Folding Pie and Milestones!!

[oily_17]

And all I am after is the auto-save feature so I don't loose my progress if the power goes out or something.

Is this what you are looking for, should work with version 0.4 or later.

I have attached a zip folder with the scripts needed and a How To as well.

 

[El Fiendo]

no

The bonus that Core A3 work units get, each one gets a different multiplier, should earn you as much as if not more than you were when you take the bonus into account.

Well I tried both VMWare versions 1.0 and 1.1 and I cannot get both to connect to the server and it keeps finding errors and deletes all files. It did this for a whole day on two of my i7 rigs (half of days TPF wasted). Switching back to v0.6 which looks stable at this point.

Wow, I'm not sure what's going wrong with your image but my VM image (1.1) is running fine. Better than fine actually as its backing up regularly and running about 30-45 seconds faster per frame depending on what the GPUs are working on. On top of that, I decided to try the Langouste decoupler to help boost my production. Essentially it takes over the uploading of the work unit to Stanford, and it frees up your client to get started on a new WU faster. I'm quite happy with 1.1 so far, but I'm only 85% into the first WU so its got time to change.

I've deleted the Core A3 in my SMP folder, but it was currently working on a Core A1 (yech) so it'll be tomorrow before I can see if it helps with my GPU issue. Thankfully the Core A1 has been running almost all day so the GPUs have had room to breath. Forgive this next part, but I'm going to bold it because its pretty important so I want people to notice the crap out of it. To get the updated Core A3 that is supposed to help with the GPU throttling issue, you must manually delete the Core from the SMP install folder. None of the current WUs actually require the updated core, so they never download it from the server. If you delete the current one and then run the client as normal, it will download the new Core A3. As always, its safest to wait until work unit completion before doing any changes.

As for production, we've had another 800k+ day. Once we get our hardware and these new clients sorted, I suspect we'll be making 800k easy again. HWC still suffers from a bloated PPD and probably an ego to boot, but they're nearing the end of their folding contest so they may well likely drop a fair chunk of PPD. Of course every time I go back to that site they've found another i7 to bigadv fold with. I'd have to estimate 10+ individual chips working on it. Probably as many as 15 on the high end of the estimates. Meh, keep at it guys. We've come pretty far, so no unruly peons from Canada will get us down. We've only given them false hope, which we shall crush from their souls later.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Bogmali|27/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-27 |p_o_s_pc |2,000,000
2010-01-27| Easy_Rhino1| 1,000,000
2010-01-27| MStenholm |1,000,000
2010-01-27 |imperialreign| 90,000

Well, Easy Rhino got his certificate early but because I freaking hate 56k I'm going to post it up again. It's too bad most of these pictures are all really small. Aside from Easy's 1 million, we see MStenholm finish a close second in the race to 1 million they had with each other. Both earn themselves a nifty milestone and a folding badge upgrade. However, we're not done as we see pos pc roll on up with his newest milestone at 2 million points. He also earns himself a folding badge upgrade. In the following days we'll also see imperialreign earn himself his folding badge as he crests 100,000 points. All in all, a pretty action filled update. As action filled as statistics can be, that is.

 

[bogmali]

Nice, grats to the newest millionaires and for another mil P_O_S

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Nice, grats to the newest millionaires and for another mil P_O_S

+1

 

[mstenholm]

Nice, grats to the newest millionaires and for another mil P_O_S

Thank you. I hope that the next one will take less time. i920 is on its way.

A question - anyone have experience GPU folding under Windows Server 2008?

 

[JrRacinFan]

Congrats millionaires! Keep on folding!

 

[NastyHabits]

Congratulations to the millionaires! (And to me for sneaking in for piece of pie)

 

[p_o_s_pc]

about time i got my 2mill lol congrats on the pie nastyhabits

 

[NastyHabits]

about time i got my 2mill lol congrats on the pie nastyhabits

Thanks P_O_S_PC, and another congrats on the 2 million.

Getting Pie these days takes well over 20K PPD. This is a very good thing. I got lucky and had a major run of 353's and went all day without any issues. I doubt I'll get it again until I get that 4 GPU beast I bought from Buck_Nasty running again.

 

[msgclb]

Guess who was nowhere to be seen on this mornings pie chart but as of this post has not only got a piece of pie but cherry at that.

Now can he keep it? We'll just have to wait to see if Buck or bogmali have a bigger update.

 

[NastyHabits]

Guess who was nowhere to be seen on this mornings pie chart but as of this post has not only got a piece of pie but cherry at that.

Now can he keep it? We'll just have to wait to see if Buck or bogmali have a bigger update.

Almost 20% of the total. Very Fiendish.

 

[El Fiendo]

Guess who was nowhere to be seen on this mornings pie chart but as of this post has not only got a piece of pie but cherry at that.
Now can he keep it? We'll just have to wait to see if Buck or bogmali have a bigger update.

Almost 20% of the total. Very Fiendish.

Unfortunately, Buck noticed my audacious usurping and put me in my place. Still, these bigadv work units are kind of fun to see when they hit the stats, which makes me want to get more folding. Though to be able to consistently beat both Bogi and Buck, I'd probably need to almost double my farm in terms of hardware.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

N/A today.

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people


Milestones!

2010-01-28| dies900| 6,000
2010-01-28| Zenith| 60,000
2010-01-28 |Darkrealms| 1,200,000
2010-01-28 |4x4n |650,000
2010-01-28 |NastyHabits| 1,400,000
2010-01-28 |Niko084 |600,000

No milestones tonight, but quite a bit of progress has been posted up by a few members. Some of these members we'll be seeing in again in weeks, and some in just a few days.

What I think we need is another race between a couple of members. Unfortunately those seem a bit rare.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

I agree. The -bigadv WU's are like a wild card that changes the whole game. It is amazing how close and how often the PPD changes.

edit:

Witchcraft!!!!

 

[El Fiendo]

They can make things a little hard to determine where you're going to end up production wise. But with almost 10k additional above if I were running core A3, and probably 15k above core A2, these bigadv work units are pretty appealing. Our daily production should end up being augmented by these at least once a day, as it takes me just over 2 days to complete one of these now. I can only hope that if bigadv does come to Windows, is that with a switch to no VMs I would discover a little extra PPD yet.

I eagerly await if they've got any other client releases to unleash on us. GPU3 is also due out sometime soon so perhaps this might just be a string of updated clients and augmented PPD. Hopefully so, I like free upgrades.


Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Bogmali|29/01/10
4x4n|29/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people

Congratulations 4x4n! Breaking into the MPAs is no easy task, and you've proven your manly worth with this clear display of your computing prowess. Very nice work.


Milestones!

2010-01-29 |roast| 80,000
2010-01-29 |adulaamin |50,000
2010-01-29 |briar7 |500,000
2010-01-29| Nosada| 300,000

Tonight sees the return of a couple of names as they achieve higher personal goals. For starters we have adulaamin, whose just crested the halfway point to his folding badge. Meanwhile, briar7 has just reached the halfway point to his badge upgrade to millionaire status. These two members both exhibit a steady climb of destruction, which is a welcome addition, as destruction should be something each team has in bounds. Good work gentlemen, and thank you for your generous slaughter of all things science. And thank you Folding@Home, for being a hobby where I can feel that I actually slaughtered science.

 

[4x4n]

I added a little something yesterday.

I wont be as productive today though, going to be moving some things around and will have some downtime. I've been thinking about getting a Storm Sniper case, and yesterday one just showed up at my doorstep. My wife got it for my birthday, complete surprise. I guess I'll have to keep her around.

 

[BUCK NASTY]

I added a little something yesterday.

I wont be as productive today though, going to be moving some things around and will have some downtime. I've been thinking about getting a Storm Sniper case, and yesterday one just showed up at my doorstep. My wife got it for my birthday, complete surprise. I guess I'll have to keep her around.

Nice, I see there was an extra 10K ppd yesterday. Where did the horsepower come from?

 

[4x4n]

GTX 275.

I'm now running a GTX275, GTX260, GTS250, and a 8800GT. Should be over 25k ppd now.

Got the sniper together. Really bad pics, I suck at taking them without a flash. Looks pretty plain with the flash, so I wont post any of those. Nice case and reasonably quiet with the fans at about half. The loudest thing is the 275 with the fan at 55%.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

All you need is a 96 shader card to complete your collection.

 

[4x4n]

Had em.

I used to have one rig with 2 GTS250's, 2 running 2 8800GT's, 1 with 2 9600GSO's, and 1 with 2 GTX260's. I have scaled way back on my folding, plus it was a pain in the ass to monitor that many set-ups. Just got a good deal from one of my folding buddies at XS on the 275.

Once I get to 1 million here on TPU, I'm going to leave the 8800GT and move the rest back to XS. Got to share the wealth.

 

[NastyHabits]

Let me be the first to congratulate Bogmali. In the wee hours of the morning, he crossed 20,000,000.

At the same time, El Fiendo racked up a 66,000 point bump. In fact the whole team posted a 212,000 point peak on Kakao stats! Way to go all you i7 folders!

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Let me be the first to congratulate Bogmali. In the wee hours of the morning, he crossed 20,000,000.

At the same time, El Fiendo racked up a 66,000 point bump. In fact the whole team posted a 212,000 point peak on Kakao stats! Way to go all you i7 folders!

+1 For Bogmali's major accomplishment. You have truly become a force to be reckoned with!

 

[El Fiendo]

Let me be the first to congratulate Bogmali. In the wee hours of the morning, he crossed 20,000,000.

At the same time, El Fiendo racked up a 66,000 point bump. In fact the whole team posted a 212,000 point peak on Kakao stats! Way to go all you i7 folders!

+1 For Bogmali's major accomplishment. You have truly become a force to be reckoned with!

I have to be more careful. I'm just learning that 'in the wee hours of the morning', alot of other things can happen. Ones that you don't necessarily remember to boot. I have no idea where all this 7/11 material came from, and my wallet doesn't seem to be any lighter. Still, what looks to be $75 dollars of food stuffs doesn't just spawn out of your coffee table. Until I figure it out, I'm regarding my coffee table as magic.

However, concerning Bogmali. He is a force to be reckoned with, and I think its time to start with drastic measures. If anyone else would like to take up drastic measures vs. Bogmali, please pursue that desire with all your might. I would, but history has already proven that he can hear me coming from a mile away (even when I don't openly post my intentions ). I am looking at some upgrades that should make me more summer friendly, so we'll see where things go from there.

Pie!

Winners of the MPA!

Bogmali|30/01/10
4x4n|30/01/10

Feel free to check my findings, I sometimes miss people

It would seem that your increased production has made you a serious contender for the MPAs, 4x4n. I can't stress enough how hard this can be, especially with both teams having fairly lofty entrance requirements.


Milestones!

2010-01-30| TeXBill |1,800,000
2010-01-30| msgclb |9,500,000
2010-01-30 |PowderedSugar |450,000
2010-01-30 |4x4n |700,000
2010-01-30 |theonedub |2,000,000
2010-01-30 |ArmoredCavalry| 30,000
2010-01-31| bogmali |20,000,000

Like my bigadv work unit, Bogmali crossed the finish line just after the cutoff for the 30th. However, because 20 million is such a huge number and milestone, I'll bump up his announcement to this update. Though you only get one.

With that said, Bogmali and theonedub tear up tonight's milestones and monopolize the board. With theondub pulling in 2 million and earning himself a folding badge upgrade at the same time, he clearly sets the pace for the milestone to come. Bogmali, never one to shy away from opportunity, finishes the crowd with his dazzling display of prowess. If he keeps beating Buck every now and again, he may just close that gap and overtake someone in an unthinkable cataclysmic event. Or maybe it'd just be an awkward shuffle as he passes Buck, I don't really know. Until then, I'll just post up his milestones.

Stats on EoC appear to be partially broken right now, so we'll see if that translates to Free-DC and if we get any pie tonight.

 

[mstenholm]

Stanford is up and running again as I "speak"

 

[bogmali]

Stanford is up and running again as I "speak"

I don't know bro cause I have 2 -bigadv units that I finished this morning and yet my update is only 52K at this point

 

[BUCK NASTY]

I don't know bro cause I have 2 -bigadv units that I finished this morning and yet my update is only 52K at this point

Yep, the stats servers are playing "catch up" right now. We should have big update @ 8:15PM EST in the range of 400K plus as of this writing.

Bogmali, I just wanted to post your monthly stats for the last year for everyone to see. Your rise has been meteoric and you have accomplished it all within a year. Congrats man!