6th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race

[petrusbroder]

1. OK, here we go again ... ()

It is the time of the year 2011 when we should start organizing ourselves for the

6th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race!

Just the bare facts:

1. Start: December 1, 2011, 19:00 UTC
2. End: January 1, 12:00 UTC
3. Short intermission: December 19, 05:30 UTC - December 22, 05:30 UTC (The Winter Solarstice PrimeGrid Challenge)

Here are the rules:
1. Have fun.
2. Let others have fun.
3. Crunch as much as you can, as often as you can and as efficiently as you can.
4. Assimilating computers, adding members to the teams, switching teams, borging is allowed.
5: (Sid's rule) Whistle while you work; DON'T whistle while you sip.
6: (Sid's rule) No pouting.

Please post here if you intend to take part. Our Folding@Home tream number is 198.
I'll put the teams together 3 - 4 days before the race but the discussion about who will race against whom is open.
Please remember: joinng and recruiting is a´llowed. But I decide into which team the new members go.

The primary goal: TeAm AnandTech should climb in the ranks!
The secondary goal: The TeAm shall have a lot of fun!
The tertiary goal: (there isnt one; if there are too many goals, then none will be fullfilled).

The teams will be built from the following racers:
In alphabetical order ...

1. Baldurs_Gate
2. biodoc
3. blckgrffn
4. brownstone
5. Desslok
6. geecee
7. GLeeM
8. jibberegg
9. Ken_g6
10. Markfw900
11. nanaki333
12. Orange Kid
13. Peter Trend
14. Petrusbroder
15. Philippart
16. Pokey
17. salvorhardin
18. snowdogg187
19. somethingsketchy
20. theAnimal
21. Uppsala9496
22. ZipSpeed

We are now 22 raceing folders. That gives two teams of 11 racers each.
I'll put the teams together later tonight, will be done in about 5 hours ...

Here are the teams - and this will change!!!

The Snowmen
__ Name ______________ ppd __________ points
____________________________________ at start
Baldurs_Gate ______________ 0 ________ 432,780
biodoc ____________________ 0 _____ 11 728 466
brownstone =wingding _ 15 522 ______ 3 757 688
geecee __________________ 527 ________ 745 447
Ken_g6 __________________ 773 ________ 527 869
nanaki333 ____________ 43 830 ______ 5 173 667
salvorhardin __________ 1 111 ______ 1 115 884
somethingsketchy __________ 0 ______________ ? Please get started or post your F@H-name in this thread!
[TAS]Petrusbroder _________ 0 ______ 8 827 349
theAnimal ___________ 257 024 _____ 72 159 542
ZipSpeed ____________ 101 548 _____ 28 213 487



The Yetis
__ Name ______________ ppd __________ points
____________________________________ at start
blckgrffn _________________ 0 ______________ ? Please get started or post your F@H-name in this thread!
Desslok _________________ 855 ______ 1 426 882
GLeeM ________________ 10 303 _____ 20 260 302
jibberegg ____________ 35 210 ______ 2 455 164
Markfw900 ___________ 145 480 ____ 131 729 408
Mike9o _______________ 14 681 _____ 12 034 973
OrangeKid _____________ 1 197 ________ 412,078
Peter_Trend __________ 27 514 ______ 9 761,128
Tom_Philippart ________ 8 625 ______ 4 828,189
Pokey _______________ 133 752 _____ 92 239,439
snowdogg187 _______________ 0 ________ 345,890
Uppsala9496 __________ 37 364 ______ 3 303,509

The teams will be finalized later during the race. The first part is to get everyone racing and competeing, before the second part I'll balance the teams more even and I'll not allow ány changes ... and we finish it off.



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[Uppsala9496]

Count me in. With the hardware upgrades this past year my personal goal is to beat my total of 304,006 in last years race. Actually, I want to bump that by 25%. Why not set a lofty goal.

 

[brownstone]

Count me in!

 

[ZipSpeed]

<--- in

 

[blckgrffn]

OK, how many forms do I need to sign? Is there a copay? This is therapy for not making a difference in the world, right?

Also, what kind of output can I expect from my GTS250 or am I going to have to sneak a hw purchase past the wife?

 

[Orange Kid]

I'll play. Though my output is only 1000 a day :wub:

 

[biodoc]

I'm in! :thumbsup:

 

[GLeeM]

I'm in

Do you still need to complete ten SMP WUs to qualify for the bonus?

I average 8,500 ppd on a GTX275

I think things changed on CPU SMP WUs.
Is it -bigadv I should run on my i7 920?
What kind of ppd can I expect on the CPU at 4.0?

 

[theAnimal]

I'm in.

I'm in

Do you still need to complete ten SMP WUs to qualify for the bonus?

I average 8,500 ppd on a GTX275

I think things changed on CPU SMP WUs.
Is it -bigadv I should run on my i7 920?
What kind of ppd can I expect on the CPU at 4.0?

Yes, if you have not qualified for the bonus before you need to complete 10 bonus eligible WUs with at least an 80% completion rate (with passkey of course).

Bigadv is still better than SMP, although not nearly as much difference as it used to be.

 

[Ken g6]

I plan to be there. No upgrades since last time, so I don't expect to go any faster.

How exactly are we handling this PG race? Personally, I'd suggest putting all GPUs on PrimeGrid, but leaving all CPUs on F@H.

 

[somethingsketchy]

I thought 321 Search was a CPU only affair, not a GPU event...

 

[Ken g6]

It is - though PG folks may make a liar of me yet. :sneaky:

Anyway, I meant next month's race, which is PPS Sieve.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Anyone have suggestions on how to get the most points per day on machines with cpu and gpu?
Right now I have an X6 using the smp console client (win7) and gpu3 (fermi).

If I do anything on the pc, the cpu client takes a long time to get any work done.
here is the cpu log. You can clearly see where I started web browsing:


[10:47:57] Completed 405000 out of 500000 steps (81%)
[11:03:04] Completed 410000 out of 500000 steps (82%)
[11:19:25] Completed 415000 out of 500000 steps (83%)
[11:35:23] Completed 420000 out of 500000 steps (84%)
[11:49:19] Completed 425000 out of 500000 steps (85%)
[12:03:20] Completed 430000 out of 500000 steps (86%)
[12:32:32] Completed 435000 out of 500000 steps (87%)
[12:48:54] Completed 440000 out of 500000 steps (88%)
[13:00:47] Completed 445000 out of 500000 steps (89%)
[13:15:25] Completed 450000 out of 500000 steps (90%)
[13:27:05] Completed 455000 out of 500000 steps (91%)
[13:38:23] Completed 460000 out of 500000 steps (92%)
[14:23:41] Completed 465000 out of 500000 steps (93%)
[14:55:51] Completed 470000 out of 500000 steps (94%)
[15:08:14] Completed 475000 out of 500000 steps (95%)
[15:23:20] Completed 480000 out of 500000 steps (96%)
[15:34:12] Completed 485000 out of 500000 steps (97%)

I also found the following guide to set up the gpu3 client in linux.
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=158848#p158848
If UPS would have made a timely delivery today I would be able to report on the success. Now the wife will get home from work and I will have some explaining to do...

 

[somethingsketchy]

Anyone have suggestions on how to get the most points per day on machines with cpu and gpu?
Right now I have an X6 using the smp console client (win7) and gpu3 (fermi).

If I do anything on the pc, the cpu client takes a long time to get any work done.
here is the cpu log. You can clearly see where I started web browsing:


[10:47:57] Completed 405000 out of 500000 steps (81%)
[11:03:04] Completed 410000 out of 500000 steps (82%)
[11:19:25] Completed 415000 out of 500000 steps (83%)
[11:35:23] Completed 420000 out of 500000 steps (84%)
[11:49:19] Completed 425000 out of 500000 steps (85%)
[12:03:20] Completed 430000 out of 500000 steps (86%)
[12:32:32] Completed 435000 out of 500000 steps (87%)
[12:48:54] Completed 440000 out of 500000 steps (88%)
[13:00:47] Completed 445000 out of 500000 steps (89%)
[13:15:25] Completed 450000 out of 500000 steps (90%)
[13:27:05] Completed 455000 out of 500000 steps (91%)
[13:38:23] Completed 460000 out of 500000 steps (92%)
[14:23:41] Completed 465000 out of 500000 steps (93%)
[14:55:51] Completed 470000 out of 500000 steps (94%)
[15:08:14] Completed 475000 out of 500000 steps (95%)
[15:23:20] Completed 480000 out of 500000 steps (96%)
[15:34:12] Completed 485000 out of 500000 steps (97%)

I also found the following guide to set up the gpu3 client in linux.
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=158848#p158848
If UPS would have made a timely delivery today I would be able to report on the success. Now the wife will get home from work and I will have some explaining to do...

1. From what I know about F@H, if you have it set to 100%, you will get slow down, just as you have experienced. If you leave one core "open" (or 87.5%), you should be able to fold and still surf the web.

2. "It's better to ask for forgiveness, than for permission". Or you can lie and say it's a gift for someone else

 

[Uppsala9496]

I used the excuse that it was an RMA return on an old video card. She said 'whatever, just don't spend all night on that thing.'

For those of you that want to use the gpu3 client in Ubuntu 11.10, let me know. I think I can retrace all of the steps i took to get it to work. It was not fun.
Using it with a GT 440.

 

[brownstone]

1. From what I know about F@H, if you have it set to 100%, you will get slow down, just as you have experienced. If you leave one core "open" (or 87.5%), you should be able to fold and still surf the web.

2. "It's better to ask for forgiveness, than for permission". Or you can lie and say it's a gift for someone else

I believe you want to use -smp 5 on the console client at least. That usually would give me a more responsive computer and a bit higher ppd on my gpu folding.

 

[biodoc]

I believe you want to use -smp 5 on the console client at least. That usually would give me a more responsive computer and a bit higher ppd on my gpu folding.

That's how I set up my X6 during the last holiday race.

 

[Pokey]

Count Pokey in. :thumbsup:

 

[snowdogg187]

I'm in!

 

[Markfw]

I'm in... But note, my sig is out of date. I am down to 4 boxes. And I can't seem to get anything but A3 cores (no big adv lately) and my 2600k is having problems even at 4 ghz. Its the lowest ppd of all my boxes.

 

[Markfw]

is 6000 ppd normal for a 4 ghz 2600k on 1 P6099 unit ??

 

[theAnimal]

is 6000 ppd normal for a 4 ghz 2600k on 1 P6099 unit ??

No. You should be getting more like 20k ppd average AFAIK.

 

[Markfw]

No. You should be getting more like 20k ppd average AFAIK.

Well, now its getting 12k, but my 4 ghz 950 is getting 16k. It does 12 minutes per frame on the 6099, and the 950 does 10 minutes per frame.

 

[Rattledagger]

Count me in among the racers as Baldurs_Gate.

Anything new since last year? Is it an advantage to try to use the new beta-v7-clients or isn't these working correctly yet?

 

[Pokey]

is 6000 ppd normal for a 4 ghz 2600k on 1 P6099 unit ??

I have a P6099 going right now and HFM.NET is showing 25,247 PPD.