15th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race: Mark's Marauders win!

[ao_ika_red]

Yes - I’m folding with the iGPU heavily overclocked (~40k ppd), a Radeon R250X (~50k ppd), and now a couple cpu threads. Whole pc is up to 115k ppd

Thanks for useful information. I want to put 7850k for the exact reason, but the number doesn't look really appealing from power consumption perspective.

 

[Endgame124]

Thanks for useful information. I want to put 7850k for the exact reason, but the number doesn't look really appealing from power consumption perspective.

No, it’s not energy efficient at all. I’m currently pulling about 300watts in that system - the cpu overclock to 4.5 ghz combined with the gpu overclock really helps the ppd. Without the overclock I wasn’t hitting WU expiry.

 

[ao_ika_red]

No, it’s not energy efficient at all. I’m currently pulling about 300watts in that system - the cpu overclock to 4.5 ghz combined with the gpu overclock really helps the ppd. Without the overclock I wasn’t hitting WU expiry.

That's harsh. But you can say it's 300W less from heater.

 

[Endgame124]

That's harsh. But you can say it's 300W less from heater.

Can certainly say that! My office in the basement went from an average of 64f to 78f with 3 computers running all the time.

 

[biodoc]

December 31st stats: 24 hours to go in the race! The Moonshots have taken the lead!

 

[Icecold]

This one will be close right to the end it looks like.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Thanks for keeping up the stats, biodoc!

This one will be close right to the end it looks like.

How I wish folding is bunkerable so we can see Stefan exercising his dark magic.
And happy new year to @Kiska ! I'm less than 3 hours behind you.

 

[IEC]

Wow, what a crazy race.

 

[Mike_F]

Sorry Mauraders. My network broke a couple of days ago leaving me dead in the water not able to download or upload.
December has been rough--a trashed 2070 and now this. Someone pick up the slack!
And happy New Year to all.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Hate to hear that, Mike. Stefan just reported elsewhere that he found 9 1080Ti's laying around, drinking beer and smoking cigars. He plans to take up the slack. 😀

One last Sprint of the year, boyz! Tally-Ho!!!!!! Go Go GO!

 

[Assimilator1]

Happy new year all! Just about to click over here in the UK.

And damn this race is close! 😵
Even fired up my i7 again, for what little it does! 😉

 

[TennesseeTony]

Whey boy. The final stats are due at any time....this is nerve-wracking! 😀

 

[biodoc]

The final race stats: Mark's Marauders win! It was close though. 🙂 Thanks to all who participated.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Congrats to Mark's Marauders!

VERY close race.

Thanks to @biodoc for stats!

And everyone's participation.

And yes, the nine, smoking, drinking, 1080ti's. I guess someone put them to work after all!

 

[TennesseeTony]

Wowsers that was close! Well done, and great big thanks to @biodoc !!!

 

[StefanR5R]

How I wish folding is bunkerable so we can see Stefan exercising his dark magic.

I was asleep at the wheel during some past days. Thanks for waking me up. :-) Although actual magic was impossible for me to implement, I did at least come up with a cheap trick.

The final race stats:

Thank you for organizing this race, and for tracking all the user stats day after day!

 

[Pokey]

Awesome job everyone. Moonshot Gang, we could have been called the Magnificent Seven………… after all it was 7 vs 13.

Thanks to everyone who joined in. I know a lot of you are moving on to bigger and better things, so good luck. Hopefully we will all be around to do it again next year.

So, now I’m going to trim it back, put it on autopilot, and resume my regular napping schedule.

Thanks @biodoc for doing the stats.

Happy New Year!

 

[StefanR5R]

Applying for enrollment:
StefanR5R - xii5ku - 4.2 million - full month

Hrrm, I merely made 3.85 M/d on average. And not a single GFN too. Occasional distractions are healthy, but all in all, perhaps I should focus more. :-)

 

[petrusbroder]

What a wonderful race! So much work done. Congrats to Mark´s Marauders!
Thanks biodoc for organizing the race and doing all the stats, it is very much appreciated.
I wish a happy, healthy and joyful new year 2021 to all of the TeAm-mates! 🙂

 

[geecee]

Thanks for your hard work keeping the stats throughout the race, biodoc, and apologies for my late start (I really need to set something in my calendar, as most of my DC efforts are fire and forget these days). Oh, and congrats to that *ahem* other team. 😀

Happy much-needed new year to all!

 

[ao_ika_red]

Is it over? What a race! I believe if I was put into Moonshot, this race would be nail-biting until last second.
Anyway... I enjoyed it very much and thankfully the weather and fragile power line are quite cooperative.

Here's for MUCH BETTER new year!

 

[Markfw]

Thanks for participating everyone ! And thanks for the great stats biodoc !

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for your work biodoc 🙂

And good work teams, very close!!
Is that the closest it's been?

 

[Markfw]

Thanks for your work biodoc 🙂

And good work teams, very close!!
Is that the closest it's been?

I think so. But also one of the few times I have been on the winning team.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I did at least come up with a cheap trick.

You hired an 80s band to do Folding@Home for you? LOL.

Cheap Trick - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Edit: At least, something-80s, I think. 😉