Power ON

drasnordrasnor Starship OperatorHawthorne, CA Icrontian
edited January 2004 in Folding@Home
Well, my production has soared this last week now that the dual MP2100+ is working again and my new dual Opteron 248 system has its heat issues resolved. ForceSSE does work on the Opterons after all, though it is a matter of keeping it cool and not getting flaky WU from Stanford. I've started keeping a list of all the units it craps out on so if there's a trend I'll let you know.

I've got four boxes left that have untapped folding potential: 2 1100/100MHz Coppermine boxes, a 1.4GHz Williamette box, and a 1.8GHz Northwood box. Hopefully when I'm home on Saturday I can stealth those machines into my fold. I want my top 50 spot back.

I hesitate to count the Mac as folding potential, but nonetheless the 900MHz G3 processor might have what it takes to churn out a few WU. It needs more work than the rest though, maybe a month on that one.

-drasnor :fold:

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    hey dras... is there such a thing as a 900mhz G3? I've never heard of such a thing.....
  • mondimondi Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    I was just thinking the same thing ... sure you dont have a g4 there bud???

    if you do, throw the usual -advmethods -forceasm at it and youll be looking at 25 odd points a day ... got a g4733 running that produces slightly less than that ... not bad at all for inferior technology :D

    .//edit ... just did a little searching .. is it the ibook ???? if so ... dont fold on it ... youll melt the plastic... trust me on this one :)
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    It's an after-market part.

    http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=5961&Item=PLGPFZ900

    -drasnor :fold:

    //EDIT: It powers my Umax SuperMac S900 clone. I'll post pics sometime when it looks a little prettier.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Cool.

    Does the f@h client use altivec?
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    primesuspect wrote:
    Cool.

    Does the f@h client use altivec?

    I seem to remember hearing that it does, but the G3 doesn't have AltiVec. No big loss, the G4 upgrades for the S900 above 450MHz are really flaky.

    -drasnor :fold:

    //EDIT: Additionally, it seems as though PowerLogix implies in their sales pitch that the PowerPC 750FX executes more instructions per clock than similarly-clocked G4's, though there's no numbers anywhere to support that.
  • mondimondi Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    altivec = mondi's red status :D
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    Yeah it sure does. It was in the Flash video shorty made for the releasing of gromacs to the public.
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