The Lets get to 200,000 points per day Goal!
Sledgehammer70
California Icrontian
200,000 Points Per Day Goal
In the past year our Team has had some huge changes going on. We have gained and lost folders and are in the midst of heated battle of the top 20 folding teams. In this we have been slowly losing ground in our current position & we need to stop the bleeding.... How are we going to do this? let me break it down.
Goal: 200,000 ppd by the end of 2007
To reach this goal we need to muster up some of our rigs we have switched off or get friends and family in on the joint effort of F@H. Most of us if not all of us love the F@H for more than one reason, and I am sure we can sell other to use their Idle CPU time for the cause.
How can you help?
1.) Fold get any CPU you own folding, if you have a dual core CPU use the SMP client and boost your production.
2.) Get friends and family back in it or to join it
3.) Buy systems to fold
4.) Donated product or cash to the SMx/ICx effort so we can upgrade our current rigs to fold faster and better.
5.) Support other folders to keep folding...
In all we need to get back on track folding.
Current Stats:
24 hour Average: 125,590
Active Folders: 189
Average PPD per user: 664.5
I know we can increase these numbers very easily. So let’s get the folding cogs going and get team 93 back in the race!
Below make sure to post what you are adding to the folding efforts that are not currently already folding so we can see the increase in folding power!
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Okay. We (team 93) are currently doing about 800,000 ppw so you're asking for a 40% increase in performance.
This year I have so far quadrupled my production and now my numbers are tickling 20,000 ppw. Team Icrontic has also jumped up over 30% in production so far this year with apparently fewer members .
I may be able to cover about 25% more in my numbers when the weather gets cooler (b4 Nov) and if situations/events allow (I'm running at only about 70% capacity now). For sure if we get a PS3- though we're waiting on 65nm to get out.
EDIT: I´ve managed to add the following to fold for the team.
1 GPU client running on a X1950Pro 256Mb (mine)
1 SMP client running on a Q6600 @ default speeds for now (friend) who says will also add an old X2 3800 939 to fold as well
1 Uniprocessor client running on one core from a E6600 (friend)
And Im helping out another friend who will probably buy a Q6600 and also gladly share it for the cause.
That with my current little farm (I am still waiting for the second Quad) should output near 10K PPD
My intent is to start procuring higher speed CPUs, probably quads, on Ebay once the tech isn't so new. That's primarily how I sourced the parts for my current folders.
And your present rig is doing what? Sorry, no sig, so I don't know... :bigggrin:
I be trying Sledge! I be trying...
Anybody invent a F@H virus yet? :bigggrin::bigggrin::bigggrin:
Man! What that could do!!!
Leaving pronz out of the equation ... I wonder how close to borging that would be. They're a little more touchier about that.
The 3800 dual core that was in my rig has gone into my son's PC but the damn thing is overheating so I'm only using half the CPU at the moment. Just need time to strip it and see what the problem is.
I have always used two instances of folding on a dual core by changing the machine ID. If SMP client is a better way to do it, then I'm happy to change over on the two dualies I have. Will just need a bit of coaching the first time I install it
Thats a nice production increase! Do I still run 2 instances or does SMP use both cores to full advantage?
Tremendous point advantage to SMP folding. Stanford values the data generated by the SMP client so much they are very generous with the points. Right now, as the SMP Windows client is still beta, there are number of work units that collapse midway through processing. There are problems and 'bugs' with the client and work unit, but even if 50% of the units fail to complete (highly unlikely), you will still be WAY ahead in productivity over what you could accomplish at 100% success with dual clients folding for a dual core CPU.
Well I was going to build a farm with my older machines but from what another member posted in another thread; I believe I will bite the bullet and spring for a Quad 6600 and then create a "new" farm with The Quad and My P4 3.0Ghz and Celeron 2.4Ghz and possibly a P3 933 MHz if it would make any difference - those combine forces should add some points to Team 93. Also by the start of fall it should be cool enough to run the P4 constantly for Fold@home. I am using a P2 400 MHz at the moment - and have been for most of the summer - seems to be the coolest of the bunch(but I was informed that it would not meet the deadlines {suppose I could throw F@H on and see what happens} so I have not bothered to ...Yet)
Tried everything, Vista just denies access.
EDIT: OK figured it out. Used safe mode
The Opteron 165 runs on a 1.8GHz clock but has 1MB/core cache (Toledo core).
I have a 170 clocked to 2.4GHz that pretty much finishes an SMP WU in about 45 hours. That means your 165 will probably take about 60 hours. SMP WUs are showing up with an even split of deadlines that are either 72 hours or 96.
If you can't run it pretty much 24/7, I'd say avoid SMPs until you can make it fit reasonably.
All my rigs fold 24/7 so I might stand a chance with the Opty.
I have just finished reading all the treads that have been posted here on SMP's and have come to the rapid conclusion that the BETA is more trouble than it's worth at the moment.
Firstly, the fact that I have to create a login password just to run folding SUCKS.
Then it seems it's sensitive to wireless networks which all my rigs run on.
It takes a fair amount of technical know-how and fiddling to get it running as a service.
And then unless you have a kick-ass processor chances are you not going to finish the WU by the deadline anyway, after jumping through all the hoops just to get it running?
We will help you out as much as you or anyone needs it.
The user and password is bothersome but I bet you probably use your computers with an Admin user. If should have it passwordered anyway (for security reasons) so you can use the same ones when installing the SMP client. Or you can just create a new user with admin rights, its the same.
The wireless stuff is only problematic if your devices tend to loose connection. If they get contant high quality reception, then you wont have any problems.
Hope this clears out a bit for you. Any questions, just shoot!
Winga, WinSMP, although beta and buggy, is worth it! You'll be grinning so much your wife will ask you what you've been up to.
When My Opty Rig finishes it's current WU I will try installing it.
If I pick up any hassles I will post in a new thread. Methinks I have pulled this one as far