5th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race thread.

[brownstone]

I guess I better get some fire under it and get my folding rig back in commission. I took it offline a few weeks back for upgrades that never happened. Now I'm embarrassed to see that I'm the only 0 on the Yetis.

 

[Uppsala9496]

My linux machine lost the wireless connection sometime yesterday and just sat there trying to send a completed WU for almost a day (some 44 attempts) before I noticed it was offline. I just plugged the damn ethernet cable in to make sure this doesn't happen for December.
Oh, and my GTS450 doesn't show up until Wednesday and I won't be home to sign for it...hopefully they leave it at my doorstop. If not...ugh.

 

[Ken g6]

Now I'm embarrassed to see that I'm the only 0 on the Yetis.

Don't worry about it. I'm more embarrassed that I'm not a 0. :sneaky:

 

[Markfw]

Well, I just removed a GTX260 192, and added 2 GTX460's@840. and with my new AX850 PSU, I decided to try again for 4 ghz on my 1090T

 

[geecee]

My linux machine lost the wireless connection sometime yesterday and just sat there trying to send a completed WU for almost a day (some 44 attempts) before I noticed it was offline. I just plugged the damn ethernet cable in to make sure this doesn't happen for December.
Oh, and my GTS450 doesn't show up until Wednesday and I won't be home to sign for it...hopefully they leave it at my doorstop. If not...ugh.

I'm in the same boat. The parts for my new $200 budget folding system I posted about earlier arrive on Weds also. Athlon II X3 445 (hoping I will get lucky and can unlock the 4th core), Gigabyte MB and GTS 450. Its not much compared to some of the setups the guys here have going, but compared to the ancient machines that I have been doing most of my folding on, it's like moving from the Stone Age to Star Trek. Probably won't get it up and running for the race until the weekend though.

While I personally like the snowmen/yetis theme, instead of offering Team 1 v. Team 2, why not go with a more Seussian Thing 1 v. Thing 2.

 

[PCTC2]

My linux machine lost the wireless connection sometime yesterday and just sat there trying to send a completed WU for almost a day (some 44 attempts) before I noticed it was offline. I just plugged the damn ethernet cable in to make sure this doesn't happen for December.
Oh, and my GTS450 doesn't show up until Wednesday and I won't be home to sign for it...hopefully they leave it at my doorstop. If not...ugh.

Half my network lost connection yesterday and wouldn't come back. I have the choice of power-line networking, a 50ft ethernet cable routed in an ugly way, or a wireless bridge for my desk. I chose the wireless bridge and it's been good for months, but yesterday it just gave up. I started getting pings of 2+ seconds! WITHIN my network! So I restarted the two N access points... and then they wouldn't see each other for a while until one of them finally booted enough to be like "Hey. I recognize that signal and MAC address. I'll connect to it" and then I got my normal connection back. It's still slow, but it's wireless. There's interference from something so i get barely 6MB/s. Maybe I'll try powerline next time.

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the ppd-stats approx. 1 day before the start:
I'll do the stats tomorrow again and will then finalize the teams.



The Snowmen
_ ppd ______ ppd ____________ Name
Nov. 29 __ Nov. 30
_47 283 ___ 48 038 __________ biodoc
_ 5 356 ____ 7 706 __________ filibusterman
_ 4 161 ____ 4 778 __________ geecee
150 304 __ 152 096 __________ Mark_F_Williams=Markfw900
____ 65 _______ 93 __________ octavio=Tivo20
_____ 0 ____ 9 182 __________ paulnt04=PCTC2
_25 230 ___ 25 537 __________ Peter Trend
__1 970 ____ 2 785 __________ Rattledagger
_15 628 ___ 15 917 __________ RTThurman
_____ 0 ______ 524 __________ salvorhardin
_____ 0 ________ 0 __________ TA_andy
_29 477 ___ 30 534 __________ TonyH
_ 3 195 ____ 4 327 __________ Uppsala9496
280 703 __ 301 517 __________ Sum


The Yetis
_ ppd ______ ppd ____________ Name
Nov. 29 __ Nov. 30
_ 8 692 ____ 8 747 __________ GLeeM
_ 4 194 ____ 3 813 __________ jtmiller=SemperFi
___ 910 ______ 556 __________ Ken_g6
_ 7 340 ____ 9 166 __________ kb3edk
_20 178 ___ 20 258 __________ Neurodog
_91 912 __ 102 475 __________ Pokey_TA
___ 103 ______ 103 __________ QuietDad
_32 730 ___ 43 723 __________ TAS-Petrusbroder
_33 846 ___ 23 890 __________ theAnimal
_ 1 214 ____ 3 389 __________ Tom_Philippart
_____ 0 ________ 0 __________ wingding=brownstone
_11 979 ___ 13 718 __________ VirtualLarry
_27 144 ___ 27 568 __________ ZipSpeed
240 242 __ 257 406 __________ Sum

It may be that I'll move a racer with a ppd of 20K to the Yetis ...
Alternatively: we could try to recruit some more ... ;9

 

[brownstone]

Geez! I'm glad I set things up last night. I forgot to adjust power settings and so after 30 minutes my machine went to sleep...talk about a rookie mistake! Don't worry Yetis, I'll get it together at some point.

 

[petrusbroder]

LoL! I think all of us have made that mistake - at least I know that I have ...

 

[PCTC2]

I didn't realize Linux SMP2 -bigADV was broken in the Gromacs core... now I'm going to have to run it under Wine... shoot. So much for the beginning of the race.

 

[Markfw]

Wow, Pokey sure got some new hardware... Running at 150k ppd last 24 hours !!

 

[Pokey]

Wow, Pokey sure got some new hardware... Running at 150k ppd last 24 hours !!

I did get some new hardware. But the blip in points was a –bigadv (6900) completed. I’m not going to average that. I have discovered that this rig will do some –bigadv units but not others. For instance, I can do one of the 6900s but the 2864 won’t complete in time.

It is a core I7 860 2.8MHz and I have it running at 2.99 but I’m not a knowledgeable OC'er.

 

[theAnimal]

I did get some new hardware. But the blip in points was a –bigadv (6900) completed. I’m not going to average that. I have discovered that this rig will do some –bigadv units but not others. For instance, I can do one of the 6900s but the 2864 won’t complete in time.

It is a core I7 860 2.8MHz and I have it running at 2.99 but I’m not a knowledgeable OC'er.

Yes, definitely need some more MHz to run the 2684. Normally a little vcore and vtt increase will work.

 

[theAnimal]

It may be that I'll move a racer with a ppd of 20K to the Yetis ...

I wouldn't worry about it...my PPD is low right now due to a stopped bigadv smp which will be running again tomorrow.

 

[Markfw]

I did get some new hardware. But the blip in points was a –bigadv (6900) completed. I’m not going to average that. I have discovered that this rig will do some –bigadv units but not others. For instance, I can do one of the 6900s but the 2864 won’t complete in time.

It is a core I7 860 2.8MHz and I have it running at 2.99 but I’m not a knowledgeable OC'er.

Well, didn't your average used to be 75-80k ppd ? and now its really like 100k ?

 

[biodoc]

It's December and were racing!!

The TeAm racked up 1,155,220 points in the last 24 hours!

 

[petrusbroder]

The race starts at 18:00 UTC, i.e. in 6 hours and 59 minutes.
Then we are racing!
OTOH: the production of more than 1 million points is awesome!

 

[petrusbroder]

The poll is now closed. here are the results:

Snowmen vs Yetis __________ 55.00% ______ 11 votes
Genomes vs Antibodies _____ 15.00% _______ 3 votes
Thunder vs Lightning ______ 15.00% _______ 3 votes
Prancers vs Dashers _______ 10.00% _______ 2votes
Team 1 vs Team 2 ___________ 5.00% _______ 1 votes
Comets vs Asteroids ________ 0.00% _______ 0 votes

The team names are:

• The Snowmen
• The Yetis

OP edited.

 

[Pokey]

Well, didn't your average used to be 75-80k ppd ? and now its really like 100k ?

Actually I had 14 clients producing 64-65,000 ppd, and now I have 17 clients producing ?????. I'm plowing new ground here so I'm just guessing I'll land in the 90-95,000 range. I would like to break 100,000 ppd but that may be optimistic.

 

[Markfw]

I thought we were going to be the Abominable Snowmen, not just snowmen ?

I just have to be Abominable !

 

[petrusbroder]

The stats have been collected - I'llpost the start - up stats later this evening ...

The race starts in 26 minutes!

 

[petrusbroder]

I thought we were going to be the Abominable Snowmen, not just snowmen ?

I just have to be Abominable !

OK - let me see what I can do ...

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've ordered FIOS, so it should be getting here on the 7th. Hopefully I won't have too much internet downtime.

 

[Pokey]

alright......... I was fiddle f'ing with my overclocking and messed up enough to cause the smp client to drop that 2864 WU and this time I got a 6900............Which I can do with current settings............ :thumbsup:

I must be the worlds worst OCer.

Which brings me to a question. I thought Ctrl C stopped the smp client gracefully, but apparently not. Does anyone know how to stop the SMP client gracefully?

 

[Peter Trend]

Interesting...Stanford actually recommend using ctrl+c as opposed to the "x". I'm not sure how else to end it gracefully.