We are gonna be hurting

[mmonnin]

Well I know UVJVS_Lab is going to be down during Christmas break. Starting friday sometime there will be no production from the lab. Thats 4k+/wk for 2.5 weeks.

Also it looks like SimGuy is not going to be folding anymore. There is another 2k+/wk lost for good I think.

The Frogs are set to pass us in June. Its going to be earlier than that it looks like.

So guys. We need some more POWER!!!!

[Bud]

why did sim guy stop? and why is lab down?

[mmonnin]

Well no one is going to be there for weeks and new carpet is going to be installed in the lab as part of school renovation.

I looked and SimGuy has not turned in any WUs in since this afternoon. Read the thread in feedback about SimGuy.

[Bud]

is sm20 up yet and when is sm21 gonna get rolling :eek3: , we need to beat the frogs!:rockon:



:fold: :fold: :fold: :kneel: :fold: :fold: :fold:

[Thrax]

Ouch. That's a vicious point drop...

But then again, we've kicked it up a notch before, we can do it again.

[primesuspect]

Yeah, no biggie. We've lost two gigantic point producers in the past year, and we're still shuffling along.

We'll figure it out.

[mondi]

Mr Kwitko has received my 2500 for sm21...what other parts are we lacking to start this box going????

[Bud]

who is gonna host the sm21?

[mondi]

Bud had this to say
who is gonna host the sm21?

will be determined when we have all the parts accounted for

[t1rhino]

Don't worry... I am getting 6 x dual 3.2 xeon servers this month, and should have them folding early in January.

That's 38.4 Xeon folding power! That should make up for some of the lost production. :thumbsup: :fold: :fold: :fold:

[Bud]

cool t1rhino, well what parts do we have for the sm21 then?

[UpAllNight]

t1rhino had this to say
Don't worry... I am getting 6 x dual 3.2 xeon servers this month, and should have them folding early in January.

That's 38.4 Xeon folding power! That should make up for some of the lost production. :thumbsup: :fold: :fold: :fold:

Not good for us Frogs.;)

[t1rhino]

Just a rough estimation, but I expect a minimum of 75-80 points per day per 3.2 Xeon.
That's roughly 6500 points a week. :thumbsup:

[mmonnin]

HOLY SHYT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

w00tness. By that time the lab will be back and I will be adding 2.5 more GHz.

Well I think a case and power supply for SM21 I think. SM20 should be up soon.

[gtghm]

I'll be getting SM 20 up by the end of the weekend.
Sorry guys, but work has been busy...
I do have all of the parts now... :)

Later,
"g"

[csimon]

I'm expecting a jump in production ...I just went thru each machine and deleted each of the registry keys because they all matched ...and that explains the problem I've been having with showing 9 active processors when I actually had 30.
The reason for this was because I used ghost and didn't leave the registry key open like I should have ...will do next time for sure.

So ...if any of your machines match user id's ...see me.

[t1rhino]

w00t!!!
3 of the servers just arrived. That's 1.5 weeks ahead of schedule. :)
I hope the rack gets here soon, cause they take up a lot of desk space. :D

[mmonnin]

Great csimon and t1rhino. Wil be looking forward to you guys to replace what will be lost and then we will kick some butt when my lab comes back online.

Remember everyone, labs do not make the team. Every computer running helps. Doesnt matter how slow. It all helps the project. If you have been thinking about it, now is the time.

[DogSoldier]

Rhino, you are my personal Jesus! Csimon, you are the nerd uncle I never had!

[BuiesCreek847]

http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/other/popworm.gif

[Al_Capown]

I'll see what I can do. I might be able to put 2-3 P4 1.8's on the job. If I go over to any friends/family's house this break I'll add F@H to their pc's if they're decent. But for sure I should be able to get 2 P4 1.8s.

[Jengo]

too bad i only got this damn 1.2 celly and i was out for a couple weeks.... man...

wait till i get my other comp up and running (probably around 1.8 ghz) at least i will do alot more i dont know how much tho... i wish i could help more, but im a poor boy...

sorry guys :banghead:


Jengo

[mmonnin]

No sorry needed. Help all you can. Thats all.

[DogSoldier]

OK Yoda.

[Geeky1]

I suppose that if push comes to shove, I can always grab a pair of earplugs and a portable A/C unit and start running the AMD systems 24/7... :D

[Shorty]

UpAllNight had this to say
Not good for us Frogs.;)
BuiesCreek847 had this to say
http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/other/popworm.gif

Hmm.. I have a feeling we are being watched :wtf:.. I found a lilypad by the back door earlier.. and it wasn't there before... hmmm ;)

[muddocktor]

Go for it Geeky!:D I installed a 10,000 btu window ac in my computer room to keep the ttemps down in there with my farm running.

As for my contributions, I will be upgrading all my duallies to either Tbred B or Barton procs that are capable of running stably over 2.2 GHz. Plus, I'm retiring my KT133A board and putting my A7N8X back in service with a barton and I just ordered a Pee4 2.6/800 that I will be playing with after Christmas too. I also have a junky old case lying around, as well as a junky old psu and vid card and nic, which should be good enough to keep my KHA+ board in operation so I can take my laptop out of the loop since it is getting some age on it and I need it for work, so I'll take it offline from folding 24/7. My farm should end up looking like this by Jan1 or so:

1 dually with Tbred B's running at 2250
1 dually with Tbred B's running somewhere between 2.1-2.3
1 Dually with Bartons running around 2.3
1 NF7-S with a Barton at 2.4
1 A7N8X with a Tbred B at 2.3
1 P3 1.26S at 1.45 (sat gateway computer)
1 8KHA+ with a Tbred A at around 1.9
1 IC7 Max2 with a Pee4 at ????

I will also be going and checking on my brother's rig and see if it has been folding lately.

[Geeky1]

No way. I might as well try sleeping in the middle of a runway. Although I'll leave them on when I'm awake, at least until it warms up.

I'll make up for it next fall though, if nothing happens to derail my plans. When I go to college, I'm planning on racking & water cooling all of my desktops, as well as getting the 3 extra CPUs I have going again (I've got the boards for them, too...).

If that works out, I'll have the following (assuming nothing changes):
2 2500s @ 1.89GHz each
1 1800 @ 2.4-2.5GHz
1 1700 @ 2.3-2.5GHz
1 1700 @ 1.5-1.8GHz (Palomino)
1 2200 @ 2-2.2GHz (TBred A)
1 Celeron 1300 @ 1500

Hell, if I get a new laptop next summer, maybe I'll take the P4A-2.4 out of my current laptop and put it in an 865/875 board (or whatever is best at the time)...

And the Celeron is going as soon as I get a good deal on 2 1GHz+ SMP-capable P3s...

So that's a total of as much as ~18GHz... but it has to wait until I can go to water, which isn't until I go to college at the earliest.

[mmonnin]

I could so sleep in our basement with 6 computers running, soon to be 7 when I add my next machine after Christmas.

Get wireless and put one in every room to heat the house.;)

[muddocktor]

mmonnin had this to say
I could so sleep in our basement with 6 computers running, soon to be 7 when I add my next machine after Christmas.

Get wireless and put one in every room to heat the house.;)

An AMD space heater for every room, huh Marc?;D ;D

[Straight_Man]

Question, mmonnin, how big a PSU do you need for sm21??? 350 Watt do??? or 400??? Might could provide\donate either size, decent but not GREAT (Codegen would be brand, would be stable and pretested and harness would have been partly rewired with proper wire and connectors and pins-- basicly a refurb done and tested by me). SM boxes do not burn much, much less of a PSU needed than for a multimedia dev box, know that much. Do you need some new screws and studs to mount mobo for this thing also???

Router will not be here until Monday, should have two boxes back online Tuesday or Wednesday for F@H assuming can get WU turnins more reliably out of the stable\final 4.00 client, and will put them up for at least a month. IF both boxes can turnin reliably, 1K-1.2K per week of points average will be quite doable. Dialup was not working, and Linux client was spawning 4 copies to run once with Pres with latest kernel on my broadband direct connect box-- kiling any one copy brought whole client down hard, with no work point marking in files or CP file gen. With the Barton box online on broadband also, think production will be more steady pointwise than stats showed previously by a lot.

John.

[UpAllNight]

Shorty had this to say
UpAllNight had this to say
Not good for us Frogs.;)
BuiesCreek847 had this to say
http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/otn/other/popworm.gif

Hmm.. I have a feeling we are being watched :wtf:.. I found a lilypad by the back door earlier.. and it wasn't there before... hmmm ;)

Jeeze I told BC to dump his lilly pad in the bushes.

Watched...yes...were tired of watching from behind though:)

[Dragstk]

All my parts have arrived. Then there was the time issue. But as of 12/23, I will be unemployed (corporate shutdown). So, hopefully at the end of the year or right after the first, I'll be Folding.

[TheDominator666]

I would fold to help you guys out, but I need to reserve my AMD Duron 800's CPU cycles to the addaboy folding team, if we try really hard, we can pass #271 on the list.

A winnar is us.

[mmonnin]

Ageek: Anything above 300W should be ok for an SMx machine. 250W at the least. If you would like to donate any more parts, please contact TD. He is our parts manager now and will ship out a working computer to the next host.

So you are finally getting a router to share your broadband connection and doing away with the dial-up?

[GnomeWizardd]

I gotta send MediaMan 50 bucks for the mobo! d00d will you take paypal??

and now i got my pc moved into my new case with adiquate cooling I will be able to leave it on 24/7

[mmonnin]

Lab is down. My production should go down a bit too since I get points from other school computers.

[csimon]

how long will it be down marc ...2-3 weeks?

[mmonnin]

Until the 5th of January when school starts again. 2 weeks plus the weekends before and after.

[Mr_Bojingles]

My once part-time folding P4 is now a full-time folder. Should help me cut through the ranks a bit quicker...and of course add a little more to the cause. :D

[BDR]

Well I know UVJVS_Lab is going to be down during Christmas break. Starting friday sometime there will be no production from the lab. Thats 4k+/wk for 2.5 weeks.

Also it looks like SimGuy is not going to be folding anymore. There is another 2k+/wk lost for good I think.

So guys. We need some more POWER!!!!

I'm picking that up for the team. Don't know that I can hit 6k a week, but... Merry Christmas guys. It's my Christmas gift to the team. :)

Btw, I like the new format. :thumbup

[mmonnin]

Nice to see you BDR. Your production sure helps.:)

[BDR]

I've kicked it up a couple notches. I'm running 11 machines now instead of 8.
I'm still tweaking a couple of those. I'm getting some freeze ups on a couple. Due to heat, I suspect.. or just the quirks of running F@H.

And thanks for the welcome thread, everyone. :smiles:

[GnomeWizardd]

I am going to hijack my dads pc today after i Finish installing 2k its a 3000+ so that will add a little bit to the fold

[t1rhino]

The six servers and rack have arrived. The dell tech is going to install all the hardware in the rack on Jan 6. Jan 7 I will start installing the OS and get them folding. :D

Nice to see you again BDR.

[muddocktor]

I'm slowly getting my upgrades done on my rigs and the Pee4 looks like it will be a stellar producer. It's looking like it should be able to produce more than 100 points/day with the present Gro WU's it's getting. :D I have the A7N8X board back in operation again, had to reseat the Swifty on it as the core temp was getting wayyyy hot when folding. MBM can monitor both the on-chip diode and the socket thermistor on that board and it was showing diode temps around 80-90 C with thermistor temps in the 35-42 range. I reseated it this morning and the diode temps are now running around 52-53 C with thermistor temps running around 35.

Now I need to take the KHA+ board out of the case it's in and drop my NF7-S stuff in that case and then install the KHA+ into an old case I have sitting there doing nothing. After I get the KHA back in operation it will be time to take the watercooled dually down and replace the 2 pally 2000's with 2 multi-remapped Bartons. All in all I think this will boost my production considerably. :cool2:

[mmonnin]

I would think so mudd. I am working on getting mine all up.

[GnomeWizardd]

we need to get sm21 rolling!!! I am gonna pack up the case / hd / dvdrom/ vid card today and ship em to TD

[Straight_Man]

Well, I upgraded my Pentium 4 box, it is kicking a p1000+ WU out every 14.5 hours like clockwork, and it will be faster yet in about 3-4 weeks (need to get e new mobo, as had to slow down the CPU to match max capacity for current mobo for now). The Barton is plugging along also, but last I looked the two boxes had about 900+ points for this WEEK, and am over 8400 points for these two boxes on Team Short-Media. The P4 will be turning in another WU worth 51 points in about 4 hours. The Barton box has not had its last WU credit show up on Folding, but it turned in within the last hour, so that is understandable.

Two rocking folders, back in stable service.

John.

[muddocktor]

Well, I just finished the swap arounds on the NF7-S and KHA+ rigs and the NF7 tried throwing me for a loop. :rant: I had pulled the NF7 out of the case where the Pee4 is and left the hsf installed, as well as bringing the hard drive that it was using over to it's new home after pulling the KHA+ and hard drive out of it's case. After I had the mobo and everything installed I put in a GF3 Ti200 for a vid card for it and went to boot up and no post, nothing. The fans spun up and the drives powered up but nothing happening with the mobo.:rant: After messing with it for a little while with no success, I said piss on it and went ahead and installed the KHA into the old case I had hanging around and got it back up and folding. Today after church I decided to see what's up with the NF7 rig. I unhooked everything off the mobo except the ram and proc and tried to boot, no luck. Then, I went and got an old pci s3virge vid card from the junk pile and pulled the GF3. After installing the s3 card, I finally got a post beep. :woowoo: I then carefully installed the GF3 back in and got a post out of it. What I think happened is that GF3 card is so long it overhangs the IDE1 connector and the first time I put the card into the mobo it must have interfered enough with it so that the card didn't seat properly. When I put it back into the board I had the IDE cable pulled, so I didn't get any interference with seating the card. :buck:

Anyways, all I have left to do is to to mod 1 of these mobile 2400's to an MP2800 and drop 2 Bartons in the Asus dually. :clap: