new skynet challenge

andy_taximan said:
It was fun and the fat lady aint sang yet, 49 hours to go
Voicon that was a classic comment you left, well done, all go and have a look if you can :)

https://www.theskynet.org/challenges/46?locale=en
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Thanks mate, I had a few minutes spare this morning, win or lose it was fun and hopefully will keep a few people here, we need more of these to keep interest.

I am in and out sometimes due to work commitments but am happy to help when I can, ozaudio will makes sure we don't forget :)
 
Cracking comment. Very well done, made me smile :D

I wish I could do more for DC projects. Circumstances just don't allow for it though :(. Not being the bill payer means I can't use what I have most of the time. Since we use electric heaters in the winter which use a silly volume of electricity, it makes more sense to use about the same amount of electricity on something like this for a couple of months :)
 
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Thanks mate, I had a few minutes spare this morning, win or lose it was fun and hopefully will keep a few people here, we need more of these to keep interest.

I am in and out sometimes due to work commitments but am happy to help when I can, ozaudio will makes sure we don't forget :)
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you can count on it :D

will we be seeing you back in the folding section in 2 days time when this challenge is over? :cool:
 
Looks like 45K PPD is as far as I can push it. Tell you what Core2Quads are carp nowadays for this sort of thing :eek:
 
I'm quite surprised at the apparent difference and inadequacies in systems. If it wasn't for the needs of the challenge to literally try anything and everything, it proves that most of the hardware I've got is not worth it, whatsoever. The overall RAC is still climbing so I can't tell that well yet what each really is capable of, especially as I'm sat on so many WUs waiting validation.

My gaming rig, only an i7 2600K, (4 cores each hyperthreaded) albeit temporarily clocked at 4400MHz, Skynet sees as Measured floating point speed 4198.11 million ops/sec, Measured integer speed 13969.14 million ops/sec

My 4P AMD based rig only offers: Measured floating point speed 1564.5 million ops/sec, Measured integer speed 6850.56 million ops/sec It's only the volume of cores it has that makes it still viable, but this challenge proves it is nearing the end of economic lifespan at what ever it does?

But then I can see other stuff I've assimilated:
an i5-3450 @ stock 3.10GHz (4 cores) offers Measured floating point speed 3388.96 million ops/sec, Measured integer speed 11593.28 million ops/sec

Meanwhile the relatively ancient 4 cored Q6600 @2.40 GHz gives Measured floating point speed 2341.65 million ops/sec, Measured integer speed 7326.77 million ops/sec

Let's not even bother about the E5200, the i5 480M and the tablet's stats.

What I don't know is the relative power consumption of these different rigs, but knowing most modern CPUs use less energy for more performance, the above suggests most of this kit isn't viable for crunching.
 
Have a small problem ,one of my rigs is not uploading wu's:(

Its running a fresh install of windows 7 x64,it was running fine but now I have a load of wu's that start to upload then just stop.

It is also not downloading new work.

Any ideas welcomed :confused:
 
BaBa said:
Have a small problem ,one of my rigs is not uploading wu's:(

Its running a fresh install of windows 7 x64,it was running fine but now I have a load of wu's that start to upload then just stop.

It is also not downloading new work.

Any ideas welcomed :confused:
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you been infected with the EVGA virus !!! lol

i assume you got internet on that machine still?
 
BaBa said:
Have a small problem ,one of my rigs is not uploading wu's:(

Its running a fresh install of windows 7 x64,it was running fine but now I have a load of wu's that start to upload then just stop.

It is also not downloading new work.

Any ideas welcomed :confused:
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Other than rebooting the offending machine I dunno.
 
This is how my mini armada stacks up points wise:

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877.19     Intel(R) CPU U7300 @ 1.30GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10] (2 cores)
2,855.45   Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6] (2 cores)
19,724.76  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz [Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3] (4 cores/HT)
3,177.56   Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz [Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5] (2 cores/HT)
364.50     ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l) (2/4 cores)
9,574.45   Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz [Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7] (4 cores)
6,571.55   Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz [Family 6 Model 26 Stepping 5] (4 virtual cores)
3,286.79   Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6] (2 cores)
4,163.61   Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] (4 cores)

The RAC is still building on some of them due to recent additions or not running all cores, but it's still a pretty good idea of what is and isn't viable.

PS - No, those are not all mine and they don't all live at home (one of them, for example, is the server that hosts teamocuk.co.uk).
 
And so we are into the final day

Evga are now 468k in front :(

It would have been nice to hope we could keep within 500k of them but that now seems like a tall order.
 
I'm still going but I'm having same ole upload issues and so cpu sits idle while I'm sleeping, then manual retry constantly...eventually it uploads then wait ages for download. Ah well impressed with my laptops contribution anyway.
 
Well done guys:)

Had my best day so far ,dropped 344,636.70:D

Still having problems with uploads from one rig but all in all had a good run.

Edit : Seems the uploads have gone thru now.
 
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I managed to get up to 50K RAC by throwing everything I could find at it :eek:

85K was my best day, managed to crack a million and get to 11th in the team.

Time to get back to sanity for a while.. till the next time!
 
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good challenge it was! now time to swing the cpu back at folding.

lets see the folding leader board fill up with active members now :D
 
At the end my PPD had got to just above 150k.

The reality is that almost 100k of that was coming from the 4P 64 Cored AMD unit. A further 20k from an overclocked i7 2600K, and around 12k from a i5-3450.

Other stuff made up the rest, but it was stuff I resurrected in desperation. In reality the diminishing and minor returns those were making, relative to the power consumption, just wasn't worth it.

I fear that I won't be as active soon, as my budget isn't going to stretch to kit renewals and yet the returns on running what I have won't be that viable Certainly any future challenge will not see me supplying resources at this level. :(
 
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