Back to the gauntlet! I've been crunching away and hit #70 today!
I'm adding a GTX 465 to my gaming rig (and selling my XFX 5770) and replacing my Phenom IIx4 940 with a 965 and moving the 940 to replace the Athlon IIx2 in my server. Moar folding power!
I'll be crushing some people shortly, including, but not limited to:
I only have it because of my student loans. I got my whole aid package this semester (because I am graduating in Dec), so I payed off all my credit card debt and bought the mentioned products.
I only have it because of my student loans. I got my whole aid package this semester (because I am graduating in Dec), so I payed off all my credit card debt and bought the mentioned products.
Have fun paying that money back for the next 20 year ;P
Pshh. I figured out that with the job I'm going to have at the end of the semester, if I continue living in a similar manner, I will pay off everything in 2 years. Double financial smackdown!
It is in the works and I already know the person I'll be replacing (because she is getting fired). Hopefully this just works and I'll skip the whole "bad economy" thing by working for the FDIC beating up banks for not playing right
Got the 465 folding today, will be upgrading procs this weekend!
I lost points while trying to fold with my 5770 and phenom IIx4 940. I would get your SMP client setup and see what it does, then look at the GPU guide for getting it setup. There are apparently environment variables you can set to help GPU folding but I ended up getting a GTX 465 anyways.
Just wait Tushon. I'll reclaim my former glory.... as soon as I save up enough money to buy the quad G34 board and 4 12-core Opterons to go with it. 48 cores of pure Tushon destruction. I conservatively estimate a daily output of 45-50k in addition to my approx 8k currently. :P
Yeah, I encourage me as well.... but I know it won't happen (at least not any time soon). Quad G34 boards cost ~$700 and each 12-core Opteron costs at least $750... for the slowest ones (1.9GHz). Granted I could just buy the board and 1 processor and run it like that until I have money to buy more. Rolling upgrades if you will, but where's the fun in that? o_O
Challenge 9(I think). Runs from the 28th through next month to the 4th. This folding challenge is to increase your PPD. We have been doing really well as a team lately. There are a few times back on our radar that we will overtake eventually and our active count is back up some, it is sitting around 70-80 though I would love to see it at 100+. Over the past few weeks our average has been slipping so lets have everyone make sure your clients are still up and stable and maybe there is an OC to tune up here or there. This is primarily an upkeep challenge, keep your folding maxed.
I am only tracking the people who hit on the top 20 producers but if you want to be considered PM me the folding name you use on Team 93 and I will track it.
My ppd is on a downward trend. Update to Ubuntu 10.10 has broken the F@H client again. Stanford doesn't seem to be making any effort to keep it updated either. 10.04 also broke it and the community had to come up with hackish ways to fix it.
My new AMD quad is bringing in way more PPD than I thought it would. Must be those point bonus things. I was bummed that my 8800 finally died and I lost GPU folding, but the quad more than made up for my losses.
I've also got IC11 folding again, because I'm a madman. It may never finish a WU, though, because now that I finally found some new RAM for it, the HD is dying. Point being, it's running Ubuntu 10.10, and so far so good with the classic client. Too bad the mobo also has serious issues and won't run the CPU faster than 1600 MHz (when it'll do 2200+). Not that even then it's really worth the watts/PPD.
BTW, I'm super proud of myself for getting Ubuntu updated on that box. IC11 has been sitting in storage for two and half years. The old board won't boot USB, and I don't have an optical drive, so I had to mess with grub to get the Ubuntu 7.4 (Gutsy) kernel that was already on it to boot a USB stick. I AM A LINUX GOD.
Found this tutorial on how to fix folding problems with ubuntu.
Yeah, you want to try administering a few thousand Linux servers from a windows box? Windows doesn't even have an SSH client built in. It would be a total PITA for me to run Windows at work.
My ppd is on a downward trend. Update to Ubuntu 10.10 has broken the F@H client again. Stanford doesn't seem to be making any effort to keep it updated either. 10.04 also broke it and the community had to come up with hackish ways to fix it.
SMP is broken in 10.10. That fix only works for 10.04. The only workaround for 10.10 so far is to install wine and run the Windows SMP client in wine, which I haven't gotten around to doing.
There is no GPU client for Linux. The only way to run GPU under Linux is also by running it in wine. I tried this back when my workstation had an nvidia card in it (it now has a Radeon in it) but could never get it working. It involves significant hackery.
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I'm adding a GTX 465 to my gaming rig (and selling my XFX 5770) and replacing my Phenom IIx4 940 with a 965 and moving the 940 to replace the Athlon IIx2 in my server. Moar folding power!
I'll be crushing some people shortly, including, but not limited to:
Damn mortgage.
and student loans.
Have fun paying that money back for the next 20 year ;P
If not... HAHAHAHAHA good luck! I thought the same thing but here I am making half what I thought I would be.
Got the 465 folding today, will be upgrading procs this weekend!
Also, I have pushed into the #4 producer spot and will stay there indefinitely
ps - can the folding client damage a GPU?
Also, TylerDurden folds, even though he is a figment of the imagination. He is just that awesome.
I am only tracking the people who hit on the top 20 producers but if you want to be considered PM me the folding name you use on Team 93 and I will track it.
My ppd is on a downward trend. Update to Ubuntu 10.10 has broken the F@H client again. Stanford doesn't seem to be making any effort to keep it updated either. 10.04 also broke it and the community had to come up with hackish ways to fix it.
I've also got IC11 folding again, because I'm a madman. It may never finish a WU, though, because now that I finally found some new RAM for it, the HD is dying. Point being, it's running Ubuntu 10.10, and so far so good with the classic client. Too bad the mobo also has serious issues and won't run the CPU faster than 1600 MHz (when it'll do 2200+). Not that even then it's really worth the watts/PPD.
BTW, I'm super proud of myself for getting Ubuntu updated on that box. IC11 has been sitting in storage for two and half years. The old board won't boot USB, and I don't have an optical drive, so I had to mess with grub to get the Ubuntu 7.4 (Gutsy) kernel that was already on it to boot a USB stick. I AM A LINUX GOD.
Disclaimer: I am not a linux god
Yeah, you want to try administering a few thousand Linux servers from a windows box? Windows doesn't even have an SSH client built in. It would be a total PITA for me to run Windows at work.
http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=14782#p145834
Does that fix only work with 10.04? I don't have 10.10 installed anywhere to test it.
Is this a Linux-wide problem, or just Debian-based distros?
There is no GPU client for Linux. The only way to run GPU under Linux is also by running it in wine. I tried this back when my workstation had an nvidia card in it (it now has a Radeon in it) but could never get it working. It involves significant hackery.