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

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Hey Markfw900, that is a lot of PPD !!


X2 6000+
Deino... Folder 1 0%
Deino.....Folder 2 396.4

They are both finishing work it loks like ???

Should I be running Folding@home-Win32-x86 on this box ??
***************************************************************


I am running Folding@home-Win32-x86 on the 2 below
...............................
X2 5200+

Folding@home-Win32-x86 Folder 1 147.42

Folding@home-Win32-x86 Folder 2 150.47



X2 5200+

Folding@home-Win32-x86 Folder 1 142.72

Folding@home-Win32-x86 Folder 2 143.10





🙂
 
Originally posted by: rabrittain
Thanks for the stats, Peter!!

I tried a repair install once. It didn't work. I don't think any of them work. I mean, if you do updates, and then have a problem, and then use the original disk to repair the OS -- How could that work?

I've done several repairs, and all worked. You need to reapply the updates afterwards.
 
Originally posted by: winr
Hey Markfw900, that is a lot of PPD !!


X2 6000+
Deino... Folder 1 0%
Deino.....Folder 2 396.4
They are both finishing work it loks like ???

Should I be running Folding@home-Win32-x86 on this box ??
***************************************************************


I am running Folding@home-Win32-x86 on the 2 below
...............................
X2 5200+

Folding@home-Win32-x86 Folder 1 147.42

Folding@home-Win32-x86 Folder 2 150.47


X2 5200+

Folding@home-Win32-x86 Folder 1 142.72

Folding@home-Win32-x86 Folder 2 143.10





🙂


Winr, if the bolded numbers are your PPD, then you are not running the -smp flag.

You should be getting way more points than that.

Something like this:

Right click properties to your client and enter (space -configonly) ("space" "is" spacebar)😉
( -configonly flag enabled to make configureations to your client )


Open the program from your desktop or quick launch and do the following.
User Name: ( thats you )
Team Number: 198
use Proxy: no
Acceptable size: big
Change advanced options: YES
Core Priority: Idle
CPU usage: 100
Disable Highly....: no
Interval in Mins: 15
Memory : Whatever you have
Set -advmethods flag alwasy: no....this will be added later
Ignore any deadline: no
machine ID: 1 (change to 2 if running 2 smp clients)
The Following Options.......no
Disable Cpu affinity: no
Additional client parimeters: ( this is important) -smp -verbosity 9 -advmethods You must have -smp added as a flag or it will NOT be SMP client. ip address: just hit enter.

Then remove the -configonly flag once completed.

You should see a major differance with your points and your clients.. They should be running "SMP Gromacs" and not "Amber" clients.


 
-advmethods
Instructs the client to request work units from new late-stage beta test projects, before they are broadly released to the folding community. Please post any observations (positive or negative), questions, or issues at the Folding forum. Supported in client versions v3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x.


What's the advantage of getting these WUs?
 
The -advmethods flag isn't as relevant today as it once was. In the case of the GPU and SMP clients it doesn't make any difference if you use it or not. (I leave it in there iin case some day it does)

It's purpose was to allow users to ride on the bleediing edge. Kind of a post-beta, pre-release test for new work projects.

A lot of times, the newer WUs had better PPD, but others it did not. 'word' always circulated if the -advmethods flag was a plus or a minus at given points in time and users could adjust it their clients if they wished.

but again, for the most part, the benefits of using the -advmethods flag are pretty much extinct.

-Sid
 
the -verbosity flag determines how much of the information that can be put into the fahlog.txt file actually lands there.

When you set it as -verbosity 9, that will let you see all the feedback that the client can provide. The hope is that if you have some kind of error, you will have clues to it's origin in your fahlog.txt file and if you report the error to Stanford and include that info with your report, you will stand a better chance of them having a recommendation of something you can try changing, or even better it might give them a clue how to improve their clients/work units to avoid future issues.

-Sid

:music: :music: :beer: :music: :music:
 
The teams' stats as of December 11, 20:30 UTC:

The Folders
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Dec.11 ________ Dec. 11 ________ in Dec. ______ past 2 days ____________

_____ 0 _____ _ 134 846 ______ 3 332 _______ _ 165 527 _______ 30 681 _________ 5 760 _______ [TA]Assimilator1
__4 271 _____ 1 902 475 ______ 6 513 _______ 1 969 651 _______ 67 176 ________ 12 132 _______ Cutthroat
__5 870 ____ __ 836 014 _____ 12 004 _______ _ 959 896 ______ 123 882 ________ 23 436 _______ Drsignguy
_65 769 ____ 15 196 034 _____ 58 055 ______ 15 839 022 ______ 642 988 _______ 126 741 _______ Gravity
_14 646 _____ 2 137 843 _____ 13 300 _______ 2 289 540 ______ 151 697 ________ 27 115 _______ jonesthewine
__3 855 ____ __ 701 617 ______ 4 314 _______ _ 749 334 _______ 47 717 _________ 8 444 _______ m1ldslide1
_____ 0 ____ __ 629 388 _____ __ 784 _______ _ 634 870 ________ 5 482 ________ ____ 0 _______ paulnt04 = PCTC2*
__5 382 _____ 1 730 509 _____ 15 022 _______ 1 861 982 ______ 131 473 ________ 29 299 _______ Pokey_TA
___ 957 _____ __ 12 657 ______ 1 730 _______ __ 24 768 _______ 12 111 _________ 3 196 _______ theAnimal
___ 239 _____ __ 13 862 _____ __ 452 _______ __ 17 025 ________ 3 163 ________ __ 864 _______ TA_andy
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 _____ __ 330 _______ ___ 2 310 ________ 2 310 _________ 2 310 _______ winr
__5 510 _____ __ 34 764 _____ 11 589 _______ _ 153 851 ______ 119 087 ________ 16 063 _______ VirtualLarry
105 303 ____ 23 303 490 ____ 126 675 ______ 24 667 776 _____ 1 337 767 _______ 255 360 _______ Sum for the Folders


TaAm AnandTech Sentinels (TAS)
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Dec.11 ________ Dec. 11 ________ in Dec. ______ past 2 days _____________

___ 274 _____ __ 33 556 _____ __ 675 _______ __ 44 168 _______ 10 612 ________ __ 852 _______ Baldurs_Gate
_13 522 _____ 1 531 760 _____ 25 756 _______ 1 813 617 ______ 281 857 ________ 53 051 _______ biodoc
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 ______ 4 291 _______ __ 42 402 _______ 42 402 _________ 7 596 _______ Chocobo_Navy
__2 856 _____ 2 562 004 ______ 4 095 _______ 2 600 628 _______ 38 624 _________ 7 613 _______ GLeeM
__3 874 _____ 2 480 959 ______ 3 674 _______ 2 516 567 _______ 35 608 _________ 7 143 _______ Hurricane Andrew
_28 657 _____ 6 099 931 _____ 28 957 _______ 6 412 733 ______ 312 802 ________ 53 553 _______ Insidious
_10 971 _____ 2 018 284 _____ 11 618 _______ 2 151 915 ______ 133 631 ________ 21 269 _______ Lightstar
_52 968 ____ 12 408 074 _____ 55 436 ______ 12 988 904 ______ 580 830 ________ 94 875 _______ Markfw900*
__3 566 ____ __ 943 946 ______ 4 036 _______ _ 989 505 _______ 45 559 _________ 7 324 _______ Neurodog
_____ 0 ____ ___ 25 758 ______ 1 097 _______ __ 40 798 _______ 15 040 _________ 1 920 _______ rabrittain
___ 949 ____ __ 446 828 ______ 1 587 _______ _ 461 554 _______ 14 726 _________ 3 742 _______ TAS-petrusbroder
__6 773 _____ 2 082 441 ______ 7 520 _______ 2 161 421 _______ 78 980 ________ 13 770 _______ TurtleBlue
__1 728 ____ __ 482 339 ______ 1 486 _______ _ 497 798 _______ 15 459 ________ __ 384 _______ Tom_Philippart
126 138 ____ 31 115 880 ____ 150 228 ______ 32 722 010 ____ 1 606 130 _______ 273 092 _______ 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!
Difference: __ __ 268 363 points ________ TAS in the lead.

In the past 2 days the two teams produced 528 452 points! Well done!
In December, the two teams produced 2 943 897 points!


Individual production stats:
Production _______ Name - Team
_642 988 ________ Gravity - The Folders
_580 830 ________ Mark_F_Williams - TAS
_312 802 ________ Insidious - TAS
_281 857 ________ biodoc - TAS
_151 697 ________ jonesthewine - The Folders
_133 631 ________ Lightstar_dj - TAS
_131 473 ________ Pokey_TA - The Folders
_123 882 ________ Drsignguy - The Folders
_119 087 ________ VirtualLarry - The Folders
__78 980 ________ TurtleBlue - TAS
__67 176 ________ Cutthroat - The Folders
__47 717 ________ m1ldslide1 - The Folders
__45 559 ________ Neurodog - TAS
__42 402 ________ Chocobo_Navy - TAS
__38 624 ________ GLeeM - TAS
__35 608 ________ Hurricane_Andrew - TAS
__30 681 ________ [TA]Assimilator1 - The Folders
__15 459 ________ Tom_Philippart - TAS
__15 040 ________ rabrittain - TAS
__14 726 ________ TAS-petrusbroder - TAS
__12 111 ________ theAnimal - The Folders
__10 612 ________ Baldurs_Gate - TAS
___5 482 ________ PCTC2 - The Folders
___3 163 ________ TA_andy - The Folders
___2 310 ________ winr - The Folders

 
Thanks for the stats Peter!

It looks like the Folders aren't quite ready to roll over and die............. yet! :evil:

I've really enjoyed all the great company we've been having in our project for the last couple weeks!
Thanks and GREAT JOB to everyone who is participating! :beer:

-Sid
 
Great stats! If we've crunched over 500k in the past two days, that projects to around 10 million more points by the end of the race, and totals like 12-13 million points for the month! Great news for team 198 if I ever heard any... :beer: :beer: :beer:
 
Originally posted by: Insidious
Thanks for the stats Peter!

It looks like the Folders aren't quite ready to roll over and die............. yet! :evil:

I've really enjoyed all the great company we've been having in our project for the last couple weeks!
Thanks and GREAT JOB to everyone who is participating! :beer:

-Sid

It's great to be back crunching with my F@H friends!:beer:🙂

Now if I can just figure out how to match Sid's ppd!:laugh:

I've got everything clocked to the max and I still can't do it! :evil:

Folders!! Recruit! Recruit! Recruit!

Has someone sent a PM to Foxery? I bet he would join the race!

Foxery, the folders need you!!!!

:beer::beer::beer:
 
Thanks for the stats Peter! :thumbsup:

Ok I had some issues but they are resolved and got things back up again, ( somewhat )

I had a small prob for about a days worth on my E7200 rig, but got it fixed. I got my Brand Spankin New GTX 260/216 today and I installed it. It is now running the 5014 client ( 480 ) points and it is putting out 6100 PPD on it alone on that client and over 6500+ on other clients. So it raised my PPD production ( for now ) to 18000+ PPD.

My 3870 card ( removed for the GTX 260 card ) will be installed tomorrow in one of my other rigs that are presently crunching at the moment.....It put out over 2000+ PPD itself.


EDIT: PPD
 
Its starting to look close now !

Thanks for the stats Peter !

My number should come back up, now that I have my box fixed. Of all things, its was a new bios that fixed it ! Now I have a Forton 700 $105 PSU sitting doing nothing. (maybe another box start ?)
 
Good to read these posts ... more people ramping up their production ...
Anybody know Alyx's name in FAH? When looking for "Alyx" I only found one match who crunched for the Oink-team ...
 
Hi Drsignguy


I thought I was supposed to have 2 installs and 2 folders and set one to "1" and the second folder to "2"

SO, do I just install one client and set machine ID to "2" as below ??

( machine ID: 1 (change to 2 if running 2 smp clients) )



EDIT:

One of my 5200+ is now at:

533 and 339 and doing "Double Gromacs C


I took Deino off and installed the win32 client on the 6000+, now it is:

595.64 Double Gromacs C
564.30 Double Gromacs C

TIA.



🙂
 
Originally posted by: winr
Hi Drsignguy


I thought I was supposed to have 2 installs and 2 folders and set one to "1" and the second folder to "2"

SO, do I just install one client and set machine ID to "2" as below ??

( machine ID: 1 (change to 2 if running 2 smp clients) )



EDIT:

One of my 5200+ is now at:

533 and 339 and doing "Double Gromacs C


I took Deino off and installed the win32 client on the 6000+, now it is:

595.64 Double Gromacs C
564.30 Double Gromacs C

TIA.



🙂

On a dual core you should run one SMP with machine ID = 1.

BTW, what GPUs do you have?
 
Originally posted by: Gravity
Snow/weather killed most of my systems. Hope to be back up tonight or Monday.

Gravity

Where is this bad weather ? I thought you were in Texas, and the snow is in the northeast that I see.
 
Originally posted by: winr
Hi Drsignguy


I thought I was supposed to have 2 installs and 2 folders and set one to "1" and the second folder to "2"
SO, do I just install one client and set machine ID to "2" as below ??

( machine ID: 1 (change to 2 if running 2 smp clients) )



EDIT:

One of my 5200+ is now at:

533 and 339 and doing "Double Gromacs C


I took Deino off and installed the win32 client on the 6000+, now it is:

595.64 Double Gromacs C
564.30 Double Gromacs C

TIA.



🙂

Yes, Install 2 clients in different folders. Set One to Machine ID 1 and the other to 2 if you are running 2 smp's. Just make sure, if you are going to run a Gpu to set the machine ID to 2 ( if running 1 smp) and it is also in a different folder.

The Gpu client, when installed is set to a default location in "c" AppData local, ??, You can create another folder of your choosing and move the default location to your new location if needed. I do this to make everything pertaining to F@H in one area. Im kind of OCD 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Insidious
Thanks for the stats Peter!

It looks like the Folders aren't quite ready to roll over and die............. yet! :evil:

I've really enjoyed all the great company we've been having in our project for the last couple weeks!
Thanks and GREAT JOB to everyone who is participating! :beer:

-Sid




I agree, Same goes with you Sid!🙂 It has been fun and it will continue!


 
The teams' stats as of December 12, 19:30 UTC:

The Folders
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Dec.12 ________ Dec. 12 ________ in Dec. ______ past day ______________

_____ 0 _____ _ 134 846 ______ 3 332 _______ _ 169 367 _______ 34 521 _________ 3 840 _______ [TA]Assimilator1
__4 271 _____ 1 902 475 ______ 6 475 _______ 1 975 815 _______ 73 340 _________ 6 164 _______ Cutthroat
__5 870 ____ __ 836 014 _____ 11 979 _______ _ 968 511 ______ 132 497 _________ 8 615 _______ Drsignguy
_65 769 ____ 15 196 034 _____ 56 471 ______ 15 879 492 ______ 683 458 ________ 40 470 _______ Gravity
_14 646 _____ 2 137 843 _____ 12 825 _______ 2 299 835 ______ 161 992 ________ 10 295 _______ jonesthewine
__3 855 ____ __ 701 617 ______ 4 637 _______ _ 755 236 _______ 53 619 _________ 5 902 _______ m1ldslide1
_____ 0 ____ __ 629 388 _____ __ 784 _______ _ 634 870 ________ 5 482 ________ ____ 0 _______ paulnt04 = PCTC2*
__5 382 _____ 1 730 509 _____ 15 674 _______ 1 876 400 ______ 145 891 ________ 14 418 _______ Pokey_TA
___ 957 _____ __ 12 657 ______ 1 869 _______ __ 27 463 _______ 14 806 _________ 2 695 _______ theAnimal
___ 239 _____ __ 13 862 _____ __ 577 _______ __ 17 902 ________ 4 040 ________ __ 877 _______ TA_andy
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 _____ __ 523 _______ ___ 3 660 ________ 3 660 _________ 1 350 _______ winr
___ 824 _____ __ 13 343 _____ __ 824 _______ __ 15 752 ________ 2 409 _________ 2 409 _______ dmo = De LiRium
__5 510 _____ __ 34 764 _____ 10 378 _______ _ 158 936 ______ 124 172 _________ 5 085 _______ VirtualLarry
105 303 ____ 23 303 490 ____ 125 564 ______ 24 783 239 _____ 1 439 887 _______ 102 120 _______ Sum for the Folders


TaAm AnandTech Sentinels (TAS)
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Dec.12 ________ Dec. 12 ________ in Dec. ______ past day _______________

___ 274 _____ __ 33 556 _____ __ 904 _______ __ 46 706 _______ 13 150 _________ 2 538 _______ Baldurs_Gate
_13 522 _____ 1 531 760 _____ 24 919 _______ 1 834 987 ______ 303 227 ________ 21 370 _______ biodoc
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 ______ 4 215 _______ __ 45 976 _______ 45 976 _________ 3 574 _______ Chocobo_Navy
__2 856 _____ 2 562 004 ______ 4 436 _______ 2 603 942 _______ 41 938 _________ 3 314 _______ GLeeM
__3 874 _____ 2 480 959 ______ 3 603 _______ 2 520 623 _______ 39 664 _________ 4 056 _______ Hurricane Andrew
_28 657 _____ 6 099 931 _____ 28 737 _______ 6 441 778 ______ 341 847 ________ 29 045 _______ Insidious
_10 971 _____ 2 018 284 _____ 11 107 _______ 2 161 320 ______ 143 036 _________ 9 405 _______ Lightstar
_52 968 ____ 12 408 074 _____ 56 402 ______ 13 051 333 ______ 643 259 ________ 62 429 _______ Markfw900*
__3 566 ____ __ 943 946 ______ 3 762 _______ _ 992 958 _______ 49 012 _________ 3 453 _______ Neurodog
_____ 0 ____ ___ 25 758 ______ 1 371 _______ __ 42 718 _______ 16 960 _________ 1 920 _______ rabrittain
___ 949 ____ __ 446 828 ______ 1 796 _______ _ 464 253 _______ 17 425 _________ 2 699 _______ TAS-petrusbroder
__6 773 _____ 2 082 441 ______ 7 667 _______ 2 169 621 _______ 87 180 _________ 8 200 _______ TurtleBlue
__1 728 ____ __ 482 339 ______ 1 546 _______ _ 499 588 _______ 17 249 _________ 1 790 _______ Tom_Philippart
126 138 ____ 31 115 880 ____ 150 465 ______ 32 875 803 ____ 1 759 923 _______ 153 793 _______ Sum for TAS


In the past days the following folders were recruited:
The Folders: winr
The Folders: De LiRium = dmo
Welcome to the 3rd Folding@Home Holiday Season Race!


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!
Difference: __ ___ 320 036 points ________ TAS in the lead.

In the past day the two teams produced 255 913 points! Well done!
In December, the two teams produced 3 199 810 points!
 
Thanks for the stats Peter ! And I hit 13 million today !

_52 968 ____ 12 408 074 _____ 56 402 ______ 13 051 333 ______ 643 259 ________ 62 429 _______ Markfw900*
 
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