Enough is enough. Tinkered to death

burcakb · Post by **burcakb** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:51 pm

I've gotten my 8th consecutive 200+ Tinker. The worst hit is on the Centrino that takes about 90 hours to crunch these critters. All of the P4s and the Centrino have -advmethods enabled and consistently get Tinkered.

Ok, I'm going to break some records when they finally finish but ....4 DAYS FOR ONE WU ?

Michael_qrt · Post by **Michael_qrt** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:37 am

Heh, it could be worse, they could be the old p638s which were 128pts and took just as long as the 200+ tinkers. The 200+ point tinkers should be fairly well adjusted for P4 users and line up nicely with the gromacs units. For AMD users like me the 200+ tinkers are wonderful, I wish thwy were all I got. only the Dgros are better and they are very rare it seems.

Just think of it as letting me stay ahead of you for a few more days. I mean once you return 8 200+ work units you will go streaming by me into the first page!

Just by the way I didn't realise that the pentium M was so bad at tinkers, how is it for gromacs units?

burcakb · Post by **burcakb** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:17 pm

10 tinkers

They ARE p638s (at least 4 of them are) and I got one of them BEFORE the points change so that turned out to be 128 pts.

Centrino does OK with gromacs. Tinkers heat the hell out of it though and the notebook fan is almost always on.

The P4s are crunching away at the tinkers not too badly but compared with the Athlons at home they sTinker. My 2000+ pally folds tinkers as fast as 2.4 Ghz P4s. Some of the P4s I'm using are 2.0, one of them is 1.8GHz so they fold slowly. If I could just overclock that Barton a little more...

I can't turn all 8 at once, but...

A Tinker A Day Keeps You Folding Away....

PS: keep ahead of me? what's that?

Oh you mean Yesterday before I passed you by 5 places.

Michael_qrt · Post by **Michael_qrt** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:21 am

Well Mr bigshot, I do only have 1 CPU folding for me at the moment so I'm surprised you took so long to pass me by!

Anyway, you shouldn't complain about the big tinks, not now that they're starting to pay out for you.

tomcat · Post by **tomcat** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:57 am

aargh, another tinker storm

i have 8 P638, 2 P680 and 2 P678

oh, and 3 gros with 91,91 and 128pts

why does a P638 take 9:43min on the P4 2.8 and only 4:37min on the AMD XP 3200+? At least that gives 186PPD!

Oh well, another dive in daily production ... until they finish in about 2 days

Markus

haysdb · Post by **haysdb** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:38 am

tomcat wrote:why does a P638 take 9:43min on the P4 2.8 and only 4:37min on the AMD XP 3200+?

Are you running two clients on the P4?

David

tomcat · Post by **tomcat** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:02 am

silly me, of course i run two clients on the HT P4. This means it's more like 2 times 86 PPD, which equals 172PPD. I feel better about the P4 now

Thanks for reminding me, david

Markus

AZBrandon · Post by **AZBrandon** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:58 pm

You wanna hear a good one? I decided to put my P4-Celeron back into service recently, which I had stopped using on account of the fact.. um.. it's a Celeron. I had gotten I think 5 or 6 Gromacs, each one folding at a reliable 58-59ppd.

Then I get tinkered with a 239 pointer and I figured that system would be doomed for a week. I let it run a few frames though and was astonished to see it registering 103ppd. That's like a 75% improvement. Who would have guessed? I know Celerons are dreadfully unpopular for folding, but has anyone else heard of the tinkers being the best performing proteins for the P4-Celeron?

Zyzzyx · Post by **Zyzzyx** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:15 pm

Ah, life really is much simpler not worrying about what WU my systems are crunching away. Just let things happen as they may.

Does this mean its less of a hobby now? Dunno. Maybe.

haysdb · Post by **haysdb** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:14 am

13 of my 14 clients have 237 to 249 point Tinkers. My PPW is way up, but my points for yesterday were the lowest they have been in 18 days. That just means today should be a good day.

As a team, we took a huge hit today, posting over 10K less than our average, but I assume things will even out over the next few days.

Because of this dip, our overtake of MacRumors has been delayed.

David

Putz · Post by **Putz** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 1:59 pm

haysdb wrote:13 of my 14 clients have 237 to 249 point Tinkers. My PPW is way up

Probably because most of your folding muscle is made by AMD (as is mine).

I'm loving the Tinkers (PPW way up); if anybody wants to send me their work folders whenever they get Tinkers, I'd be happy to trade for some Gromacs!

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:44 pm

My 4-way lab-machine had 4 tinkers running in parallel at one time. That was quite amusing ... but, MAN, those critters take ages to do...