The 3rd Folding@Home Holiday Season Race in December 2008

[Assimilator1]

Woohoo we've taken the lead! ......for now

Go folders!

FMC
__ 61 558 ________ Chocobo_Navy - TAS
__ 60 032 ________ [TA]Assimilator1 - The Folders

Aww man that's just so close! ,lol ,hmm maybe I should get my S754 Sempron folding too?.........

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Woohoo we've taken the lead! ......for now

Go folders!

FMC
__ 61 558 ________ Chocobo_Navy - TAS
__ 60 032 ________ [TA]Assimilator1 - The Folders

Aww man that's just so close! ,lol ,hmm maybe I should get my S754 Sempron folding too?.........

Awwww. I'm so getting some machines in the back online on Sunday.

 

[GLeeM]

Thanks for the stats, Peter

__ 64 121 ________ Hurricane_Andrew - TAS
__ 61 558 ________ Chocobo_Navy - TAS
__ 60 032 ________ [TA]Assimilator1 - The Folders
__ 55 589 ________ GLeeM - TAS

The four of us aren't too far apart.
I will have a bunch of results to send in on Sunday from remote sneakernet machines, hopefully!

 

[Drsignguy]

Thanks Peter for the stats!

Great to see that the folders has won a couple of days. But all in all, everyone is a winner in this race!
Go Folders!

And VirtualLarry, We here in Mn. are gearing up for more snow on top of the snow we have been getting for the last 3 weeks or so. Seems all I have been doing is plowing my driveway.....:disgust:



Great Job Folders and TAS team!

 

[biodoc]

Gosh this is a close race!!!:shocked:

I just updated my spreadsheet:

2975466____Folders
2951902____TAS

Folders in the lead by 23,564 points!!!

Looks like TAS may have gained 10,000 points!

Nice job on balancing the TeAms Peter......this is very close!

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: biodoc
Gosh this is a close race!!!:shocked:

I just updated my spreadsheet:

2975466____Folders
2951902____TAS

Folders in the lead by 23,564 points!!!

Looks like TAS may have gained 10,000 points!

Nice job on balancing the TeAms Peter......this is very close!

Wow, really close! :shocked:

Yes, great job Peter! :thumbsup::beer:

 

[Assimilator1]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Woohoo we've taken the lead! ......for now

Go folders!

FMC
__ 61 558 ________ Chocobo_Navy - TAS
__ 60 032 ________ [TA]Assimilator1 - The Folders

Aww man that's just so close! ,lol ,hmm maybe I should get my S754 Sempron folding too?.........

Awwww. I'm so getting some machines in the back online on Sunday.

Then I'd better get my new HD 4830 crunching this afternoon after I've installed it!

Gleem
Lol, what are your remote rigs?

Sid
On the stick?

 

[biodoc]

I'm moving my quad cpus over to WCG for the race against |H|OCP.

My GPUs will still be crunching F@H so my ppd will decrease to 14-15 K per day.

Peter, any chance you can re-balance the teams?

Sorry TAS teamates but I guess I'd rather lose to Anandtech teamates than |H|OCP.

 

[petrusbroder]

Well, biodoc, the teams are frozen. So rebalancing will only be done if and only if a majority of both teams agree on that.
Somebody else would have to put up some kind of poll and administer it - and how to know that only the racers vote, I do not know ...

Better let it be.
The fun is more important to most than the race.
The fact that science benefits a lot is also very important.
The WCG-project is important too.

IMHO, no matter how we do things, we all win. Some may be more disappointed (the less producing team in F@H) others do it for the fun.

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: biodoc
I'm moving my quad cpus over to WCG for the race against |H|OCP.

My GPUs will still be crunching F@H so my ppd will decrease to 14-15 K per day.

Peter, any chance you can re-balance the teams?

Sorry TAS teamates but I guess I'd rather lose to Anandtech teamates than |H|OCP.

Hmmmm the exodus begins early this year.........



Just kidding. Give'm a good thumpin' biodoc! :beer: :beer:

We'll keep the candles burning here. :thumbsup:

-Sid

 

[Assimilator1]

Damn GPU client!, I've just installed it & got it running & it trashed both my SMP WUs! Grrrrr :|
I think it may of partly been cos its mach ID was 2, same as my second SMP, but why did it trash both WUs??.
I've stopped 1 SMP client anyway, but the other one's had to start from scratch after it lost its 68% completed WU .

 

[Insidious]

:laugh: Sounds more like a chair:keyboard interface issue to me :laugh:

But seriously, when you are running two SMP clients at once, they do interract with each other.

Other issues you can see with dual SMP operation is that you cannot shut down the window using Cntrl^C or the X in the corner. As it is shutting down it will trash the other one most times. => To stop folding dual SMPs, do a normal windows shutdown with them running. This way, you will (almost) never loose one.

You already learned about the machine ID issue. Yes, they really do have to be set to different IDs like the instructions say.

Hang in there big guy. You'll have that puppy smokin' in no time.

:beer:

-Sid

 

[biodoc]

I'm BACK!:laugh:

7500 ppd total is not good enough for my quads.

16500 ppd on FAH sounds good to me!

PLUS, feeling really guilty for leaving my TeAmmates is not a good thing for the holiday season.

My internet connection is out a lot today (big snow storm with more to come tomorrow), so my produciton could be down a bit and I may not be able to post as much laugh which is good for you guys!

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: biodoc
I'm BACK!:laugh:

7500 ppd total is not good enough for my quads.

16500 ppd on FAH sounds good to me!

PLUS, feeling really guilty for leaving my TeAmmates is not a good thing for the holiday season.

My internet connection is out a lot today (big snow storm with more to come tomorrow), so my produciton could be down a bit and I may not be able to post as much laugh which is good for you guys!

If it was my post that caused any feeling of regret, please accept my sincere apology for that. I really was just playing around.

I want you (and anyone else who's listening) to know I am privledged to be on this TeAm and whether you crunch for this race or another, you are tops in my book.

But of course :music: :music: :beer: :music: :music: I'm really whistlin' about your decision.

-Sid

 

[Assimilator1]

to Sid
:laugh:

I thought that the GPU client would give me a chance to setup the machine ID on setup, it didn't , then it trashed my 2 SMP WUs. Doh!

On another issue it looks like running F@H on my GPU is going to be a waste of time , FaHmon is showing ~2000 ppd for the GPU & ~1935 ppd for the remaining SMP client.
If it stays like that then it means I'm gaining 0 ppd with an extra 60w power draw!!
With 2 SMPs I was getting ~3400-4200 ppd.

Btw my new grx card is a Radeon HD 4830 which is about 20% slower than an HD 4850.

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Insidious
If it was my post that caused any feeling of regret, please accept my sincere apology for that. I really was just playing around.

-Sid

Not an issue at all Sid!
A round of :beer:s for everyone!

It was a bad decision on my part. I had forgotten that the teams were frozen so by moving my quad cores to another race would have completely borked our chances in this race.

As of 5AM EST:

3145918____Folders
3108470____TAS

Folders in the lead by 37448 points!

Looks like we lost a bit of ground because of my "short vacation".

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: Insidious
If it was my post that caused any feeling of regret, please accept my sincere apology for that. I really was just playing around.

-Sid

Not an issue at all Sid!
A round of :beer:s for everyone!

It was a bad decision on my part. I had forgotten that the teams were frozen so by moving my quad cores to another race would have completely borked our chances in this race.

As of 5AM EST:

3145918____Folders
3108470____TAS

Folders in the lead by 37448 points!

Looks like we lost a bit of ground because of my "short vacation".

Great decision biodoc! Nice to have you back..........:beer:<-----64oz

 

[Insidious]

I'll be checking my clocks and fans today

There's GOT to be a couple more PPD in here..... somewhere.

:music: :music: :beer: :music: :music:

-Sid

 

[Markfw]

well something sure happened to my boxes. One SMP hung, one machine, the ethernet card hung for some reason(2 gpu and an smp), and one machine shut down altogether (very odd, 2 gpu and one smp).

So I have no idea how many thousands of points I lost overnight.

 

[Assimilator1]

Looks like I got my maths slightly wrong earlier, extra power drawing for running F@H on the GPU is just under 40w & some GPU WUs give me ~2500ppd, so I will run it on that for the race just I can try & catch that pesky FMC!.
However for any longer term running I don't think it's worth the extra cost.

 

[biodoc]

5 PM EST update:

Folders are ahead by 42,632 points!!

:beer:

 

[Insidious]

Those pesky Folders :evil:

I've been playing with clocks all day and have managed to get my PPD up to very nearly what it was before I sold the Opty PC. (I had to. It was my son's and he needs the $$ and will have little need for a desktop PC in the middle of the Indian Ocean)

C'mon TAS folks........ warm those cold rooms up! :thumbsup:

-Sid

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
well something sure happened to my boxes. One SMP hung, one machine, the ethernet card hung for some reason(2 gpu and an smp), and one machine shut down altogether (very odd, 2 gpu and one smp).

So I have no idea how many thousands of points I lost overnight.

That almost sounds like power fluctuations to your house getting all of the comps as it did.

-Sid

 

[petrusbroder]

The teams' stats as of December 21, 20:40 UTC:

The Folders
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Dec.21 ________ Dec. 21 ________ in Dec. _____ past 2 days ______________
_____ 0 _____ _ 134 846 ______ 3 436 _______ _ 200 696 _______ 65 850 _________ 5 818 _______ [TA]Assimilator1
__1 175 ____ __ 333 011 ______ 1 337 _______ _ 343 543 _______ 10 532 _________ 1 560 _______ Alyyx
__4 271 _____ 1 902 475 ______ 5 784 _______ 2 029 104 ______ 126 629 ________ 12 322 _______ Cutthroat
___ 824 _____ __ 13 343 ______ 1 238 _______ __ 29 940 _______ 16 597 _________ 1 562 _______ dmo = DLiRium
__5 870 ____ __ 836 014 _____ 18 325 _______ 1 136 138 ______ 300 124 ________ 34 918 _______ Drsignguy
__5 907 _____ 1 159 774 ______ 5 393 _______ 1 281 584 ______ 121 810 _________ 6 880 _______ Foxery
_65 769 ____ 15 196 034 _____ 69 425 ______ 16 450 681 ____ 1 254 647 _______ 141 628 _______ Gravity
_14 646 _____ 2 137 843 _____ 15 089 _______ 2 432 918 ______ 295 075 ________ 29 584 _______ jonesthewine
__3 855 ____ __ 701 617 ______ 3 476 _______ _ 787 760 _______ 86 143 _________ 3 682 _______ m1ldslide1
_17 671 _____ 1 953 799 _____ 18 738 _______ 2 332 180 ______ 378 381 ________ 37 833 _______ MaskedAvenger = mike9o
_____ 0 ____ __ 629 388 _____ __ 129 _______ _ 635 775 ________ 6 387 _________ ___ 0 _______ paulnt04 = PCTC2
__5 382 _____ 1 730 509 _____ 16 513 _______ 2 024 605 ______ 294 096 ________ 33 744 _______ Pokey_TA
___ 239 _____ __ 13 862 _____ __ 592 _______ __ 24 548 _______ 10 686 _________ 1 754 _______ TA_andy
___ 957 _____ __ 12 657 ______ 2 231 _______ __ 47 046 _______ 34 389 _________ 4 228 _______ theAnimal
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 _____ ____ 0 _______ ___ 7 479 ________ 7 479 _________ ___ 0 _______ winr
__5 510 _____ __ 34 764 ______ 8 974 _______ _ 238 626 ______ 203 862 ________ 15 828 _______ VirtualLarry
132 076 ____ 26 789 936 ____ 170 680 ______ 30 002 623 __ __ 3 212 687 _______ 331 341 _______ Sum for the Folders


TaAm AnandTech Sentinels (TAS)
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Dec.21 ________ Dec. 21 ________ in Dec. _____ past 2 days ______________
___ 274 _____ __ 33 556 _____ __ 575 _______ __ 53 163 _______ 19 607 _________ ___ 0 _______ Baldurs_Gate
_13 522 _____ 1 531 760 _____ 26 967 _______ 2 078 416 ______ 546 656 ________ 60 953 _______ biodoc
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 ______ 2 543 _______ __ 65 093 _______ 65 093 _________ 3 535 _______ Chocobo_Navy
__2 856 _____ 2 562 004 ______ 1 745 _______ 2 622 075 _______ 60 071 _________ 4 482 _______ GLeeM
__3 874 _____ 2 480 959 ______ 3 491 _______ 2 553 760 _______ 72 801 _________ 8 680 _______ Hurricane Andrew
_28 657 _____ 6 099 931 _____ 26 145 _______ 6 682 865 ______ 582 934 ________ 54 624 _______ Insidious
_10 971 _____ 2 018 284 _____ 14 435 _______ 2 291 413 ______ 273 129 ________ 27 898 _______ Lightstar
_52 968 ____ 12 408 074 _____ 63 868 ______ 13 629 220 __ __ 1 221 146 _______ 140 035 _______ Markfw900
__3 566 ____ __ 943 946 ______ 4 345 _______ 1 029 261 _______ 85 315 _________ 9 524 _______ Neurodog
_____ 0 ____ ___ 25 758 ______ 1 577 _______ __ 57 598 _______ 31 840 _________ 5 440 _______ rabrittain
___ 949 ____ __ 446 828 ______ 1 786 _______ _ 480 778 _______ 33 950 _________ 3 557 _______ TAS-petrusbroder
__1 728 ____ __ 482 339 ______ 1 815 _______ _ 518 850 _______ 36 511 _________ 5 184 _______ Tom_Philippart
__6 773 _____ 2 082 441 ______ 7 911 _______ 2 240 917 ______ 158 476 ________ 15 100 _______ TurtleBlue
126 138 ____ 31 115 880 ____ 157 203 ______ 34 303 409 __ __ 3 187 529 _______ 339 012 _______ Sum for TAS



Difference between the Racing teams:
Day 1 ____ ______ 62 029 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 2 ____ ______ 10 423 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 3 ____ ______ 46 068 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 4 ____ ______ 23 849 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 5+6 ________ 42 885 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 7+8 ________ 65 377 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 9+10 _______ 17 732 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 11 ___ ______ 51 673 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 12+13 ______ 10 353 points ________ TAS wins the 2 days! Lightstar was moved to The Folders team
Day 14+15 ______ 10 568 points ________ TAS wins the 2 days! Lightstar was moved back to TAS team, Foxery and MaskedAvenger joined The Folders
Day 16-18 __ ____-77 471 points ________ The Folders win the 3 days!
Day 19-20 __ _____ 7 671 points ________ TAS wins the 2 days!
Difference: ______ 25 158 points ________ The Folders in the lead.

In the past 2 days the two teams produced 670 353 points! Well done!
In December, the two teams produced 6 400 216 points!

 

[biodoc]

Thanks for the stats Peter!

I have the exact same numbers for TAS but many of the Folders numbers are lower than mine.

Maybe one of us got caught in an update? Anyway, it's a pretty tight race considering both teams have crunched more than 6 million points!!!:beer::thumbsup: