17th Folding@Home Holiday Race: The race is over and Mark's Marauders win.

[biodoc]

The oldest thread I can find on this is like the 13th annual race, and it was "mark and mods vs everyone else" and the entire month long total for the team was 800k.

Your team total was ~800 Million and the Race total was ~1.6 Billion.

 

[Markfw]

Your team total was ~800 Million and the Race total was ~1.6 Billion.

OK, off my a few 0's...Had a few beers after I had to setup an appt for a brain surgeon for possibly another brain surgery. I will find out Feb 1st if I need it.

 

[biodoc]

OK, off my a few 0's...Had a few beers after I had to setup an appt for a brain surgeon for possibly another brain surgery. I will find out Feb 1st if I need it.

I'm sorry to hear that Mark. Hopefully you won't need surgery.

 

[biodoc]

Day 11 Stats:

 

[drnickriviera]

Blast. I don't want to be in last place. Everything and the kitchen sink is folding now

 

[crashtech]

Blast. I don't want to be in last place. Everything and the kitchen sink is folding now

You're only last in a select group of maniacs!

 

[Assimilator1]

I just can't keep The Hive back! Gonna have to do something about that!

 

[Assimilator1]

The oldest thread I can find on this is like the 13th annual race, and it was "mark and mods vs everyone else" and the entire month long total for the team was 800k.

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And this post by Stefan Jan 1st 2019, said I did a mindblowing 4 billion for the year 2018. https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...ome-holiday-season-race.2557288/post-39691064

Maybe the beer was addling your search skills too .
This search turned up Folding races all the way back to 2005 (although I'm not sure that is one is the same race, as the 1st one would date to 2006), strangely the 1st and 2nd races are missing from that search list.
Anyway, this is the 3rd Folding race from 2008.

@biodoc This is the 1st race not to mention the year count (17th) it seems .

 

[Markfw]

Maybe the beer was addling your search skills too .
This search turned up Folding races all the way back to 2005 (although I'm not sure that is one is the same race, as the 1st one would date to 2006), strangely the 1st and 2nd races are missing from that search list.
Anyway, this is the 3rd Folding race from 2008.

@biodoc This is the 1st race not to mention the year count (17th) it seems .

I found older references, but all the stats pictures were not found, so it could not give me any numbers.

Edit: in race 3 I did find this. I also forgot how I was racing Gravity back then ! 2 million for 30 days ? I do that on my slowest card in one day !

The Folders
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Jan. 01 ________ Jan. 01 ________ in Dec. _________
_____ 0 _____ _ 134 846 ______ 4 204 _______ _ 245 677 ______ 110 831 ________ [TA]Assimilator1
__1 175 ____ __ 333 011 _____ __ 282 _______ _ 349 863 _______ 16 852 ________ Alyyx
__4 271 _____ 1 902 475 ______ 7 749 _______ 2 108 843 ______ 206 368 ________ Cutthroat
___ 824 _____ __ 13 343 ______ 1 244 _______ __ 48 591 _______ 35 248 ________ dmo = DLiRium
__5 870 ____ __ 836 014 _____ 19 492 _______ 1 348 833 ______ 512 819 ________ Drsignguy
__5 907 _____ 1 159 774 ______ 5 810 _______ 1 344 206 ______ 184 432 ________ Foxery
_65 769 ____ 15 196 034 _____ 78 507 ______ 17 279 076 __ __ 2 083 042 ________ Gravity
_14 646 _____ 2 137 843 _____ 15 792 _______ 2 599 936 ______ 462 093 ________ jonesthewine
__3 855 ____ __ 701 617 ______ 5 002 _______ _ 841 038 ______ 139 421 ________ m1ldslide1
_17 671 _____ 1 953 799 _____ 29 757 _______ 2 621 018 ______ 667 219 ________ MaskedAvenger
_____ 0 ____ __ 629 388 _____ __ 129 _______ _ 636 680 ________ 7 292 ________ paulnt04 = PCTC2
__5 382 _____ 1 730 509 _____ 11 084 _______ 2 152 770 ______ 422 261 ________ Pokey_TA
___ 239 _____ __ 13 862 ______ 1 140 _______ __ 36 059 _______ 22 197 ________ TA_andy
___ 957 _____ __ 12 657 ______ 2 561 _______ __ 71 166 _______ 58 509 ________ theAnimal
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 _____ ___ 32 _______ ___ 7 704 ________ 7 704 ________ winr
__5 510 _____ __ 34 764 ______ 9 990 _______ _ 341 049 ______ 306 285 ________ VirtualLarry
132 076 ____ 26 789 936 ____ 192 775 ______ 32 032 509 __ __ 5 242 573 ________ Sum for the Folders


TaAm AnandTech Sentinels (TAS)
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Jan. 01 ________ Jan. 01 ________ in Dec. _________
___ 274 _____ __ 33 556 _____ __ 250 _______ __ 53 163 _______ 19 607 ________ Baldurs_Gate
_13 522 _____ 1 531 760 _____ 30 034 _______ 2 227 704 ______ 695 944 ________ biodoc
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 ______ 3 273 _______ __ 84 472 _______ 84 472 ________ Chocobo_Navy
__2 856 _____ 2 562 004 ______ 2 715 _______ 2 636 595 _______ 74 591 ________ GLeeM
__3 874 _____ 2 480 959 ______ 3 710 _______ 2 571 048 _______ 90 089 ________ Hurricane Andrew
_28 657 _____ 6 099 931 _____ 25 299 _______ 6 805 331 ______ 705 400 ________ Insidious
_10 971 _____ 2 018 284 _____ 13 508 _______ 2 358 070 ______ 339 786 ________ Lightstar
_52 968 ____ 12 408 074 _____ 71 920 ______ 14 437 941 __ __ 2 029 867 ________ Markfw900
__3 566 ____ __ 943 946 ______ 4 185 _______ 1 049 034 ______ 105 088 ________ Neurodog
_____ 0 _____ __ 25 758 ______ 1 939 _______ __ 65 730 _______ 39 972 ________ rabrittain
___ 949 ____ __ 446 828 ______ 1 627 _______ _ 488 607 _______ 41 779 ________ TAS-petrusbroder
__1 728 ____ __ 482 339 ______ 2 994 _______ _ 534 625 _______ 52 286 ________ Tom_Philippart
__6 773 _____ 2 082 441 ______ 7 472 _______ 2 278 121 ______ 195 680 ________ TurtleBlue
126 138 ____ 31 115 880 ____ 183 514 ______ 36 214 714 __ __ 5 098 834 ________ Sum for TAS

 

[biodoc]

This is the 1st race not to mention the year count (17th) it seems

This is the first year we are running the race in January so thought we should call it the New Year's Race rather than the Holiday Race. I could change that I guess.

 

[biodoc]

Day 11.5 stats:

 

[Markfw]

Looking good ! Thanks @biodoc !

 

[cellarnoise]

What????? Looks like crap to me... Moon Shooters, double time! Time to jump up the watts???

 

[IEC]

Firing up the new 7900XT (XFX Merc):

 

[TennesseeTony]

Lost over half a day of production, Severe weather knocked out power for over 4 hours, much longer than my UPS can endure. And of course, power was not restored until well after I left for work. Severe weather you say? Why yes.....there was a porta-potty laying on it's side in the parking lot when I arrived at work......from whence it came....no one knows, lol!

 

[biodoc]

Day 12 stats: The Marauders are increasing their lead.

 

[Pokey]

Looks like some of the Marauders have kicked up production. They will be hard to catch now unless some of the Moonshot Gang has something in reserve. I'm pretty much maxed out.
More, More, More................

 

[crashtech]

I think this team arrangement is very unfair to the Moonshot Gang.

 

[Markfw]

I would love to step up production for us... If I had the electricity to run these. And I have most of them up for sale, and no buyers, at less than ebay prices !

2 1080TI's, 2 2060's, a 9700 and the Titan V (not for sale)

 

[biodoc]

Day 12.5 stats:

 

[biodoc]

Day 13 stats:

 

[IEC]

Just some numbers:
7900XT - 4.0-4.5M PPD. Optimal power usage seems to be with -10% max frequency, -10% power limit which uses 230-250W while folding and GPU clocks stay around 2450-2500MHz.
6800XT - 2.7-3.2M PPD. Optimal power usage seems to be with -10% max frequency, stock power limit which uses 160-170W while folding and GPU clocks stay around 2050-2100MHz.
3080 10GB - 5.5-6M PPD. I have this one set to 70% power limit because I hate running cards above optimal breakpoints as you can tell by the above. It still boosts between 2000-2100 MHz. At 250-260W.

CPUs are also all power limited to 95W PPT for efficiency with PBO.

 

[biodoc]

7900XT - 4.0-4.5M PPD

I was hoping it would be better. It would be interesting to try that card on MilkyWay separation tasks. The Double precision specs are similar to the RadeonVII.

 

[IEC]

I was hoping it would be better. It would be interesting to try that card on MilkyWay separation tasks. The Double precision specs are similar to the RadeonVII.

On paper and in practice appears similar to my Radeon VII (which is currently sitting unused).

 

[biodoc]

Day 13.5 stats: