Poll: Is there interest for the 3rd Holyday Season Race in Folding@Home

[petrusbroder]

Well, the title says it all ... please vote and post.
As usually I would organise the race; and it would be TAS vs the Others in F@H.

OK you want rules? Here are the rules:

1. Have fun.
2. Let others have fun.
3. Crunch as much as you can, as often as you can and as efficiently as you can.

EDIT: Addition of -Sid's rules:
4: Whistle while you work.
5: DON'T whistle while you sip.
6: No pouting.


I'll assemble the teams; in one team all the TAS-members; on the other team only non-TAS-folders. Since the number of TAS-folders is small, non-TAS-folders will be elected to become honorary TAS-members for the duration of the race so that the teams would be approximately equal.

Assimilating computers, adding members to one's team, switching team, borging and all other honest cheats are allowed ... as long as the stats-wizard (i.e.me) allows, as long as WUs are crunched for the TeAm and all have fun.

In the past races the TeAm has gained greatly ...

Edit Nov. 12, 2008: The result is overwhelming: not one "no", two "don't know", one "perhaps" and 21 "yes". I'll wait a little bit more (until the week end) and then I'll start setting up the teams.

 

[petrusbroder]

OK, to get the boll rolling: I cast my vote for yes.

 

[PCTC2]

You know, since it is the holiday season, maybe I'll boot up F@H again and crunch for a month, despite the electricity bills.

I vote YES.

On another note, is borging allowed?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

This was so much fun last year. hehehe

 

[Insidious]

I've had fun every year.

I'll vote YES with the same entheusiasm I voted OBAMA :thumbsup:

Rule 4: :music: :music: Whistle while you work :music: :music:

Rule 5: :beer: DON'T whistle while you sip :beer:



-Sid

edit: I forgot one..... NO POUTING

 

[Neurodog]

Another YES here!

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: PCTC2
You know, since it is the holiday season, maybe I'll boot up F@H again and crunch for a month, despite the electricity bills.

I vote YES.

On another note, is borging allowed?

Yes, all borging, assimilating, asslaminating and similar actions are allowed. All in the name of science and fun ...

 

[Rudy Toody]

I don't know.

I don't do F@H, but I wanted to get my vote in early. My boxes will be up and down next month due to water cooling, over-clocking, stability testing, and some other stuff.

I will root for TAS!

Two bits, four bits...
Six bits, a byte.
All for TAS...
Crunch with all your might!

 

[jonesthewine]

Yes...count me in. I'll be folding anyway...

Do you count points or work units? I'm good for ~480,000 points per month/1200 WU per month

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Insidious
I've had fun every year.

I'll vote YES with the same entheusiasm I voted OBAMA :thumbsup:

:beer::thumbsup:

Hey Sid, remember how much money we all spent last year?

I built 2 Quads...you built 2, I think, and I don't remember how many MarkFW built!;

I haven't seen MadMurph post in a long time.

Remember the good natured bantering between Murph and MarkFW in last year's race?:laugh:

I sure hope Murph is ok.

 

[GLeeM]

I'm in!

Lotsa fun

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: Insidious
I've had fun every year.

I'll vote YES with the same entheusiasm I voted OBAMA :thumbsup:

:beer::thumbsup:

Hey Sid, remember how much money we all spent last year?

I built 2 Quads...you built 2, I think, and I don't remember how many MarkFW built!;

Yeah, that was A LOT of fun! I just returned from Cancun yesterday, so you can imagine what that has done to the PC budget.

I've got a GREAT opty bundle I could sell.... It needs be become a Q :roll:

-Sid

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder

Originally posted by: PCTC2
You know, since it is the holiday season, maybe I'll boot up F@H again and crunch for a month, despite the electricity bills.

I vote YES.

On another note, is borging allowed?

Yes, all borging, assimilating, asslaminating and similar actions are allowed. All in the name of science and fun ...

Hmmmm... Can anyone say "The current policy of our support system is we only support Mac Pro and iMac desktops, in addition to any older PPC desktops as long as they run leopard."

Mac Pros... PowerMacs with Dual G4/G5... iMacs with Core2Extremes... ARD on ALL of them... Are any of your thinking what I am thinking? Go NON-TAS!

Originally posted by: Insidious

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: Insidious
I've had fun every year.

I'll vote YES with the same entheusiasm I voted OBAMA :thumbsup:

:beer::thumbsup:

Hey Sid, remember how much money we all spent last year?

I built 2 Quads...you built 2, I think, and I don't remember how many MarkFW built!;

Yeah, that was A LOT of fun! I just returned from Cancun yesterday, so you can imagine what that has done to the PC budget.

I've got a GREAT opty bundle I could sell.... It needs be become a Q :roll:

-Sid

Hmmm... C2Q 6600... $170 ... C2Q... $220... Hmmmm...

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: PCTC2

Originally posted by: petrusbroder

Originally posted by: PCTC2
You know, since it is the holiday season, maybe I'll boot up F@H again and crunch for a month, despite the electricity bills.

I vote YES.

On another note, is borging allowed?

Yes, all borging, assimilating, asslaminating and similar actions are allowed. All in the name of science and fun ...

Hmmmm... Can anyone say "The current policy of our support system is we only support Mac Pro and iMac desktops, in addition to any older PPC desktops as long as they run leopard."

Mac Pros... PowerMacs with Dual G4/G5... iMacs with Core2Extremes... ARD on ALL of them... Are any of your thinking what I am thinking? Go NON-TAS!

Originally posted by: Insidious

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: Insidious
I've had fun every year.

I'll vote YES with the same entheusiasm I voted OBAMA :thumbsup:

:beer::thumbsup:

Hey Sid, remember how much money we all spent last year?

I built 2 Quads...you built 2, I think, and I don't remember how many MarkFW built!;

Yeah, that was A LOT of fun! I just returned from Cancun yesterday, so you can imagine what that has done to the PC budget.

I've got a GREAT opty bundle I could sell.... It needs be become a Q :roll:

-Sid

Hmmm... C2Q 6600... $170 ... C2Q... $220... Hmmmm...

LOL

Don't think I didn't consider it, but then there's that pesky Motherboard that would cost me another $200 (I don't do strip-down or budget hardware), that new memory required, that heatsink that is a must..... Next thing ya know, It's up in that $500+ range and I'm screwed. AND that's before I drop another $200 on a video card. (repeat: I don't do strip-down or budget hardware)

Hey Peter: I'm gonna need one of these races in 2009 too. (I'll be able to build again by then )

-Sid

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: Insidious
I've had fun every year.

I'll vote YES with the same entheusiasm I voted OBAMA :thumbsup:

:beer::thumbsup:

Hey Sid, remember how much money we all spent last year?

I built 2 Quads...you built 2, I think, and I don't remember how many MarkFW built!;

I haven't seen MadMurph post in a long time.

Remember the good natured bantering between Murph and MarkFW in last year's race?:laugh:

I sure hope Murph is ok.

I built 3.

what is borging ?

And I still have room for a few more 8800GT's

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: Insidious

LOL

Don't think I didn't consider it, but then there's that pesky Motherboard that would cost me another $200 (I don't do strip-down or budget hardware), that new memory required, that heatsink that is a must..... Next thing ya know, It's up in that $500+ range and I'm screwed. AND that's before I drop another $200 on a video card. (repeat: I don't do strip-down or budget hardware)

Hey Peter: I'm gonna need one of these races in 2009 too. (I'll be able to build again by then )

-Sid

Yeah. Same here, EXCEPT I have a perfectly good system with a C2D in it and I can just swap it out for a C2Q. I'm also waiting for Core i7 before I do a major overhaul of CPU, motherboard, RAM, video card, and new waterblocks and radiators because who still uses aircooling anyways?

Originally posted by: Markfw900


what is borging ?

"Apprehending" computing cycles from work computers. AKA if you work IT, then on off hours running F@H on servers, workstations, etc at your job.

 

[Pokey]

I'm in.........................:thumbsup:

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Count me in...though my production has been pretty stagnant and all these new folks have flown past me...I'll still give it a go!

 

[Pokey]

I know this has been discussed and I have searched back through previous threads. But I am still slightly confused, so I think I will just ask?????????

Let?s just say someone were to come upon a quad core and wanted to also run a gpu client. What I think I know at this point is that a single SMP client and a single GPU client would work on this hypothetical rig. Am I close? I see indications in Mark?s sig. that it is being done, as well as some of Mark and Sid?s posts with others, but I have not yet found a ?guide? for this.

Any gentle nudges appreciated. Hypothetically speaking of course.................. :evil:

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: Pokey
I know this has been discussed and I have searched back through previous threads. But I am still slightly confused, so I think I will just ask?????????

Let?s just say someone were to come upon a quad core and wanted to also run a gpu client. What I think I know at this point is that a single SMP client and a single GPU client would work on this hypothetical rig. Am I close? I see indications in Mark?s sig. that it is being done, as well as some of Mark and Sid?s posts with others, but I have not yet found a ?guide? for this.

Any gentle nudges appreciated. Hypothetically speaking of course.................. :evil:

Yes you can. Thing is, and I have worked with them in 4 differant ways;

1 gpu by itself = max pionts for Gpu
1 smp and Gpu= max pionts for smp and reduces points for Gpu
2 smp and Gpu= max points smp and really reduces Gpu
also 2 smp = max pionts.
Keep in mind when adding Gpu, the Smp's take a time hit so it may take a bit longer.

 

[Insidious]

If you create and then set a windows system environment variable named NV_FAH_CPU_AFFINITY to the value of 0 you will see your GPU and your SMP clients each very closely approach their respective values they would achieve if they were run seperately. (I run 2 GPUs and one SMP on each quad for 13K+ PPD on each machine.)

If you need more details, just PM me and I'll try to help.

-Sid

 

[petrusbroder]

Please see 1:st post for news.

 

[Cutthroat]

Count me in, I have a couple of machines I need to re-borg.

 

[Gravity]

I'm in. I have a few dozen machines that aren't doing anything and a lab that needs rebuilding.

Keep folding,

Gravity

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: Gravity
I'm in. I have a few dozen machines that aren't doing anything and a lab that needs rebuilding.

Keep folding,

Gravity

A few dozen machines!!:shocked::shocked: