5th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race thread.

[petrusbroder]

The starting stats: December 1, 2010, 17:34 UTC

The Abominable Snowmen
_ ppd _______ points ____________ Name
Dec. 01 _____ Dec. 01
_50 697 ___ 4 952 439 ___________ biodoc
_10 282 _____ 161 854 ___________ filibusterman
_ 5 364 _____ 228 944 ___________ geecee
158 575 __ 77 478 014 ___________ Mark_F_Williams=Markfw900
____ 75 _______ 5 777 ___________ octavio=Tivo20
_16 124 ___ 1 616 520 ___________ paulnt04=PCTC2
_26 926 ___ 1 685 822 ___________ Peter Trend
___ 113 _______ 1 371 ___________ QuietDad
__6 237 _____ 184 002 ___________ Rattledagger
__1 498 _____ 720 764 ___________ salvorhardin
_____ 0 ______ 75 497 ___________ TA_andy
_30 830 ___ 3 798 053 ___________ TonyH
_ 3 639 ___ 2 434 842 ___________ Uppsala9496
310 360 __ 93 372 634 ___________ Total


The Yetis
_ ppd _______ points ____________ Name
Dec. 01 _____ Dec. 01
_ 8 470 __ 14 428 470 ___________ GLeeM
_ 3 757 ___ 1 998 203 ___________ jtmiller=SemperFi
___ 742 ______ 70 967 ___________ Ken_g6
_10 307 _____ 618 697 ___________ kb3edk
_21 263 ___ 1 665 088 ___________ Neurodog
100 893 __ 35 625 210 ___________ Pokey_TA
_13 946 ___ 7 640 223 ___________ RTThurman
__5 286 ___ 2 163 120 ___________ [TA]Assimilator1
_57 127 ___ 1 375 651 ___________ TAS-Petrusbroder
_23 985 __ 13 020 661 ___________ theAnimal
_ 6 678 ___ 2 408 323 ___________ Tom_Philippart
__2 225 _____ 710 674 ___________ wingding=brownstone
_17 354 ___ 1 809 281 ___________ VirtualLarry
_40 987 ___ 2 160 887 ___________ ZipSpeed
313 020 __ 85 695 455 ___________ Total

623 380 _ 179 068 089 ___________ Grand total for TeAm AnandTech

I have adjusted the teams slightly: RTThurman has been moved to the Yetis and QuietDad to the Snowmen. Now at least the starting configuration is reasonable.

The race is on. Lets us all crunch. :biggrin:

 

[Assimilator1]

Doh!, I haven't been around for a bit & only just got a PM telling me about the race.

Is it too late for me to join in?

 

[petrusbroder]

Doh!, I haven't been around for a bit & only just got a PM telling me about the race.

Is it too late for me to join in?

No, it is not. See the rules in the Original Post. As long as I may recruit you to my team!
You are in the stat now ...! Is that OK? ()

 

[Ken g6]

Now at least the starting configuration is reasonable.

That's what you think! Now that I've flushed, I'll let Daffy Duck demonstrate my race strategy to you:

I'm ahead, and I'm gonna stay ahead! I'm way out in front!

Well, I'll try not to fall that far.

 

[VirtualLarry]

The starting stats: December 1, 2010, 17:34 UTC

The Abominable Snowmen
_ ppd _______ points ____________ Name
Dec. 01 _____ Dec. 01
310 360 __ 93 372 634 ___________ Total

The Yetis
_ ppd _______ points ____________ Name
Dec. 01 _____ Dec. 01
_17 354 ___ 1 809 281 ___________ VirtualLarry
313 020 __ 83 748 647 ___________ Total

623 380 _ 177 121 281 ___________ Grand total for TeAm AnandTech
:

That seems low, for two days now I've had both crunchers going, one showing 15K and the other showing 27K PPD.

That's an academic discussion now though, I think I may have burned out a fan or two, or perhaps the PSU is going, as I felt the case and it doesn't seem to be pushing as much air as it used to, and one of the GPUs was 99C!

So something was definately wrong. (My 45W AMD CPU was showing 57C, which is way high too.)

So I shut down the quad-GPU cruncher until I can get it working again.

Edit: I fired it back up again. It seems that the top-mounted 140mm fan in the Antec 300 is still moving air, just barely. I'm trying to remember if I set the fans on High or Low the last time I worked on it.

It's 80F in the room, so it's pretty warm, but would that make GPU temps raise 10C too?

I just hope I don't burn out a GPU. EVGA Precision has a nasty error, if you manually set fan speed to 100%, sometimes one GPU looses teh setting, and drops down to the lowest fan speed setting, and won't raise with temps, because the fans aren't on auto. So your GPU burns up.

Edit: Shut it down again. Some fan is making strange noises. Hopefully it's not the fan on GPU2. For some reason, that GPU was like 5-8C higher than the other ones. I didn't think that I would need to change out the fans before the race.

Edit: Now I'm having second thoughts about folding in general. So much spent on hardware, so much hassle. Especially when the hardware fails (not Stanford's fault, obviously).

This rig was working just fine a week ago. Harumpf.

 

[Ken g6]

__5 286 _____ 216 312 ___________ [TA]Assimilator1

Peter, I think you forgot a digit.

Also, I can't find Rattledagger anywhere in the Folding stats. Is he under a different name?

Edit:

Baldurs_Gate=Rattledagger

 

[Uppsala9496]

GTS450 up and running the gpu3 client. I allowed large units, but avoided the advanced methods (didn't those units run the GPU really hot?).

Any other suggestions on the client (client parameters to input)?

And is there is a nice way to track the progress of the GPU client?

Thanks all.

 

[SemperFi]

Petrustrober and VirturalLarry I passed you guys a month or 2 ago and I am watching you guys gear up to pass my a$$ in the next week or so. Only good thing about it is you both are on my team

 

[Pokey]

GTS450 up and running the gpu3 client. I allowed large units, but avoided the advanced methods (didn't those units run the GPU really hot?).

Any other suggestions on the client (client parameters to input)?

And is there is a nice way to track the progress of the GPU client?

Thanks all.

If I remember correctly -bigadv is for SMP2 clients only, with a lot of special qualifications. If a -bigadv wu is not available, it will default to -advmethods.

See this thread: Link

Without the -bigadv or -advmethods flags they will get regular WU's.

I use HFM.net to monitor all my clients now.

 

[brownstone]

I use HFM.net to monitor all my clients now.

Another vote for HFM.net :thumbsup:

 

[Markfw]

Another vote for HFM.net :thumbsup:

I third this....

 

[petrusbroder]

Peter, I think you forgot a digit.
Edit:

You are right. Corrected ...

 

[biodoc]

Peter, right now I have 4,955,622 points and you have me listed as:

_50 697 ___ 4 981 174 ___________ biodoc


Wow, a lot of you guys really put the pedal to the metal!

The TeAm produced 1,210,406 points in the last 24 h!! :thumbsup:

 

[petrusbroder]

Peter, right now I have 4,955,622 points and you have me listed as:

_50 697 ___ 4 981 174 ___________ biodoc


Wow, a lot of you guys really put the pedal to the metal!

The TeAm produced 1,210,406 points in the last 24 h!! :thumbsup:

Hmmm, :$ how did that happen? :\
Corrected!

 

[petrusbroder]

Look at this development!

 

[PCTC2]

Look at this development!

It's pretty awesome. I did just over 100,000 this past 24 hours. Starting to RAMP UP THIS RACE!

 

[Philippart]

I switched to hfm too, great piece of software, because fahmon gave me crazy ppd for my gpu, over 1.5million ppd unless I have a secret nvidia engineering sample

does anyone know how to set a hfm config file as a default so that i don't have to load it each time I sart up the software?

 

[petrusbroder]

The racing stats: December 2, 2010, 18:24 UTC

The Abominable Snowmen
_ ppd _______ points ______ ppd _______ points ______ diff ______ diff _______ Name
Dec. 01 _____ Dec. 01 ____ Dec. 2 _____ Dec. 2 ______ ppd ______ points
_50 697 ___ 4 952 439 ____ 50 334 ___ 4 970 673 ____ -363 ______ 18 234 ______ biodoc
_10 282 _____ 161 854 ____ 11 564 _____ 175 478 ___ 1 282 ______ 13 624 ______ filibusterman
_ 5 364 _____ 228 944 _____ 5 593 _____ 234 956 _____ 229 _______ 6 012 ______ geecee
158 575 __ 77 478 014 ___ 166 936 __ 77 654 165 ___ 8 361 _____ 176 151 ______ Mark_F_Williams=Markfw900
____ 75 _______ 5 777 ________ 75 _______ 5 777 _______ 0 ___________ 0 ______ octavio=Tivo20
_16 124 ___ 1 616 520 ____ 30 823 ___ 1 719 410 __ 14 699 _____ 102 890 ______ paulnt04=PCTC2
_26 926 ___ 1 685 822 ____ 28 528 ___ 1 719 968 ___ 1 602 ______ 34 146 ______ Peter Trend
___ 113 _______ 1 371 ________ 85 _______ 1 371 _____ -28 ___________ 0 ______ QuietDad
__6 237 _____ 184 002 _____ 8 595 _____ 200 534 ___ 2 358 ______ 16 532 ______ Rattledagger
__1 498 _____ 720 764 _____ 2 382 _____ 726 956 _____ 884 _______ 6 192 ______ salvorhardin
_____ 0 ______ 75 497 _________ 0 ______ 75 497 _______ 0 ___________ 0 ______ TA_andy
_30 830 ___ 3 798 053 ____ 33 600 ___ 3 840 152 ___ 2 770 ______ 42 099 ______ TonyH
_ 3 639 ___ 2 434 842 _____ 4 176 ___ 2 442 900 _____ 537 _______ 8 058 ______ Uppsala9496
310 360 __ 93 372 634 ___ 342 691 __ 93 767 837 __ 32 331 _____ 423 938 ______ Total


The Yetis
_ ppd _______ points ______ ppd _______ points ______ diff ______ diff _______ Name
Dec. 01 _____ Dec. 01 ____ Dec. 2 _____ Dec. 2 ______ ppd ______ points
_ 8 470 __ 14 428 470 ____ 17 275 __ 14 500 067 ___ 8 805 ______ 71 597 ______ GLeeM
_ 3 757 ___ 1 998 203 _____ 4 783 ___ 2 009 862 ___ 1 026 ______ 11 659 ______ jtmiller=SemperFi
___ 742 ______ 70 967 _____ 8 816 _____ 127 484 ___ 8 074 ______ 56 517 ______ Ken_g6
_10 307 _____ 618 697 ____ 11 227 _____ 631 751 _____ 920 ______ 13 054 ______ kb3edk
_21 263 ___ 1 665 088 ____ 20 780 ___ 1 683 986 ____ -483 ______ 18 898 ______ Neurodog
100 893 __ 35 625 210 ___ 100 819 __ 35 730 758 _____ -74 _____ 105 548 ______ Pokey_TA
_13 946 ___ 7 640 223 ____ 15 777 ___ 7 662 962 ___ 1 831 ______ 22 739 ______ RTThurman
__5 286 _____ 216 312 _____ 5 965 ___ 2 172 745 _____ 679 _______ 9 625 ______ [TA]Assimilator1
_57 127 ___ 1 375 651 ____ 69 606 ___ 1 463 008 __ 12 479 ______ 87 357 ______ TAS-Petrusbroder
_23 985 __ 13 020 661 ____ 23 921 __ 13 035 730 _____ -64 ______ 15 069 ______ theAnimal
_ 6 678 ___ 2 408 323 ____ 10 338 ___ 2 433 943 ___ 3 660 ______ 25 620 ______ Tom_Philippart
__2 225 _____ 710 674 _____ 4 943 _____ 729 699 ___ 2 718 ______ 19 025 ______ wingding=brownstone
_17 354 ___ 1 809 281 ____ 19 015 ___ 1 838 420 ___ 1 661 ______ 29 139 ______ VirtualLarry
_40 987 ___ 2 160 887 ____ 41 589 ___ 2 197 215 _____ 602 ______ 36 328 ______ ZipSpeed
313 020 __ 85 695 455 ___ 354 854 __ 86 217 630 __ 41 834 _____ 522 175 ______ Total

623 380 _ 179 039 354 ___ 697 545 _ 179 985 467 __ 74 165 _____ 946 113 ______ Total for Racers
_________ 636 330 250 _____________ 637 557 202 _____________ 1 226 952 ______ Total for TeAm AnadTech

The Yetis take the lead with 98 237 points and 9 503 in ppd. A good start!

 

[ZipSpeed]

<snip>

Thanks for the update! I'm looking at a few options to squeeze some more PPD out of my current systems but I'm pretty much running at capacity.

 

[brownstone]

does anyone know how to set a hfm config file as a default so that i don't have to load it each time I sart up the software?

Go to 'edit' > 'preferences' > 'startup & external' > check 'load config file' and direct it to where you saved your config file

 

[GLeeM]

The Yetis take the lead with 98 237 points

Abominable Snowmen don't get too worried - 60,000+ of this was a -bigadv WU I sent in and there won't be another until Saturday night or Sunday morning.

 

[Uppsala9496]

GPU3 client with passkey means I need 10 wu's before bonus points kick in?
I am on unit #6 right now. It's been folding some 20 hours now.

 

[ZipSpeed]

GPU3 client with passkey means I need 10 wu's before bonus points kick in?
I am on unit #6 right now. It's been folding some 20 hours now.

To my knowledge, the bonus points only apply to the SMP client.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Damn. Might have to mess with overclocking.
What should I mess with? Graphics clock, Memory clock, Processor clock, or some combination thereof?

 

[geecee]

Sorry Snowmen. I think my GPU folding box just died (X2 3800+ with a GT240). I came home and found it blue screened with the HD light on solid. Turned the power off and now the box won't boot at all. Posts and then just hangs with th HD light staying lit constantly. I'm currently testing the components individually, but its not looking good so far. Tried different memory, doesn't seem to be the problem. Taking out the HD now and putting it into a USB enclosure to see if that's the issue.

Got the parts for my new system yesterday from UPS, but I probably won't get around to setting that up until this weekend. So unless I can figure out what's wrong here, I'm down to a bunch of CPU folders doing ~2000 ppd total. This sucks.

Well, the good news is that it looks like the HD drive is dead. The bad news is that it looks like the HD is dead.