5th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race thread.

[geecee]

Got my GT240 box back up and running now with an ancient 20gb laptop HD (only extra HD I had - it works!). But seeing how my PPD is about the same as Markfw900's PPMin, I don't think it was a big deal.

 

[biodoc]

Got my GT240 box back up and running now with an ancient 20gb laptop HD (only extra HD I had - it works!). But seeing how my PPD is about the same as Markfw900's PPMin, I don't think it was a big deal.

Good news! Your points could make the difference geecee! :thumbsup:

I just got 1 9800GTX running on one of my Q6600 linux boxes. I have another 9800GTX which I'll add to my other Q6600 soon. Looks like the 9800GTX will produce about 6000 ppd. Not bad.

 

[ICXRa]

Wow you guys are really cranking them out!

My fleet of 3.06 Core 2 Duo's are no match for these i7's. My setups have been set them and forget them. I am running smp with the -smp -advmethods which I figure is about the best I'm gonna get with 2 cores.

Oh well, I'm giving all I got!

Crunch on!

 

[Uppsala9496]

I had two goals going into this season's race.
One was to beat last years personal production: 107,604 points 78 wu's.
The second was to hit a milestone of 2.5MM points.

With the addition of my GTS450 (and a PS3), I am going to have to revise my goal. Maybe double last years production is more realistic. Hitting 3MM total seems to be out of reach for the month.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wow you guys are really cranking them out!

My fleet of 3.06 Core 2 Duo's are no match for these i7's. My setups have been set them and forget them. I am running smp with the -smp -advmethods which I figure is about the best I'm gonna get with 2 cores.

Oh well, I'm giving all I got!

Crunch on!

You can run SMP sucessfully on dual-cores? Hmm. I might have a plan.

 

[salvorhardin]

...With the addition of my GTS450 (and a PS3)...

About how much ppd do you get from the ps3? Just bought one and I am considering adding it to race (if there isn't any downfalls to using it).

Just lost another two hours on my gpu because work server wasn't available. Looks i'll average 7200ppd. I have only completed 6 wus (4 to go), do I get bonus points on regular smp wus or does it only apply on bigadv wus?

 

[Uppsala9496]

It averages about 1,004 ppd. You get 251 points per unit (4 a day).

Do you have the bigadv flag active on your smp folder? You should get the bonus points. My amd X3 gets bonus points.

 

[petrusbroder]

Stats coming soon - real soon!

 

[salvorhardin]

It averages about 1,004 ppd. You get 251 points per unit (4 a day).

Do you have the bigadv flag active on your smp folder? You should get the bonus points. My amd X3 gets bonus points.

Thanks, any problems heat wise? I'm not running bigadv, isn't it only for 8 core cpus?

 

[Markfw]

One more GPU - where can I get one more NVIDIA GPU? Or two?

Too bad you aren't closer. I have a GTX260 sitting, doing nothing.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Thanks, any problems heat wise? I'm not running bigadv, isn't it only for 8 core cpus?

I have the 4th core unlocked and am running the smp client with a stock HSF in a not too well ventilated box. Do have one fan on the side blowing towards the cpu and one in the back pushing out. I think I run around 57*C during the day. Might get up to 60*C if the sun is shining on my box. I use it primarily as an HTPC for streaming to the PS3 via media server, but for December it is a folder.

 

[petrusbroder]

The racing stats: December 4, 2010, 18:03 UTC

The Abominable Snowmen
_ ppd _______ points ______ ppd _______ points ______ diff ______ diff _______ Name
Dec. 01 _____ Dec. 01 ____ Dec. 4 _____ Dec. 4 ______ ppd ______ points
_50 697 ___ 4 952 439 ____ 53 488 ___ 5 098 222 ___ 2 791 _____ 145 783 ______ biodoc
_10 282 _____ 161 854 ____ 14 749 _____ 211 860 ___ 4 467 ______ 50 006 ______ filibusterman
_ 5 364 _____ 228 944 _____ 5 051 _____ 242 212 ____ -313 ______ 13 268 ______ geecee
158 575 __ 77 478 014 ___ 177 548 __ 78 073 951 __ 18 973 _____ 595 937 ______ Mark_F_Williams=Markfw900
____ 75 _______ 5 777 ________ 75 _______ 6 040 _______ 0 _________ 263 ______ octavio=Tivo20
_16 124 ___ 1 616 520 ____ 74 414 ___ 2 024 546 __ 58 290 _____ 408 026 ______ paulnt04=PCTC2
_26 926 ___ 1 685 822 ____ 31 658 ___ 1 793 029 ___ 4 732 _____ 107 207 ______ Peter Trend
___ 113 _______ 1 371 ________ 85 _______ 1 371 _____ -48 ___________ 0 ______ QuietDad
__6 237 _____ 184 002 ____ 13 117 _____ 232 185 ___ 6 880 ______ 48 183 ______ Rattledagger
__1 498 _____ 720 764 _____ 4 853 _____ 744 254 ___ 3 355 ______ 23 490 ______ salvorhardin
_____ 0 ______ 75 497 _________ 0 ______ 75 497 _______ 0 ___________ 0 ______ TA_andy
_30 830 ___ 3 798 053 ____ 35 705 ___ 3 915 707 ___ 4 875 _____ 117 654 ______ TonyH
_ 3 639 ___ 2 434 842 _____ 7 075 ___ 2 470 950 ___ 3 436 ______ 36 108 ______ Uppsala9496
310 360 __ 93 372 634 ___ 417 798 __ 94 889 824 _ 107 438 ___ 1 545 925 ______ Total


The Yetis
_ ppd _______ points ______ ppd _______ points ______ diff ______ diff _______ Name
Dec. 01 _____ Dec. 01 ____ Dec. 4 _____ Dec. 4 ______ ppd ______ points
_ 8 470 __ 14 428 470 ____ 17 162 __ 14 517 759 ___ 8 692 ______ 89 289 ______ GLeeM
_ 3 757 ___ 1 998 203 _____ 8 126 ___ 2 042 994 ___ 4 369 ______ 44 791 ______ jtmiller=SemperFi
___ 742 ______ 70 967 ____ 13 370 _____ 159 364 __ 12 628 ______ 88 397 ______ Ken_g6
_10 307 _____ 618 697 ____ 11 783 _____ 651 041 ___ 1 476 ______ 32 344 ______ kb3edk
_21 263 ___ 1 665 088 ____ 22 203 ___ 1 733 317 _____ 940 ______ 68 229 ______ Neurodog
100 893 __ 35 625 210 ____ 99 802 __ 35 919 016 __ -1 091 _____ 293 806 ______ Pokey_TA
_13 946 ___ 7 640 223 ____ 16 058 ___ 7 702 997 ___ 2 112 ______ 62 774 ______ RTThurman
__5 286 _____ 216 312 _____ 5 629 ___ 2 183 488 _____ 343 ______ 20 368 ______ [TA]Assimilator1
_57 127 ___ 1 375 651 ____ 82 255 ___ 1 630 472 __ 25 128 _____ 254 821 ______ TAS-Petrusbroder
_23 985 __ 13 020 661 ____ 13 689 __ 13 061 206 _ -10 296 ______ 40 545 ______ theAnimal
_ 6 678 ___ 2 408 323 ____ 15 564 ___ 2 471 307 ___ 8 886 ______ 62 984 ______ Tom_Philippart
__2 225 _____ 710 674 ____ 11 435 _____ 775 144 ___ 9 210 ______ 64 470 ______ wingding=brownstone
_17 354 ___ 1 809 281 ____ 22 092 ___ 1 886 540 ___ 4 738 ______ 77 259 ______ VirtualLarry
_40 987 ___ 2 160 887 ____ 57 939 ___ 2 363 515 __ 16 952 _____ 202 628 ______ ZipSpeed
313 020 __ 83 748 647 ___ 397 107 __ 87 098 160 __ 84 087 ___ 1 402 705 ______ Total

623 380 _ 179 039 354 ___ 814 905 _ 181 987 984 _ 191 525 ___ 2 948 630 ______ Total for Racers
_________ 636 330 250 _____________ 640 347 142 _____________ 4 016 892 ______ Total for TeAm AnadTech

Production stats:
_ Date ___ The Abominable ______ The __________ Difference _____ Total ____
______________ Snowmen ________ Yetis _________ in points ____ difference _
Dec. 02 ______ 423 938 _______ 522 175 ________ - _98 237 ____ - 98 237
Dec. 03 ______ 513 191 _______ 404 481 ________ + 108 710 ______ 10 473
Dec. 04 ______ 608 796 _______ 476 049 ________ + 132 747 _____ 143 220

The Snowmen take the lead with 143 220 points and 23 351 in ppd, and they produced more than 132K more points than the Yetis!

The difference looks big but it isn't too big. It is the difference of approx 2 bigadv. WUs ... so if two of those happen to come up for the Yetis the diff will be much smaller ...

I expect to wait more before I balance the teams for the final time. If one team has the upper hand for 5 days in a row I'll consider it.
I think it is time for the other part of the race: the assimilations, recruiting, borghing. Let that begin now!

 

[petrusbroder]

Let us look a little closer at the numbers:

• In 3 days the TeAm hasd produced more than 4 M points, i.e. 1.3 million points per day. :awe:
• In three days the ppd has increased by 191K!, and is still rising. :biggrin:
• The racers crunch 73.4% of the TeAm's output. ()
• Among the top-20-producers are 14 racers. :thumbsup:
• Among the top-10 producers are 8 racers.
• This can not be verfied, but: the fun in the world of DC has increased tremendously!

 

[salvorhardin]

I have the 4th core unlocked and am running the smp client with a stock HSF in a not too well ventilated box. Do have one fan on the side blowing towards the cpu and one in the back pushing out. I think I run around 57*C during the day. Might get up to 60*C if the sun is shining on my box. I use it primarily as an HTPC for streaming to the PS3 via media server, but for December it is a folder.

Thanks, but was talking about heat affecting the ps3 (slim). Right now my processors are running at 40*C and my gpu is at 62*C. I'm limited by my ram, bought ddr2-800 instead of ddr2-1066.

Thanks for the stats Petrus.

 

[PCTC2]

Got my GT240 box back up and running now with an ancient 20gb laptop HD (only extra HD I had - it works!). But seeing how my PPD is about the same as Markfw900's PPMin, I don't think it was a big deal.

You got your GT240 to fold? Lucky. Mine just causes the system to hang when it gets too hot. I guess I'd need a better cooler. I have 2 GT240s that are sitting idle. All points are important! Each contribution counts!

It averages about 1,004 ppd. You get 251 points per unit (4 a day).

Do you have the bigadv flag active on your smp folder? You should get the bonus points. My amd X3 gets bonus points.

You only get bigADV projects if it detects SMP 8 or greater. Look at your projects. You might just be getting advmethods projects. Do you get Projects 2684, 2692, and 6900? Those are the only bigADV projects currently.

I can't wait for December 20th. You guys wait. I have 2 more 8C/16T computers to add once work closes for winter break! 2 more bigADV rigs! Good job guys! Lets keep it up! Maybe we'll be a few steps closer to TeamRage3D! Over 1 Million PPD!

 

[Peter Trend]

The racing stats: December 4, 2010, 18:03 UTC

[______ Peter Trend
___ 113 _______ 1 371 ________ 85 _______ 1 371 _____ -48 ___________ 0

This doesn't look right! I have 1,796,445 total points for TA and a 7-day average of 30,781.

Free-DC says I had PPD as follows:
Dec 4__25,853______Dec 3__31,768______Dec 2__35,023______Dec 1__32,255

Thanks for the regular updates though petrusbroder!

Edit: Oops my bad! Had the wrong resolution to read that and was reading QuietDad's stats!

WTG Abominable Snowmen! WTG TeAM!

 

[petrusbroder]

Interesting, PCTC2 ...
My i7-920 gets bigadv-WUs (just now P6900, with an expected credit of 66 876 points); one of my i7-860 has a P2686 WU, with an expected credit of 65 380 points. All are crunching along well and will be finished well before deadline ...

As far as I can see, the following projects have a K-factor of 26.4 (bigadv): 2684, 2685, 2686, 2692 and 6900 (all these projects are about the Infuenza-virus).

Most of the data about the projects are here @ F@H.

 

[PCTC2]

Interesting, PCTC2 ...
My i7-920 gets bigadv-WUs (just now P6900, with an expected credit of 66 876 points); one of my i7-860 has a P2686 WU, with an expected credit of 65 380 points. All are crunching along well and will be finished well before deadline ...

As far as I can see, the following projects have a K-factor of 26.4 (bigadv): 2684, 2685, 2686, 2692 and 6900 (all these projects are about the Infuenza-virus).

Most of the data about the projects are here @ F@H.

I'm not too up to date on the project numbers for bigADV...

 

[Uppsala9496]

Thanks, but was talking about heat affecting the ps3 (slim). Right now my processors are running at 40*C and my gpu is at 62*C. I'm limited by my ram, bought ddr2-800 instead of ddr2-1066.

Thanks for the stats Petrus.

Ooops. Sorry about that.
No issues on the PS3 Slim. I keep mine standing on the side so there is no heat build up under it.
I keep opposite side of the drive on the ground (so the BR drive edge is in the air).

 

[Pokey]

Looks like we have 26 people in the race (not counting TA_Andy who has yet to check in) with a total of 214 clients running. Anywhere from 1 to 23 clients each. (so far) That's pretty cool.

And I'll bet there will be a few more logs on the fire before it is over....... :sneaky:

 

[VirtualLarry]

Is there any advantage, point-wise, to running -advmethods with the GPU3 client? After reading the thread about WUs that are slow and make your GPU overheat, I didn't dare try that flag. I get a steady stream of 6800 WUs, with 11470 PPD for my GTX460 1GB OC to 820/1640.

 

[Markfw]

OK, my 3rd I7 box is unstable at STOCK speed (and memory running under rated speed). I have been having problems with this box for months. So my PPD will not be much over 200k.

I just ordered 6 2 gig ripjaws memory, and one more new motherboard. Hopefully one or the other will solve my problem. The PSU is a Corsair AX1200, and the cpu is a brand new I7 950, so its either memory or motherboard !

Maybe by the end of the race I will have a stable box.

I tried updating the bios . and now the OS is giving me an error I have never seen, so I have to reinstall. Now I have 50k ppd missing until further notice.

 

[petrusbroder]

I am somewhat surprised: during the past 3 days my PPD as reported by HFM.NET has increased from approx 98K to 151K! And this only due to the bonus-WUs I have obtained ... lets see if this helps in the race ... probably not today, but tomorrow and the day after ...

It is interesting to see the daíly production sink for 2 - 3 days, and then there will be huge increase, then a decrease for a few days, then a increase ...

I think that a one month race is very good from the averages point of view: if the race was one or two weeks the racers which do F@H only for the race won't get these WUs while the "oldtimers" have them from the start.

 

[Neurodog]

What would be the optimal setting for SMP on a 6 core?

Currently I have it set to -smp only should I be looking at changing it? I see some using 8 after, is that for the number of cores? would I get large unit with that? That's if my cpu can return the unit in time...

Thanks

 

[ZipSpeed]

What would be the optimal setting for SMP on a 6 core?

Currently I have it set to -smp only should I be looking at changing it? I see some using 8 after, is that for the number of cores? would I get large unit with that? That's if my cpu can return the unit in time...

Thanks

What you have is how I set up my 1055T. You won't be able to run the bigadv as the client needs to see at least 8 cores, virtural or physical. Though I remember reading people hacking the client to get bigadv on 6 cores though I don't recommend it. We just don't if hack clients can adversely affect the data sent to Standford.