Legit Reviews

Woohoo! Our push is working!!! We had a good day yesterday and are well into 40k for today 3 hours before the final update, great job gang! Looks like some of the long time single client folders got some big point WU's (maybe bonus?). Hopefully we can keep this going over the holidays, I know I'll have all my machines running full time. I added a 3GHz single core Opteron and a 2.25GHz A64 to my mini farm to help get a little extra oomph. They are adding about 600ppd according to fahmon...every little bit helps.

I think I've had it with my P5B, it just doesn't want to FSB overclock any more with this quad. Anyone besides patorjay have experience with this board? I've read that they are pretty much guaranteed 450-475FSB with quads.

Yeah... today was my big day so far. both machines running SMP came together for 1760 each, and the little guy dropped 343. I need to get my abacus out and figure out when I'm going to be able to drop 2 1760s from Behemoth, 1 1760 from the 'beast and a 343 from the little guy. That should be a good day for me.

Fold on!

All my big WU folding rigs are P5B-E boards with the E6600, I dont OC them though

Nice job everyone!

my quads folding 24/7 now, just got it up a couple days ago. after 1 day i jumped about 12 ranks in the team also got my friends dual core lappy up, but he doesnt leave it on that much. acording to extreme overclocking folding i should be in the top 50 in about a month!

I thought it was a week long thing? the folding that is. If you guys are still in the running want a DC 3600 @ 2.85 for a bit? I use my computer pretty often but, probably 12 hours a day I can keep it up and folding. Will those numbers even dent your score or help out enough to matter?

hercules71185 wrote:I thought it was a week long thing? the folding that is. If you guys are still in the running want a DC 3600 @ 2.85 for a bit? I use my computer pretty often but, probably 12 hours a day I can keep it up and folding. Will those numbers even dent your score or help out enough to matter?

We just wanted to try to have a week where we put up some big numbers, maybe move up the ranks, or get some of the those who have dropped off to start again. Folding, like diamonds, is forever. So fire that thing up and Fold On!

folding is a cumulative thing. While ideally we'd love to have you be a long time folder, any time you can give us will be appreciated

Looks like today will be the day for my big number. Behemoth is dumping in the next few minutes, and should drop another unit in 20 hours (as long as I don't game in that time). Frankenbeast is about 1/2 hour from dumping a unit... and the little guy is scheduled to drop in 18 hours.

Behemoth #1, 1760. 'beast #1 1760. Son's machine 443. Behemoth #2, 1760. 5563 pts today if all goes well.

Well crap, looks like we had some sort of network hiccup (probably Charter screwing with our modem again...what speed will we be this week?) so the SMP machines are hosed but at least the single core machines are still chugging along. I won't be home until tomorrow night to get it sorted.

Since I don't know if I'll get to see a PC again until tomorrow, everyone have a Merry Christmas and enjoy the time with your families!

-Brian

Figures... Behemoth went 18 percent and then had an early unit end. It seems to be working fine on the next unit, but only time will tell. Not sure what caused it... I haven't rebooted this machine or stopped folding for 9+ days.

Merry Christmas

One of my cousins got a ps3. With folding it uses your cpu power right? Well I was curious when I checked the results some guy named ps3 was the highest. I am pretty sure most new processors are stronger than the ps3. So.. whats with that?

Yep, it uses your cpu power. I think PS3 is the default name if you don't put in any information when you set it up the first time.

hercules71185 wrote:One of my cousins got a ps3. With folding it uses your cpu power right? Well I was curious when I checked the results some guy named ps3 was the highest. I am pretty sure most new processors are stronger than the ps3. So.. whats with that?

The PS3 is better than modern CPU's during the regular folding, as they must have made the PS3 multi threaded (because the cell chip has lots of cores) and it will have been optimised for the chips architecture. But I think that a fast core 2 duo running a SMP client gets more points per day, though i'm not sure if stanford's point weighting system has anything to do with that.

Dan

DMB2000uk wrote:

hercules71185 wrote:One of my cousins got a ps3. With folding it uses your cpu power right? Well I was curious when I checked the results some guy named ps3 was the highest. I am pretty sure most new processors are stronger than the ps3. So.. whats with that?

The PS3 is better than modern CPU's during the regular folding, as they must have made the PS3 multi threaded (because the cell chip has lots of cores) and it will have been optimised for the chips architecture. But I think that a fast core 2 duo running a SMP client gets more points per day, though i'm not sure if stanford's point weighting system has anything to do with that.

Dan

An average overclocked Dual Core can hit 2000ppd, a quad 3000ppd. You can double the PPD of a PS3 very easily.

But how fair is stanford's point system? Didn't the GPU client do lots of work, but to make the CPU folders stand a chance stanford chose to give them a lot less points per WU?

I was wondering if it was the same for the PS3.

Dan

point wise it goes uni-client, GPU, Ps3, SMP. SMP is the highest because the deadlines are so tight (1-3 days), and uni is so low because the deadlines are (2-91 days)

GPU client has so low because not many people are doing GPU folding.

I've had a great folding day like this thread mentions. Already three of the five machines on the farm have posted WU's in the last 24hrs.

The farm had a small setback as weird things popped up recently, but I'm hoping that mess is long gone.

The VISTA laptop is still screwy. It's not reporting completed frames while running F@H. So, twice a day, I quit F@H and restart it to find out how far along it's going. Is this a dumb VISTA bug with F@H ??? I've gathered much of the device drivers and WIFI software to run XP on this laptop. It's finding the time to convert it.

The LR team is posting some impressive numbers right now. Lets keep the stamina going!

AND a special thanks to the new folders on the team!

I guess despite the little hiccup I had, everything has evened out. 0 on 12/23, 4149 on 12/24, 0 on 12/25, 5623 today. I know for a fact that EOC's stats are slow right now because I had a unit complete before 9pm last night and didn't credit until today at 12pm (thus my 0 for yesterday).

DaIceMan wrote:I guess despite the little hiccup I had, everything has evened out. 0 on 12/23, 4149 on 12/24, 0 on 12/25, 5623 today. I know for a fact that EOC's stats are slow right now because I had a unit complete before 9pm last night and didn't credit until today at 12pm (thus my 0 for yesterday).

Those are some really nice numbers.