Folding Pie and Milestones!!

[3volvedcombat]

Im already at 60,000k after i finish these work units, i love folding

Yay for me(Chosen)

 

[El Fiendo]

Easy Rhino earns his entrance into the top 10 / pie contention race last night as he finishes off enough work units to set him at ninth place. It took him 24k+ to earn his current placement, with an additional 8k required for him to beat 8th place. Placement in the top 10 is a difficult process, so +1 to Easy Rhino for achieving his goal. I suspect we'll be seeing more of him, as tonight's placement is due in part to the discovery of a solution to his folding problems. Very nice work guys.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Bogmali|23/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people

Bogmali steps in for an upset!


Milestones!

2010-01-23| Beertintedgoggles |6,500,000
2010-01-23 |hertz9753 |6,000,000
2010-01-23 |4x4n |550,000
2010-01-23 |ERazer |25,000
2010-01-23 |dies900 |4,000
2010-01-23 |Dustyshiv| 4,000,000

No sign of slowing down tonight as we see ERazer kick things off with a quick 25k blasted off within days of joining F@H. With his fast pace out of the gates, he should be receiving a folding badge in no time at all. Next we see hertz9753 and Dustyshiv re-enacting their own F@H Millionaire stand off, as the two claim 6 million and 4 million respectively. It's great seeing all the hard work everyone is putting in on this.

 

[bogmali]

Dusty and Hertz grats on another mil

 

[El Fiendo]

With the news posted up in our forum today by LCB001, we look to be hitting another period of transition. This will likely completely nuke the need for any use of VMs, which should make CPU folding alot more appealing and easy to set up. Hopefully tomorrow will be full of news, and if we're lucky the VM's will have been updated so we can get some benchmarks of TPF between Window clients and the VMs.

It'll be interesting to see how this affects daily output across all teams. There are some pretty CPU heavy teams that should see a substantial boost from this.

Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Oily_17|24/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people

Bogmali steps in for an upset!


Milestones!

2010-01-24 |El_Fiendo| 9,500,000
2010-01-24 |dies900| 5,000
2010-01-24 |Zenith |40,000
2010-01-24 |Easy_Rhino1 |950,000
2010-01-24 |xBruce88x |200,000
2010-01-24 |MStenholm| 950,000
2010-01-24 |Oily_17| 9,500,000
2010-01-24 |Chosen| 60,000

The milestones tonight exemplify the neck and neck battles of a couple of forum members tonight. For starters, Easy Rhino and MStenholm are neck and neck in their race to 1 million. With only a few thousand points in difference, this should be a matchup that comes down to the wire. Meanwhile, my long pursuit of Oily_17 for third place overall seems to be down to days, though there could yet be a shakeup. I'm certain Oily has far more CPU power than I possess, and with the addition of this new client and work units I may be seeing him take off again. The coming days should prove interesting.

 

[oily_17]

Meanwhile, my long pursuit of Oily_17 for third place overall seems to be down to days, though there could yet be a shakeup. I'm certain Oily has far more CPU power than I possess, and with the addition of this new client and work units I may be seeing him take off again. The coming days should prove interesting.

I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE, AND I BRING YOU FIRE...(well, multiple SMP clients really)


Really I have not folded with the SMP clients in a long time, I use my CPU's for crunching.

But since you mentioned it and with the release of the new client I may give it another try.

It may help with my future plans to help fight of your challenge

EDIT: Thanks El for the HFM.NET link, I have now switched over to it from FahMon.Only thing is it doesn't show my points for the GPU clients sometimes, even if I download new project stats.

 

[El Fiendo]

I AM THE GOD OF HELL FIRE, AND I BRING YOU FIRE...(well, multiple SMP clients really)
Really I have not folded with the SMP clients in a long time, I use my CPU's for crunching.
But since you mentioned it and with the release of the new client I may give it another try.
It may help with my future plans to help fight of your challenge
EDIT: Thanks El for the HFM.NET link, I have now switched over to it from FahMon.Only thing is it doesn't show my points for the GPU clients sometimes, even if I download new project stats.

Well your lucky my -bigadv work unit went in the crapper, it would have boosted me past you in one fell swoop when it landed. As for the HFM bit, your welcome. I've noticed the missing PPD a time or two myself but it was always when the client had or was about to go up an increment. I'm not sure if that's anything related or not, but at least its only been temporary.


I've updated my 955 BE to SMP2 tonight, and so far it seems to be matching the PPD it had before on A2 work units. I'll keep an eye on it and follow its benchmarks on the other work units. As for my i7, I've upgraded it to the latest Linuxrouter build (1.1) so I'll let those interested know if anything particular happens. Looking at you Bogi.

Hopefully the clients and installation notes stop changing long enough for me to get the guide sorted. I was looking to get a trial run on NotFred's virtual appliance at some point to compare it PPD wise to Linuxrouter's VM as well. Sure is fun when Stanford stirs the pot, I'd forgotten how to setup SMP under Windows.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

N/A!

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people

Sorry onedub, you were roughly 1800 points short of an MPA. If you can get a repeat performance on the WCG side and F@H side, 22k is usually enough to sneak you into the pie. However, you did help keep out Oily! Nice block.


Milestones!

2010-01-25| newtekie1 |8,000,000
2010-01-25| King_Wookie| 300,000
2010-01-25 |angelkiller |150,000
2010-01-25 |Mr._Anonymous |9,000
2010-01-25 |TeXBill| 1,700,000

Newtekie, one of the team's more veteran members, draws the spotlight tonight as he hands in his 8 millionth point. Newtekie has been folding with the team for two and a half years now and its awesome that he's still going strong.

 

[oily_17]

As for my i7, I've upgraded it to the latest Linuxrouter build (1.1) so I'll let those interested know if anything particular happens. Looking at you Bogi.

Keep us posted, I am not sure which to run on my new build yet.

 

[xBruce88x]

sweet i finally hit 200K!

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Nice! Way to go Newtekie1!!!

 

[JrRacinFan]

Congrats all 'stoners! I should be coming up to my 200k soon.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

congrats stoneres
i should be getting my 2mill soon..

 

[bogmali]

Yeah half of my farm was off yesterday and that's why msgclb managed to snuck in ahead of me Switched one of my i7's to the new VMWare build and enabled RAMDisk. Will update all those who have interest in this feature for stability purpose.

 

[NastyHabits]

Congrats Newtecki! Nice number.

 

[Easy Rhino]

im holding steady toward 1 mil. should be there in about 12 hours...

 

[mstenholm]

and I will be there in around 24 hours....sigh

 

[Easy Rhino]

and I will be there in around 24 hours....sigh

dont worry, im sure between now and then my PC will shutdown on me while I am away from it

 

[Easy Rhino]

Last Update: 7:10 PM PST

39 9,851 Easy_Rhino1 995,095 19,676 14,652 2,147
40 9,874 MStenholm 992,100 14,503 10,944 1,837

 

[theonedub]

Looks like I will be denied my multi pie again. Im seriously about to put my PS3 Slim back online cause 1200ppd might be what it takes.

 

[mstenholm]

Last Update: 7:10 PM PST

39 9,851 Easy_Rhino1 995,095 19,676 14,652 2,147
40 9,874 MStenholm 992,100 14,503 10,944 1,837

Last updated: Wed Jan 27 00:00:03 PST 2010 (fah-web.stanford)

Easy_Rhino 1000014
MStenholm 997748

Congratulation

 

[theonedub]

You're killing me TexBill! Ive upped my shader clocks slightly, but I don't think its going to be enough. Don't your 285s need a breather?

 

[El Fiendo]

I came home to find my SMP2 rig with choked out GPU activity, and it persisted past shutting down the SMP client and restarting the GPU clients. All four were 1888s, so it could be a batch of bad work units. Or perhaps core 14 doesn't play well with core a3. I haven't gotten another core 14 file tonight, but has anyone else noticed times when the GPUs were inexplicably slow? I'm sure my priorities are set up, as they are working fine right now and did before hand as well. Hopefully the GPU clients last this time, I only pulled ~30k today.

As of writing this, I got and failed a core 14 WU without any progress having happened. Furthermore I've just gotten a second core 14 WU that is exhibiting the same behavior as those prior. First WU was P5910 (472Pt) and the second one was P5914 (1888Pt). After deleting the work unit folder and getting a core 11, everything was fixed. So now the question is, is anyone else noticing their core 14 folding to be exceptionally slow when mixed with SMP2?


Pie!

Holy crap Bogi!


Winners of the MPA!

N/A again!

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-26| JrRacinFan |200,000
2010-01-26 |thebluebumblebee |2,500,000
2010-01-26 |Zenith |50,000
2010-01-26 |AdamP90 |40,000
2010-01-26 |dank1983man420| 7,000,000
2010-01-26 |theonedub |1,900,000
2010-01-26 |4x4n |600,000
2010-01-26 |Mr._Anonymous |10,000
2010-01-26 |darwinws |3,000
2010-01-26 |ArmoredCavalry| 25,000
2010-01-26 |Chosen |70,000

Tonight has a bunch of milestones, so we'll start off first with Mr. Anonymous, who ears his first 10k. Soon thereafter, Armored Cavalry and Zenith earn 25k and 50k respectively. Lastly, today's milestones show dank1983man420 earning his 7 millionth point for TPU. Grats guys!

Now normally I'd stop here, especially seeming how his milestone technically happened on the 27th. Technicalities aside, his recent triumph over mstenholm have earned his early mention. Congrats Easy Rhino.

The edit!

The certificate!

 

[PowderedSugar]

@El Fiendo

I've been having the same problems too. PPD has dropped by nearly half on core 14. I think I finished 2 different 1888s and both were slowed. When I manually changed the priority with task manager it fired right back up to the usual. GPU-Z confirmed that the GPU was barely being utilized while running SMP2 before the priority change.

Does anyone know of a program that will automatically change process priorities for Windows 7 64-bit? I tried prfinity 2, but that didn't work for me.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

@El Fiendo

I've been having the same problems too. PPD has dropped by nearly half on core 14. I think I finished 2 different 1888s and both were slowed. When I manually changed the priority with task manager it fired right back up to the usual. GPU-Z confirmed that the GPU was barely being utilized while running SMP2 before the priority change.

Does anyone know of a program that will automatically change process priorities for Windows 7 64-bit? I tried prfinity 2, but that didn't work for me.

Process lasso works great for 64 bit. I was also having an issue with Prifinity2 with Win7-64.

 

[NastyHabits]

@El Fiendo

I've been having the same problems too. PPD has dropped by nearly half on core 14. I think I finished 2 different 1888s and both were slowed. When I manually changed the priority with task manager it fired right back up to the usual. GPU-Z confirmed that the GPU was barely being utilized while running SMP2 before the priority change.

Does anyone know of a program that will automatically change process priorities for Windows 7 64-bit? I tried prfinity 2, but that didn't work for me.

El Fiendo and PowderedSugar,

I've seen the same thing where I was getting 1500 PPD on a 353 with a GTS 250. I had to shutdown the machine and wait a few minutes, restarted and all was well.

I used to have those problems on my ATI card (second machine in my sig) until I modified the bios to apply maximum allowable volts at the points I wanted it to. (All in the name of stability, not craziness.) I don't run SMP on the machine, but I do crunch with the CPU. Now I can actually crunch, fold, AND play a game on that machine. (It's also liquid cooled, which helps a ton!)

I'm not as familiar with Nvidia bios editing, nor have I found a tutorial written as clearly as the one for TPU's RBE for ATI cards. But I'll root around the "internets" and see what I can find.

 

[p_o_s_pc]

if someone needs a Nvidia Bios edited PM me with the BIOS and what you want done i will have a go at it. But i will NOT be held responsible for any damage or a bad bios... Now on that note i have modded a few Nvidia Bios and haven't had any problems