Official TBCS Folding Team

[x88x]

Well since a recent project finished up at work and I was given a large bonus, I decided to treat myself to a nice late b-day present. I just ordered a 980X, 4 EVGA 580s and a new Gigabyte Mobo with 4 PCIe 16x slots.... Guess whos going to post 50k ppd? Also got 4 256gb SSD that I am going to RAID 0 for the OS... can we say FAST?

That'd be awesome, but I'm afraid I have to agree with slave. :( ...besides, I happen to know you're self-employed, CJ...how do bonuses work with that, eh? :P

[slaveofconvention]

As for 50k per day - thats a lil on the low side heh - the 580s get around 17-19 at stock speeds - 4 would be headed for 75k and thats before there's any CPU folding going on :P

[x88x]

As for 50k per day - thats a lil on the low side heh - the 580s get around 17-19 at stock speeds - 4 would be headed for 75k and thats before there's any CPU folding going on :P

Yeah, I forgot to mention that... Considering my 1090T does ~6k, I would guess a 980X would push 10k...though the internet seems to think it would do 20-40k...not sure I believe that though. But yeah, I would say probably at least ~90-100k ppd out of that system. :P

[diluzio91]

my 870 will push 17k, so i believe 20-40

[x88x]

Wow...I guess that hyperthreading really pays off.

[Oneslowz28]

Yea I must admit that it was a joke. The fact that I would even consider an Intel should have tipped everyone off. :p

[SXRguyinMA]

if that's the kind of bonuses your company hands out I'm moving down there! :D

[dr.walrus]

Oh man our members are SO gullible lol - *raises eyebrow*

The DATE people, the DATE!!!! LOL
I AM STILL EXCITED BY THIS IDEA ANYWAY

[dr.walrus]

my 1090T does ~6k,

Turn off the GPU clients and, if you have the right WU, it'll hit 11K at stock and well over 14 when you crank it up to 4Ghz

[x88x]

Turn off the GPU clients and, if you have the right WU, it'll hit 11K at stock and well over 14 when you crank it up to 4Ghz

Ah, ok. That makes me feel better. :P I think I'll leave them on though, since each of my GTX260's does ~6k as well.

[diluzio91]

wooot. just checked this morning, we're about 2600!, and i passed SOC and Poooochstr

[slaveofconvention]

Another landmark guys - awesome work!!!

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/slaveofconvention/images/folding/2000wu.jpg

[AmEv]

OK, weird thing, but still good.

I ran chkdsk /F.

Folding is back up and running for me!

[diluzio91]

i7 is running now with big adv ..... I'm excited

[x88x]

.....ok, that was weird... I noticed that my clients were back to doing smaller WU's...somehow they turned off big adv all by themselves... :? :?

[diluzio91]

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/197535_10150150699588426_601993425_6660943_7301876 _n.jpg

[slaveofconvention]

Yeah I'm not catching you anytime soon :P

[diluzio91]

lol... theres perks to living in a dorm.... no power bills
im turning the phenom into a gaming rig for my roomie soon too... Im excited.

[x88x]

lol... theres perks to living in a dorm.... no power bills

Heh, yeah, that's the only way I was able to justify running the four PIII systems I did in college. :P I think they did something around 50ppd each?

I am interested to see what kind of an affect this has on my power bill though. I only have one additional system running, but I'm probably pulling a lot more power at least in my main system.

[x88x]

w00tz! We passed 2500! :D

...also, I passed Poooochster.. I'm coming for you diluzio. :twisted:

[diluzio91]

bring it. lol.... im adding another 460 to my armada soon. oh... and im oc'ing this i7. should be good for ~4.0... now where's kayin. i've never oc'd an intel. lol

[x88x]

Hmmm, I might see how far I can push my stuff too...I've never really tried OCing before...though, with my LC setup, I don't really have any excuse.. :P

[diluzio91]

be careful oc'ing those gpus... anything crazy and they will start failing wu's for a straight day

[slaveofconvention]

Ok you guys are amazing. I was hoping this would take off but I never expected this sort of support so a HUGE thankyou from me and the TBCS staff.

Not only is our daily output MUCH higher than I ever hoped, it's still accelerating - I genuinely thought it'd have leveled off by now but yesterday alone we produced over 140,000 points.

We are the fastest moving team over the last 7 days, bar none - this is in part down to the fact that there's plenty of idle teams still for us to overtake but even the new teams starting out aren't even getting close - no-one is going up the ranks faster!

If you check the EO page you can also see the top 5 threats - the teams we'll catch next, and the teams that are catching us. At the time of writing there is NO-ONE catching us at all - of the almost 6000 teams listed BELOW us, not a single one of them is on course to overtake us.... EVER.....

And last, but not least, a big congratulations to diluzio91. Trace gave us a good start before any of us started folding for the team, and started us off with almost a 1/4 million points - as of earler today diluzio91 has overtaken him at the top of the list of members and x88x is just behind and should move up into 2nd place in the very near future.

Again guys, thank you all very much. Not only have we proven what we can do when we try (once again) we're also contributing to genuine research in ways that just a few years ago would have been next to impossible.

GO TBCS :D

[diluzio91]

lost my i7 today due to a faulty motherboard, ordering a p55 ftw from evga. should have the i7 up again and the phenom paired to a 460 in the next week or 2!

[x88x]

Heheh, yup. Next WU one of my systems turns in should put me over Trace. :D (only 283pts away now) Once you add that 460 though, diluzio, I think you're gonna leave me in the dust. Maybe I can catch you for a bit while you i7 is down though.. :whistler:

...now if I can just convince PLAR to spend 5 minutes getting his stuff sorted out, we could add another ~30k-40k ppd to our team. :twisted:

[AmEv]

Anyone see anything wrong with my sig by chance?

[slaveofconvention]

Until we're listed individually - which could be anytime - that won't work - you should be able to get the one with the Team stats only to work for now....

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?t=191053

I read that we have to go top 800 to get individual stats - but I also read something about fast moving teams getting listed individually before 800 which we'd definitely qualify for - either way, we'll be there soon enough heh

EDIT: Having just checked, it seems that every team in the top 1200 has individual stats - below that there are occasional gaps so it's even closer than that :D We'll need in the region of 4.2 million points to get into the top 1200 - bearing in mind we're over 1.7 million now, we only broke the 1 million barrier just 6 days ago and our production rate is still accelerating...... It really isn't that far away - if we flatline today and our production stops increasing we should be in the top 1200 in about 2 weeks - I seriously don't think it'll take that long though....

[AmEv]

Oh.

From EOC FAQ:


Individual stats are added when the team rank reaches at least 800. It is possible for individuals to be added sooner if the team's rank is at least 1,200 AND their rank has gone up by at least 5 spots in the last 7 days. So the more active teams get their users' added sooner.

[slaveofconvention]

Well right now, the team at 1199 has a 24hr average of 15k - that was enough to get them a 21 place rise in the last 7 days so if we stay anywhere near our current 120k 24 hour average, I'm fairly sure we'll qualify :D

Based purely on the 24hr average production, we're actually 156th worldwide - not bad for a team which really, is still in it's first month!

[diluzio91]

Lol... i welcome the challenge x88x. im still putting out 23k per day though... whens my evga ftw coming!!!

[x88x]

Well, since I'm averaging ~30k-35k, if your i7 is out of commission for more than, say, 2 days, I think I should catch you (only 22,028 behind you now). :twisted:

[diluzio91]

we'll see... lol...i have a couple buffer machines running too

[x88x]

21,348 now.. :whistler:

[AmEv]

69PPM(onth).....

[diluzio91]

im at 18990+2605+5xxx from my rig at home... im at roughly 26600 ppd?

[x88x]

Main rig averages ~20k-25k, second rig averages ~11k, third rig averages ~....I really don't know. I'm guessing ~200-300 (single core on my server...with a Celery E1500).

[mDust]

All this competition is making me want to go out and get half a dozen 570s and a ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution. Or maybe a dozen 570s and two ASUS P6T6 WS Revolutions! Or...!


69PPM(onth).....

:(

[diluzio91]

Well.... its been 24 hours, maybe i have a computer i forgot about, it doesn't look like you're catching me x88x... I just wish i could sell my alienware to get a partner for my 560... oh well... i would probably need a new PSU anyways to do that. Mine only has 1 6pin and 1 6+2 pind

[x88x]

Well.... its been 24 hours, maybe i have a computer i forgot about, it doesn't look like you're catching me x88x...
Yeah, that's weird...you must have one your forgot about..because the gap is almost exactly what it was yesterday.. :think:

[diluzio91]

Lol... my RA down the hall herd that my mobo died and started folding his gpu for me so i wouldn't fall behind. i love that guy.... He says we're even for me building his tower for him though.

[x88x]

Curses! :D ..now, just don't mention to him when your i7 is working again. ;)

[x88x]

Heheh, so, out of curiosity, I checked the rankings, and between us and 800, there are only 3 teams with more than 100k 24hr average! And you have to get to 340 before teams with more average ppd than us become commonplace at all (iirc, only 3 of those between us and the current 340). :twisted:

Oh, and according to their current estimates, we should overtake the current 800 team in 1.5 months, and the current 1200 team in 2.6 weeks.

[AmEv]

Note to self:

Do not fold and try making music at the same time.

Unless you like going deaf from loud-and-sudden, low frequencies.

[x88x]

w00tz! 1,997!!! We passed the 2,000 mark! :banana:

[slaveofconvention]

:banana:

[billygoat333]

:banana:

[diluzio91]

YAAAY... lol... so x88x, i think your starting to catch me... 10000 point spread now

[x88x]

Yeah, I think so. Though, I'm never certain if it's just that my systems finished a batch of WUs before yours and we're just playing leapfrog...idk, we'll see. :P How's the i7 replacement MBB coming?

[diluzio91]

tuesday... and god knows when itll actually be folding. im officially jumping from watercooling to air cooling... im trying to sell my loop, but i have to sell it before i can buy a decent air cooler for my i7... anyone wanna buy a water loop? lol...

[SXRguyinMA]

what you got? I might want it to go with my new i3-2100 :D

[AmEv]

So, when's someone going to send me the dualhead AGP video card I need for folding? lol jk

[Oneslowz28]

tuesday... and god knows when itll actually be folding. im officially jumping from watercooling to air cooling... im trying to sell my loop, but i have to sell it before i can buy a decent air cooler for my i7... anyone wanna buy a water loop? lol...

What kind of CPU cooler are you looking for? I might be able to hook you up.

[diluzio91]

@ Oneslow28 I want something BIG. lol. i was looking at the prolimatech or the tuniq tower 120 extreme or something along those lines... Its gotta keep an i7 cool at stupid OC levels while folding. I won't be able to buy anything till i sell this water loop though.

@ SXR. i am talking to a friend, but ill def let you know if he says no, i have
swiftech pump with xspc top
ek lt waterblock
2x120mm rad (i think its ek, its blue)
1x120mm rad (black ice? its thick and high fin density)
fillport
bitspower 250 res
oh. and all the fittings, bitspower all the way, compression fittings. I was looking, its about 410 all new stuff, i was asking 280+shipping. also have a enzotech am2/am3 block, and a swiftech mc60 universal block. again, i'll let you know what my friend says. Ill shoot you a PM sunday and let you know.

Edit: oh, i forgot to mention that if my friend takes the wc loop that he wont need the 1155/1156 block because it;ll be used on a phenom 2x6. So that'll be available no matter what. its less than 2 weeks old, but i can't return it because the warranty sticker was broken on it. the o ring wasn't inserted properly and i had to open the block to fix the ring.

[mDust]

@ Oneslow28 I want something BIG. lol. i was looking at the prolimatech or the tuniq tower 120 extreme or something along those lines... Its gotta keep an i7 cool at stupid OC levels while folding. I won't be able to buy anything till i sell this water loop though.



I got a Tt Frio to cool my 1090T. It's at 4Ghz and 51C (~12-15C ambient) right now while folding 24/7 for a couple weeks straight. If the sun is shining on the case it gets up to 55C. It would probably cool even better if my ram wasn't preventing the 'push' fan from being seated properly. My ram is kind of tall though. If you want a big heatsink, they don't get much bigger. I had to take a side intake case fan off to close the case...which still isn't technically closed. (My 'will-it-fit' pre-measuring was off by about 2mm):whistler: Pretty damn good for under $60. It comes with 2 decent fans as well. Once I get out of this damn apartment and have a place to tinker, I'll show you all what the Frio looks like submerged in cooling oil.:D

[diluzio91]

Lol.... well heat isnt a huge issue so much as noise... my p2x4 is running at 4ghz, folding, and the zalman fan i have on it is sunning crazy loud... temps are at 48*C. For fans i was thinking i would get an aero cool shark in blue to match the insides of my computer.

[TheGreatSatan]

Where's the link to join?

[Oneslowz28]

@ Oneslow28 I want something BIG. lol. i was looking at the prolimatech or the tuniq tower 120 extreme or something along those lines... Its gotta keep an i7 cool at stupid OC levels while folding. I won't be able to buy anything till i sell this water loop though.

@ SXR. i am talking to a friend, but ill def let you know if he says no, i have
swiftech pump with xspc top
ek lt waterblock
2x120mm rad (i think its ek, its blue)
1x120mm rad (black ice? its thick and high fin density)
fillport
bitspower 250 res
oh. and all the fittings, bitspower all the way, compression fittings. I was looking, its about 410 all new stuff, i was asking 280+shipping. also have a enzotech am2/am3 block, and a swiftech mc60 universal block. again, i'll let you know what my friend says. Ill shoot you a PM sunday and let you know.

Edit: oh, i forgot to mention that if my friend takes the wc loop that he wont need the 1155/1156 block because it;ll be used on a phenom 2x6. So that'll be available no matter what. its less than 2 weeks old, but i can't return it because the warranty sticker was broken on it. the o ring wasn't inserted properly and i had to open the block to fix the ring.

Let me know when you are ready. I may have something huge by then. Is that BP 250 a 250mm rad? If so we might be able to make a trade for the CPU cooler. I have a Prolimatech Megahelms. Had an Armageddon but it belongs to Drumthumper. I need to ship it to him lol.

[Oneslowz28]

Where's the link to join?

Either Download the F@H clients from the F@H site, or download the F@H tracker http://www.overclock.net/overclock-net-folding-home-team/739408-fah-gpu-tracker-v2.html then when you set it up, create a user name and our team number is 191053. Also if you do CPU folding make sure you get a passkey from the F@H site. It will give you bonus points.

[diluzio91]

Let me know when you are ready. I may have something huge by then. Is that BP 250 a 250mm rad? If so we might be able to make a trade for the CPU cooler. I have a Prolimatech Megahelms. Had an Armageddon but it belongs to Drumthumper. I need to ship it to him lol.

Nope, its one of these. lol
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/images/products/BP-WTZM250P-BK_01.jpg

[blaze15301]

id love to help you guys out on this but i have no idea what im doing here.
im running a phenom 955 @ 4ghz and a 5830 and 5850 in crossfire but i keep getting a error saying the core has encountered a serious problem and is shutting down. plus my gpus arent even at load or anything. if anyone would like to help me set this up id appreciate it.

[mDust]

id love to help you guys out on this but i have no idea what im doing here.
im running a phenom 955 @ 4ghz and a 5830 and 5850 in crossfire but i keep getting a error saying the core has encountered a serious problem and is shutting down. plus my gpus arent even at load or anything. if anyone would like to help me set this up id appreciate it.

I don't think it will work on SLI or crossfire. Also, if you take them out of crossfire, you'll likely have to force those cards with the 'ATI R800' setting in the config menu of the tracker program.
EDIT: Also, try running prime95 for about an hour and see if you get any errors in that.

[diluzio91]

if you hop on steam later (eg 6ish) i can help you get set up

[slaveofconvention]

Even if you just run the SMP client and get yourself a Passkey for the bonus points, you should be able to churn out well over 5 figures a day with that CPU....

As for the GPUs - I think mDust hit it right on the head - take them out of crossfire then force GPU selection on them and they should work but it'll mean constantly switching between crossfire for gaming and non-crossfire for folding which may quickly become a hassle.

If you DO go with the GPU folding AND the SMP folding, you may get better overall results if you force the CPU to only fold on 2 or 3 cores instead of all four - leaving CPU cores free to help with the GPU folding makes a big difference....

[blaze15301]

if you hop on steam later (eg 6ish) i can help you get set up

how does 10 ish sound?

[blaze15301]

Even if you just run the SMP client and get yourself a Passkey for the bonus points, you should be able to churn out well over 5 figures a day with that CPU....

As for the GPUs - I think mDust hit it right on the head - take them out of crossfire then force GPU selection on them and they should work but it'll mean constantly switching between crossfire for gaming and non-crossfire for folding which may quickly become a hassle.

If you DO go with the GPU folding AND the SMP folding, you may get better overall results if you force the CPU to only fold on 2 or 3 cores instead of all four - leaving CPU cores free to help with the GPU folding makes a big difference....

i have to switching in and out of crossfire now anyway itsnot even in crosfire atm.

[x88x]

Heheh, hit another one. :D
http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq3/x13931x/2000p.png

[diluzio91]

how does 10 ish sound?

works for me :twisted:

[pcclan]

:P am folding a lot with just my gpu :P and a 5770

[AmEv]

Let's see who gets their first personal million....

[diluzio91]

lol... smart money is on me or x88x

[x88x]

Heheh, probably. Which one probably depends on how long it takes your MBB to get to you. According to my calculations, at my current rate, I should hit 1,000,000 around May 1st. Oh, and I'm only 510pts behind you now. ;) Looks like I'll catch you afterall. :D

[diluzio91]

for a little while... i guess if noone is gonna buy my loop i'll have to hook it back up on tuesday

ur on top btw... i shouldnt have gamed last night

[slaveofconvention]

I just realised my system hasn't been folding for the last day or two lol - strike 20k points heh - back up now.

As for you two with your competition - if Trace gets back into it, it might not be the two horse race to 1m you think it'll be :P

Don't get too confident heh

[x88x]

ur on top btw... i shouldnt have gamed last night
Heheh, I'll enjoy it while it lasts. :P


I just realised my system hasn't been folding for the last day or two lol - strike 20k points heh - back up now.
Hmm, is that why our numbers dropped ~30k points since the peak on Monday? Well, that and diluzio's i7.

For Trace, do you know if he would have anything folding besides the system in his profile (980X, dual 9800GTX+'s)? Unless he's upgraded his GPUs (I'm guessing likely, but I don't remember hearing about it), I think with my secondary folding system I'm comfortably ahead of what that rig can put out. ;)

BTW, I switched the SMP client in my main system to only use 5 cores, and it looks like it may have picked up another ~1,000 ppd average. :D

[slaveofconvention]

Idn what he was running but I heard (can't remember where) that it was getting 48k ppd so pretty sure it's a lot more than the system in his sig.

The points drop isn't all on my toes though - my system only puts out about 12k ppd so it'd take more than my PC to lose us 30k ppd

[TheMainMan]

I was having some system stability issues so my system has been down for a few days while I tried to fix things. It folds about 50% of the day and generates 15-16k so that might help explain a portion of the decrease.

[diluzio91]

i also lost my i7, so add 15k for me, and i was gaming for a long time so maybe another 5k there... Sorry guys

[slaveofconvention]

Ah stuff happens lol - we're still climbing fast and there's still no-one catching us so we're still doing really well - there was no practical way we could maintain the rate of growth we had going - was cool while it lasted - now to maintain our level of production and grow it where we can with new peons (opps - did I say that out loud?)

[knowledgegranted]

So it appears as if you guys need some help! I'll be adding my render farm sometime this week, we will see how it does.

[pcclan]

So it appears as if you guys need some help! I'll be adding my render farm sometime this week, we will see how it does.
sweet that will help out a lot

[Yeticorn]

Started folding again this weekend, so + ~8k ppd here

[slaveofconvention]

Well we've dropped off a little from our peak of over 140k ppd but we're pretty much levelling out and still at over 100k ppd which is nothing to be taken lightly - there are MUCH bigger teams out there producing a lot less.

On a positive note, we're rapidly approaching that 1200 position which means we'll get individual stats on the OE page and those little sig banners will start to work, and there just MIGHT be something in the works to give a little something back to our folding team ;)

[x88x]

Grrr, ok, ok, I'll figure out why my secondary system turned itself off Monday morning...stupid old computer...grumblegrumble... :P

[diluzio91]

lol... guess who got a care package from evgaaaa

Now just waiting on the cooler from CJ to get back up to 40000ppd

[Oneslowz28]

It ships in 1 day so you should be back up by next week.

[Fuganater]

I'll help y'all out once I get my new PC built.

[slaveofconvention]

We have people producing tens of thousands of points a day, and some doing hundreds of points a month - they ALL help so anything anyone can do is always appreciated....

[diluzio91]

It ships in 1 day so you should be back up by next week.

Sweet. in that case ill still be putting out 30k after today. the stock cooler does a decent job if you don't OC, and are willing to put up with some noise.

[TheMainMan]

I think I'm going to have to contact EVGA about my graphics card. I keep getting system exception BSODs that point to DirectX and they only seem to happen when I fold (aka stress my card). I did some looking around and it seems that sometimes this is related to bad video ram, anyone know how to test that? The card is about 7 months old and has been lightly used until I started folding.

[Yeticorn]

I know there are specific tests just to stress video ram. Major Geeks has one that I've used before, it's not bad.

Try this (http://majorgeeks.com/Video_Memory_Stress_Test__d5896.html)

[dr.walrus]

Unfortunately, I have a large development project running across two machines that I only have two weeks to finish - I don't have the spare resources to fold!

[Fuganater]

Trying this out on my wife's computer. Couldn't get the GPU Tracker V.2 to download the clients so I'm using the individual GPU and CPU clients.

[AmEv]

I guess a celebration is in place (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/cached-certs/cert.x88x.1000.jpg)

[x88x]

w00tz! :D

[billygoat333]

:banana: is all I can say to that. :D

[diluzio91]

Congrats x88x! I have the i7 running and should be coming to get you soon. lol.... i went a little cable OCD this time though. so i'll have to get some pics up when my new cooler gets here

[x88x]

Ok, I finally got around to looking at my secondary system, and as I suspected, the PSU finally gave up the ghost. :( My trusty old SkyHawk 620W that has been with me since ~2006 (well, originally since 2005, but it died catastrophically and I didn't bother with an RMA for a long time), and powered many, many different iterations of my main computers...finally dead. :( Sounds like a capacitor might be leaking...it has that annoying whine when I turn it on, even though there are no moving parts.

EDIT:
Forgot to mention, the system is back up and running now, with my temperamental Tt Toughpower 700W. Here's hoping none of the 12V rails decide to give up on me again (they come and go on this guy...probably some funky capacitors, but I've never really bothered trying to figure out where the issue is).

[diluzio91]

Sorry to hear about your dead psu... got the i7 up and running, as well as the laptop and the phenom 2x4. Im at ~35k ppd now :D

[AmEv]

1500!

And it's been only a month!

[slaveofconvention]

The one fact that still makes me smile every time, is when I look at the 5 threats and conquests and still see that there is absolutely NO-ONE anywhere on the PLANET catching us :P

[Kayin]

Quad socket should be up and playing this week, we'll see what happens on my limited internet.

[slaveofconvention]

Just noticed - we now have a total of 5 contributors who have passed the 250,000 point mark - x88x, Dilluzio, Poochster, mDust and yours truly - pats on the back all round.

An extra pat for x88x who is the only person so far to hit the half-million :D

[TheMainMan]

I know there are specific tests just to stress video ram. Major Geeks has one that I've used before, it's not bad.

Try this (http://majorgeeks.com/Video_Memory_Stress_Test__d5896.html)

Didn't work, I guess there is a driver bug in the newer Nvidia drivers that won't allow it to run. I've contacted EVGA so I'll have to see what they say. I don't really want to have to pull the GTX 470 as it means I'll be stepping down to a GT 210 and will be a big hit to my points generated.

[x88x]

FYI, incase anyone else runs into this, I found out that the GPU clients fail when the Remote Desktop service is running. Fix for this if you want to have remote access to headless systems, is to disable Remote Desktop connections (ie, disable the service) and use VNC instead.

[slaveofconvention]

Not a problem I have unless I actually remotely log in, then everything goes to hell - but having the pc READY for a remote connection doesn't cause me any issues

[diluzio91]

I've also noticed that a client will occasionally be "stuck" and run for 2 or 3 hours without a change in percentage. all you have to do ti fix it is open task manager and kill the Folding processes. and delete the WU from the client that is stuck. (aka gpu0 or smp) then it'll pull a new WU.

ps. gained 10k on you last night x88x, only 40 left to go

[slaveofconvention]

Right now we're sitting at exactly 1500 according to the EO page - only 300 places left to go and we'll get those individual stats :D

[Fuganater]

Got it working on my Wife's PC. Ranked #20 for TBCS :D

[x88x]

Not a problem I have unless I actually remotely log in, then everything goes to hell - but having the pc READY for a remote connection doesn't cause me any issues

I found that once I had logged in, logged out, but left the service running, it still wouldn't start. IDK, ymmv. Either way, I disabled the service just to make sure I didn't forget and use it by accident.

[slaveofconvention]

Another milestone people - woot :banana:

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/slaveofconvention/images/folding/3000000points.jpg

[SXRguyinMA]

for some reason my SMP today was only putting out ~900ppd rather than it's usual 3k :?

[x88x]

The FAH Tracker display for the SMP on my main system has been saying really low numbers recently too, but I think I'm putting out the right numbers, based on what my scores are showing.

[985323]

Im joining the ranks, I know it's a bit late but I figure 2x 460's should help

[x88x]

It's never too late. :D

[Fuganater]

Is there anyway to get GPU Tracker V.2 to download the CPU/SMP client? It failes on everyone of my computers.

[Oneslowz28]

It fails on all of my machines as well. Even fails on my laptop at different locations.

[diluzio91]

I think SOC posted a direct dl link on one of the pages

Sorry, i was on my tablet and the keyboard dislikes me a bit.

[Fuganater]

I think soc. Posted a direct dl link on one of the pages

Huh?

[x88x]

Anyone who is having trouble with the tracker not downloading clients, try this.
http://hotfile.com/dl/115086668/b6d7add/FAH_GPU_Tracker.rar.html

[Fuganater]

Anyone who is having trouble with the tracker not downloading clients, try this.
http://hotfile.com/dl/115086668/b6d7add/FAH_GPU_Tracker.rar.html

Thanks x88x. I'm downloading it now and will try it out in the morning. Damn slow African internet -.-

[Trace]

Damn, you guys rocked while I was away!
No problems; I'll have you all topped shortly!

[diluzio91]

Yay, he's back!

odd thing to complain about... but has anyone experienced very low temperatures while folding since the nvidia driver update? Yesterday my card was at ~60, now its at ~46 while folding.... im not complaining that my temps are low... but is something wrong?

[Trace]

You probably just got a different WU which varies the temperature output. It's rather weird. Temps may go back up next time it switches WU.

[Trace]

You probably just got a different WU which varies the temperature output. It's rather weird. Temps may go back up next time it switches WU.

[diluzio91]

its weird... because my ppd got cut down from 15k to 5 k... but my wu's are still worth 1280

Edit: nevermind, in restarted for an update and now im back up to my 70*C on my i7 and 65*C on my 560.

[Trace]

Let's see what kind of PPD I can crank out

[diluzio91]

im at ~36k ppd between my rigs

[Trace]

My 480 is doing 14.5k right now, waiting for SMP to report

[diluzio91]

lol... my 560 is about the same. 14-15k... that 980x is gonna roll my stock clock 870

[Trace]

Wait till I fire up the 2500k

[diluzio91]

lol.... whens my hsf coming!!!!

my phenom 2x4 is putting out 8k ppd... hoping to add a 460 soon

[Trace]

I'll be adding in a 9800GTX+ shortly, HSF will be forthcoming

[diluzio91]

lol... i guess ill just enjoy my time on top while it lasts... remind me to pm you with some intel OC questions... all i've ever worked with are amd chips, and theres a few more settings on the intel chips than i'm used to.

[Oneslowz28]

HSF should be there before friday!

[Trace]

PM me with some Intel OC questions. There I reminded you :P

Yeah, I'm betting at least 60kPPD

[pcclan]

ummm trace there might be a problem with your folding

[Trace]

??

[pcclan]

your points haven't moved at all in about 30 days

[Trace]

I have been offline!

[pcclan]

oh ok. but why the yelling it just makes your self look rude.

[Trace]

Excited to be back, that is all. YELLING is all caps, "!" is excitement.

40k PPD from 980x, GTX480, and 9800GTX+

I'm showing right around 60kPPD from my two systems.

[Technochicken]

Is the quad socket system the other of those two?

[slaveofconvention]

Heads up guys... I'm working on something which might let TBCS give a little something back to everyone who's done such a great job of getting our team going so well. For reasons I can't go into just yet (it isn't a secret, I just haven't finished working it out) I do NEED individual stats that I can track relatively easily, so I plan to use the EO page stats which means we NEED to get into that top 1200 - ideally by the end of the month so I can run this thing over the whole of May.....

[diluzio91]

i'll be overclocking soon, and with the return of trace it shoudn't be too hard. lol

[Trace]

Nope. Simply a 980x and 2500k.

[x88x]

we NEED to get into that top 1200 - ideally by the end of the month

Well, according to the EO 'overtake' estimates, we should pass the current #1200 in 1.6 weeks...so yeah, right about the end of the month. ;)

EDIT:
Although...it also says we should pass a bunch of teams in front of the current #1200 in 1.4 weeks...so maybe a bit before the end of the month. :D

[Trace]

That's because those teams aren't producing, or at least not producing as much.

[Oneslowz28]

Can't believe that you alone are pushing 75k PPD

[Trace]

actually, it's a bit higher then that now.

50kPPD from the 980x machine,
17.5kPPD from the 2500k,
9kPPD from the i7-950

[diluzio91]

you're already up to 7 from 11 on our team. lol

[Trace]

I'll be first within 10 days (forgoing any breakdowns)

[x88x]

Looks like 7.82 days to pass me and 9.33 days to pass diluzio. Oh, and 2.34 days for you to pass me, diluzio. :P

*assuming 40k ppd for diluzio..that's about right, yes?

[Trace]

Nice math!

[diluzio91]

yes, give or take... i was guessing a little sooner, but 2 days sounds about right.

[Trace]

I'm about to overtake pcclan!!!! Next update and I'll have him!
283000 points!

[diluzio91]

weird... i keep having trouble pulling new WU's for my clients... its really cutting into my points.

[Trace]

Me too on my CPU client. the GPU's are doing fine.

311,000 points!!!!

[diluzio91]

problem is, the 3 cpu's im running are roughly 1/2 my daily ppd...

[Trace]

What CPU's do you have?

[diluzio91]

my i7 870, pulling about 8k, a phenom2x4 @ 4.0, pulling another 8k, an i5 from my laptop, pulling roughly 1.4k, and an old dual core laptop pulling about 1k

[Trace]

I got a 980x pulling 30k, a 2500k pulling 15k, a 950 pulling 10k

[AmEv]

wootz (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/cached-certs/cert.AmEv.5.jpg)

[diluzio91]

it all counts dude, keep folding!

[x88x]

That's odd...all my CPU WUs are going through just fine. I can't imagine why you might be having trouble. :whistler:


Seriously though, that's weird...and yes, all mine are actually going through just fine. I wondered why you had slowed down so much Trace.

[Trace]

Some of my rigs are acting up. My OC isn't happy on the 2500k...

[diluzio91]

alright, im back on track with mine, i just gotta check the phenom before i go to bed, i pushed it up to 4.2.. lol

[msmrx57]

Well I got my system on here out of curiosity to see what it can do. It's a 3870x2.

[SXRguyinMA]

my Q6600 @ 3GHz is ~3500ppd and my 6870 @ 950/1150 is ~3500ppd as well. I may throw in the 5850 I've got sitting around and see if that helps at all

[Technochicken]

I just reset my SMP client to change some settings, and now it is only getting 350 PPD with 100% cpu usage, but my GPU has magically increased to 6.7K ppd, so I'm actually getting more points.

[slaveofconvention]

I know I keep posting achievements and milestones, but here's one more for ya's...

Yesterday we set a new team ppd record (which I don't expect will stand long the way you guys are going).

April 21st - 175,141 points in 24 hours - to put that in perspective, that score is higher than the average 24 hour production of all but the top 114 teams....

We're also well on target to break the top 1200 by the end of the month - 12am on 28th as it stands right now but I have a feeling that'll improve too....

[AmEv]

1337! Woot!




So, Trace, are you going to ever edit the first post?

[Kayin]

What's sad is if that I could marshal all my PCs, I might could equal the PPD of the team. That would require better internet than I have. I may, however, try it just once to boost us. I'll look into it.

For the record:

1 dohexacore server setup
1 i7-860@4.2GHz
1 1090T@4.3GHz
1 1090T@4.1GHz
1 720BE@3.8GHz
and if I play my cards right, a few Sandybridge setups on loan. All systems between 4-8GB of RAM, and all with gaming cards, which would mean GPU folding too.

[pcclan]

damn it the last 10 wu i was doing . all fail.

[slaveofconvention]

What's sad is if that I could marshal all my PCs, I might could equal the PPD of the team. That would require better internet than I have. I may, however, try it just once to boost us. I'll look into it.

For the record:

1 dohexacore server setup
1 i7-860@4.2GHz
1 1090T@4.3GHz
1 1090T@4.1GHz
1 720BE@3.8GHz
and if I play my cards right, a few Sandybridge setups on loan. All systems between 4-8GB of RAM, and all with gaming cards, which would mean GPU folding too.

Hell anything would help, even if your net connection is only up to running one or two systems - course if it isn't, there's not a lot you can do about it obviously....

[Trace]

System Disk Crash in the 980x rig. This HDD was practically brand new, too.

[NightrainSrt4]

I added my GTX280 to the team last night. It was late and trying to get the CPU and GPU working together wasn't working for me. When I get more time I will try and figure it out.

The gpu would run, but the cpu would run for a bit then every 15 seconds drop down to less than 1 iteration per second until you clicked on the display. Then it would refresh and bump way back up. IDK. I'll look into it later, but the GTX280 seems to be humming right along. Never hits more than 60C while gaming in my current case (antec 300), but running this hits ~80c. Doesn't seem to be wanting to turn up the fan, maybe hasn't hit the temp threshold yet. Can't be bothered right now to go and use rivatuner or evga precision. If it croaks it croaks.

Just found out last night while looking up information about my father that my grandfather had died (same name, me as well). When I moved away I lost contact with people, everyone moved everywhere. No one told me he had died almost a year ago. Took it pretty hard, but for whatever reason one of the first things I did was go and download this. Maybe it will help someone else, idk. :(

[slaveofconvention]

Condolences regarding your grandfather. News like that is never easy to take - but it can be even harder when it happened so long ago because you get the double hit of feeling pain at the loss, as well as guilt at not being in touch.

As for the folding - the GPU3 client does use a chunk of CPU power too - if you're on a single core CPU you're probably best off just GPU folding - if you have a multicore CPU, try digging into the settings and see if you can set it to only use all but one of the cores for SMP or CPU folding. You can also change a setting to make the CPU folding less of a background thing - as standard it's pretty much set up to only fold on the CPU when it's doing next to nothing else so the GPU calling for CPU cycles may well knock your CPU folding way down if you don't play around with the settings some...

[DynamoNED]

So, I finally enabled SMP on my 1055T on 4 of the cores (saving 1 for the GPU folding and 1 for anything else running) last week. So far, that has added ~4.5-5K PPD to the ~10K PPD my GTX 460 was doing.

Also, I'm putting together a (mostly) dedicated Folding machine using spare parts and some parts I bought from Fuganater. The specs are below; how many PPD can I expect from it?

Mobo: XFX nForce 680i LT Socket 775
CPU: Intel Pentium D 915 @ 2.4GHz (hoping to replace soon with Q6600)
RAM: G.Skill 4 x 1GB DDR2 800 @ 5-5-5-15
GPU's: 2 x EVGA 9800GT 512MB Akimbo Edition (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6820707)
1 x EVGA 8800GT 512 MB

EDIT: My sympathy and prayers go out to you, Nightrainsrt4. Losing family is always hard.

[diluzio91]

if anyone is gonna build a folding farm they should pick up a few of these, $27 each after MIR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500129

[Trace]

Systems should be back up and running full power + 2 extra 9800s!

[NightrainSrt4]

Condolences regarding your grandfather. News like that is never easy to take - but it can be even harder when it happened so long ago because you get the double hit of feeling pain at the loss, as well as guilt at not being in touch.

As for the folding - the GPU3 client does use a chunk of CPU power too - if you're on a single core CPU you're probably best off just GPU folding - if you have a multicore CPU, try digging into the settings and see if you can set it to only use all but one of the cores for SMP or CPU folding. You can also change a setting to make the CPU folding less of a background thing - as standard it's pretty much set up to only fold on the CPU when it's doing next to nothing else so the GPU calling for CPU cycles may well knock your CPU folding way down if you don't play around with the settings some...

Thanks, on both accounts. I will go through and go through the settings sometime along here. It's already cranked through 8 WU's in the few hours its been on. Adding the Q6600 should help a bit.

[x88x]

Sorry to hear about your grandfather, nightrain. Losing loved ones is always tough, especially when nobody bothered to tell you about it..

[Fuganater]

if anyone is gonna build a folding farm they should pick up a few of these, $27 each after MIR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500129

How would these do in SLI?

[x88x]

How would these do in SLI?

Doing what? For gaming, not very well. Actually, I'm not sure it would be that cost-effective for folding either. Definitely not at the normal retail price, but maybe not even at the sale price. You can get a GTS450 for as low as $80 (after rebate). According to some searching, the GT220 should put out ~1500-2000 ppd, and the GTS450 should put out ~12,000! 6-8x the performance for 2.5x (after rebates; 1.8x before rebates) the cost? Yeah, bit of a no-brainer there. ;)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162062

EDIT:
Oh, and cards in SLI don't do as well for folding as those same cards in individual mode.

[Fuganater]

Doing what? For gaming, not very well. Actually, I'm not sure it would be that cost-effective for folding either. Definitely not at the normal retail price, but maybe not even at the sale price. You can get a GTS450 for as low as $80 (after rebate). According to some searching, the GT220 should put out ~1500-2000 ppd, and the GTS450 should put out ~12,000! 6-8x the performance for 2.5x (after rebates; 1.8x before rebates) the cost? Yeah, bit of a no-brainer there. ;)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162062

EDIT:
Oh, and cards in SLI don't do as well for folding as those same cards in individual mode.

I'm asking because I have a 8800GS in my wife's PC and I would like to find either 1 better card under $200 or SLI for under $200.

[Trace]

Systems are down again.

[NightrainSrt4]

I think I got everything working right with FAHTracker. Makes it simpler to have everything there on one window.

I told it to use 3 cores, so that way there's one core left for the gpu stuff and when I'm surfing or whatever. Temps for the GTX280 have settled at 80C after a day of folding. The Q6600 is at 44-54C depending on the core and which are loaded, with this crappy heatsink on. Once I get things back on water when I finish one of these cases, lol, things should drop quite a bit. This is all in a room that is 27C, so not too bad (gotta turn the AC on, didn't realize it was getting so warm until I looked at the temp, then I felt warm).

Edit: Maybe I should put the Q6600 on two cores. Just checked and it's pegging out on all cores and the ppd of the gtx280 is getting creamed. Turned it to two and restarted both and its back up to where it was.

I've got an 8800GTS 320mb sitting here, but my board doesn't have another slot, so out of luck on that one.

[985323]

I got both of my 460's oc'd and set towards FAH, so I should start to push ahead now

[Oneslowz28]

Well I finally got the Tracker to download the CPU client. It did take about 15 tries though. So I have my 2 5870s and a GT240 installed but the 240 will not power up. It works if I place it in the #1 slot but not in the #3. I checked the bios but did not see an option to turn slot 3 on. Is there another setting somewhere I need to turn on?

[msmrx57]

I'd like to add that the only reason I'm able to contribute anything is that TGS sent me a free MSI 3870x2. My cpu is pretty pathetic for this but the card does enough to justify running it.

[Fuganater]

Well I finally got the Tracker to download the CPU client. It did take about 15 tries though. So I have my 2 5870s and a GT240 installed but the 240 will not power up. It works if I place it in the #1 slot but not in the #3. I checked the bios but did not see an option to turn slot 3 on. Is there another setting somewhere I need to turn on?

I know technology has changed since I've been overseas but how the hell are you using 2 different kinds of GPUs??

[diluzio91]

alrighty then. im back online, running my 870 at 4.0, with a big thanks to Cj for hooking me up with this beastly cooler. With any sort of luck i'll have some new pictures up of my LED mod to my evga board, and pics of the new aircooling setup that now resides in blue storm... I'm slightly excited in case you can't tell.

[Oneslowz28]

I'm glad you are happy with it!

[Oneslowz28]

I know technology has changed since I've been overseas but how the hell are you using 2 different kinds of GPUs??

Apparently it can be done with the GPU Tracker. I have yet to get the GT240 working though.

[slaveofconvention]

There are OS issues with different brands of GPU - apparently it's no problem in 7 and (I think) XP but Vista doesn't play nice with odd combo's

[Fuganater]

So they are not in SLI right? Cuz SLI has to be the exact same card correct?

[slaveofconvention]

Well I finally got the Tracker to download the CPU client. It did take about 15 tries though. So I have my 2 5870s and a GT240 installed but the 240 will not power up. It works if I place it in the #1 slot but not in the #3. I checked the bios but did not see an option to turn slot 3 on. Is there another setting somewhere I need to turn on?

Maybe having the cards in crossfire is causing the issue - try setting all the cards as standalone and see what happens?

[NightrainSrt4]

So they are not in SLI right? Cuz SLI has to be the exact same card correct?

Yes, SLi needs essentially the same cards.

As long as the OS allows for multiple drivers then you can run whatever you want as long as you have the slots for it. You can't set entirely different cards to work in tandem/sli/crossfire (well not without hydra), but if you aren't trying to do that you can essentially toss whatever into your rig. Right now I've got the GTX280 running my 22" and the living rooms LCD, while a x16 7600GS physically cut down to x1 is running my secondary monitor.

[Trace]

System's are up! Over 70k PPD from the pair.

[slaveofconvention]

I have a GPU unit atm which is kicking my GTS450's butt lol - this one unit has dropped the PPD on that card from around 8k to well under 4 ...

Hopefully the next one will be nicer to me heh - 94% done or I'll have killed it and restarted

EDIT: MUCH better - new WU - now working at 9300ppd

[NightrainSrt4]

I had absolutely no desire to upgrade my rig, but this, this makes my upgrade urge start going crazy.

[985323]

System's are up! Over 70k PPD from the pair.

..O_o welp you've got my 18k ppd beat.

[diluzio91]

and my 40k. =/

[x88x]

I'm asking because I have a 8800GS in my wife's PC and I would like to find either 1 better card under $200 or SLI for under $200.

In that case I would look at the GTX460 for ~$150, or if you want, the GTS450 will bring you to <=~ $100. Oh, and before you ask, I looked into it, and it appears that a single GTX460 will slightly outperform SLI'd GTS450's for gaming. IDK about folding though...I think the dual 450's would top the single 460 in folding though....but I don't really have a lot to base that on besides rumors about the two cards separately. ;) Well, those are the prices in the US, idk what suppliers you have in Congo.. :think:

[AmEv]

Woot! We're in the 1200s!

[Technochicken]

Looks like it will be 2 more days till we break 1200.
I finally got my SMP working as it should, so now it's cranking out 1.7-2K PPD. Also my GPU really been liking recent WU's, because it has been getting between 5.7 to over 6K ppd, which is a lot for a 9800GTX

[slaveofconvention]

Looks like I picked up another stinker lol - only getting 1967.8 on my GTS250 again grrr

[slaveofconvention]

We're also well on target to break the top 1200 by the end of the month - 12am on 28th as it stands right now but I have a feeling that'll improve too....

We knocked a good chunk off of this.... Right now we're expected to break the 1200 mark at 8pm on the 26th - a good 28 hours earlier than the previous prediction :D

[TheMainMan]

It's so frustrating to be in between places at the moment and have my computer packed up in a box. I might need to pick up a test bed so that I can still have my machine fold over the summer while I finish the case.

[NightrainSrt4]

BLEH. ~$400-450 after rebates if I want to upgrade to 2500k, P67, DDR3. Another hundred for 2600k for bigadv. Don't want to spend money.

Sent PMs to some members selling stuff on another forum. Could upgrade my p35 to an X48, giving me another pci-e slot and hopefully let me overclock my q6600 higher. That would be about $60. I could then put the 8800GTS 320mb in the rig, which would up ppd by about 4k probably. I don't pay for power here at this apartment, at least not directly.

I think the x48 might be the best bet. Up my PPD, and keep things cheap. Now hope they respond, or try and find another x48. Maybe I should post here and see if anyone has one sitting around.

[DynamoNED]

Another Exciting Milestone!

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/tcert.php?u=191053&pts=4099929

Now, to 5 Million...And Beyond!

[Trace]

You're welcome *bows*
We should hit 1200 at the next update :banana:

[AmEv]

About 12 Central, guaranteed.

[AmEv]

AAANNNDDDD, we're past 1200.

Waiting for results......

[NightrainSrt4]

You're welcome *bows*
We should hit 1200 at the next update :banana:

You should be thanking me and my 10k ppd :devious:

Haha, jk. But I am moving on up. Should hit 16th tonight assuming no one else folds, lol.

[diluzio91]

grr. i cant get my smp to pull a new WU again...

[x88x]

AAANNNDDDD, we're past 1200.

w00tz! :banana:

[slaveofconvention]

Yup - we're there and the individual stats are now working too - having said that, they do NOT get backdated so from the OE site's point of view, we're now all on zero :P

Next update and HOPEFULLY we'll see some numbers - HUGE well done everyone!!!

[NightrainSrt4]

What site are you guys looking at? The regular Stanford site? TBCS Team 191053 (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=191053)

The page doesn't seem to have changed and my score isn't reset. There another page with stats?

[Technochicken]

This one:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=191053

[diluzio91]

theres a TON of info on how to streamline your PPD on the forums there... X_X... i tried switching to BIGADV on my i7, we'll see how it fares compared to smp8.... it defiantly runs a lot cooler.

[slaveofconvention]

I get the feeling it'll be 24 hours before individual stats start to register - there's been an update since the update where we broke the 1200 and there's nothing there yet....

[diluzio91]

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/228236_10150172452348426_601993425_6836506_8232035 _n.jpg

Wheeelp... it makes a difference...

[NightrainSrt4]

Bleh, jealous. I've just got to remember I don't have to have the highest scores. If I start thinking that way I will be dumping money into hardware I don't need.

[Technochicken]

Individual stats are up, everyone.

[NightrainSrt4]

Idk why but mine aren't there. It's been running straight so maybe it won't take effect until I restart the client? I'll just check it tomorrow and see what happens. Unless 20 people are pulling more points than me. Odd, because I've pulled up into 17th slot on the stanford website. Ehh, *shrug*.

[x88x]

Before anyone else goes off searching for it...apparently bigadv requires at least 8 'cores' (ie, 4 cores w/ hyperthreading works) to work.. :(

[Technochicken]

Because of when it was updated, most people have a 24 H average of 36 points. Everything will probably equalize within the next day or so, so you will probably get on the list pretty soon.

[diluzio91]

Sorry, forgot to mention that guys... the other thing, if you don't have an i7 at at least 3.6 you wont get many points for it. the unit itself it 9000, and takes 3 days to complete, they use bonus points to make these units value grow quickly. for example, i wont get 21k points every day, but every 3 days i'll get 63K for 1 work unit. because the time limit is reached early, so i have a bonus multi of 7x. if you finish the WU earlier, say trace with his 980x with 12 threads at 4.0, he might get an 8x multi on the unit, or a 12, ect. in addition to that he would finish quicker, so his ppd would be significantly higher than mine, even with similar clock speeds.

[NightrainSrt4]

Cool. I'll keep an eye on it.

I've got an X48-DS4 coming in, along with a new set of 2x2GB ram, and a cooler to run until I finish one of these mods and can get the watercooling back up. That should help me get the cpu running a bit faster and leave another spot for an 8800GTS. Not the 20/30/40k of a 2600k rig, but far cheaper and should keep me going for a bit. On the plus side this will let me put my board in the fiance's rig, which means her e6300 will hit 2.8ghz easy on the ram I currently have. Win-win for the both of us, and my brother or cousin will get the other motherboard.

[pcclan]

wow this guy produces 6 million points in one day!!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=551390

[mDust]

wow this guy produces 6 million points in one day!!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=551390

Actually, his average is 6 million a day. There were seveal days where he didn't fold at all...which brought down the average. He has produced over 15 million points in one day! That is an achievement!
Maybe a large render farm or an actual supercomputer...
The cool thing about the Tracker is that it pauses for 'games'. But the game list is just a text file with the *name*.exe in a list. You can add any program to the list that you want. So it could be idling silently in the background while projects are being computed and any downtime is automatically turned into folding time which pauses again when the next job starts.
I want a render farm.:(

[AmEv]

Folding itself is a super-low priority program.

So, unless the program is also a SLP program, it has more CPU authority than folding.

[Collinstheclown]

Can someone update the first post with links and info on getting started? I think we might get some more people if we didn't have to hunt through this thread for info.

I'm going to try and get signed up soon when I'm at home. I'm in the process of getting a Dell PowerEdge up and running and I'll be sure to have it running on there.


*Edit:
We should also find out how to get rid of these other 2 TBCS teams... lol
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=175600
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=155539

[slaveofconvention]

I looked into getting rid of, or merging teams and it just isn't done - we have no other option, at this time, than to let them fall into obscurity.

As for getting things a little more organised - that's something I'm working on at the moment. I'm trying to get us a seperate forum section for the folding team so we can have different threads for tips, links, suggestions, questions etc - this thread is now almost 500 posts long so yeah, a way to break it up some would be good...

[AmEv]

Sounds good.


May I be the unofficial member who keeps track of people's CPUs/GPUs and update them?

[slaveofconvention]

Well lets see if we get something a little more formal organised first, but I don't see why not

[x88x]

Looks like everything except the 24-hr average is good now. I'm guessing the overtakes are estimated by the 24-hr average as well, though, so those are probably also wonky...according to that, Trace won't pass me for another month...and I rather doubt it'll take that long. The only question is which one of us three will hit 1,000,000 points first. ;)

[slaveofconvention]

I'm kinda confuzzled - I'm folding on the PC I built for a client (as a thorough burn in of course) and it's a 2600k o/c to 4.0Ghz - the PPD claims to be around 23k BUT in 2 hours it's only gotten 48% of the way thru a 552 point WU...

Now I know I'm one of the older guys here but I don't think math has changed that much since I was at school.... Assuming 4 hours for a WU - that's 6 WU per day - how the hell does 6x552 come to 23,000????

[nutz1228]

I'm kinda confuzzled - I'm folding on the PC I built for a client (as a thorough burn in of course) and it's a 2600k o/c to 4.0Ghz - the PPD claims to be around 23k BUT in 2 hours it's only gotten 48% of the way thru a 552 point WU...

Now I know I'm one of the older guys here but I don't think math has changed that much since I was at school.... Assuming 4 hours for a WU - that's 6 WU per day - how the hell does 6x552 come to 23,000????

I am a member of the EVGA Folding team and have decided to fold a little here and there to help you guys a little since I read the forums often.

Slave, it could be that you are looking at the ppd with the bonus points already calculated. My 3.8 920 gets around 16-17k ppd on smp units/

And I got this following link about the big ppd folder posted a few posts back. It has the hardware details in it.
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=205733

[slaveofconvention]

I'm getting the PPD from the FAH GPU Tracker V2 if that helps any...

[Technochicken]

Are you using the -smp 8 or -bigadv flags?

[AmEv]

So, should I start the thread, so we can move it later?

[Collinstheclown]

I'm in. Just installed F@H and am running it now, user name is the same as here. :)

Gonna have to do some research to get better results out of this thing...

[slaveofconvention]

Are you using the -smp 8 or -bigadv flags?

I use the FAH GPU tracker V2 - I have SMP selected but not -bigadv as the pc is still brand new and occasionally having to be changed in some way - I've heard those units can take 2-3 days to finish and there's every chance the PC will be with its new owner by then - don't want to start something I can't finish :P

[nutz1228]

I use the FAH GPU tracker V2 - I have SMP selected but not -bigadv as the pc is still brand new and occasionally having to be changed in some way - I've heard those units can take 2-3 days to finish and there's every chance the PC will be with its new owner by then - don't want to start something I can't finish :P

the FAH Tracker V2 automatically calculates the bonus points in so as long as you have completed 10+ smp work units (with the user name / passkey ) it will be fairly accurate.

[Oneslowz28]

Thanks for joining the team Nutz!

[slaveofconvention]

You guys just keep upping the ante - not only have we just had two record days in a row, we also just had our first million point week, and as at 9am today we've already produced as nearly 20,000 more points than we had yesterday by the same time!!

[diluzio91]

i should be dropping my first bigadv WU today... if it's anything like smp tracker says it is i should jump up ~60-80k points. lol... 92%