New addition to F@H :)

Yeggstry

Yeggstry

Yeggstry

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Hi guys, just thought I'd say hi and say that I've started folding at home on my main machine at home (Sempron 3000+, 1Gb RAM). Its not much, but every little helps :) I am planning on getting one of the new Penryns come February so I will be able to help more but for now this is my contribution :)

From the looks of it will be taking me about 4-5 days for each WU, with this first one at 500 credits. Is this normal for the processor I have and if not what can I do to speed it up? I've followed the guide (which is excellent by the way :)) to the letter, I guess it will give me incentive to upgrade shortly.
 
SiriusB said:
If you have followed the guide to the letter then everything should be running as it should.

As for the actual time it is taking, 4 or 5 days seems like a lot. Unless the machine is only on part of the time.
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Well I got the following on the logs:

[19:27:06] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[19:57:08] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[20:27:08] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[20:29:50] Writing local files
[20:29:50] Completed 2500 out of 250000 steps (1)

and since its 100 "chunks" then I would guess its 100 hours which is just over 4 days. It may be more since I will be switching it off some nights. I'll give you a benchmark after its run overnight tonight :)

EDIT: As i was typing this it did the 2nd "chunk" and gave me a PPD of 126.69. I'm definately going to have to get a new machine :P
 
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I've got an idea of what it might be anyway, it would also be my main machine and would probably involve a Q9450 and a Geforce 9 series card :) But I definately will, would need some advice on overclocking too:)
 
Thanks for the welcome guys :)

I've completed my first WU last night - 500 points, took about 3 days. However, I have got a slight problem:

[03:19:10] Completed 250000 out of 250000 steps (100)
[03:19:10] Writing final coordinates.
[03:19:12] Past main M.D. loop
[03:20:12]
[03:20:12] Finished Work Unit:
[03:20:12] - Reading up to 2111496 from "work/wudata_01.arc": Read 2111496
[03:20:12] - Reading up to 52520 from "work/wudata_01.xtc": Read 52520
[03:20:12] goefile size: 0
[03:20:12] logfile size: 168464
[03:20:13] Leaving Run
[03:20:13] - Writing 2590196 bytes of core data to disk...
[03:20:13] ... Done.
[03:20:13] - Shutting down core
[03:20:13]
[03:20:13] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[03:20:18] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[03:20:18] Unit 1 finished with 96 percent of time to deadline remaining.
[03:20:18] Updated performance fraction: 0.959309
[03:20:18] Sending work to server


[03:20:18] + Attempting to send results
[03:20:18] - Reading file work/wuresults_01.dat from core
[03:20:18] (Read 2590196 bytes from disk)
[03:20:37] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[03:20:37] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[03:20:37] (171.65.103.162:8080)
[03:20:37] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed December 16) to work server.
[03:20:37] - 1 failed uploads of this unit.
[03:20:37] Keeping unit 01 in queue.
[03:20:37] Trying to send all finished work units


[03:20:37] + Attempting to send results
[03:20:37] - Reading file work/wuresults_01.dat from core
[03:20:37] (Read 2590196 bytes from disk)
[03:20:40] Error: Got status code 503 from server
[03:20:40] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[03:20:40] (171.65.103.162:8080)
[03:20:40] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed December 16) to work server.
[03:20:40] - 2 failed uploads of this unit.


[03:20:40] + Attempting to send results
[03:20:40] - Reading file work/wuresults_01.dat from core
[03:20:40] (Read 2590196 bytes from disk)
[03:20:59] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[03:20:59] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[03:20:59] (171.65.103.100:8080)
[03:20:59] Could not transmit unit 01 to Collection server; keeping in queue.
[03:20:59] + Sent 0 of 1 completed units to the server
[03:20:59] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[03:20:59] + Attempting to get work packet
[03:20:59] - Will indicate memory of 1023 MB
[03:20:59] - Connecting to assignment server
[03:20:59] - Successful: assigned to (171.65.103.162).
[03:20:59] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[03:20:59] Loaded queue successfully.
[03:21:00] Error: Got status code 503 from server
[03:21:00] + Could not connect to Work Server
[03:21:00] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[03:21:13] + Attempting to get work packet
[03:21:13] - Will indicate memory of 1023 MB
[03:21:13] - Connecting to assignment server
[03:21:14] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[03:21:14] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[03:21:14] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.136).
[03:21:14] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[03:21:14] Loaded queue successfully.
[03:21:15] - Receiving payload (expected size: 239676)
[03:21:18] - Downloaded at ~78 kB/s
[03:21:18] - Averaged speed for that direction ~153 kB/s
[03:21:18] + Received work.
[03:21:18] Trying to send all finished work units


[03:21:18] + Attempting to send results
[03:21:18] - Reading file work/wuresults_01.dat from core
[03:21:18] (Read 2590196 bytes from disk)
[03:22:18] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[03:22:18] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[03:22:18] (171.65.103.162:8080)
[03:22:18] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed December 16) to work server.
[03:22:18] - 3 failed uploads of this unit.


[03:22:18] + Attempting to send results
[03:22:18] - Reading file work/wuresults_01.dat from core
[03:22:18] (Read 2590196 bytes from disk)
[03:22:31] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[03:22:31] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[03:22:31] (171.65.103.100:8080)
[03:22:31] Could not transmit unit 01 to Collection server; keeping in queue.
[03:22:31] + Sent 0 of 1 completed units to the server
[03:22:31] + Closed connections
[03:22:31]
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It appears that it isn't sending the WU back to Standford, but I'm not sure why. I have gone to the web browser for that URL and it works fine, and I didn't have anything like PeerGuardian enabled at the time. Any ideas?

Also, could someone explain the whole stomping/parping thing to me? Obviously since I've just joined I'm going to be gaining over other people but I guess I should be only notifying the ones that are active? :)
 
Ok, thanks :) I'll see whether it gets it sent up on Monday then.

I was wondering as well if there was any logic to the type/size of the WU that you get. The first I got was 500 points worth but the second was only 186, and the difference PPD is 20. That may not seem like much but at my level that's 1/7 of my PPD :(
 
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