Page 4 - Folding Milestones

you will both get pwnd by me.... someday

Yea? Well your not going to get pwnd by me
(bows head in shame)

me neither (but im still working on Folding@College ).

we do what we can panda. no one can ask more of us.

I got 1 system folding for me, on two weeknights! A nice P4, 2.8Ghz system will fold for me 8 hours on these nights

Whatever...every great journey begins with a small step!!

fear the dual proc pyro. My rig is going up later today. HAHAHAH

EVERYTHING is here today. I love NewEgg. Got here in three days on FedEx Saver shipping.

Starting to install stuff now...

Bad news guys.

Im going have to back off of my folding for a while because my processor is at near the limit temp wise. Its probaly my heatsink is to cluttered up with dust and dirt easly fixable.

Folding for some 18 hours straight at 2.41GHz and 220MHz at 2.5-3-3-6, and this thing has already torn through a WU that would've taken my old rig days. Time to overclock a little more... Not sure why, but at 2.5-ish GHz I was getting SuperPi roudoff errors at 1M digits. I'm kind of thinking RAM, HSF on the CPU was nice and cool.


Old box is now in the other room, running F@H off of a USB thumbdrive.

Sounds sweet. One thing though, if it felt too cool, then it might not be making good contact with the CPU.

I keep getting 50 point WU through which sucks They take the same kind of time as the 150 pointers.

Un-Folding related, I am nearing a black belt, and I am 9 rep points off another greenie

FOLD to CURE!

Ps. I want to see some benchies of thet new proc, what time you getting in pi?

Well I lied...My rig is going up today the PSU I had just wouldn't cut it. The MSI board I have recommends 600+ watts. so I got this bad boy which comes in today. Silverstone
Take a guess what Ill be up to later this afternoon.

FOLDING TO CURE

later this day...

FUXXIN PSU this mobo NEEDS a 8pin and 4pin connector WHAT PSU does that. well I ended up getting a 4 pin molex to 4 pin to +12v 4pin connector to get this bitch running and now I need to wait till monday to get this connector. 8 days without my main rig BLOWS.............. PSU

Nice PSU mate

milestone: I finally beat jesus.is.my.hero - WHO IS THAT?!

It is not turning in a big WU or scoring some great points or so, yet for me it is a milestone, coz I didn't know this could be done!!



I am running 2 F@H Consoles on single system. It is no hyper threading or anything...but one is running off my USB stick and another from HD!!

I faintly remembered reading somewhere about creating different F@H directories and running consoles thru them. However, let me tell ya..both are using 50-50 of the resources..so I didn't tame no tiger. But it is always good to know or rather to do it yourself!


<EDIT: Is there any damn way to avoid Gromacs?! After losing several WUs before finishing, I am kind of paran0id about them.>

It's making fairly decent contact.. though I'm still empted to go scrape off that thermal pad, lap the heatsink and apply some AS5...

That's for another day though. I'm still fighting with it right now; I'm posting this on my old box. I was playing with overclocking before I could get on the internet to activate Windows, Windows doesn't like my external 56K modem, and of course I hit point where I had t reset CMOS to clear settings to boot again... that screwed with the system clock, meaning suddenly in 5 hours my 30-day grace period for activation had expired, meaning another reinstall of Windows...

That, and one of my PCI wireless adapters is DoA, as soon as drivers install the system bluescreens. Got that sorted out, but to make sure it was clean I did another good reformat, which meant installing chipset drivers, onboard audio drivers, graphics drivers, and the networking drivers again. Second card works just fine, but the guy who acme yesterday to get cable set up (I was out of the house at the time) doesn't know what he's doing, methinks. He "ran" some wire - meaning he stranded it from cieling joist to joist in the basement without properly fixing it on and letting it hang down in between joists. My dad has spent so much time down there prior to this getting everything cleaned up, it used to be a rat's nest of cables strung like that (for some reason the previous owner had just installed a new circuit box and attached it to the old one??). But then he just plugs the cable modem in, lights flash, and he doesn't know what to do and leaves. Well, I think he didn't take the MAC address of the modem, so now whenever the modem is turned on it finds up and down streams just find, but it tries to register with the head-end router of the ISP and fails. I think this is because the ISP is refusing a conection; the MAC address isn't listed as hardware that is set up for internet, so they refuse connections with it. He's probably used to the higher-ups having that already set up, as I'm sure most people rent modems (at $5 a month!! After 7 months on this one, we'll be saving money). So, got on the phone with customer support today, the guy we talked to seemed to know what he was talking about and sounded a little annoyed that the technician left before knowing things worked, and though he put out a high priority service call, it may not get fixed till Monday when someone comes back over here.

In the mean time, no cable... but the new rig is still up and folding in the other room.


Benches? Haven't played too much (a little cautious about overclocking and voltage with the stock HSF and the multiple Windows installs taking a while). Tried some super pi on some obscure version I have on a CD fom somewhere, it's not the standard, but it was doing 36s on 1M at IIRC stock. Pushing the proc above 2.5GHz I'd get some round off errors, gonna have to look into that later. Also, RAM won't do 2-3-3-6 above about DDR420. Not a big deal, it's only rated to 2.5-3-3-6. I was gong to get 2-3-3-6 but the slightly tighter timings weren't worth the extra ~$15, especially as I was guessing it may do 2-3-3-6 anyway.




It's possible, but why?

Each copy is going to be running probably at about half speed of what it would do anyway?

LOL, you even used the thermal pad? If you can't be bothered to lap it at least remove the thermal pad and slap on the good ole' AS5.

I am so pleased I got a DFI. It means if I need to reset CMOS, I can just go to one of my saved options, so not everything is lost. You can have about 10 different settings saved, or something silly like that.

Sorry to here about the cable, I am sure it will be sorted in no time...

About running two versions, this is what they say:

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Folks, for many the HT (HyperThreading) issue is one that they just don't understand. While Stanford allows you to run more than one instance of the Folding@Home client on your computer, you are not really helping them if the number of clients you are running is not equal to the number of REAL CPU's you actually have. While running two instances of the F@H client will return two work units more quickly than doing one at a time, that is not what is important. Returning one work unit 70% faster and starting the next generation of tests on the work unit, is what Stanford wants. Speed in working through each protein generation is very, very important. Sometimes quality is better than quantity. Quality in this case is work being returned more quickly. While it is well known that an HT CPU can run 2 work units because the OS treats it like two CPU's, and you can gain a possible 15-30 percent increase in points for that computer, it also means that each work unit is returned more slowly. In simple terms, if the project has 300 generations needed to test a theory on a protein model, and running two instances at once delays the return of work for 1 day each time, you end up with a 300 day delay. That translates to about a 10 month delay in examining your data for the final result. The bottom line is simply this: Run 1 instance for each CPU you have. An HT CPU is not two CPU's, it is one. Let's work to advance the science and spend a little less time worrying about the number of points you get.

This is a direct quote from Dr. Vijay Pande:
1) If you care primarily about points, running 2 procs on HT is still the best bet. We are grateful for all contributions and if people choose to run 2 procs on HT, our approach is that all contributions are welcome.

2) If you care about the science foremost and are interested in our recommendations, then do not run 2 procs on HT, but please just run one process. That won't be best for points, but is best for the science.

3) If your machine cannot make the deadlines, then one should run the timeless WUs.