F@H project 1134

[lmadern]

I'm running the above project on the rig in my signature and was curious if anyone else was on this project as well. My computer completes a group of steps every 31 minutes for this project. Is that normal, good, bad?

Just curious.

 

[ProviaFan]

Those are some of the new 600 point WUs, so they will take a while. Here's more information about points for different WUs and other stuff.

 

[natethegreat]

you are doing just fine. I am running project 1141 at 37:26 per step. I have been running it for a few days now.

 

[GLeeM]

If my math is right you should get 278 points per day. Very good!

If I had four going on my dual Xeon 1.6 @ 2.5, 1GB ram, computer. I would get ~520 ppd.

Edit: Remember that these are bonus WUs and you might not be able to get them all the time. They are worth about double the other WUs. They are bigger (longer to down/upload) and take up more ram (you need the client to report > 240 MB)

 

[lmadern]

Thanks for the info guys and glad to hear that my new setup is doing fine. I just got the sempron a little over a week ago and so far am very happy with it.

Hopefully I can help the team.

Also, what is the attraction to Seti? I picked Folding@Home because I thought it was a good cause, and Seti just doesn't seem like that.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: lmadern
Also, what is the attraction to Seti? I picked Folding@Home because I thought it was a good cause, and Seti just doesn't seem like that.

SETI does more than searching for aliens... I did SETI for a while to help the SETI team when they were challenged. I also have done RC5, ECCp-109 (the original one), UD, DPAD, and maybe another one or two that I'm forgetting at the moment. Though I sometimes make excursions to help our TeAm in other projects, I personally chose to "specialize" in F@H because I have (well, had - my grandmother passed away earlier this month ) relatives afflicted with Alzheimer's. Someone who has an interest in cancer research may appreciate UD better, and may participate in that project. Someone who wants to help with astronomy research may choose SETI. While I may not understand why they chose that, I understand that they have reasons for what they do, which I will not criticize. In general, we try to be a TeAm where a person may choose whichever project they like, and we respect that.

Please don't take offense at my post, I'm not upset at you or anything... just trying to clear this up so it doesn't become a flamefest. (note my excessive use of smileys )

Merry Christmas!

Edit: Oh yes, I forgot OGR... And that NEO project, which I did for a few days until the administrators showed themselves to be inconsiderate jack***es... And the SoB project (for one day), which is a fine project, but which was (is?) not compatible with dialup, which was all I had at the time.

 

[lmadern]

No offense taken. I didn't want to offend anyone either. I just was curious as to the attraction to Seti. Like you said I may even switch to UD as both my maternal grandparents died of Cancer.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

 

[Insidious]

1134 here is at 39:21 per frame..... yours sounds solid! :beer:

-Sid

 

[lmadern]

I just finished the 1134 and was then given 1140 which is another 600 point WU I won't mind if I keep getting these projects.

 

[natethegreat]

I just finished 1141 at 1:45 a.m. and it gave me 1140 as my next project also Race ya

 

[lmadern]

Ok Nate you're on

I'm 10% done right now with ~31 minutes per frame.

 

[natethegreat]

Why does everyone always pick on the slow kid:laugh: mines 11% done at 36:47 per step I hope to have a faster machine for the team in march

 

[lmadern]

But Nate you challenged me to a race:laugh: I wouldn't dream of picking on the slow guy.

 

[natethegreat]

Did you get any games for christmas? maybe you need to try them out on your main comp for like half a day or so Or you could just keep pileing on the points for our team:thumbsup: Good day to you!

 

[GLeeM]

lol, thanks for the laugh!

@lmadern & natethegreat

What a great addition you are to TeAm FAH and to TeAm Anandtech

 

[Malak]

Yeah my projects are always slowed down because of my gaming. Lucky me I work up to 10 hours a day and sleep another 8, so that's 18 hours of me not touching my computer...

 

[lmadern]

Thanks again Gleem for the nice welcome. I just ordered a new mb for my 3rd rig at home so I can set up F@H on it too. When I go to work tomorrow I will install it on my work computer (as I've already given myself administrator privileges on that machine) Since I don't do any cpu intensive things on that work computer and it's a HT 3.2 ghz P4 (gotta love the IT department at the State of SC), I should be able to do a fair bit of crunching on it.

Anyway it bears repeating, Happy Holidays to everyone.

 

[Insidious]

Ya know, the rules of good taste and nice nieghbors dictate that you stop, wave and have a :beer: when you go flying past me with those speedy crunchers.



-Sid

 

[lmadern]

:laugh: Insidious with your 96k+ points to my 600+ points I don't think you have much to worry about me catching you in the next year or 2, lol.

 

[GLeeM]

@lmadern
You will be surprised how fast points add up.

Also, please hear this:

Many people have been fired from their jobs for running DC projects on work computers without permission!

A few points are not worth losing a good job.

Thanks

 

[lmadern]

GleeM thanks for the concern but I'm a state worker and they can't fire me for installing freeware on my computer. At the very worst I'd get taken into my manager's office and get a verbal reprimand and be told to uninstall it. Not such a bad consequence for doing good with unused CPU cycles.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: lmadern
GleeM thanks for the concern but I'm a state worker and they can't fire me for installing freeware on my computer. At the very worst I'd get taken into my manager's office and get a verbal reprimand and be told to uninstall it. Not such a bad consequence for doing good with unused CPU cycles.

Be very careful... Dave McOwen worked for the state of Georgia, and was not only fired, but also faced a huge lawsuit and more prison time than if he had killed someone for running SETI on some of the computers under his control (and he had permission, evidently it wasn't in writing, IIRC). Please be careful, we don't want that to happen to you.

 

[lmadern]

Wow, I feel sorry for Dave McOwen. It's much more relaxed at my place of work and I'd never get fired for installing this software. We have a document which outlines what we can and cannot do to our work computers. Installing freeware that is not entertainment software is not against our rules. So thanks again for the concern and let the crunching begin.

 

[lmadern]

Ok Nate I finished 1140. Did you?

I also got 1134 again (600 pt WU) hoorrraay!

 

[GLeeM]

@lmadern and others who might not know:

There should be BigWUs available for a while, right now there are 52833!

To check: find your WU project number on the Currently Running Projects page. Remember the server number.

Now go to the Folding@Home server status page. Look in the WUs AVAIL column to see how many WUs there are.

Other interesting columns: Min PerfFrac - some projects need a fast turn around time, the higher the percentage the faster the turn around. The client keeps track of the last four WUs returned and how long you had them, and calculates your PF or Performance Fraction (average of the four).

Status and Connect columns - shows if the server is up and running - not so important now that there is a Collection Server (if your client can't connect to the correct server after 3 or 4 tries it sends results to the CS)

Program column:
F - is all FAH
A - you need -advmethods flag
B - still in beta testing
G - must be Google client
I - in house? (I don't know)