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Post by dgouldin » Fri May 09, 2003 10:18 pm

I just had to make a post about this, and I didn't feel like it was important enough for its own thread: my brother is now folding for SPCR (even though he's not a forum member). Collin_Gouldin is now part of the folding team.

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Brothers don't shake hands. Brothers gotta fold!

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Post by rpc180 » Sat May 10, 2003 4:58 am

Woohoo! Milestone! I just hit 1000pts :)

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Post by fmah » Sat May 10, 2003 7:22 am

We have hit 80!

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Post by aristide1 » Sat May 10, 2003 7:26 am

Folding@Home2 Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
CoreStatus = 64 (100)
Sending work to server
My first one.

Question, how soon will I be knighted by the Queen?
OK how about how soon will my results get posted?

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Post by riffst3r » Sat May 10, 2003 8:11 am

rpc180 wrote:Woohoo! Milestone! I just hit 1000pts :)
i beat you to it mwuahahaha :twisted: ,watchout, i'm gunning for ya. :D

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Post by rpc180 » Sat May 10, 2003 10:57 am

I'm checking us all the time, we're within 20 points of each other, so its going to be place swapping unless one of us runs into a low end gromacs or a tinker ... :evil:

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I've got a 70.9 point Tinker

Post by NeilBlanchard » Sat May 10, 2003 6:18 pm

Hello:

I've got a Tinker core WU -- 393 p638_L939_K12M-ext -- that is only going to take my #1 Athlon 2100+ (@2gHz = ~2400+) 22 hours! 8)

OTOH, the #2 Athlon ~2400+ has got a 40.6 point Tinker that will take almost the same time...and my Athlon 700 will take about 62 hours to crunch a different 40.6 point Tinker core WU! :?

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Post by Athlon Powers » Sun May 11, 2003 9:07 am

Im on the team! Ill probably show up when my rig finishes this first WU.

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While we are on the subject of firsts

Post by NeilBlanchard » Mon May 12, 2003 7:47 am

Hello:

I've decided to run SuSE 8.2 Pro as the main OS on my second machine, and not only did I get the Linux F@H client running again (easier this time -- I'm learning as I go along!), I also got a monitoring program to work as well. Here is the page where I found the Linux utilities; and they have a very complete set of links for Windows as well:

Folding@Home & Genome@Home utilites

Another very useful place to go for help with Folding@Home is their BBS:

Folding-Community.org

It will look very familiar, as they use the same software as SPRC! :o

I also got the Linux SETI client as well as KSETIwatch running. Linux takes some getting used to, but it also gets more enjoyable as I go along!

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Post by aristide1 » Tue May 13, 2003 6:08 pm

Wow, last I looked we were at 80 now we're at 74. I wonder what other people think.

Out of our way :!:

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Post by aristide1 » Wed May 14, 2003 4:16 am

Well this is an unwelcome surprise. I made 2 upgrades last night. I added another 256MB of RAMM and set it to CAS 2. Then I upgraded myGeForce 2 card to a GeForce FX 5200. After driver installation I noted a longer faster screen refreshes, but a longer boot up time. And now I'm doing a frame in 11 minutes. I have to add I started a new work unit, so I am not sure if this WU is more resource hungry than the last one, or if my video card is more resource hungry.

Have you seen different times for frames with different work units? This WU will take me very long time to finish.

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Post by Rusty075 » Wed May 14, 2003 6:53 am

Radeonman wrote:Rusty is on my conquest list!

I'll catch him on Mar 31, 2022 at 11:00 PM
Lol. I guess I'd better get cracking now :lol:

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Post by aristide1 » Wed May 14, 2003 7:08 am

I wonder if Radeonman factored in how many upgrades he would need over the next 20 years.

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Yes, different WU's take very different lengths of time...

Post by NeilBlanchard » Wed May 14, 2003 7:16 am

Hello:
aristide1 wrote:Well this is an unwelcome surprise. I made 2 upgrades last night. I added another 256MB of RAMM and set it to CAS 2. Then I upgraded myGeForce 2 card to a GeForce FX 5200. After driver installation I noted a longer faster screen refreshes, but a longer boot up time. And now I'm doing a frame in 11 minutes. I have to add I started a new work unit, so I am not sure if this WU is more resource hungry than the last one, or if my video card is more resource hungry.

Have you seen different times for frames with different work units? This WU will take me very long time to finish.
I don't know about the video card, but yes, different work units take very different amounts of time to complete. They are working on different protein molecules, so there is more or less work to do "folding" them! Even with the same number of frames...

Are you running the graphical version of F@H? Can you suppress all the graphics? If so, I bet that's why the video card affects the speed, and it might mean that the new nVidia driver is not optimized yet.

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Post by aristide1 » Wed May 14, 2003 8:23 am

different work units take very different amounts of time to complete.
That's good to know. Wish I had changed video cards after running my 3rd WU for a while, just to establish a baseline.

Went to NVidia's website and downloaded newer drivers. That didn't help. So I'll wait till this WU is finished and then see how the next one is. The only yucky part is this one will take me almost a whole week.

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Post by Wrah » Wed May 14, 2003 9:05 am

You also get more points for the longer WU's. Unfortunately it's not allways proportional. A WU that takes twice the amount of time won't allways give you twice the amount of points.
You can look up how much points you're gonna got for that WU here.

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Post by aristide1 » Wed May 14, 2003 9:15 am

I recently dropped my ram to 2, kicked about 10-20 seconds per frame ... extrapolated, 10 sec * 100 frames (gromacs) = 1000 / 60 = 16.7 minutes speed up. Or 20 secs -> ~30 minutes speed up.
Yeah from my playing around I'm guessing 20-30 second reduction per frame on my PIII, RAM running at 133MHz.

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Post by Rusty075 » Wed May 14, 2003 10:50 am

aristide1 wrote:I wonder if Radeonman factored in how many upgrades he would need over the next 20 years.
Or how many upgrades I will have over the next 20 years. :lol:

My machine is only 3 months old and I'm starting to get the itch for an upgrade.

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Post by wussboy » Wed May 14, 2003 11:54 am

Ha ha ha. That oil thing still makes me chuckle.

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Post by Rusty075 » Wed May 14, 2003 1:43 pm

I'm glad you can laugh at my misfortune. :wink:

Radeonman, you just wait until I fire up the 10Ghz, quad processor, Vaseline cooled behemoth I've got planned. Then we'll see who has the last laugh. :P

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Post by AndrewC » Wed May 14, 2003 1:52 pm

From the sound of that I hope you've lost your credit card!:D

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Post by Rusty075 » Wed May 14, 2003 1:55 pm

Luckily the lack of success (so far) in finding a "real" job after graduation has limited my ability to waste money on any more wacky computer building schemes.


Speaking of which, does anyone know of any architecture firms that are looking to hire an Intern? :wink:

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Post by DaShiv » Wed May 14, 2003 2:17 pm

Oil, vaseline, this silencing thing is really beginning to sound kinky... :)

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Post by Wrah » Wed May 14, 2003 2:41 pm

Not to mention harddisks wrapped in rubber.

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Post by wussboy » Thu May 15, 2003 7:22 pm

:shudder:

So what's with these Knights who so recently said "Ni"? Now they're gonna pass us in July! I'm not encouraging any hackers here to crash their computers, but I do have a $50 bill in an envelope waiting to be addressed to someone...

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Post by riffst3r » Thu May 15, 2003 8:28 pm

get yourself a 1800+... then add an ecs mobo... then 256mb of ram... then a powersupply... then learn linux and use ltsp.... then do it all over again :D

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Post by DaShiv » Thu May 15, 2003 8:31 pm

No Luke! Beware of the Dark Side! Once you start buying more hardware to fold with, there's no turning back... :)

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Post by aristide1 » Fri May 16, 2003 5:07 am

I feel the Dark Side tempting me as we speak.
What to do?
:?

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