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5th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race thread.

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What should we call the teams?

  • Comets vs Asteroids

  • Snowmen vs Yetis

  • Genomes vs Antibodies

  • Thunder vs Lightning

  • Prancers vs Dashers

  • Team 1 vs Team 2

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Peter: Per your request:

While my forum name is Pokey, my folding name is Pokey_TA.

85,000 ppd is probably low. Not even I am quite sure yet, but 90,000 + is probably more accurate.

As I recall, last year you had to re-balance early into the race. I suspect the same will be true this year because current adds and upgrades won’t become apparent until after the race starts.

I have no preference regarding team names. Any of the names previously used or mentioned will be fine with me. “The Winners” has a nice ring……………................ :biggrin:
 
OK, it seems like I won't have many team mates since I have over 34% of the total ppd up there, so can I request Gleem, biodoc and Neurodog to be on my team ?

And I do have some hardware coming online in the next week, but I am sure we all do,....
 
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I think my PPD will be a little higher than that Peter, I'm crunching a big SMP unit. Should be closer to 23k if HFM and Fahmon are anything to go by. I have no idea when my GTX 460s will arrive, either, or what effect that will have on PPD (it better go up and not down though! 😀)

Uppsala9496 said:
...I can now sell myself random insurance policies...
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Interesting...but who pays out in the event of a claim?
 
Peter Trend said:
I think my PPD will be a little higher than that Peter, I'm crunching a big SMP unit. Should be closer to 23k if HFM and Fahmon are anything to go by. I have no idea when my GTX 460s will arrive, either, or what effect that will have on PPD (it better go up and not down though! 😀)


Interesting...but who pays out in the event of a claim?
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Not me!!!
I just want commission for selling it. I'll take a GTX460, an i7 and a 12 pack of a good IPA.
For all claims, please bring the loss to the "please delete" castle. Warning, there is a moat (should be yellow, but looks blue due to food colouring).
 
I've decided to run 100% linux (64 bit Ubuntu 10.04).

Here's some data without video card clients running:

Q6600@3.0 GHz

Windows smp2 client running under wine in linux:

6701 project: 13 minutes 9 seconds step time

Linux client in linux:

6701 project: 11 minutes 40 seconds step time

Q9550@3.4 GHz

6701 project under win7: 11 minutes 11 seconds step time
6701 project under linux: 9 minutes 47 seconds step time

The disadvantage of Linux is keeping the GPU clients from stealing too much CPU time but supposedly that can be adjusted.
 
Uppsala9496 said:
Good find. I was looking at all of their cards too and didn't see this one for some reason.
Order placed as a gift to myself for having passed my state property and casualty producer license exam. I can now sell myself random insurance policies...
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Congratulations! :thumbsup:

Username geecee is correct and I hope to be able to at least double my current output in December for the race. Maybe more, but I won't know better until sometime into the first week. Thanks for doing all the legwork Petrusbroder.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
 
biodoc said:
Windows smp2 client running under wine in linux:

6701 project: 13 minutes 9 seconds step time

Linux client in linux:

6701 project: 11 minutes 40 seconds step time
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Thanks! This saves me from trying the Windows SMP client in Linux under Wine.

In return I'll give you a few hints about the GPU client:
  1. Don't run your display off the GPU you use to crunch, if you can help it. These instructions might help.
  2. You may or may not need the auto-mator scripts, also linked from that post. If the GPU app's CPU time in "top" is <= 25%, it won't do anything. There also seems to be a bug in the auto-mator scripts - they will cut SLEEPTIME but not raise it.
  3. Do stay off the computer in question as much as possible. Even mundane work like posting here seems to slow down the CPU client, possibly by making the GPU client work harder. 🙁 But it doesn't seem to make it as slow as the Windows client! 🙂
Good luck! 🙂
 
I don't know if this looks right but as of now for cpus I have

x3 @ 2742ppd
i5 @ 4444ppd
pIIx4 @ 7332
opty @ 1126

and I have 2 c2d to add and I am running a 9800GT.

To me the phenom number looks a bit high but maybe that is right
 
Engines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, started. All well. PPD with these: approx 39000.
Later today engines 7, 8, 9, 10 will start.
By Sunday morning all folding engines will be running.

Question: Do I have to crunch 10 WUs on each computer using my Passkey or is it 10 W&#217;s in total to get the bonus points?
 
As far as I know it's 10 units on each client (by which I mean each instance of f@h, e.g. GPU 0, GPU 1, SMP, etc... will need to crunch 10 units with the passkey to get the bonus points).

In other words: bonus points are specific to each client and dependent on that client being stable.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's why you see:
"Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
Number of Units Completed: X"
where X is a number from 1 to 10.
 
The 10 qualifying WUs are per passkey and must be bonus eligible WU (ie SMP/bigadv), and of course must be with 80&#37;+ completion rate.
 
Thanks for clearing that up. I just assumed as you can put a passkey in, that you would get bonus points for GPU WUs as well :| would be a nice option if Stanford feels ultra-generous sometime in the future, lol.

They should give bonus points for crunching in the summer months, given how many people switch off due to the heat. That might smooth out their available FLOPs instead of getting that annual summer dip. Or maybe they use that dip for server upgrades etc and actually writing reports - who knows!
 
Here are the preliminary teams:


The Abominable Snowmen

  • biodoc
  • filibusterman
  • geecee
  • Markfw900
  • paulnt04 = PCTC2
  • Peter Trend
  • RTThurman
  • salvorhardin
  • TA_andy
  • Tivo20
  • TonyH
  • Uppsala9496
The Yetis

  • GLeeM
  • Ken_g6
  • kb3edk
  • Neurodog
  • QuietDad
  • Pokey_TA
  • SemperFi
  • TAS-petrusbroder
  • theAnimal
  • TomPhilippart
  • ZipSpeed
  • VirtualLarry
  • wingding (=brownstone)

These teams are not final. I may adjust just before the race and I will balance the teams to keep the tension up ... ()🙂
If someone finds the names offensive or dislikes them, please let me know.
The name "The Abominable Snowmen" comes from biodoc.
The name The Yetis originates from petrusbroder: the same species as the Snowmen, but different location. Approcimately the same size ...

Please comment!
 
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I'm looking to significantly ramp up my folding starting today.

- Just added a second GTX 460 today
- Once I'm done stress testing my i7 950 and GTX 580, those two will be added. Hopefully this weekend.
- PS3 folding will start this weekend. Will try to convince my sister to fold on her PS3 and her dual-core computer.
- Once I migrate my Q9550 rig into my living room, that will continue folding.
- Have a GT 240 that I will pop into a work computer that will start folding hopefully before the end of the month.
- Work computer with a E6850 will fold classic uniprocessor WUs and GPU2 for 4830.

It's a shame Radeons are complete crap for folding. I may throw in my 5870 (with Q9550) and 5850 (with 1055T) into the mix but have a feeling the PPD hit won't be worth it.

I'm hoping to have an i7 970 rig up and going by mid-December as well.
 
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Nice setup, ZipSpeed! 🙂
PS3 is good - but does not yield more than 1000 PPD. That may make a difference in the end - I have my PS3 folding too. 🙂
 
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