No one submitted anything for Challenge 11, expected. I did end up with one client that was at 800 WUs and a second client on another machine at 150 by the dead line(this ran for less than half a month).
Last challenge for the first folding year is coming up, it will be a repeat but the results seem like they might turn out differently this time.
I didn't announce this challenge because I kind of forgot and it didn't matter this time. It is simply a repeat of Challenge 2 where the combined output of all red producers had to be Leo's output by the end of a week, ppd not weekly total. The reason I am doing this one is again is to show you guys how the team has turned around some and is less supported by Leo now than a year ago.
Here is the original challenge results:
Qualified people for Folding Challenge 2, March 24th through March 30th: Leonardo, Enisada, siv, ISevald(icrontic), Tim225, Dang, sgstair, Lordbean, vid, Gargoyle*BW*
Leo ppd: 101,055
Nobels ppd: 112,758
This is with an average of 315,893 ppd. Percentages are Leo: 32%, Nobles: 36% for ppd.
Today the point total for the day is 482,985.
Leo: 197,232 ppd 41%
Nobels: 256,171 ppd 53%
Overall ppd increase for the team: 53%
Leo has taken a high production and helped the team but the team has taken a larger share in increasing our ppd and making production more stable. We are still held up by a small core group in the team but it is stronger and spread thinner than what is used to be which makes me happy. I will make a more in-depth thread on the team's first challenge years, some thoughts, questions, and ramblings.
I will make a more in-depth thread on the team's first challenge years, some thoughts, questions, and ramblings.
Sweet! Make it a Tech or Life front page article and get some more exposure for the project. We could recruit some new members, or light a fire in some of our old timers that have gotten too lazy to fold.
I'm finally back in the top 25 of Icrontic (I don't think I've been there since probly 2003), and I'm almost in the top 5000 users. It's too hot at home to keep that rig running though, so I just lost 3-4k PPD.
I was hoping to build a new X79 rig this fall, which would more than make up for the downtime, but it looks like that whole thing is a bag of hurt. Grr.
I've got my 5770s folding again, and now the Athlon x4 gets all four cores dedicated to folding, so I should be up to around 10k PPD again. Hooray!
The 5770s are using 100% of the dual-core Celeron at home, but not intensively (chip is running 10*C cooler than it would under SMP). They'd get starved of CPU if I ran SMP on it, but I may throw in a single-core client for a few hundred points. It's too bad the single-threaded client makes far less PPD per core.
I've also got an old P4 Dell here with two single-threaded clients for about 160 PPD. Every little point helps, I guess, since that thing has to be up 24/7 anyway.
I've got my 5770s folding again, and now the Athlon x4 gets all four cores dedicated to folding, so I should be up to around 10k PPD again. Hooray!
The 5770s are using 100% of the dual-core Celeron at home, but not intensively (chip is running 10*C cooler than it would under SMP). They'd get starved of CPU if I ran SMP on it, but I may throw in a single-core client for a few hundred points. It's too bad the single-threaded client makes far less PPD per core.
I've also got an old P4 Dell here with two single-threaded clients for about 160 PPD. Every little point helps, I guess, since that thing has to be up 24/7 anyway.
make sure crossfire is disabled while folding on the 5770s - with it on my 5870s only ever got to 60% load tops.
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Last challenge for the first folding year is coming up, it will be a repeat but the results seem like they might turn out differently this time.
Here is the original challenge results:
Qualified people for Folding Challenge 2, March 24th through March 30th: Leonardo, Enisada, siv, ISevald(icrontic), Tim225, Dang, sgstair, Lordbean, vid, Gargoyle*BW*
Leo ppd: 101,055
Nobels ppd: 112,758
This is with an average of 315,893 ppd. Percentages are Leo: 32%, Nobles: 36% for ppd.
Today the point total for the day is 482,985.
Leo: 197,232 ppd 41%
Nobels: 256,171 ppd 53%
Overall ppd increase for the team: 53%
Leo has taken a high production and helped the team but the team has taken a larger share in increasing our ppd and making production more stable. We are still held up by a small core group in the team but it is stronger and spread thinner than what is used to be which makes me happy. I will make a more in-depth thread on the team's first challenge years, some thoughts, questions, and ramblings.
Challenge 12 winners are: Lordbean, Enisada, siv, vid, Isevald(icrontic), Gargoyle*BW*, sgstair, Tushon, ardichoke, csimon.
If it had actually been a 153% increase (Which would be awesome) we'd have a ppd average for the team of 799209.29 (315893*1.53+315893).
http://www.ehow.com/how_4449676_calculate-percentage-increase.html
Sweet! Make it a Tech or Life front page article and get some more exposure for the project. We could recruit some new members, or light a fire in some of our old timers that have gotten too lazy to fold.
Edit: 5000th post
I was hoping to build a new X79 rig this fall, which would more than make up for the downtime, but it looks like that whole thing is a bag of hurt. Grr.
liam, mark, and danball, you're on notice.
danball, gbjazzman, and Igon, you're next.
prag, it looks like i'll see you in about 5 months...or less.
The band marches on.
The 5770s are using 100% of the dual-core Celeron at home, but not intensively (chip is running 10*C cooler than it would under SMP). They'd get starved of CPU if I ran SMP on it, but I may throw in a single-core client for a few hundred points. It's too bad the single-threaded client makes far less PPD per core.
I've also got an old P4 Dell here with two single-threaded clients for about 160 PPD. Every little point helps, I guess, since that thing has to be up 24/7 anyway.
make sure crossfire is disabled while folding on the 5770s - with it on my 5870s only ever got to 60% load tops.