15th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race: Mark's Marauders win!

[StefanR5R]

PS, when I woke up this morning, I wondered why my apartment had comfortable temperatures, instead of being uncomfortably hot. (Except for the bedroom in which I don't have computers.) At first I thought that it must have been windy during the night. (I need to have windows open in the living room, despite outside temperatures below freezing point in the night now.) Then I saw that the Folding appliance in the kitchen hadn't done anything for the last few hours. And after that, I noticed that GPUGrid had been down the entire night, starting immediately when I went to bed.

The apartment was still kept warm by the boincing CPUs alone. I have the thermostats of the central heating turned down to the lowest setting, i.e. just antifreeze.

 

[VirtualLarry]

That's a nice heart(-warming) story.

I have a slightly different story to report. I was talking to a friend last night, about setting him up with some GPUs for mining, because he has expressed interest in BTC, and he heats with electric heat in his apt. What better way to heat an apt., than by mining, or doing DC (Folding)? Sadly, he just couldn't seem to get it through his noggin, that it would MAKE him money, to heat his place (given a certain initial investment). He kept insisting that this winter, he wanted his electric bill to be as low as possible, he was going to turn his heat OFF. (Which I don't think that the landlord would appreciate, pipes freezing and whatnot.) He couldn't understand, that the PC was consuming a certain amount of electricity, and that it would make 2-3x that in profit (in current market conditions, of course, which may not last). All while giving off that wattage as heat in his apt., either offsetting, or totally replacing the heat produced by his electric heaters. (Which, effectively, since he was going to spend it on electric heat this winter anyway, meant that his earnings from mining would effectively be all profit, not counting having to pay back the initial investment in equipment.)

 

[biodoc]

Today's Stats:

 

[biodoc]

December 5th Stats:

 

[crashtech]

Moonshot Gang needs to pick up the pace a bit!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Moonshot Gang needs to pick up the pace a bit!

Sorry guys, that's my fault. I moved my 2x GTX 1660 ti cards that were folding, back to mining for the next week. I have to pay someone back. I overspent, but I do have 2x RX 5700XT and 1x RX 5700 card coming in soon, as well as I flipped one of my cheap Walmart laptops for a slight profit.

 

[biodoc]

December 6th stats:

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for all the stats, biodoc!

 

[Markfw]

It sure couldn't be more even.

 

[TennesseeTony]

We are holding @Neurodog back, as a reserve, to counter any attack.

 

[TennesseeTony]

We are quickly approaching half the points we had last year, after only 6 days! (including non-racers for both years)

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for the stats biodoc
Very close output!

 

[Grumble_D]

Damn, I missed this. Are late joiners Accepted? I have a mere 2.5M PPD to add if you need any balancing..

 

[biodoc]

Damn, I missed this. Are late joiners Accepted? I have a mere 2.5M PPD to add if you need any balancing..

Sure I'll add you to Mark's Marauders. You'll be in tomorrow's stats.

 

[StefanR5R]

I was watching BOINC, when I really should be watching F@H. I had about four hours downtime of 2 of my 3 folding slots again just now.

Note to self: Implement a watchdog which follows the client log, and as soon as the pattern "Too many open files" appears, shuts down and restarts the client.

Or maybe I should upgrade the client. I am running 7.4.4 which is packaged by Mint. Current at foldingathome.org is 7.6.21.

 

[crashtech]

Anecdotally, all of my Mint clients are on 7.6.21, and I have not yet observed the behavior you document, although I'm not looking very hard, either.

 

[biodoc]

December 8th stats:

 

[IEC]

Looks like Mark needs some help... count me in for a handful of WUs per day.

 

[biodoc]

Looks like Mark needs some help... count me in for a handful of WUs per day.

Great! I'll add you to Mark's team and you'll be in tomorrow's stats.

 

[biodoc]

December 9th stats: I may have to make adjustments to the Teams.

 

[Endgame124]

Watch out - I added 10 cpu threads and a R250X!

 

[biodoc]

Oops, I forgot to update the "December 2020 Total Team Points". Tomorrow's stats will fix that.

 

[blckgrffn]

Hmmm.... no 1080ti this year, but let me see if I can't get something setup here.

 

[Endgame124]

For what it's worth, I considered setting up my raspberry pis for F@H for this contest.... but it appears that each pi gets about 3000 points per day. Its so low that I'd rather keep them on WCG or Rosetta - even 10 pis would generate fewer points than the integrated video on my ancient APU.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Heya @blckgrffn !!!! Welcome back!!!