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39th Place Distributed Folding Anandtech Team

I'll be cranking up a few more soon. I'm tired of you, GhettoFob, and Obitus having all the fun.😉
 
Just joined Team Anandtech on my p3-700 Linux computer (fudging around with linux).

I set it up and its running, although I have a few questions. Whats the difference between a "fah" and a "gah" (i choose no preference and ended up with a "fah"?
 
Originally posted by: Baldy18
I'll be cranking up a few more soon. I'm tired of you, GhettoFob, and Obitus having all the fun.😉
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😀 At his rate, Obitus is gonna pass 1,000,000 structure mark (and me) very soon. :Q🙂
 
dexvx are you thinking gah and fah ummm they might be with F@H folding at home, I don't think that there distributedfolding.net folding program in Linux???


Ooooooohhh pretty numbers just passed 6 million.

muttley
 
Hey--I wrote up a blurb for DF and D2OL in the recruiting thread. They didn't make it into the DC welcome thread though. If you want something in there write it up and send it to the moderator.

Oh, and btw, DF has a linux client. Clients for many other O/S's, too. 😉
 
Yea, so many projects so little computers.

From the looks if it this project seems very similar to the FAH at stanford (in fact the goals appear to be the same). They should work together.

I have a new dell p4 coming my way. The thing that I'm worried about is that since the p4 has a relatively weak raw FPU unit, it would perform rather poorly on some platforms that are without SSE2 optimizations. I know this is the case for the Itanium, because I'd just be wasting an Itanium devoted to SETI (or other DC's) when it performs on par with a Pentium II.
 
dexvx

I have dual 1800mp's running on Win XP AND
I have 1700 XP on Linux Redhat 7.2

We can start them on the hour and let them run for x number of hours and see how many structures they churn out.

There is also a discussion forum and I haven't heard mention of which processor is better.

muttley
 
MereMortal
Yes see if you can get it in the welcome message.

Also anybody know who paperboy is? I'm wondering how fast his is closing on me. Might have to get another rig dropped in for another 1.7 gigs.

Any ideas for a motherboard that has built in video to cut cost corners? and preferrably lan and audio.

muttley
 
There are quite a few low cost MB's with video and Lan out right now. Some possibilities are (Assuming you want AMD, all prices from NewEgg):

SHUTTLE MK20/N (MK20) VIA KLE $53
BIOSTAR M7VKQ AMD MICRO ATX VIA KL133 $57
Biostar M7VIG Motherboard (S3 Savage) $66
Gigabyte VIA KM266 GA-7VKML $68
MSI MATX 6390L 6390-010Motherboard $70


I've personally used the Shuttle board, and had no trouble.

No idea who paperboy is.




 
thanks kmmatney

how did you know which would have on board video I looked earlier and and threw in the towel.

muttley
 
Ok, I left it running overnight.

Approximately 8 hours and I got 44000 structures, is that good or bad?
 
how did you know which would have on board video I looked earlier and and threw in the towel.
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I just looked at the pictures. If you can see the 15 HD video connector your good 🙂


I think 44,000 structures in 8 hours is pretty darn good, but I'm new to this. Is there any info on which cpus are good for DF? I suppose Athlons will be goodm, but what about P4s, etc?
 
Yea, a lot of the DC sites dont list what is a good CPU for them, like what CPU is better optimized. Prime95 before its latest patch (before SSE2 optimizations) performed horribly on a p4. Now with the new patch, the p4 performs extraordinarily well.

I think that since the P4 is becoming more mainstream, more DC's are going to more SSE2 optimized.
 
For a board with onboard video, lan etc. take a look at the PCChips M841LR and the ECS K7SOM w/SIS 740 chipset(you should be able to find either around $63-$73). Both of these boards have integrated video and lan. They run pretty fast even with onboard video. I use them in my crack rack and they turn out 3:40 WUs in Seti with an XP 1800. I am about to get two boards in based on the VIA KM266 chipset to see how they run and I will report back the performance results I get.

Both of these chipsets support DDR SDRAM.
 
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