SPCR Folds Team Blog

cordis · Post by **cordis** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:31 pm

Thanks KansaKilla, and don't think nobody has noticed that you've popped up to #2 in the producers list. Very nice!

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:09 pm

I will maintain my pace for the rest of the month. After that some changes are in order. As of today I am officially unemployed.

Save a planet - eat a banker.

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:36 pm

Aris, I sorry to hear this.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:17 pm

It's not all bad. I've been working on a degree for 5 years part time. Now I can finish faster.

cordis · Post by **cordis** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:09 pm

Hey, sorry Aristide, that's pretty rough. And given the time of year, dude, that just bites. I hope the degree goes well, I'm sure you'll do great with it. And don't be a stranger, just because you aren't folding doesn't mean you can't come by and post every once in a while, alright?

KansaKilla · Post by **KansaKilla** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:55 am

I'm really sorry to hear that, Aris. Kinda gives you a "bah, humbug" feeling right now, huh?

That said, Merry Christmas anyway, to you and all the others. May the next year be better than this last one.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 8:59 am

I was upset for about 2 days, and then I felt relief. A little less folding and a cheaper cell phone are in the near future, not huge changes. But also more exercise, a welcome addition.

coweater58 · Post by **coweater58** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:00 pm

i have switched teams. I am now folding for spcr i was on team pimprig.

cordis · Post by **cordis** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:52 pm

Welcome aboard, glad to have you! Are you folding under coweater58 or a different name?

coweater58 · Post by **coweater58** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:11 pm

yes, it's under coweater58. my dsl modem went down last night so now it can't upload a few WU i have

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:09 pm

Welcome to our team! It looks like 3 WU's have been credited so far:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&u=491360

coweater58 · Post by **coweater58** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:24 pm

My Modem is fixed should see a few more WU soon.

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:01 am

Checking your stats page (that I linked to above) it looks like 5 more got uploaded in short order! Good work.

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:08 am

WOHOOOO !!!!!!!!!!

I'm number ONE 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

(on page 2 for the SPCR team of the extremeoverclocking stats page)

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =31574&p=2

I'll shut up now, until I get to page one, and then I'll watch the best folders of our team fly by....

But my secret dezire to conquer ze world remainz intact.... one day pinky... one day...

cordis · Post by **cordis** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:48 am

Hey, that's great, and only another couple days before you get to page 1. I remember the thrill I got seeing my name on that page, and not having to look through all the other pages to find my name. Awesome!

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:28 pm

+1 for enthusiasm

Congrats, but don't hang there too long.

Aris

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:30 pm

With more idle time (me not the GPUs) I will try to post more human interest stories on the OT section.

PaleMelanesian · Post by **PaleMelanesian** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:07 am

I'm back! It's been a couple years since I've been folding, for various reasons. I've got a new machine at work - P8800 - 2.66 GHz core2 duo laptop. It's folding with 2 instances (max on both cores) and nearly silent still.

I'm at rank 153 now, but plan to climb my way out of that pit.

cordis · Post by **cordis** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:26 pm

Cool, glad to have you on board!

frenchie · Post by **frenchie** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 1:32 pm

Yeah, another folder !!!!!!!!
GO SPCR !!

(I'm on page 1 now

)

cordis · Post by **cordis** » Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:19 am

Yep, there you are, now you'll have to find a new hill to climb. Maybe getting into the top 50? Keep on trucking!

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 6:56 pm

Wow, one of my PCs is working on an SMP unit, project 2665, the big one.

While checkpoints vary from 20 to 45 minutes usually a couple of checkpoints on this particular one it's current working on took in excess of 3.5 hours

I've never seen anything like this before. The remainder seem to have returned to about 26 minutes. I actually thought it was stuck at one point, shut it down and restarted and waited overnight for the results.

It's fair to say I can't wait for this hog of a WU to complete.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:26 pm

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/ ... html#sect0

Under power consumption the GT240 uses 25 watts less than a 9600GT. A 9600 GSO (96 shaders like the GT 240) should use somewhere between the power usages of a 9600GT and a 9800GT.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:36 am

Cordis is averaging 70,000 PPD

Wow

dereksbelanger · Post by **dereksbelanger** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:23 pm

aristide1 wrote:Cordis is averaging 70,000 PPD

Wow

Yep, heavy duty stuff. I wish he'd give us an eTour of his setup!

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:04 pm

Well, my two slower machines were shut off... must have been during a power outage. When I rebooted the faster one (Athlon X2 4200+) something buzzed, popped and smoked! Turned out a capacitor on the video card blew!

So, I tried another video card, and more of the same -- though this time I can't tell what's gone wrong. Sheesh.

So, should I build a new Linux machine, or use WinXP? Can Linux run the GPU client, as well as the CPU? Will an old nVidia 7600GS (or two of 'em if the 2nd video card I tried is okay!) run Folding?

cordis · Post by **cordis** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:30 am

Huh, well, two cards going bad, I'd say the motherboard is shot. Either the card with the bad cap killed the board, or the board is actively killing the cards. I had a board that I tried a bunch of cards in (old agp slot), and one of them failed pretty badly, and the slot never worked again. Had to put in a pci card just to see stuff. Time to upgrade to an i7, I think.

An etour? Like some pics or something? I can give you some outside shots, but opening them up would take them down for too long.

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:41 am

Yes, I'm pretty sure the motherboard is gone, and so the machine is dead. I was hoping it would last. I'd already rebuilt it with a new motherboard (Socket 939), and I had to modify my original Ninja, the northbridge cooler and the video card heatsink had to be reconfigured. It has 4X 1GB sticks of RAM ... sigh.

Yes, maybe an i7 running Linux and the SMP client... I have the pair of nVidia 7600GS cards (though one might now be NG...) -- do these support the GPU client?

dereksbelanger · Post by **dereksbelanger** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:58 am

cordis wrote:An etour? Like some pics or something?

Pictures and some notes would be perfect

dereksbelanger · Post by **dereksbelanger** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:08 am

NeilBlanchard wrote:I have the pair of nVidia 7600GS cards (though one might now be NG...) -- do these support the GPU client?

From the FAH website:

"GeForce, Quadro, or Tesla card that supports CUDA (G80 or later for the most part)"

Here's a list of such cards - sorry but the 7600GS is not one of them

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html

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