We passed AV123 last night! :D If we keep our current rate of growth I bet we can catch MS in less than 30 days! You want to beat MS don't you? Add more machines!! More members!!
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We passed AV123 last night! :D If we keep our current rate of growth I bet we can catch MS in less than 30 days! You want to beat MS don't you? Add more machines!! More members!!
well, im pooring on about 1000 points a day...not sure I could add anymore without getting my own power station to support it!
We're ahead of them today (according to EOC, at least).Quote:
Originally posted by ions
Yay uswe are currently poised to take over AV123 in 57 days!! As of March 29 11:50AM EST we are at this point anyway.
- T.
I am doing about all I can do with 3 systems up without grabbing more systems from the system pool here (Already have 4 computers at my desk, 3 folding 24/7). Odd though I have added two decent systems (a 1.7GHz and a 1GHz) I am still only showing 222 points perday, Not much up from running just the one system.
Only?Quote:
Originally posted by Daedrus
I am still only showing 222 points per day
Only 222?
God, I wish. :rolleyes: My heart goes out to everyone limping by on only 1.0-2.0 GHz. :p
Anyone got a hand-me-down computer to replace my 800MHz?
- T.
"Alms... Alms for the poor. Alms..." :D
I was averaging around 200 with only 1 system.Quote:
Originally posted by tlyons
Only?
Only 222?
God, I wish. :rolleyes: My heart goes out to everyone limping by on only 1.0-2.0 GHz. :p
Anyone got a hand-me-down computer to replace my 800MHz?
- T.
"Alms... Alms for the poor. Alms..." :D
What kind of system was that? My Athlon XP 3200 only gets around 100 per day on its own.Quote:
Originally posted by Daedrus
I was averaging around 200 with only 1 system.
P4 2.7GHZ. I work on it all day, but I don't put a lot of strain on the processor so it spends most of the day folding.
This makes me even more suspicious of my glslideshow screensaver. It claims it only uses a couple of percent of the processor in top with folding running, but if I shut off folding and try it then it uses about half according to my cpu monitor.
Anyway, I just added a 1.6 Ghz and a 400 Mhz machine at work. Neither is being used for anything really right now. They're just sitting there getting me record uptimes:)
Gee, that team from latvia is still moving pretty fast, they'll overtake us in one day. :mad:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...s=&t=36480&p=3
I have 2 Linux boxes that pretty much loaf most of the time and I have downloaded the FAH executable, which I'll be installing on one of the PC's momentarily.
My question is: how do I join the JL team and make sure that my contributions are worthwhile? (to the JL team, screw science :) )
Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom...
All you gotta do is when prompted for the team number enter 36480...
Cool, thanks!
Dang...... So, I started up a new session on this w2k/ubuntu machine under windows earlier. It's an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ with 1GB RAM and a Geforce4 Ti 4400. My machine rebooted itself twice over a 4 hour, or so, period. And I started sweating in here, so the next time it rebooted itself I went into the bios and saw that the MB temp was 102F and the CPU was at 143.5F. That's after it rebooted and had a couple of minutes to cool down.
I shutdown F@H on this machine and the room is starting to cool back down. The computer case was getting hot to the touch.
:wipessweatfrombrowsmilie:
Dang... it just started pouring rain with marble sized hail!!
who here clusters?, idealy you'd gain more points on each work unit by clustering and finishing the wu faster, am i correct, or is quanity a better way to gain points. (I know quanity is good for research, but i want to beat ms soon)
And fr those who cluster just wondering you setup, and if you have any good tuts/distros to use.
edit: just added a cel 1.76ghz ClusterKnoppix machine
bs_2003, you may want to invest in a new, better heatsink fan for that pc. and a bit of Arctic Silver too, do you have any other case fans running at all? Or is the case blocked from good airflow? Just some thoughts, a few fans far cheaper than a new mobo/cpu combo?!?!
On a different note, is the size of the file from FAH have anything to do with the complexity of the work unit.. as in if on the slower machine, (Linuxbox) would it be beneficial to tick the check mark for do not allow files over 5mb in size???? OR... can even a small work unit be real complex and take a long time?
The machine has 3 case fans, 2 fans in the power supply, and the fan on the CPU.
The WU it got was 2500 frames and it cranked out about 125 frames in short order. Maybe, if I decide to do it again I will double check the 5MB size limit thing. I think I unselected, or didn't select, that when I initially set it up on this machine. (I'm in ubuntu on this machine now.)
wow, that seems odd that the cpu is getting that hot I imagine you do have thermal grease, (Arctic Silver ) or something close, only thing I can think of is try remove and re-seating the heatsink fan with new thermal grease to make sure that the heat sink is making good contact. /shrug, trying to help you avoid having to get new system.
you wouldn't happen to be overclocking it by chance?, just a thought as a lot of new mobos now have overclocking support built into them and somthing may have accedently been set wrong.
Nope, no overclocking. Just the same setup I've had for a few years now. Actually, I'm not going to be troubleshooting this any more. I have 4 other PC's running F@H at the moment. That's enough for now.
MS is still sitting 35 days ahead. We need more members if we're gonna chase em down any faster.
I added a PII 450 but it's having trouble connecting to the server for some reason.
Wow, my laptop is still chugging away at the work unit it was assigned 4 or 5 days ago, and it's only about 1/3 of the way done. Each percent is taking about 2.5 hours to complete. I realize that this is normal for a slower computer, but my laptop is generally fast enough that 3 or 4 days is as long as it takes. I'm gonna get some serious points when that baby finishes:p
And my 400 Mhz work box is also taking an eternity, but it is 400 Mhz after all.
As you can see this is now a sticky thread! :)
Here's a Howto for those who aren't sure how to start.
W00t, I created a sticky thread! I feel so proud, now only if I had time to do something more productive :)Quote:
Originally posted by ions
As you can see this is now a sticky thread! :)
Here's a Howto for those who aren't sure how to start.
Hey guys, I'm new, I tried doing this a while ago and didn't have the computing time/power.
I just set it up on my laptop, P-M 1.7ghz and my desktop P3 933mhz. I'm trying to get a few other older boxes to add it to.
Is it possible to have several windows machine's work on the same WU?
EDIT: I don't want to kill my laptop, is there any chance of it overheating? How can I prevent that w/o dramatically descreasing folding performance?
@ Cerf: congrats. :)
@ pz Mike zq:
Don't worry about overheating your laptop. I have F@H running on my old Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop that has a broken case fan since it fell from a truck in the military. :D It got extremely hot when I used to play 3D shooters (i.e. Counterstrike) with it, but F@H is no problem. I don't cllose the lid, though, so the warmth omited by the keypad isn't being hold back by the screen. :)
Short answer: no. I would asume that a wu is the smallest piece of work that cannot be further divided. Sortof like a subatomic particle like a hadron.Quote:
Originally posted by pz Mike zq
Is it possible to have several windows machine's work on the same WU?
Okay, whats this cluster stuff about then?
I'm not completely ignorant, I believe I know what a cluster is, and have read about them in relation to *nix OS's. But, how do they work with this project?
same as what they do for anything... spread processor needs of the app(s) across multiple processors.Quote:
Originally posted by pz Mike zq
Okay, whats this cluster stuff about then?
I'm not completely ignorant, I believe I know what a cluster is, and have read about them in relation to *nix OS's. But, how do they work with this project?
each node gets its own wu.
woohoo 33 and climbing :) good thing I leave those Compaq pos's running at work :P at least they aren't completely useless hehe, still waaaaayy behind you big guns tho... go team!!!
Does it make a difference whether you run the graphical or text based versions?
Would this work on a modded xbox running linux?
There is no graphical Linux version. For other platforms the only difference between text and graphical is the small amount of cpu cycles that are taken from actual folding to support the graphics.
It will work on whatever Linux is running. Well probably not imbedded devices. Xbox is just a PC with a Celeron, no reason F@H wouldn't run on it.
I'd see no reason that it wouldn't run on a moded xbox with Linux, an xbox is a proprietary computer.Quote:
Would this work on a modded xbox running linux?
Not nicisarily, (your taling abour windoze right?), It takes up unused cpu cycles, so when the gui is doing nothing, then it would be the same as from a cli.Quote:
Does it make a difference whether you run the graphical or text based versions?
ions beat me to it :(
And on the clustering stuff, its just the same to throw a bunch of machines together (indivudaly) and run F@H on each one? Or is it more efficiant to have a cluster setup?
heh. BARELY. I refreshed just after I posted and there you were. :)
To je_fro & mods:
With a mods approval ( I need the approval):
I have cropped the justlinux graphic to just the pic of tux so that we may have an image on the stanford folding site, instead of a broken link image. I won't attach now, but when a mod sees this, please either respong here or pm me and i will edit this post and upload the file.
I'll check it out...
je_fro at yahoo dot com
I sent her off, i'd wait for a mods approval before using just to be safe and to not waste time to load it up :)
Wow i just relized that you are a mod, sorry, heh forgot to look at name :)
It would either be the same or more efficient to just use them as individual computers, I can't see any benefit to set up a real cluster for this.Quote:
Originally posted by thaddaeus
And on the clustering stuff, its just the same to throw a bunch of machines together (indivudaly) and run F@H on each one? Or is it more efficiant to have a cluster setup?
Hey, the logo on the justlinux_regulars team site is a good touch. I had noticed previously that there was a broken image graphic there.
And, not that I'm counting, but I started in 57th place, then 55, 49, 50, now 46. :)