TPU's F@H Team

[Solaris17]

Had some issues with clients not submitting results and pulling more work as well as a newly installed 20A circuit tripping with only 4 rigs hooked up to it

Everything is back to normal now but it costed me and the team some 15-20K PPD:shadedshu

lol me to i hooked up my ex's Q6600 to stress test i ran prime fro an hour then i started my GX2's back up after some down time and the whole basement tripped....then i had to reset all my folding rigs...looks like im about 400 watts under maximum ha

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Anyone for a BFG GTS 250 OC 512MB PCI-Express Video Card for $80 after MIR? The initial e-mail that I got said $50 after MIR! The Fry's flier in the paper says $130-$30MIR. The P/N is BFGRGTS250512OCE, which I can't find info on anywhere. The website @ Fry's is changing as I write this. Now it shows status as "Pre-order". The MIR is good for the entire month. Only 1 rebate allowed.

Update: P/N seems to be an European P/N.

 

[bogmali]

Nice deal.....I might snag one of them.

 

[[Ion]]

As of the latest update, we've officially lost the Canucks as a threat:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=50711

 

[NastyHabits]

As of the latest update, we've officially lost the Canucks as a threat:
http://img.techpowerup.org/091003/fah945.jpg
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=50711

You beat me too it! And our trend continues upward, while HWC's sinks. When will they raise the flannel flag of surrender?

 

[msgclb]

As of the latest update, we've officially lost the Canucks as a threat:

They will always be a threat! From this image you can see we have retained our upper momentum while HCF has gone on a downward spiral. I just know they thought they had us by the balls but if we keep this up we might put them back to 2012.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

maybe some of you guys could give me advice on folding here....

Now for a long time. Ive been folding on my T2300 Dual Core @ 100% on one core...Now my question is would 50% (or more) of 2 cores be better or faster then a single core at 100%? & if so how would i go about reconfiguring the console version for dual core??

Unfortunately I cannot dedicate my entire horsepower since my laptop is also used to do other things.

so really Im just wondering if its possible to 'optimise' what i already have without upgrading my current hardware.

 

[mx500torid]

Folding Forum been quiet lately. Everyone taking a breather from repelling those Canucks.

 

[hat]

maybe some of you guys could give me advice on folding here....

Now for a long time. Ive been folding on my T2300 Dual Core @ 100% on one core...Now my question is would 50% (or more) of 2 cores be better or faster then a single core at 100%? & if so how would i go about reconfiguring the console version for dual core??

Unfortunately I cannot dedicate my entire horsepower since my laptop is also used to do other things.

so really Im just wondering if its possible to 'optimise' what i already have without upgrading my current hardware.

It would probably be better if you ran the SMP client at ~50% yes

the single core client is next to worthless these days

 

[thebluebumblebee]

maybe some of you guys could give me advice on folding here....

Now for a long time. Ive been folding on my T2300 Dual Core @ 100% on one core...Now my question is would 50% (or more) of 2 cores be better or faster then a single core at 100%? & if so how would i go about reconfiguring the console version for dual core??

Unfortunately I cannot dedicate my entire horsepower since my laptop is also used to do other things.

so really I'm just wondering if its possible to 'optimise' what i already have without upgrading my current hardware.

My experience with running SMP on my main machine (S939 X2 4400) was not that good. I feel that SMP wants to be left alone. AFAIK, there's no way to"throttle" it back, only change its priority. The other thing is that the due dates for the jobs are only like 3 days, not months like the uniprocessor client, so it is very easy to have the time expire on you if you use the machine for other things. IMHO, stay with what you're doing. You could (correct me if I'm wrong guys) get an affinity setting program and run two of the uniprocessor clients and assign them to their own core. That way, if they got in the way, you could shut one down like normal but fire it back up when you're not using your laptop.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

My experience with running SMP on my main machine (S939 X2 4400) was not that good. I feel that SMP wants to be left alone. AFAIK, there's no way to"throttle" it back, only change its priority. The other thing is that the due dates for the jobs are only like 3 days, not months like the uniprocessor client, so it is very easy to have the time expire on you if you use the machine for other things. IMHO, stay with what you're doing. You could (correct me if I'm wrong guys) get an affinity setting program and run two of the uniprocessor clients and assign them to their own core. That way, if they got in the way, you could shut one down like normal but fire it back up when you're not using your laptop.

well I dont use it to do much else other then act as a internet gateway & download organiser. otherwise its pretty much just left running in a corner.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

well I dont use it to do much else other then act as a internet gateway & download organiser. otherwise its pretty much just left running in a corner.

Then install the SMP client.

 

[hat]

The uniprocessor projects are worth next to nothing in points though, and they take a long time to finish.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I have no idea if im running it correctly but for the time being Ive managed to set up multiple clients basicly using

http://www.overclock.net/faqs/99440-how-manipulate-f-h-console-service.html
&

http://forums.2cpu.com/archive/index.php/t-25868.html

as a reference.

Of course since im running like this now - Ive had to cut back a little on how much usage ive alocated it - so ive gone from 100% on just 1 core to 70% on 2 cores - still tweaking.

 

[El Fiendo]

The nice thing I find about the Folding @ Home program is that its usually very willing to hand off resources to things that request it. Obviously if its too intensive a program, I pause the folding client. However, I usually find I can get away with most anything (even some games) leaving the folding clients running. In fact I only lose 2.5k PPD when I game with my GPU running, I do notice a bit of a stutter though.

 

[mike047]

The nice thing I find about the Folding @ Home program is that its usually very willing to hand off resources to things that request it. Obviously if its too intensive a program, I pause the folding client. However, I usually find I can get away with most anything (even some games) leaving the folding clients running. In fact I only lose 2.5k PPD when I game with my GPU running, I do notice a bit of a stutter though.

You can PAUSE a folding client??

 

[El Fiendo]

Eh, I mean close it down with Ctrl+C and reopen it. Works almost the same and I never lose a unit.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well, not that Im gona be doing much cpu intensive tasks on my laptop anyway. but when i was running my XP on it. it got quite bogged down & all i was doing was running a torrent application, WMP for music & F@H on 1 core @100%. but that was a 2-3year old install anyway. its bound to get bogged down.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Eh, I mean close it down with Ctrl+C and reopen it. Works almost the same and I never lose a unit.

I never new you could do this.....

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well Unfortunately for me - I couldnt get the 2nd F@H client running on my 2nd core to keep running so Im back to just one client again...plodding along with my petty 300ppd

 

[thebluebumblebee]

run the SMP client. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=86169

 

[FreedomEclipse]

run the SMP client. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=86169

Im getting core download error.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Ok,

Here http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther you will find this note: NOTE: Please use the v6.23 installer package to setup the SMP client. Then download the v6.24 "drop-in" binary below to replace the expired v6.23 client executable. A new installer package with v6.24 will follow shortly. So, as I'm flipping back an forth between here and Stanford's site, I find that the link to the 6.24 binary is broke. Great. poke, poke poke Found it! http://www.stanford.edu/~kasson/folding/windows/Folding@home-Win32-x86.exe Hope that helps.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

still no luck

 

[johnspack]

Well the fun never stops for me. Both cards down atm. If the prices are quite close, what's the best mobo to get of the p5qs, the pro turbo, the e, or the deluxe? The deluxe is a bit overkill, but for 10-20 bucks more, why not? I'll be watching the ncix specials until the end of the month when I get paid....