Stupid project 638!

DryFire · **Posted:** Wed Oct 15, 2003 3:37 pm

I keep getting these project 638 WU's. (actaully it seems to be any 6xx WU)

they take a whole friggen day or more on my box. and they're worth like 32 points.

curses.

NeilBlanchard · **Posted:** Fri Oct 17, 2003 7:32 pm

Hello:

A 683 (did you swap digits around?) on my Athlon 700 Classic is going to take ~148 hours! That's 60 points in over 6 days -- less than 10 points/day...

To add to that, I tried bumping my oc on my fast machine up by 26mHz and a 60 pointer got corrupted at 98%! THEN, the next day, my cat barfed on the UPS, which shorted it out and I lost about 12 hours there...sheesh! :roll:

DonP · **Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:05 am

NeilBlanchard wrote:

..To add to that, I tried bumping my oc on my fast machine up by 26mHz and a 60 pointer got corrupted at 98%! THEN, the next day, my cat barfed on the UPS, which shorted it out and I lost about 12 hours there...sheesh! :roll:

So what's this? The latest excuses on why the homework hasn't been done? I remember even in my day "The dog ate it" didn't really work.. I think I'll try the cat barfing on the UPS next..

dukla2000 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:08 am

This is my latest excuse - can't explain it as on a stock P3 laptop :cry:

Quote:

[12:50:37] Completed 250000 out of 250000 steps (100)
[12:50:42] Writing final coordinates.
[12:50:45] Past main M.D. loop
[12:51:45]
[12:51:45] Finished Work Unit:
[12:51:45] - Reading up to 1037064 from "work/wudata_01.arc": Read 1037064
[12:51:45] - Reading up to 1059576 from "work/wudata_01.xtc": Read 1059576
[12:51:45] - Length of file read from disk doesn't match what expected (work/wudata_01.xtc)
[12:51:45]
[12:51:45] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FILE_IO_ERROR
[12:51:48] CoreStatus = 75 (117)
[12:51:48] Error opening or reading from a file.
[12:51:48] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[12:51:53] + Attempting to get work packet

DryFire · **Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:50 am

yeah i think i did switch up the numbers but it looks like they have passed and i'm getting more reasonable ones.

NeilBlanchard · **Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 7:21 pm

Hello:

Well, they have not *all* been finished -- my fast machine is churning through one, and it will take almost 50 hours!

At that rate, it should be worth at least 100 points; rather than the 60 that it is. Thankfully, my slow machine will FINALLY be done with a 683 sometime tomorrow morning -- AFTER SIX AND HALF DAYS, so I won't have another 0 point day tomorrow... :shock:

I gotta get me another fast machine...maybe there is an Athlon 64 in my future?

wussboy · **Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:54 pm

edited because I'm an idiot and not really funny.

sbabb · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:28 am

So I've just switched from the Stanford GUI client to Electron Microscope and if I'm reading it right, the p683 W/U that I've been grinding through will only be worth 60 points when it finishes tomorrow?

Looks like your lead is safe for now, DryFire!

We seem to finish W/Us at about the same rate, but yours are worth more than mine.

DryFire · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:54 pm

yeah well i got those. it's a big pain eh sbabb?

well i might be getting anthor box soon. so hopefully we will never cross paths.

Stupid project 638!

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