Folding Pie and Milestones!!

[johnspack]

Well, I have to back down a bit. Can't afford to burn out my main psu folding my 9800gtx. Did 2 of them in within a year on my server. New psu for server hopefully at end of month. Dam folding is expensive....

 

[p_o_s_pc]

What PSUs are you running to burn them out folding? I have been running the same PSU for ~2years on 1 rig and alittle over a year on another and never had a problem and i fold and crunch 24/7.

Silverstone ~2years folding/crunching had it folding 2 OC'ed 8800GT's crunching a OCed X2 4850e(at one time on a OCed Phenom X4 and another time X2 240)

OCZ ~1.5years folding 1 OC'ed 8800GT + X2 4200+(at one time a X2 5kBE)
now the Silverstone is powering my X2 4200+ still (adding a 8800GT to it soon)
the OCZ is powering the i7 920 and 8800GT(upgrading video card soon)

 

[El Fiendo]

It would seem the past few weeks have seen an increase in production for most every team. If it's not switching to bigadv, its the core A3 that's been fueling the shift most teams are sporting. Some teams are seeing more of a boost than us, as we're a fairly GPU heavy team. Having said that, when GPU3 hits we should be laughing as we slaughter man and work unit alike. Until then, we plod along to our next overtake which should be in 2 weeks time. Team HWC's contest ends today I think, so let's see if we now get a chance to start making up the 10 million they've got on us.

Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

4x4n|31/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-31 |bogmali |20,000,000
2010-01-31| DanTheBanjoman| 650,000

With Bogmali's achievement being announced last night, the milestones are quiet tonight as we only see Dan posting up some progress. Presumably with the rate we've been seeing, we'll see another millionaire before too long, as well as some tasty progress for the in between times.

 

[El Fiendo]

The stats in general seem to be struggling, but this seems to be a recurring issue since Sunday. Vijay Pande had this to say:

It basically looks like crontab is down on one machine and so the stats are safe, just not being updated. We'll take a look and run the stats manually a few time if needed.

Please keep in mind this is Sunday right now for us, so we don't have people on staff for this at the moment. Likely the full fix will have to wait until Monday.

So for anyone worried about possible lost units, they seem to be alright. They should be about done any fix they've been brewing. Meanwhile a couple of other bigadv work units made it in to help keep TPU at an 850k average. If Bogi's had hit today, we'd likely have seen a spike into high 900's. I'll at least admit to having fun doing these bigadv work units, though they've caused me fairly little trouble. Knocking on wood now too.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

4x4n|31/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people

And 4x4n is carrying the flag, and waving it in the face of Bogmali, msgclb and their ilk.


Milestones!

2010-02-01 |hertz9753 |6,500,000
2010-02-01 |Mr._Anonymous |20,000
2010-02-01| dhoshaw |4,000,000

Another folding badge upgrade comes tonight as dhoshaw hits 4 million. Just days before, dhoshaw had no room for upgrade while he sported his crazy folder badge. Hopefully if he's encountered troubles, he can regain his badge easily in the coming days. Until then, congrats on your 4 millionth point.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Congrats dhoshaw!!! Thanks for hanging in there with us for 4 Million Points!

 

[bogmali]

The stats in general seem to be struggling, but this seems to be a recurring issue since Sunday.

Tell me about it

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1745926&postcount=7546

Grats dhoshaw for another mil

 

[NastyHabits]

Congrats dhoshaw!!! Thanks for hanging in there with us for 4 Million Points!

+1

 

[hertz9753]

I wonder if El Fiendo will have any interesting milestones to report today?

 

[dhoshaw]

Been having a lot of trouble lately. We moved relocated our office last week, and I been having trouble keeping my #2 machine folding; it was down all weekend. 2 of my gpu's on my main machine have shut down because of eue's on the new units. Even deleting the current units won't get them running again.

 

[hertz9753]

Been having a lot of trouble lately. We moved relocated our office last week, and I been having trouble keeping my #2 machine folding; it was down all weekend. 2 of my gpu's on my main machine have shut down because of eue's on the new units. Even deleting the current units won't get them running again.

Did you try deleting the cores?

 

[NastyHabits]

Been having a lot of trouble lately. We moved relocated our office last week, and I been having trouble keeping my #2 machine folding; it was down all weekend. 2 of my gpu's on my main machine have shut down because of eue's on the new units. Even deleting the current units won't get them running again.

I found that when that happened to me, I had to delete the current unit files plus delete FahCore_11.exe. Then I had to shut the machine down for a minute or two. Only then would it restart without throwing an UNSTABLE_MACHINE error. I looked everywhere for a file storing any info, I even searched the registry. All this on a clean machine that had never done anything but run the folding CPU client. I guessed that the bad info was being stored in RAM and not being flushed unless I cold booted. (Warm restarts still gave me errors). I may be wrong, but it seemed a logical conclusion to me.

 

[dhoshaw]

I just reinstalled the newest clients and I'm still geting unstable machine errors on one gpu of my 9800gx2 and also on my 9600gso. I'll try deleting files again and rebooting.

Is anyone else running the new 196.34 beta drivers?

 

[hertz9753]

I just reinstalled the newest clients and I'm still geting unstable machine errors on one gpu of my 9800gx2 and also on my 9600gso. I'll try deleting files again and rebooting.

Is anyone else running the new 196.34 beta drivers?

I'm not running anything higher than 191.07.

 

[theonedub]

I'm not running anything higher than 191.07.

+1, have both my cards at 1585 shader 24/7 for an eternity. Its been an extremely long time since I got an EUE. Im not changing them ever seriously.

 

[NastyHabits]

I just reinstalled the newest clients and I'm still geting unstable machine errors on one gpu of my 9800gx2 and also on my 9600gso. I'll try deleting files again and rebooting.

Is anyone else running the new 196.34 beta drivers?

Beta drivers? Tsk, tsk. You should know better. I'm running the 195.62 drivers and I'm not having any issues.

 

[roast]

Beta drivers? Tsk, tsk. You should know better. I'm running the 195.62 drivers and I'm not having any issues.

+1.

I updated to 196.34 Beta too, but quickly reverted back to the latest WHQL drivers because I had the UNSTABLE_MACHINE error too. Although it could have just been a bad driver install, seeing as I got a BSOD running them too.

 

[El Fiendo]

I just reinstalled the newest clients and I'm still geting unstable machine errors on one gpu of my 9800gx2 and also on my 9600gso. I'll try deleting files again and rebooting.

Is anyone else running the new 196.34 beta drivers?

I reverted back to 190.62 in search of stability and found it with that revision. I've been wary of switching to anything newer as I've yet to hear of a newer revision without issues.

I wonder if El Fiendo will have any interesting milestones to report today?

More than one actually, but I'll start with the ones pertaining to the team first. Free DC seemed to have issue yesterday, freezing rather early in the day. For instance, Buck has a 25k point production on the day. As such, some members lost out on the updates in terms of pie position. I myself should have had tasty Lime pie, only to see msgclb snatch it from my grasp. Nevertheless, Pie is pie. I'll just remember this for next time.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

4x4n|02/02/10
theonedub|02/02/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people

4x4n sees some company from another surprise MPA winner as theonedub steps up to the plate. Very nice job guys.


Milestones!

Well, this is going to be kind of awkward tonight as it's going to seem like shameless self promotion. You see, because the Free-DC stats engine cratered, there actually turned out to be 0 recorded milestones for the day. None were triggered before it stopped updating. As such, the only milestones I know about for certain tonight are my own and one other.

Tonight, both Oily and myself cross across 10 million. I can't tell you who was first, but I can tell you I overtook him for third place. Things aren't looking rosy however, as msgclb's newfound bigadv work horse guarantees him a higher PPD and an overtake in about 2 weeks. However, congratulations Oily on an awesome milestone.

Any missed will be caught when recorded and applied to the update on which they appear.

 

[oily_17]

Congrats on the third place EL, now you just have to watch your back lol

 

[roast]

Nice milestones! Great job guys.

I crossed 90k yesterday... not particularly interesting... should be at 100k in a few days. Folding Badge, come to papa.

 

[bogmali]

Nice, grats on you two on another mil.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Congrats you two!

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Very Nice boy's! Huge congrat's to Oily & El Fiendo!!!

 

[msgclb]

Tonight, both Oily and myself cross across 10 million. I can't tell you who was first, but I can tell you I overtook him for third place. Things aren't looking rosy however, as msgclb's newfound bigadv work horse guarantees him a higher PPD and an overtake in about 2 weeks. However, congratulations Oily on an awesome milestone.

Congrats to both Oily and El Fiendo for crossing the 10 million. El Fiendo, do you have a web cam looking at my newfound bigadv work horse? I'm puzzled at how I acquired all those points this morning! For the record I have one bigadv rig and two smp i7 rigs running and maybe today I'll have a Q6600 smp running if all goes well. How fast does a Q6600 rig have to be to successfully run one of these new smp WUs?

 

[oily_17]

My Q6600 are running at 3.4 and finish WU with about 90% of time to deadline

EDIT: About ~7000PPD with the new A3 core

 

[NastyHabits]

Free DC kinda puked yesterday. I thought I'd post a crude table of the total milestones yesterday. In addition to the two major 10M milestones, Steevo hit 4 million, and Vanyots gets joins the millionaire club. Congrats to everyone!

Milestones Today
4x4n passes 750,000
BoT passes 200
El_Fiendo passes 10,000,000
EnergyFX passes 1,200,000
everydayiloveu passes 400,000
hat passes 650,000
MStenholm passes 1,100,000
NastyHabits passes 1,500,000
Oily_17 passes 10,000,000
r9 passes 200
roast passes 90,000
Steevo1 passes 4,000,000
TeXBill passes 1,900,000
vanyots passes 1,000,000
Wile_E passes 450,000