Tinker Storm Again!

muddocktormuddocktor
edited July 2004 in Folding@Home
My machine have been getting a whole bunch of Tinkers today, the big 230-245 point suckers. Those do great on my AMD rigs, which fold them like a mofo but the P4's have been getting them too, which sucks. I lose around 30% efficiency when a P4 gets a Tinker. Earlier today I was able to shift 3 big Tinkers from my P4 rigs and run the Gro work that was on the AMD machines on the P4, but now all my AMD machines are chock full of those big Tinkers and I still have a Tinker on a P4 client.

How about everyone else, have you all been getting a bunch of Tinkers today? :smiles:

Comments

  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    I had 24 out of 26 p4's folding tinkers today.
    you've got PM.
  • witenoizwitenoiz 19,356 miles East of Kansas City, MO Member
    edited July 2004
    I have 23 out of 28 instances with Tinkers. One P4 H/T has 2 Tinkers the other one is running Gromacs. All of the Athlons have Tinkers. Jack
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited July 2004
    I have been getting some now again as well. I am not complaining.:D
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited July 2004
    I have 2 out of umm..... 2 clients folding 239 point tinkers. :wtf: They're not really that bad. Maybe it's just me but the only thing that seems to fold faster are the dgro WUs on my P4.

    EDIT: Maybe not faster, but they yeild more PPW than normal gro WU's.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited July 2004
    We have Athlon systems so we like these. DGromacs will definitetly be better on your P4.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited July 2004
    I like em. It has made me leave the PC on overnight with the resulting increase in points.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited July 2004
    10 out of 12 have tinkers. All mine except two p4 laptops are athlon systems so I'm all for it. The other two had dgromacs. Let the good times roll...

    KF
  • EyesOnlyEyesOnly Sweden New
    edited July 2004
    1 out of 1 :D have tinker right now. It's what keeps those milestones comming. :fold:
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    I have hve 4 of 5 with those also. And I love 'em as my machines rip right through them! :D
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited July 2004
    2 of 3 Athlon CPUs are crunching on the 239pts and the P4 has 2 also ;)
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited July 2004
    Mudd How do I switch workunits between the P4 and the Athlon MP? The P4 have the Tinkers while the Athlon MP has Gromacs. :banghead:
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited July 2004
    4 out of 4 are chewing on a tinker right now, the big ones also. And they are all AMD machines :)
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited July 2004
    Omega65 wrote:
    Mudd How do I switch workunits between the P4 and the Athlon MP? The P4 have the Tinkers while the Athlon MP has Gromacs. :banghead:


    What I do is to shut down both the clients I want to swap, then map the drive from 1 machine to the other in explorer. Then, I have a folder I call "folding stash" I've made on all my rigs and I copy the whole folder of the clients of the wu's I want to change to the other machine. Then, I delete all the original stuff in the work folder, as well as the unitinfo.txt, the queue.dat and fahlog.txt files from the original folder and copy the work folder contents from folding stash, as well as the unitinfo.txt, queue.dat and fahlog.txt files into my working folder. Finally, I start the client back up and check to make sure that I did the tranfer ok. If i did the transfer ok, then I go ahead and delete the folder out of my "folding stash" folder. I never delete the transferred folders out of the "folding stash" folder until I am sure that I did the transfer ok, so if I screw up I don't lose the wu. :cool:

    It took me a little figuring to come up with this solution to be able to swap work between different machines, but it works well and pays off when the P4's draw Tinkers and I have Gro on an AMD. :D When I first started doing this, I went at it slow, but now it only takes a couple of minutes to swap work between different machines.
  • witenoizwitenoiz 19,356 miles East of Kansas City, MO Member
    edited July 2004
    Omega65 wrote:
    Mudd How do I switch workunits between the P4 and the Athlon MP? The P4 have the Tinkers while the Athlon MP has Gromacs. :banghead:
    If I may, I will tell you how I do this. I just moved a Tinker from a sloooow PIII 733 Mhz box to an MSI Barton 2500+ blade. I just use the desktop - closed each console, cut the "Folding" folder from the PIII and pasted it onto the desktop of the Athlon, Cut the "F@H" folder from the Athlon and pasted it on the desktop of the PIII. Restarted each conslole and a quick edit in FAHlogStats and it works fine. This would be more involved with EMIII - that's why I use FAHlogStats. I rename folders when I have to do this so there wont be conflicts. Jack
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited July 2004
    talk about 180 - I now have 5 tinkers on 27 processors!
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited July 2004
    Could someone write a script for swapping out wu?
    /me looks for shorty in the short media coding dungeon
    KF
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