The 3rd Folding@Home Holiday Season Race in December 2008

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: biodoc
Hey Folders...you're falling behind!

:beer:

Hmm, my two quad-core rigs have mobos with three PCI-E slots. But there don't seem to be any cheap Nvidia cruching cards anymore at NewEgg.
I do have four HD4850 cards that I was planning on using with those two rigs. How well do those crunch?

 

[PCTC2]

According to the GPU Results thread we had a while back, each HD4850 should get around 2000 PPD, but if you OC them, maybe up to 2400 PPD. Fire them up!

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: biodoc
Hey Folders...you're falling behind!

:beer:

Hmm, my two quad-core rigs have mobos with three PCI-E slots. But there don't seem to be any cheap Nvidia cruching cards anymore at NewEgg.
I do have four HD4850 cards that I was planning on using with those two rigs. How well do those crunch?

This 9800 GT I have 2 of, and they get over 4000 ppd, and are $104 after rebate.

Edit: one is doing 4500, and one 3500. It could be that the other slot is 4x or something.

 

[petrusbroder]

The teams' stats as of December 04, 20:45 UTC:

The Folders
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
Dec. 1 ________ Dec. 1 ______ Dec.04 ________ Dec. 04 ________ in Dec. ______ past day_______________
_____ 0 _____ _ 134 846 ______ 1 051 _______ _ 142 206 ________ 7 360 _________ 3 520 _______ [TA]Assimilator1
__4 271 _____ 1 902 475 ______ 6 520 _______ 1 924 059 _______ 21 584 _________ 6 699 _______ Cutthroat
__5 870 ____ __ 836 014 ______ 5 693 _______ _ 875 865 _______ 39 851 ________ 12 706 _______ Drsignguy
_65 769 ____ 15 196 034 _____ 60 321 ______ 15 432 638 ______ 236 604 ________ 48 989 _______ Gravity
_14 646 _____ 2 137 843 _____ 14 204 _______ 2 196 438 _______ 58 595 ________ 12 681 _______ jonesthewine
__3 855 ____ __ 701 617 ______ 4 097 _______ _ 719 135 _______ 17 518 _________ 5 516 _______ m1ldslide1
_____ 0 ____ __ 629 388 _____ __ 749 _______ _ 634 634 ________ 5 246 _________ 2 880 _______ paulnt04 = PCTC2*
__5 382 _____ 1 730 509 ______ 6 146 _______ 1 756 825 _______ 26 316 _________ 4 951 _______ Pokey_TA
__5 510 _____ __ 34 764 ______ 8 919 _______ __ 72 728 _______ 37 964 ________ 10 393 _______ VirtualLarry
105 303 ____ 23 303 490 ____ 107 700 ______ 23 754 528 ______ 451 038 _______ 108 335 _______ Sum for the Folders


TaAm AnandTech Sentinels (TAS)
ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
Dec. 1 ________ Dec. 1 ______ Dec.04 ________ Dec. 04 ________ in Dec. ______ past day_______________
____274 _____ __ 33 556 _____ __ 841 _______ __ 39 444 ________ 5 888 ________ __ 745 _______ Baldurs_Gate
_13 522 _____ 1 531 760 _____ 22 900 _______ 1 634 093 ______ 102 333 ________ 27 292 _______ biodoc
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 ______ 1 778 _______ __ 12 446 _______ 12 446 _________ 4 001 _______ Chocobo_Navy
__2 856 _____ 2 562 004 ______ 2 139 _______ 2 571 960 ________ 9 956 _________ 1 852 _______ GLeeM
__3 874 _____ 2 480 959 ______ 3 369 _______ 2 492 259 _______ 11 300 _________ 5 541 _______ Hurricane Andrew
_28 657 _____ 6 099 931 _____ 27 999 _______ 6 213 203 ______ 113 272 ________ 27 632 _______ Insidious*
_10 971 _____ 2 018 284 _____ 11 932 _______ 2 071 354 _______ 53 070 ________ 12 221 _______ Lightstar
_52 968 ____ 12 408 074 _____ 49 797 ______ 12 607 477 ______ 199 403 ________ 54 645 _______ Markfw900
__3 566 ____ __ 943 946 ______ 3 752 _______ _ 962 088 _______ 18 142 _________ 5 216 _______ Neurodog
_____ 0 ____ ___ 25 758 ______ 1 051 _______ __ 33 118 ________ 7 360 _________ 3 680 _______ rabrittain
___ 949 ____ __ 446 828 _____ __ 909 _______ _ 450 448 ________ 3 620 ________ __ 960 _______ TAS-petrusbroder
__6 773 _____ 2 082 441 ______ 6 966 _______ 2 109 771 _______ 27 330 _________ 8 475 _______ TurtleBlue
__1 728 ____ __ 482 339 ______ 1 366 _______ _ 487 777 ________ 5 438 _________ 2 143 _______ Tom_Philippart
126 138 ____ 31 115 880 ____ 134 799 ______ 31 685 438 ______ 569 558 _______ 154 403 _______ Sum for TAS


Difference between the Racing teams:
Day 1 __________ 62 029 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 2 __________ 10 423 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 2 __________ 46 068 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Difference: ___ _ 118 520 points ________ TAS in the lead.

In the past day the two teams produced 262 738 points! Well done!
In December, the two teams produced 1 020 596 points!

 

[Insidious]

Thanks for the update Peter! :beer:

You think they got the message? TAS is not ferking around this year!!!

Everybody keep on tippy-toeing... I think the folders are sleeping..... don't wake them up :laugh:

-Sid

 

[Markfw]

I think the folders are sleeping

Not Gravity....

Originally posted by: Gravity
Bringing in more hardware..........

Keep folding,

Gravity!

(but then again thats because of my new box coming today, I am sure....)

 

[Pokey]

Thanks for the stats Peter.................. :|

To THE FOLDERS:

It IS disturbing that TAS is so far ahead already but the truth is we are out-producing them on a per racer/day point production. Unless my abacus is badly flawed, :disgust: we are just badly out numbered.
It is early in the race yet so anything can happen, but I suggest we have Mark tie one hand behind his back and Sid have a few more beers :beer: so that maybe he will take a nap. (a long nap)

Looks like we are in for a long month??????????..
and
Pande lab is in for a good month. :thumbsup:

 

[Insidious]

:beer: ................ BURRRRRRRRRRRRP

I got the MacBook running

:beer:

 

[PCTC2]

Hey guys, yeah, folders are not sleeping. We're just on hiatus. They're missing 8k PPD from me.

Yeah, my main server first needed to be reformatted, which I thought was ok because it's been going for a while and needed to be cleaned. But then my Microsoft Windows Server 2008 MAK reached its limit so I couldn't activate and then apparently the memory controller on it died so my main server is down and I had to off-load all of its virtual clients and services onto other servers, which were already loaded. This means I can't run F@H because of too much overhead on the hardware. I was going to re-do all of the servers with 64-bit Linux so I could do SMP, but now that I have no backup servers I have no down-time and I cannot run F@H. I am going to try to convince some friends to run it, or find some computers with downtime at work, but I doubt I will.

So, that was my explanation, so maybe I'll see what will happen.

 

[petrusbroder]

Hang in there --- you may even assimilate or borgh some comps.
Just as soon as the server is up, commit to its job and then ... fold some more.

We are keeping the porch light on for you!

 

[Gravity]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

I think the folders are sleeping

Not Gravity....

Originally posted by: Gravity
Bringing in more hardware..........

Keep folding,

Gravity!

(but then again thats because of my new box coming today, I am sure....)

You are 100% correct as always my folding friend! Brown truck brought 260 core 216 yesterday. Not sure where to put it but I have a few options.

Turned 4 boxes on that were off due to power blink a few days ago.

Racing,

Gravity

 

[Markfw]

Well, I am sure the 4 boxes, and the 260 will raise you well over this 65k PPD but I at least am trying....

And I only have room for 3 more video cards.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

anyone want a new folder on their team? =)

 

[petrusbroder]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
anyone want a new folder on their team? =)

Sure, no problem, you'd be welcome!
What is your name in Folding@Home? I searched for DLeRium but did not find anything.
Oh, BTW,. you also must be a member of TeAm AnandTech (Team# 198).
If you want, you can PM me your name ...

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks for the stats Petrus , we closed in alot on TAS on the 3rd .

Originally posted by: DLeRium
anyone want a new folder on their team? =)

Yea definitly!, one of our fleet is adrift in space so we could do with reinforcements

PCTC2
Sorry to hear your ship's adrift in space , I hope you can get it fixed soon.

Drsignguy
Lol, what did you get out of that P4? (what speed is it?).

Originally posted by: biodoc

Originally posted by: Assimilator1

Originally posted by: Insidious
Thanks for the scores Peter!

I hope all these bent protiens don's shift the magnetic poles! :roll:

-Sid

AS1: RAM speed has little or no affect on the SMP production rate. It's all
CPU speed. No reason to heat it up unless you need the bandwidth for gaming or something else.

Wierd! ,opposite to SETI & DPAD!, you would think it would matter *shrug*

The big L2 cache (2x4MB) of the Q6600s also is important for FAH SMP WUs peformance.

:beer:

Good that I have a Q6600 then .

 

[petrusbroder]

Let us welcome theAnimal to The Folders!

 

[rabrittain]

Hi guys and gals (and others too)!!

I have a problem.

Yesterday the SMP client (on my machine that has XP x64 installed) crapped out. There was a little box that said that the folding program had encountered a serious problem and had to be shut down. I rebooted and encountered a BSOD. I had to go and couldn't get back toit till this morning. I powered up and started the SMP client. Same problem. I deleted everything in the Work folder and started again. Same problem. I'm thinking that I should uninstall the client and install the latest SMP client for windows and retry.

I would love to hear from anyone who has encountered a similar problem.

Rex

 

[Insidious]

I haven't had BSOD issues with the SMP. (there are some bad WUs that end early, but don't crash me)

I hate this to be my first advise, but with the BSOD in the picture it really sounds like a RAM or CPU overclocking issue. The SMP client pushes hardware very hard and sometimes otherwise 'stable' installations show their true colors when it's run.

My best suggestion would be drop to stock clocks, do a fresh install and see if it runs that way. (memtest86+ might be a good thing to try for one or two test sets just to check out that RAM). If it still won't run, there is probably an issue with hardware that is just surfacing in your system.

might want to double-check The SMP installation guide

Good Luck
(the race gremlins are at your house........... :shocked: )

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Thanks for the stats Petrus , we closed in alot on TAS on the 3rd .

Originally posted by: DLeRium
anyone want a new folder on their team? =)

Yea definitly!, one of our fleet is adrift in space so we could do with reinforcements

PCTC2
Sorry to hear your ship's adrift in space , I hope you can get it fixed soon.

Drsignguy
Lol, what did you get out of that P4? (what speed is it?).

Assimilator1, I have a 2.53 OC to 2.85 and tried a couple of different ways, for the time to complete and the amount of points each WU was worth, it just wasn't worth the effort. Compared to the dual core, core2duo and quad cores, Nah, :roll:

Originally posted by: Insidious
I haven't had BSOD issues with the SMP. (there are some bad WUs that end early, but don't crash me)

I hate this to be my first advise, but with the BSOD in the picture it really sounds like a RAM or CPU overclocking issue. The SMP client pushes hardware very hard and sometimes otherwise 'stable' installations show their true colors when it's run.

My best suggestion would be drop to stock clocks, do a fresh install and see if it runs that way. (memtest86+ might be a good thing to try for one or two test sets just to check out that RAM). If it still won't run, there is probably an issue with hardware that is just surfacing in your system.
might want to double-check The SMP installation guide

Good Luck
(the race gremlins are at your house........... :shocked: )

SID, that is solid advise as in most cases with BSOD is instability.

rabrittain, If you think you are close with your OC, use Intel's burn test. you will be able to know within 10 minutes if it stable or not. If the numbers match, then you're golden. If not, then you have to determine what causing your instability. Just make sure you have the Ram set to 1:1 to get it out of the OC equation.....Keep us informed.....

 

[petrusbroder]

The teams' stats as of December 05, 21:45 UTC:

The Folders
<ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Dec.05 ________ Dec. 05 ________ in Dec. ______ past day_______________
_____ 0 _____ _ 134 846 ______ 1 600 _______ _ 146 046 _______ 11 200 _________ 3 840 _______ [TA]Assimilator1
__4 271 _____ 1 902 475 ______ 6 428 _______ 1 930 491 _______ 28 016 _________ 6 432 _______ Cutthroat
__5 870 ____ __ 836 014 ______ 6 949 _______ _ 884 658 _______ 48 644 _________ 8 793 _______ Drsignguy
_65 769 ____ 15 196 034 _____ 58 903 ______ 15 484 192 ______ 288 158 ________ 51 554 _______ Gravity
_14 646 _____ 2 137 843 _____ 14 010 _______ 2 210 061 _______ 72 218 ________ 13 623 _______ jonesthewine
__3 855 ____ __ 701 617 ______ 4 049 _______ _ 722 778 _______ 21 161 _________ 3 643 _______ m1ldslide1
_____ 0 ____ __ 629 388 _____ __ 784 _______ _ 634 870 ________ 5 482 ________ __ 236 _______ paulnt04 = PCTC2*
__5 382 _____ 1 730 509 ______ 6 718 _______ 1 766 682 _______ 36 173 _________ 9 857 _______ Pokey_TA
___ 957 _____ __ 12 657 _____ __ 957 _______ __ 14 381 ________ 1 724 _________ 1 724 _______ theAnimal
___ 239 _____ __ 13 862 _____ __ 239 _______ __ 13 862 _______ ____ 0 ________ ____ 0 _______ TA_andy
__5 510 _____ __ 34 764 _____ 89 980 _______ __ 86 291____ ___ 51 527 ________ 13 563 _______ VirtualLarry
105 303 ____ 23 303 490 ____ 110 617 ______ 23 894 312 ______ 564 303 _______ 113 265 _______ Sum for the Folders


TaAm AnandTech Sentinels (TAS)
<ppd __________ points ________ ppd __________ points _________ points _______ points _________ Name
at start _______ at start ______ Dec.05 ________ Dec. 05 ________ in Dec. ______ past day_______________
___ 274 _____ __ 33 556 _____ __ 975 _______ __ 40 380 ________ 6 824 ________ __ 936 _______ Baldurs_Gate
_13 522 _____ 1 531 760 _____ 24 236 _______ 1 660 555 ______ 128 795 ________ 26 462 _______ biodoc
_____ 0 _____ ___ ___ 0 ______ 2 353 _______ __ 16 468 _______ 16 468 _________ 4 022 _______ Chocobo_Navy
__2 856 _____ 2 562 004 ______ 2 017 _______ 2 572 890 _______ 10 886 ________ __ 930 _______ GLeeM
__3 874 _____ 2 480 959 ______ 3 438 _______ 2 495 401 _______ 14 442 _________ 3 142 _______ Hurricane Andrew
_28 657 _____ 6 099 931 _____ 28 192 _______ 6 240 620 ______ 140 689 ________ 27 417 _______ Insidious*
_10 971 _____ 2 018 284 _____ 12 581 _______ 2 083 574 _______ 65 290 ________ 12 220 _______ Lightstar
_52 968 ____ 12 408 074 _____ 50 362 ______ 12 656 522 ______ 248 448 ________ 49 045 _______ Markfw900
__3 566 ____ __ 943 946 ______ 4 144 _______ _ 966 625 _______ 22 679 _________ 4 537 _______ Neurodog
_____ 0 ____ ___ 25 758 ______ 1 051 _______ __ 33 118 ________ 7 360 ________ ____ 0 _______ rabrittain
___ 949 ____ __ 446 828 _____ __ 956 _______ _ 451 678 ________ 4 850 _________ 1 230 _______ TAS-petrusbroder
__6 773 _____ 2 082 441 ______ 6 733 _______ 2 115 953 _______ 33 512 _________ 6 182 _______ TurtleBlue
__1 728 ____ __ 482 339 ______ 1 508 ____ ____ 488 768 ________ 6 429 ________ __ 991 _______ Tom_Philippart
126 138 ____ 31 115 880 ____ 138 546 ______ 31 822 552 ______ 706 672 _______ 137 114 _______ Sum for TAS


Difference between the Racing teams:
Day 1 __________ 62 029 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 2 __________ 10 423 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 3 __________ 46 068 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Day 4 __________ 23 849 points ________ TAS wins this day!
Difference: __ __ 142 369 points ________ TAS in the lead.

In the past day the two teams produced 250 379 points! Well done!
In December, the two teams produced 1 270 975 points!

 

[rabrittain]

Welcome theAnimal!!

Thanks for the advice Insidious and Drsignguy.

That machine is pretty much stock. I uninstalled the client. I even seached the registry for any leftovers and deleted them. I reinstalled and reconfigured the client, and it's running OK right now. If the problem comes back, I'll definitely run memtest and (will Intel's Burn Test work on an AMD cpu ?) prime95 and anything else I can find to narrow down this problem. The memory is very slightly OC'd - maybe I have a problem lurking in a corner somewhere.

The other machine is set up pretty much the same - I realize that different problems can show up on different machines, even when it's the same mobo and cpu.

We'll have to see what happens.

 

[Drsignguy]

I am sure you can use Intel's burn test with AMD without a problem. In the past, I have noticed that sometimes you might think your system is stable, it could turn out that a notch up in voltage is all it takes to become absoultly sure. Intel's burn test solved those problems for me. It's pretty straight up as once you see the numbers, and all is the same, all is good. If numbers are different, you know right away and you can make adjustments. Ever since I've been using it, not 1 glitch........




Thanks for the Stats Peter! Appriciate your work!

 

[Insidious]

Thanks for the stats today Peter!

:music: :music: :beer: :music: :music:

Looks like the Folders cut the gap in half.... in one day :shocked:

Do I really have to tell them WTG? Or can I just slink off and try to figure out where to get an extra cycle or two?

:laugh:

NICE JOB EVERYONE!

(you knew I'd do the right thing )

-Sid

 

[biodoc]

Gee Sid...I had no idea they would start recruiting!:shocked:

Welcome to the race theAnimal!!

hmmm..may have to put my macbook into action too.

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: biodoc
Gee Sid...I had no idea they would start recruiting!:shocked:

Welcome to the race theAnimal!!

hmmm..may have to put my macbook into action too.

They're sneaky :evil:

The MacBook (Core Duo, OSX) is getting about 1,100 PPD running the universal installer version of SMP.
I put it on a cooling rack that I usually use to put pans from the oven on to cool. It doesn't seem like it is getting too hot. (The little fan is spinning it's little heart out though)

What we won't do...