The 12th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race

[hiigaran]

I have watercooled GPUs, hence can do without earplugs if I keep GPU clocks down to reduce coil whine to tolerable levels. But I also don't have A/C, hence needed to wear earplugs during summer when I had to have windows open during night, letting all the town noise in.

It should be interesting to hear what it would sound like once the chillbox is up and running. Compressor and large fan should hopefully be much better!

 

[Ken g6]

nvm, I was confused.

 

[StefanR5R]

Dec 4, 19:01 UTC
                  starting points   current           produced       diff          source
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Brony@Home        11,959,660,900    12,071,495,813    111,834,913                  http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/teams
TeAm Anandtech    13,408,697,966    13,524,204,691    115,506,725    +3,671,812    http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/teams
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Brony@Home        11,959,660,900    12,068,336,831    108,675,931                  http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/team/212997
TeAm Anandtech    13,408,697,966    13,517,979,905    109,281,939      +606,008    http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/team/198

🙄

Stats gathering is a science in itself. Alfred Nobel shunned it though when he thought up his prizes.

 

[crashtech]

Wow, if F@H's own servers don't even agree, which source will be the final arbiter, if it turns out to be just that close?

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the stats for the fourth day of the 12th Folding@Home Holiday Season Race
Stats are as of December 4, 2017, 20:00 UTC (approx).
The inter-team race stats are from the Folding@Home stats page (http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/teams)
The intra-team race stats are from EOC.com (https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=198)

The inter-team race:

The intra-team race:

The intra-team race daily production:

The TeAm's daily production goes up nicely.
The Cancer Eradicators win this day too ....

The intra-team race individual daily production:

Well folded, TeAm-mates!

 

[Markfw]

BTW, the averages are all wrong, due to the outage. My production for example has been very close to 10.2 mill PPD for at least a week aside from the outage. But EOC F@H stats say my average is 16 million ppd. We need to let the averages "get real" and adjust before we readjust the teams IMO.

 

[petrusbroder]

BTW, the averages are all wrong, due to the outage. My production for example has been very close to 10.2 mill PPD for at least a week aside from the outage. But EOC F@H stats say my average is 16 million ppd. We need to let the averages "get real" and adjust before we readjust the teams IMO.

I agree. The adjustment of the teams is not going to happen before December 14.

 

[Markfw]

Hey guys, if we can increase our daily PPD a little, we can overtake Toms in 2017. Right now the ETA is Jan 2nd. And we passed a team in the last week, we are now number 20, and Toms is 18th.

 

[hiigaran]

Dec 4, 19:01 UTC
                  starting points   current           produced       diff          source
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Brony@Home        11,959,660,900    12,071,495,813    111,834,913                  http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/teams
TeAm Anandtech    13,408,697,966    13,524,204,691    115,506,725    +3,671,812    http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/teams
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Brony@Home        11,959,660,900    12,068,336,831    108,675,931                  http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/team/212997
TeAm Anandtech    13,408,697,966    13,517,979,905    109,281,939      +606,008    http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/team/198

🙄

Stats gathering is a science in itself. Alfred Nobel shunned it though when he thought up his prizes.

Probably half art, half science. I had to learn PHP, just so I could code the stat banners we use on our site. Let's just say that the first version's code wasn't exactly aesthetically pleasing. Could have been a modern art masterpiece!

 

[IEC]

Hey guys, if we can increase our daily PPD a little, we can overtake Toms in 2017. Right now the ETA is Jan 2nd. And we passed a team in the last week, we are now number 20, and Toms is 18th.

Okay, I turned on another mini-furnace. Cold front blowing in and here I am still running A/C in December. Thankfully I have a very energy efficient heat pump setup...

 

[ao_ika_red]

Gosh, my ppd is really in tatters. Power outage is quite often here after enduring some freak weather last week. This week is supposed to be sunny days but I hope I won't experience what Kiska has down there.

 

[Kiska]

This week is supposed to be sunny days but I hope I won't experience what Kiska has down there.

And hopefully you won't have to experience "under frequency load shedding" ever

We had our most producing coal power station trip and so UFLS had to shed 1200MW in less than 15 secs, luckily I had a UPS in line with my system. btw frequency dropped to 47.5 Hz, if frequency dropped to 47 or lower NSW would have had a black system

 

[Pokey]

Well, it is getting a little crowded in here.................. I am used to looking at Mark's backside, now I have to look at Tony's too. 😱
I would give you a thumbsup but I can't seem to find one.......... so will do.

Now that the stats hicup is behind us the averages should be getting back to normal.

 

[ao_ika_red]

And hopefully you won't have to experience "under frequency load shedding" ever

We had our most producing coal power station trip and so UFLS had to shed 1200MW in less than 15 secs, luckily I had a UPS in line with my system. btw frequency dropped to 47.5 Hz, if frequency dropped to 47 or lower NSW would have had a black system

I used to experience it back in my hometown in Sumatra because we heavily relied on cold war era hydropower, but that's not the case now in Java island. If it's not because of force majeure, we won't have any major blackout. I hope your local weather will be improved in coming days so you'll have better ppd to fight the ponies. 😉

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the stats for the fifth day of the 12th Folding@Home Holiday Season Race
Stats are as of December 5, 2017, 19:15 UTC (approx).
The inter-team race stats are from the Folding@Home stats page (http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/teams)
The intra-team race stats are from EOC.com (https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=198)

The inter-team race:

The intra-team race:

The intra-team race daily production:

The intra-team race individual daily production:

Lets move on, nothing to see ... The eradicators still in the lead ...
Almost 127M points produced in the races as of now. This will be a new record year!

 

[crashtech]

I might have gone into hock a bit prematurely...

 

[Markfw]

I turned all my F@H CPUs back to WCG yesterday. 70k ppd more

 

[TennesseeTony]

Thanks so much, petrus! Don't rebalance the teams on the 14th, Mark has secret weapons incoming! 😀

So far, my move to Linux, has increased my estimated ppd of 5.5M to 6M ppd (soon 6.15M). Not bad! Now that the hassle is several days behind me, I can say, "Well worth the hassle!" (but I sure didn't feel that way a short time ago. 😀 )

I am STILL waiting on my Priority Mail package due last Friday, with ThunderStrike's new motherboard. When ThunderStrike version 2 is up and running, he will receive one of the 1080s currently located in Mjolnir, a Windows system.

So I expect the points lost from the move from one system to another will be made up in short order, once that 1080 begins producing an extra 150k ppd per day (bringing the total up to 6.15M ppd, making the hassle even more worth it, moving to Linux).

 

[crashtech]

Wow, I need to man up and move to Linux. I'm afraid of losing production while it gets sussed out though.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm afraid to bring up my 4th ATX box here, as with all four running, I've thrown a breaker, twice so far I think. Which, if you think about it, is kind of wierd, since I'm only cranking on one GPU per box. (One of the boxes has a second GPU, but is sitting idle, because the fan on it makes noise.)

Last year, I had all four, or possibly five, ATX boxes cranking, with multiple GPUs per box. And I didn't throw any breakers. Hmm.

 

[crashtech]

If the breaker has tripped numerous times, it can develop internal resistance due to repeated arcing that will generate a bit of heat, causing it to trip slightly farther below its rated value the more times it trips. Replacement breakers are usually pretty cheap.

 

[brownstone]

Thanks so much, petrus! Don't rebalance the teams on the 14th, Mark has secret weapons incoming! 😀

So far, my move to Linux, has increased my estimated ppd of 5.5M to 6M ppd (soon 6.15M). Not bad! Now that the hassle is several days behind me, I can say, "Well worth the hassle!" (but I sure didn't feel that way a short time ago. 😀 )

I am STILL waiting on my Priority Mail package due last Friday, with ThunderStrike's new motherboard. When ThunderStrike version 2 is up and running, he will receive one of the 1080s currently located in Mjolnir, a Windows system.

So I expect the points lost from the move from one system to another will be made up in short order, once that 1080 begins producing an extra 150k ppd per day (bringing the total up to 6.15M ppd, making the hassle even more worth it, moving to Linux).

Which flavor of Linux did you end up going with? I may give this a shot...if not for higher points, then just for a good headache. 🙂

 

[TennesseeTony]

Mint 18.3

 

[brownstone]

Mint 18.3

Dang! I need to get out more. Stretch my legs in the rest of the DC forum now and again. Thanks!

 

[Pokey]

Which flavor of Linux did you end up going with? I may give this a shot...if not for higher points, then just for a good headache. 🙂

I used Mint 18.3 also. And Lubuntu............
For some reason my rigs were finicky and I couldn't figure out why. I think it may be USB related because my oldest and hardest to work with rig accepted a DVD installation when it wouldn't a USB drive. In fact it consistently froze up when trying to boot with live USB. Anyway I like the boost in points.