The price of freedom?

3 whole paper bags I had to do at the weekends! Bad enough on Saturday, bloody murder on a Sunday! And the way my paper round was there was one house that was right out my way! I either finished my round and trekked about a mile to the house to deliver the paper... or I trekked a half a mile with my paper bag still half full.

Suffice to say occassionally they didn't get their Sunday Telegraph :D

SiriusB
 
happytechie said:
ahh yes the paper round, I did it for 2 days, then got a job in the same shop sorting out the papers (and opening the shop) for 2 hours before school, £5 an hour, in the warm, with a brew :D I had that job for about 5 years

Paul
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£5 an hour :eek:

My first school holiday job was 55p an hour (washing dishes in a café) - mind you it was 30 years ago :o

Stan :)
 
Well, getting this thread a bit more on topic, I've performed some benchmarks between the Windows and Linux clients. Overall the Windows installations do better. However, for each individual WU there is little difference between the platforms, between 0-5%. That's within my margin of error. The place where Linux loses, IMO, is that is frequently gets poor WUs. The Linux-only core, FahCore_a0.exe, is a terrible performer, especially when compared to the juicy Gromacs, Double Gromacs, and Amber WUs the Windows client seems to always pull.

Someday I need to get off my lazy butt and get FAH running in WINE to see if it evens out.
 
Cheers Billy, very interesting!

Is there anyone out there in the wild world web creating 'optimised' folding clients, like seti for boinc? I remember i saw great improvements using optimised clients for seti.
 
BrownSparrow said:
optimised clients
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Nah, SETI/BOINC is open source and the client is unoptimised in its base state. Enthusiasts like us would grab the source code and compile it in gcc, vc++, xcode, or a similar compiler/linker using flags that make assembly optimizations that run the code through SSE/2/3 for much improved performance.

FAH is not open source and most cores are heavily optimized from the beginning. Gromacs can do some work similar to the old Tinker core but it does it many times faster. The points can be similar because the points are based on how long it took the benchmark machine to crunch it, not the actual amount of calculation beneficial to the project that was performed.

It's just two different credit systems. Both have their own strengths and weaknesses.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Someday I need to get off my lazy butt and get FAH running in WINE to see if it evens out.
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I remember seeing, but didn't keep the data, that Wine was the answer as it performed equal to Windows.

I was interested in this for a couple of reasons, mainly for a folding farm on Linux for much the same reasons's as you all, cost of the OS / Ease of deployment, O/S maintenance and node monitoring. A Samba / Wine enabled Linux Folding Farm should equal that of a WinDoze farm, if I remember correctly.

The real savings I came up with was on HD's & OS etc, then the use of one PSu for two boards. I was testing a small 64MB / 128MB USB key to boot them all, but you could go with one disk and PXE boot to make that even easier.

Now that I'm in the states again, power and parts are much cheaper. I may go back to the Folding Farm quest. There are several robust mini Linux distro's that fit the bill nicely <Slax, Gentoo-Flash, etc> which make deploying a Linux farm very simple. With the C2D's in mainstream deployment, it woud make a very powerful farm indeed. :D
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Yes, do that! The conroe farm idea!

Oh man tech is cheap in the states. I must persuade my relatives to send a shipment over at some point. What with the exchange rate hovering around 1.9 as well, makes sense to.
 
joeyjojo said:
Still up for this? Am tempted to buy a few opty 165's :cool:
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I am. Hit me up with an email if you'd like to work something out.

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