Our team's climb up...

herosformula · Post by **herosformula** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:29 pm

[i]We could also use more single CPU contributions -- all the "gray" folks need to keep on foldin'![/i]

My little 2.53 just needed to be working 24 hours a day rather than 16 to get into green, so its not that hard (I just needed to find the right fan, and now I can sleep with my computer on)[/i]

wussboy · Post by **wussboy** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:42 pm

Don't worry, Lenny. Zhentar has been talking about getting his farm running for weeks now. I think he's waiting for the tooth fairy to bring him a part he needs. Hee hee.

Nub you, Zhentar.

lenny · Post by **lenny** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 10:06 pm

wussboy wrote:Don't worry, Lenny. Zhentar has been talking about getting his farm running for weeks now.

I know, I've been following his saga in the folding farm thread

It even got me tempted to start my own (before sanity and financial reality set in). Every time I see the XP2400+ with ECS K7S5A Pro MB on sale for $99 from Fry's I start dreaming again

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Sat Jul 12, 2003 11:27 pm

Hello:

Our team has past a pretty major milestone, with nary a peep from anybody -- we must be getting complacent!

We have past 400,000 POINTS! No small feat! The Stanford servers have been down and up at least twice in the past 2-3 days, which makes things a bit herky-jerky, but SPRC Folds manages to stay in the "green zone" (i.e. above 3,000 points a day, as listed here: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/).

On a personal note, our neighborhood lost electrical power for about 4 hours yesterday -- it was a gorgeous summer day with virtually NO air conditioners needed, and the local transformer quit! We had a brown out on one phase, so we lost power on about 1/3 of our house's circuits, and then the whole bit when completely out 1/2 hour later...

But, I'm back folding, and I've managed to stay in the "yello zone" (i.e. above 1,000 points a week, as listed here: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... amID=31574))
.

Wrah · Post by **Wrah** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 1:23 am

It's even worse, you've just past the 10000 points milestone.

Weeeeeee....

WarpedPlatter · Post by **WarpedPlatter** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:24 am

Yeah, I went into the yellow today! Unfortunately, I'll probably slip back down tomorrow when a 300+ point day becomes 8 days old.

tragus · Post by **tragus** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:32 am

Woo, hoo, MikeC had a bad day folding and I surged ahead of him by 32.3 points! For a short time, I am curious (yellow). Go MikeC, go MikeC, it's your birthday...

Post by **MikeC** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:38 am

tragus wrote:Woo, hoo, MikeC had a bad day folding and I surged ahead of him by 32.3 points! For a short time, I am curious (yellow). Go MikeC, go MikeC, it's your birthday...

Had to shut down the test room farm to do some noise measurements then forgot to turn them back on for almost a day. My loss, your gain... but I have a couple more machines to throw into the mix... so watch out!

whenever I can get around to setting them up

miker · Post by **miker** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:38 am

My production has dropped precipitously, and I have no clue why.

aristide1 · Post by **aristide1** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 7:16 am

I finally passed the 1000 point mark, my PIII huffing and puffing.

Zhentar · Post by **Zhentar** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:40 am

I'll be joining you yellow guys shortly

Between my farm and the soon to be borged office, I wouldn't be suprised if my production breaks 2000 a week

I doubt I'll make orange, but at least I'll break the dance with gerwin and lockheed.

Zhentar · Post by **Zhentar** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:49 pm

and, to celebrate my permission to borg 10 computers and my sure fire yellow status... I will post 18 points today!

1 of my nodes crashed, but other than that I think I just got long WUs. I'm sure I'll make up for it tomorrow.....

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 7:26 am

Hello:

We have moved up to #42! And we have almost 442,000 points! Way to go team!

Wrah · Post by **Wrah** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 11:31 am

Anybody notice something funny?

(Stats DB Last Update: July 21, 2003 @ 12:00 pm (CST))

Zhentar · Post by **Zhentar** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 11:48 am

Okay, I've joined the yellow people

And yes wrah, I do see something funny. The places are mixed up! we should be in 29 with them in 42

mynci · Post by **mynci** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:25 pm

am i getting a lot less that i should?
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... erID=42333
seems to imply about 70 points every few days, is that what i should expect from a 24/7 p4 2.53? just wondered. ill keep folding anyway. it may as well do something useful.

Wrah · Post by **Wrah** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:59 pm

It's getting even funnier..

wussboy · Post by **wussboy** » Mon Jul 21, 2003 1:41 pm

And as of right now we have no threats either!

Fart in your gen direxion · Post by **Fart in your gen direxion** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 7:59 am

Wrah wrote:It's getting even funnier..

Sorry, not funny, not funny AT ALL !!!

Ni !

Zhentar · Post by **Zhentar** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:16 am

I just watched the holy grail the other day... did you know the knights say "it" 3 times in their second scene? "It is a good shrubbery" "You must place it higher than this one...." and "Suffice it to say.... "

hows that for random?

wussboy · Post by **wussboy** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 1:10 pm

Time to go back on the meds, Zhentar.

Zhentar · Post by **Zhentar** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 2:29 pm

no, no, I'll never go back! never I say, NEVER!

Post by **NeilBlanchard** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 6:19 pm

#40 and climbing...

Welcome back TRC-13!

Zhentar · Post by **Zhentar** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:20 pm

Hmm, I'm doing pretty well now

I'm up to 11 active CPUs, more to go, and extreme overclocking says I'll be in second place in only october 2006!

wussboy · Post by **wussboy** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:50 pm

Yeah, it's good to see TRC-13 back. And it's also good to see most of KWSN's top performers with production graphs pointed disctinctly down.

lenny · Post by **lenny** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 11:01 pm

wussboy wrote:Yeah, it's good to see TRC-13 back. And it's also good to see most of KWSN's top performers with production graphs pointed disctinctly down.

But what's happening to miker/mjrusso45? A while back he mentioned he didn't know why his production is dropping. Has the mystery been solved? Has Zhentar hijacked your machines and assimilated it into his farm?

dukla2000 · Post by **dukla2000** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 11:39 pm

mynci wrote:am i getting a lot less that i should?
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... erID=42333
seems to imply about 70 points every few days, is that what i should expect from a 24/7 p4 2.53? just wondered. ill keep folding anyway. it may as well do something useful.

No - you could be getting about 60 points/day. I would guess you are picking up only Tinker units. To get a P4 (or any SSE or 3DNow enabled CPU) to really sing you need to be working Gromacs, and to do that (or at least have a 99% chance you are assigned Gromacs) you should put the start options
-advmethods -forceasm
on your start line (depends which client/console etc how you are running). advmethods requests advanced work (which broadly translates to Gromacs), forceasm forces assembly optimisations on, which in the case of the Gromacs core includes SSE or 3DNow code.

Wrah · Post by **Wrah** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:39 am

Neil Blanchard posts enthusiastically "We're 40 and climbing, yeah!!"

Zhentar's response "Hey, I'm doing pretty well. me, me, me, me"

/slaps Zhentar with a large trout

riffst3r · Post by **riffst3r** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:44 am

lol!

As for me, i think my wu's have gone way of the dodo... nowhere to be found.

Our team's climb up...

We've past 400,000 points!

The answer to: Life, the Universe, and Everything

#40 and climbing...