Folding Pie and Milestones!!

[El Fiendo]

damn i still need about 900 points more to get pie

Yea, you did come pretty close tonight. However, according to kakaostats, your current 24 average has you at about 9th place over all. So if you can keep up the pace you should be grabbing pie shortly.

Meanwhile, the team is treading water at around 780k PPD. The two teams we're due to be running down next have both increased their PPD significantly over the past few days and are therefore delaying our overtake estimates. We are, however, are still steaming along and still working towards the top.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Oily_17|18/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-18 |Mindweaver| 450,000
2010-01-18| Chosen |40,000

Mindweaver and Chosen have both put their progress on display as each of them near a milestone. Chosen is about to make the step to halfway to his folding badge, while Mindweaver is about to get halfway to his F@H millionaire status. Good luck to the two of you.

 

[El Fiendo]

With Stanford having recovered from their loss of power earlier, we can see that F@H was indeed mostly operational as our PPD didn't take a discernible hit. Some of our decreased production today could be attributed to this, however we still scored 7/8ths of our average. Things promise to get more interesting as a few members are about to turn -bigadv rigs online, and a few other members not too far behind in their upgrade department as well.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Oily_17|19/01/10
Dustyshiv|19/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-19| adulaamin |40,000
2010-01-19| Easy_Rhino1 |850,000

Tonight Easy Rhino and adulaamin post up their progress, but the milestone drought continues. We do see that there is yet another member making a bid for F@H millionaire status though. Great work guys, I want to see even more F@H millionaires coming this way too.

 

[Easy Rhino]

i forget to turn on my 280s last night so 8 hours of no folding on this rig

 

[mstenholm]

i forget to turn on my 280s last night so 8 hours of no folding on this rig

There is nothing worse then to wake up to a cold office


EDIT: Well, losing 6000 points in the middle of a race might be even worse

 

[Easy Rhino]

There is nothing worse then to wake up to a cold office


EDIT: Well, losing 6000 points in the middle of a race might be even worse

yea all that ground i gained in the past few days has been lost! i dont think there is anyway i can beat you to 1 million now

 

[mstenholm]

yea all that ground i gained in the past few days has been lost! i dont think there is anyway i can beat you to 1 million now

It will be another close race, if you keep them 280's on

 

[El Fiendo]

It will be another close race, if you keep them 280's on

I checked up the rivalry between you two, and you weren't kidding. It will be a very close race.


Meanwhile, a couple of the teams we're looking to overtake have done quite well in extending their deadine. ATI Technologies seems to have found their average, and Overclockers Club seems to still be on the rise. As for HWC, their last push mixed with their folding contest has earned them a 1.2 million PPD average. Having said that, their average seems to have leveled out as well.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Not Applicable again! These things sure got rare.

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-20| Zenith |25,000
2010-01-20 |Jstn7477| 400,000
2010-01-20| MStenholm| 900,000
2010-01-20 |4x4n| 500,000

Zenith starts things off for us as he hands in his 25k milestone, his second milestone overall. As he finishes posting his victory for the night, 4x4n earns himself 500k and is now halfway to one million. Congrats on the work guys, especially you Zenith. I hope your name becomes a regular.

 

[xBruce88x]

well guys i'm back folding again, was busy for a while with family stuff and holidays... then finally got my bsod problems fixed.

my little 9600gt is back folding at 2800ppd, i've also got my pent. D. back to crunching and my laptop's core2 based celeron crunching (which actually goes as fast as one of the pent. d cores)

btw, if anyone has some folding capable pci cards (non-pcie) they want to get rid of let me know

 

[roast]

Im still only at a measly 70k. Been folding since November.
If I had more money to spare, I would care about power consumption, but on my salary I can only afford to fold when I have my rig on for other reasons, instead of leaving it on 24/7.

In other news, handed in another 1888 pointer this morning. Waited for it to finish before leaving for work. Nearly missed the freakin' bus because of it.

 

[El Fiendo]

It's a good thing I saved a picture before my mongoloid brain shut down early last night, yesterday was a bit of an upset. Both Bogmali and myself unleashed the devastation of the -bigadv work units upon our teammates. Bogi steals himself a piece of cherry pie the size of which we've been denying Buck as of late, and with me hunting for scraps we monopolized a good chunk of the top 10 production.

I'm personally getting all hits in that I can, as Buck and msgclb will soon see an increase. Msgclb will prove more worrisome as his upgrade stands to bump him up the list significantly and more than likely permanently bump me down in standings. I'm going to have to look for places to squeeze out more PPD, as currently drifting between 3-7th place in production doesn't suit my greed.

Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Not Applicable again! Rare means value goes up.

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-21| everydayiloveu | 350,000
2010-01-21 |TeXBill |1,600,000
2010-01-21 |imperialreign |80,000
2010-01-21 |PowderedSugar |400,000
2010-01-21 |theonedub | 1,800,000
2010-01-21 |deathmore | 1,100,000
2010-01-21 |ERazer |20,000
2010-01-21 |nflesher87| 1,100,000

With everyone clamoring to put up their progress, it seems numbers that trigger a milestone mention were omitted. That's no matter as the 22nd is already shaping up with some great milestones, and there are a few impending milestones to make note of above. Of particular note, Imperialreign will be snatching himself a folding badge in the coming weeks, and ERazer is continuing to advance across the starting milestones towards his badge.

Keep it up guys, we might get ourselves an opportunity for a sneak attack. HWC and NCIX are currently concerned with one another, as both are Canadian teams vying for entrance into the top 10 PPD. With the addition of another player to draw HWC's attention away, we may have enough time and privacy to concoct some sort of demonic folding machine. I'm still holding out for a random 'sponsorship' from CRAY or something, but you know I guess a dual processor board may have to suffice.

Silly Edit: I just noticed a sign indicating we should build something demonic, my thanks count is currently '666' as of this post. Anyone for some hell-infused folding action?

 

[Easy Rhino]

i passed 900,000 and am only 20,000 behind my competition. if i can average 5k ppd more than he i will make it to 1,000,000 before him!

 

[El Fiendo]

i passed 900,000 and am only 20,000 behind my competition. if i can average 5k ppd more than he i will make it to 1,000,000 before him!

Hmm, let's see if we can squeeze anything else out of your hardware. What are all the clients you currently have running (match it up with the hardware its running on)? Also, what clock speeds for everything?

Example:

4 GTX 260s -> Console Client -> GPU: 774Mhz / 1269Mhz / 1566Mhz
QX9650 -> Notfred's VMWare Image -> 5.6 wtfHz

 

[msgclb]

I'm personally getting all hits in that I can, as Buck and msgclb will soon see an increase. Msgclb will prove more worrisome as his upgrade stands to bump him up the list significantly and more than likely permanently bump me down in standings. I'm going to have to look for places to squeeze out more PPD, as currently drifting between 3-7th place in production doesn't suit my greed.

I'd think that it will take awhile for that to happen.
Wow, it looks like my first -bigadv wu came at an opportune time this morning!

[AM PIE]

Too bad I won't have another one for a couple of days.

 

[Easy Rhino]

Hmm, let's see if we can squeeze anything else out of your hardware. What are all the clients you currently have running (match it up with the hardware its running on)? Also, what clock speeds for everything?

Example:

4 GTX 260s -> Console Client -> GPU: 774Mhz / 1269Mhz / 1566Mhz
QX9650 -> Notfred's VMWare Image -> 5.6 wtfHz

2 GTX280s -> SysTray -> GPU: 610Mhz / 1313Mhz / 1120Mhz
1 9800GTX+ -> SysTray -> GPU: 740Mhz / 1836Mhz / 1100Mhz
1 9800GT -> Console Client -> GPU: 620Mhz / 1600Mhz / 900Mhz
Q9650 -> Notfred's VMWare Image -> 3.0Ghz
1 PS3 -> Advanced Mode

 

[mstenholm]

i passed 900,000 and am only 20,000 behind my competition. if i can average 5k ppd more than he i will make it to 1,000,000 before him!

Your competition has noticed that as well....back to OC the little 260 devil again

 

[BUCK NASTY]

I'd think that it will take awhile for that to happen.
Wow, it looks like my first -bigadv wu came at an opportune time this morning!

[AM PIE]
http://img.techpowerup.org/100122/F@H-2010-01-22-1-morning-pie.jpg

Too bad I won't have another one for a couple of days.

Awesome work msgclb! Gotta give El Fiendo and Bogmali credit for spearheading the -bigadv effort here @ TPU. Way to go guy's!

 

[NastyHabits]

Lovely. Absolutely lovely. I really liked that 293,300 point spike at 3 PM yesterday. Way to go guys.

 

[El Fiendo]

2 GTX280s -> SysTray -> GPU: 610Mhz / 1313Mhz / 1120Mhz
1 9800GTX+ -> SysTray -> GPU: 740Mhz / 1836Mhz / 1100Mhz
1 9800GT -> Console Client -> GPU: 620Mhz / 1600Mhz / 900Mhz
Q9650 -> Notfred's VMWare Image -> 3.0Ghz
1 PS3 -> Advanced Mode

Those GTX 280s are running stock, eh? I'd think you should be able to get them up to 640-650 with little trouble and they'd make up a large portion of that 5k. Bumping the fans up to 100% to counter the overclock may even result in you getting cooler temperatures unless you have them maxed already, in which case 'why no OC?!' (Geez ) Same deals for the 9800's present, you could probably get the 5k alone from a safe (read: not extreme) overclock across all the hardware pieces. Obviously this will give you the added sound of fans and perhaps a bit warmer a room. My computers help keep my basement about 2 F cooler than my main floor, and it used to be more like a 6-8 degree difference. Keeps it a nice 68-70 F in there.

Now, if you're fundamentally against OC'ing due to personal reasons, adding that Q9400 would net you around 3.5-4k PPD itself. Moreso if you decided to overclock it of course. I can't really think of any other places to milk points out of. Though if you did add another VM client and then OC'ed the lot of the hardware, you'd cream your competition quite handily.

 

[Easy Rhino]

Those GTX 280s are running stock, eh? I'd think you should be able to get them up to 640-650 with little trouble and they'd make up a large portion of that 5k. Bumping the fans up to 100% to counter the overclock may even result in you getting cooler temperatures unless you have them maxed already, in which case 'why no OC?!' (Geez ) Same deals for the 9800's present, you could probably get the 5k alone from a safe (read: not extreme) overclock across all the hardware pieces. Obviously this will give you the added sound of fans and perhaps a bit warmer a room. My computers help keep my basement about 2 F cooler than my main floor, and it used to be more like a 6-8 degree difference. Keeps it a nice 68-70 F in there.

Now, if you're fundamentally against OC'ing due to personal reasons, adding that Q9400 would net you around 3.5-4k PPD itself. Moreso if you decided to overclock it of course. I can't really think of any other places to milk points out of. Though if you did add another VM client and then OC'ed the lot of the hardware, you'd cream your competition quite handily.

im already getting 5k more ppd, i just need to maintain it. the problem is running 2 280s always seem to cause a driver crash and drops into 2d clocks so that kills performance. also, running a VM on 4 cores pretty much kills the GPU productivity so i dropped it to run on just 2 cores. we will see.

note: is the windows smp client any better these days?

 

[Beertintedgoggles]

im already getting 5k more ppd, i just need to maintain it. the problem is running 2 280s always seem to cause a driver crash and drops into 2d clocks so that kills performance. also, running a VM on 4 cores pretty much kills the GPU productivity so i dropped it to run on just 2 cores. we will see.

note: is the windows smp client any better these days?

I found when I run a VM to fold on all CPU cores I need to set the priority to low or else the GPU gets almost no cycles and will revert back to 2D mode. The VM doesn't loose too much PPD and the GPU's then get exactly what they should be getting.

 

[El Fiendo]

Do you use a program to manage priorities? Using the Windows Task Manager doesn't save settings from each instance of the program and it didn't seem to be 'strict'. I switched to Process Lasso, and once you select the option to more strictly enforce priorities (can't remember their terminology) it became a perfect solution.

You should be able to run the VM and GPUs at the same time with the priority manager, as long as the GPUs are set to high and the VM is set to idle. Failing that, you can use Process Lasso to make your VM run on 3 cores, leaving one open for your GPUs. 1 core should be more than enough in this case. The lessened PPD of both the GTX 280s and the VM is likely because both are bottlenecking each other though, I don't think its a driver crash. Do you notice they do this only when the VM is running, or do they do it all the time when run together (with the VM running or not)?


Also, to those interested, I'm currently working on publishing a freaking novel on -bigadv. Keep an eye out for it tonight or tomorrow.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

im already getting 5k more ppd, i just need to maintain it. the problem is running 2 280s always seem to cause a driver crash and drops into 2d clocks so that kills performance. also, running a VM on 4 cores pretty much kills the GPU productivity so i dropped it to run on just 2 cores. we will see.

note: is the windows smp client any better these days?

SMP sucks in Windows, that why the VM is such a great PPD producer. Use Prifinity 2 to manage you priorities and affinities. GPU's on normal and VMware-vmx on low. All clients roaming all cores.

 

[oily_17]

Also, to those interested, I'm currently working on publishing a freaking novel on -bigadv. Keep an eye out for it tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks El, I will watch out for it

Should help me out a lot when I go to set my rig up.Just waiting on a pump and block arriving (should be here start of next week) and then I will fire my first -bigadv rig up.

 

[El Fiendo]

Thanks El, I will watch out for it
Should help me out a lot when I go to set my rig up.Just waiting on a pump and block arriving (should be here start of next week) and then I will fire my first -bigadv rig up.

It was a good thing it was just my brain that BSODed last night, I left the TPU window open with an unsaved draft of the post. I'd have been a little disheartened.

We've certainly hit a lull in overtake drama and while it doesn't look like we are advancing in the stats, we are still moving up on slower teams at a fast pace. Once we've spanned the gorge of points, we seem to have a grouping of teams that we can club in rapid succession as we pass. Unfortunately, because we traversed into the top 50, teams to overtake with style are fewer and far between. Fold on, and let's run em down when they pop up.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Oily_17|22/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-22| bogmali| 19,000,000
2010-01-22 |roast |70,000
2010-01-22 |msgclb |9,000,000
2010-01-22 |NastyHabits |1,300,000
2010-01-22 |Easy_Rhino1 |900,000
2010-01-22 |Chosen |50,000
2010-01-22 |ArmoredCavalry |20,000

Chosen starts the night out with his 50k milestone, bringing him halfway to his folding badge. With a couple more weeks of folding, you'll be sporting yourself a spiffy badge to show on the forums and I'll be sure to catch your milestone. Meanwhile msgclb and bogmali both finish off another million with ease, and set forth ravenously on the next. Msgclb earned himself a whopping 9 million slightly ahead of schedule due in part to a -bigadv point spike. Scoring 19 million tonight, Bogmali's own -bigadv boosted folding power also has him contending for first place pie regularly with Buck. Good work on the folding efforts guys.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

That's a lot of zero's for just 3 milestones! Way to go guys!