The Official TBCS Folding Team - 191053

[Trace]

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The Official TBCS Folding Team - 191053



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(http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/frontpage/?q=TBCS-folding-team)By Trace Hagan

Announcing for the first and only time, the TBCS Folding Team! In this article, we aim to gain donors for the distributed computing program called Folding@Home, answer any questions you may have, and gain recruitments for our very own TBCS team! So let's start this off, after the break (http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/frontpage/?q=TBCS-folding-team)...

[x88x]

Nice! I know there have been some unofficial efforts in the past, but this is good to have official. As soon as I get my system working again I'll definitely be hooking it up. :D

[mDust]

And all this time I've been folding for these (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=155539)impostors! Maybe I don't want to switch!? Maybe I'll be a renegade! Oh alright, you talk me into it...

And what are the specs on the system that's pulling 45k ppd?:eek:

[slaveofconvention]

That was Trace's system - as you can see from the Active CPU's thing, it isn't being run at the moment - so it's up to us to go and get this thing started.

[slaveofconvention]

And I have the first question for those of you who know what the hell you're doing heh...

I have a 2 GPU system - I'm running a 4870 as my main adapter running my 22", with a 4350 idn as a secondard card running a pair of 19"'s - it appears that f@h is using the 43 series card instead of the 48 - anyone know how to make it use the faster card - the slower card IS in the first PCI-e slot but it kinda needs to stay that way as the oversize heatsink on the 48 blocks my lone PCI-e x1 slot which I use for my USB3 card...

I disabled my 4350 and restarted the GPU client then re-enabled the 4350 and now it's running on the 4870 but I want to make sure it always does as the 4350 is passively cooled and was already headed for 70c after about 10 mins of folding - the 4870 has a nice big cooler on that so I have no worries about it keeping cool if left overnight....

EDIT: Damned thing just switched back to the 43xx card so I've left that disabled now so only the 4870 CAN be working but I don't want to give up 2 monitors for the sake of some folding lol.... HEYULP.....

[mDust]

HEYULP.....

Try this:
http://fahtracker.com/

[slaveofconvention]

Trying it now - here's hoping - I started CPU and GPU1 and didn't start GPU0 - activity is currently showing on the 4870 so just a matter of time to see if it actually DOES anything...

[AmEv]

I barely pull 250/day on my P4 3GHz....
And my MSI GeForce 4 is incompatible with the GPU client.....
Frustrations, frustrations, frustrations....

[Technochicken]

I just switched over. I was previously running Seti for another forum, but I was the only one with active computers, and F@H is a better cause. I have my C2D imac, my 9800GTX, and 1 core of my Phenom 2 folding.

[mDust]

I barely pull 250/day on my P4 3GHz....
And my MSI GeForce 4 is incompatible with the GPU client.....
Frustrations, frustrations, frustrations....

My 6870 isn't 'compatible' either but I used the fahtracker I linked above to force it to use it. It works perfectly fine, so I'm not entirely sure what they mean by 'compatible'. It's worth a shot if you want.

[slaveofconvention]

Our current rank is 8826 - we've fallen off a bit since the original article was written but now we have a baseline - onwards and upwards!!!

[Technochicken]

I barely pull 250/day on my P4 3GHz....
And my MSI GeForce 4 is incompatible with the GPU client.....
Frustrations, frustrations, frustrations....

The Geforce 4 series does not support CUDA- it was introduced with the 8 series. That's why it won't work.

[AmEv]

Aw, Man!


I even got a nice OC out of it!

The question is, why isn't a 3GHz procy (albeit single core) only pulling 250/day?

On about 10H/day, so....

[slaveofconvention]

CPU processing kinda sucks TBH - GPU clients are where the real folding points are at... - I only got 126 points out of my CPU in the last 16 hours, and thats a Quad core Q6700 at 2.67 - having said that, for some reason the multicore client didn't want to play nice so thats using the generic client on a single core.... Compared to the anything but new 4870 video card which has earned 1533 points in the same timeframe... That means the 1 GPU client has done 12x what the CPU client has managed.

Still, every point counts so don't let "only" 250 get you down - if everyone with a PC was doing 250 a day there's be a MASSIVE benefit

[pcclan]

ok i just setup my secondary rig to fold :) well it might not be the best rig in the world it will be helping as much as it can

[slaveofconvention]

Guys, can we move any and all discussions relating to the TBCS folding team over to this forum here -> http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24531

Just seems kinda counterproductive to have two active forum threads covering the one item - I'm going to keep that thread updated with our rank etc until Trace is back to take the reigns once more.....

[unoobie]

Me and my bro are going to make sure you guys make it to the top 6000. You can count on that! Nice to meet everyone here, i will upload pics and computer mods i have done. {:u)

[Oneslowz28]

Welcome to TBCS Unoobie