27:24] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[21:27:24] Loaded queue successfully.
[21:27:34] - Receiving payload (expected size: 2967958)
[21:37:41] - Downloaded at ~4 kB/s
[21:37:41] - Averaged speed for that direction ~67 kB/s
[21:37:41] + Received work.
[21:37:41] Trying to send all finished work units
[21:37:41] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[21:37:41] + Closed connections
[21:37:46]
[21:37:46] + Processing work unit
[21:37:46] Core required: FahCore_78.exe
[21:37:46] Core found.
[21:37:46] Working on Unit 05 [October 9 21:37:46]
[21:37:46] + Working ...
[21:37:46] - Calling 'FahCore_78.exe -dir work/ -suffix 05 -checkpoint 10 -service -forceasm -verbose -lifeline 608 -version 502'

[21:37:46]
[21:37:46] *------------------------------*
[21:37:46] Folding@Home Gromacs Core
[21:37:46] Version 1.86 (August 28, 2005)
[21:37:46]
[21:37:46] Preparing to commence simulation
[21:37:46] - Assembly optimizations manually forced on.
[21:37:46] - Not checking prior termination.
[21:37:50] - Expanded 2967446 -> 16166409 (decompressed 544.7 percent)
[21:37:50] - Starting from initial work packet
[21:37:50]
[21:37:50] Project: 1150 (Run 131, Clone 21, Gen 2)
[21:37:50]
[21:37:51] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[21:37:51] Entering M.D.
[21:37:58] Protein: p1150_RIBO_semihelixfrom1141
[21:37:58]
[21:37:59] Writing local files
[21:38:02] Extra SSE boost OK.
[21:38:02] Writing local files
[21:38:03] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
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Do I need the -forceasm flag?
CPU is overclocked to 2.4 GHz but it is stable as it has completed many 600 pointer WUs in the past.
 
Sometimes an early unit end is the correct result of a WU. I wouldn't worry about it until you have any more failing. You probably shouldn't get more than one EUE every few months on a stable rig.
 
Ken said:
21:13:44] + Shutdown requested by user. Exiting.***** Got a SIGTERM signal (2)

21:26:56] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END

Warning:
By using the -forceasm flag, you are overriding
safeguards in the program. If you did not intend to
do this, please restart the program without -forceasm.
If work units are not completing fully (and particularly
if your machine is overclocked), then please discontinue
use of the flag.
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Somethings gone wrong somewhere?

Incorrect shutdown,
WU could have shut down early as Mattus said
Looks like your running -forceasm

:confused:
 
NeedleGunner said:
Somethings gone wrong somewhere?

Incorrect shutdown,
WU could have shut down early as Mattus said
Looks like your running -forceasm

:confused:
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If it happens any more in the next week or so, remove the -forceasm flag. It's probably nothing to woor about. just be extra careful to watch your logs and see what's happening with the units.
 
it's quite unusual how it came to an EUE not long after it was restarted - it's also odd that it happened on a WU that was such a high generation (Gen 23) since most EUE's tend to happen in the first couple of generations - however that could all be coincidental

i wouldn't remove the -forceasm flag as all that will do is switch to painfully slow loops should anything happen - it would be far better to back off any slightly unstable overclock if it appears to be causing problems

as everyone else has said - keep an eye on your logs for the next week or so for anything unusual
 
jamief said:
What does it mean that I am the top stomper?
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It means that you've "stomped" more people last week than any other member. A stomp is passing another user in the points ranking. Newer members tend to be the top stompers as they are passing inactive folders by the dozen.

Congratulations on snagging the top spot and welcome to the forum.:D
 
yep congrats on topping the stompers chart last week :)


even though they are all inactive i thought it was still fair that the new peeps should get included - slacky never used to in his Seti Classic stats but as we only have a handful of new members each week i thought what the hell :p
 
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