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That's right.
WE ARE ON THE THREATLIST OF OCAU
Why is this important?
IMOG and I have been carefully monitoring ExtremeOverclocking Folding Stats carefully for the last few days, and we had seen OCAU appear on the threatlist, but no set amount of time had been established. Now we're set to overtake OCAU in 10,301 days.
But Fyber, why is this a GOOD thing?
A: We're outproducing OCAU by about a thousand. The sooner we close the gap between us, the [H]orde, and OCAU, we'll be able to go after 1st. When we're outproducing #1 by 1,000 PPD, that's a good sign.
That's a long time to wait Fyber!
A: Chill. We've had a turnaround in production, and it's only likely to get bigger. Build, borg, recruit, and we could easily quarter that time.
So after we close the gap, we'll be in a 3 way race for first?
A: Pretty much.
What can I do to help?
A: Build! Borg! Recruit!
1) Build new rigs or farms to contribute to the effort.
2) Install folding on rigs other than your own (with permission of course)
3) Bring more people into Team 32!
We have about 18 million points to make up. That's a lot. However, if we borg and put our gain per day up to ~5,000, we could at least get within a reasonable margin.
Also behind OCAU is [H]. They're set to overtake OCAU in about 105 days and take first. To hang with [H], we'll have to equal their production, or exceeed it. Narrowing the gap is our first priority, but signs are looking good.
Fold on! :burn:
Fast420A
12-24-04, 11:19 AM
I'm getting some rigs fired back up and running. We need all the points we can get right now. I am also thinking about getting my chiller back up and running so I can bump up my overclock on the AMD rig.
w00r!
Fold on man! I'd be borging my mom's, but I dunno her login and her screen is broken. Anybody want to gimme $2,000 for a new farm ;)?
my production is likely to drop like a brick over break, but it'll pick back up 'n than some after school's reopen.
my production is likely to drop like a brick over break, but it'll pick back up 'n than some after school's reopen.
w00r. Good news.
Now, I MIGHT be able to aquire 65 Pentium II 450s, which should be able to put out some good PPD if I can find a good home for all of them. The only cost the host would pay would be shipping to their residence. They'll be for members in good standing, same rules apply as adopt a rig.
That's about 30GHz right there of new folding powah, they come with keyboards too.
I'll have more info for you guys on the 2nd.
Leviathan41
12-24-04, 03:03 PM
my production is likely to drop like a brick over break, but it'll pick back up 'n than some after school's reopen.
Same here, some of my borgs are off during the break. :(
However I might be adding an A64 3000+ pretty soon. :)
Go Team 32!!!!
I just started folding 2 daysa go, and when I get back to school I am going to see if my school will let me borg any PC's (in the new media center there are at least 50 2.4GHz PC's).
I've asked them before but they wanted to know how much bandwidth F@H took up; Does anyone know?
Otherwise, I think there are alot of people on these forums that are loyal OC members that are not folding (Myself included until just recently), and we need more stuff like the front page article. Personally, I check the forums 3 times more often than I check the main page.
I have some family friends coming over for Christmas and I will ask them if they would run F@H on their PC's (for team 32 of course :D )
Happy Folding/Holidays!!!
WOOHOO
AT PRESENT UPDATE, WE ARE 8013 DAYS BACK FROM OCAU, DOUBLING OUR DAILY GAIN ON THEM
ExtremeOverclocking stats reports that we are gaining about 2,400 on OCAU every day. Divide that by the near 19 million we have to make up, and that's going to take awhile. HOWEVER, there have been some VERY good signs lately.
1. Team 32 Past/Future Production Graph
We are RIGHT on the trend line. There is literally no variation in that graph. This means we haven't dropped any production recently. AWESOME guys![/b]
2. Our Hourly Production History/Future has leveled off
This is GOOD. Before a few hours ago, we were looking at diminishing returns. Now that it's leveled off, we can put it back on the upswing!
3. We are outproducing OCAU in EVERY stat
Speaks for itself. We're outproducing OCAU by the margin of THOUSANDS. We've made up about 12k points this week, and that's likely to continue. Keep up the good work guys!
So the moral? Build! Borg! Recruit!
Lets put Team 32 in first place!
w00r!
-Fyberwire
dark_15
12-24-04, 05:34 PM
Hey,
Once school break is over (and one more stability test passes for some of our older machines) I will be adding close to 100 machines that run close to 2.4-2.6 ghz, another 100 or so that run at 1 ghz, and about 150 more machines that run 400-500 mhz...
OCAU, top that!
Hey,
Once school break is over (and one more stability test passes for some of our older machines) I will be adding close to 100 machines that run close to 2.4-2.6 ghz, another 100 or so that run at 1 ghz, and about 150 more machines that run 400-500 mhz...
OCAU, top that!
I want to have your children ... :drool:
... ps I was kidding, although you still rock :D
dark_15
12-24-04, 05:39 PM
I want to have your children ... :drool:
... ps I was kidding, although you still rock :D
lol...
The stability test is the 10 or so ghz found in my sig after new years. These are some 400 mhz rigs in a computer lab at the local middle school that is used about half the day.
If they can last for a week without breakdown, I will be given the green light to borg the elementary, middle, and high school... yay!
However, I am having a terrible time to get that network install to work properly. The registry hack does not hack... is there any other way to distribute this thing domain wide? We are running a Windows 2k3 Server...
You seek the guidance of Wedo, young Jedi (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=231247)
Alright. Now, what you want to do is scroll to the bottom of that if you can manage ;), then read and comprehend what Wedo is saying.
Also, I'd suggest setting it a BIT more conservative on the 450s. Try running em 50%, then crank it to about 75-100 when you get the all clear. I'm making sure that they don't overheat (stock system cooling is teh suxx0r).
Borg on! OCAU, here we come!
-Fyberwire
samuraisam
12-24-04, 10:39 PM
You could do it like OC-AMD does it, and have them all running off the same drive. Then,k just set up the service on each machine.
If you're really interested in some large-scale borging, head over to 2cpu.com and ask for Jim's help (oc-amd, overclocked-xeons).
He's really nice, and I'm sure he'd be willing to help.
-Sam
Sterculus
12-24-04, 11:00 PM
Sweet. My production also should rebound after break.
TazExtreme3
12-25-04, 05:27 AM
I could add another celeron 1.2 (Just added a 2100+ running knoppix from cd the other day) to my list if I could find some cheap (free's good too) 4 or so gig hard drives :Wink Wink: :runs back to classifieds: :D
P.S. ebay sucks :)
superw00r!
At present update, we have cut our intercept time to OCAU in HALF, Merry Christmas Team 32!!!
You read right. We're about 5,000 days back now, down from 1,000. This means either their production dropped by a half, ours increased by 50%, or we both contributed 25%.
-Fyber
I.M.O.G.
12-25-04, 10:19 AM
Keep in mind that what we really need to do is attain production similar to [H], as their geographical distribution is much more similar to our own - This is the prime time for us to fold, as many of us our in the winter weather where it is cooler. The aussies slow down a lot this time of year, so this is as low as their production will be throughout the year, so while its a great time to catch them, they will bound back as things cool off down under.
Its borging and recruitment from the frontpage that are our best directions to move in for fast results, IMO. ;)
I could add another celeron 1.2 (Just added a 2100+ running knoppix from cd the other day) to my list if I could find some cheap (free's good too) 4 or so gig hard drives :Wink Wink: :runs back to classifieds: :D
P.S. ebay sucks :)
You don't need a HDD to run folding. ;)
w00r!
I borged the sister's PC last night, so now I've got 4.8GHz of folding power running during the hours we're both on.
More to come. Fold on!
-Fyberwire
Might be time to sweet talk the tech in the Computational Physics labs ... ;)
Until then a meagre duallie + lappy is all I can offer, and they wont be on much just now (I will be out all day, every day for the next two weeks).
TazExtreme3
12-25-04, 01:18 PM
You don't need a HDD to run folding.
But I know this IMOG :), I'm also waiting for my sister to return a computer of mine so I can steal a stick of memory out of it
Does anyone know the ammount of internet bandwidth that is used by F@H for each WU?
wizard james
12-25-04, 01:32 PM
um.. afaik.. not much.. you would notice maybe 3-4 dollers if you had 20 rigs going 24/7 .. for the intnentnet tho.. for power.. 5-10..maybe even a 15 doller ^ for 20 rigs..
i am going to be checking what 512mb of ram stick i got (i own 4 sticks of consair xms lol) ..gona check what one will let me go the highest fsb .. gota download memtest first. .. then oc my 2600amd xp- m ...also in the next 4 days i am setting my dads system back up ..thats a xp3000.. going to oc it to 3200 or 3400 if it lets me.
then i might donate a k6 500mhz chip to the folding members with a motherboard for it..unless i can find a mobo and some used computer store that works.
dark_15
12-25-04, 02:47 PM
Does anyone know the ammount of internet bandwidth that is used by F@H for each WU?
each workunit is about (correct if I am wrong) 60-300 kilobytes...
Yep. The transfer really only lasts about 10-60 seconds every 6-12 hours really. It's not THAT taxing. Come on, outlook probably uses more bandwith.
07.08.17, 11am / 4578 Days
Only 12.5 years to go, although Im sure we could close that gap faster :D
veryhumid
12-25-04, 03:20 PM
really good thread! it's great to see we are catching up, and i think we owe this to the front page link. our membership is definitely way up and still going, i think we owe it to the article. we need to do things like this more often ;)
the hl2 giveaway doesn't hurt either :thup:
That last q was for my school, they are really conservative about their bandwidth, hopefull after telling them that they will let me put F@H on the computers.
I'm not sure if I should put them in my name, or My graduating senior class', or my school's. I could always use a few hundred more PC's folding for me... :clap:
ClassOf2005 wouldn't be too bad.
You're right on my ass gulp, I better start increasing production!
So far:
2x 2.4Bs folding decent amounts
Athlon XP 2400+
Woohoo. All under me. More to come.
Xenocide
12-25-04, 06:51 PM
blah im dropping, and fast
its no fun
veryhumid
12-25-04, 07:23 PM
oh stop whining and sell a kidney ;)
Xenocide
12-25-04, 07:25 PM
would my production go up?
hm i could use the $$ for a car...
hmm...
wizard james
12-25-04, 08:18 PM
A CAR.. get some steal for 40 dollers.. a torch ...and make a gocart ! ..toss in a old lawn engine ..there yeah go.. everyone looks at you..and you just say.. its got 3 tires and it goes fastesr then i can walk. lol
but i gota get my dads styem up..thats a xp3000. plus i gota borg some rigs of my friends... i wonder if i can trick anyone to folding.....
Always ask permission man. It looks bad on you and on Team 32 when your friends start asking why FAHCore_78 is taking up 100% of their CPU time.
4,712 days. A big drop from yesterday. I have a 2.8 intel w/mobo and ram, psu sitting around (should do fine on air at 3.5ghz). Now to set it up to use the same dsl modem. Might just put it to folding.
FizzledFiend
12-25-04, 08:55 PM
you mean these pent II 400 are worth getting up and running?
Pretty much. They're worth a work unit every now and then at least. Consider all of us running em all 24/7/365. That adds up.
Just put in another 72 points, 403 Total!!! Ranked 2207 of 4689 (as of 10:46 Eastern Time)
wizard james
12-25-04, 09:48 PM
ofcorse i ask.. i have a little thing that people sign and in very tiny writeing it says "signing here gives james permissain to install fah, folding at home on your computer" ..
usely i also check to see if the computer would run it with not slowing down.. i also do some auto anti spyware runs and such...and if i have to ..clean the dust out of there computers.. i make alot of money. ..usely i ask tho just to make sure they dont already know about it..
We're around 4500k better
pber day now. 3447 days. I've got about 6ghz that I need to get folding again. Hopefully we can get by them within the next year.
Mark620
12-26-04, 12:58 AM
3447 days.
Gee and only 9.44 years...thats quick!
Lets be real, if in 3 months, we are still gaining, it will mean something. Till then it is meaningless because, they are in summer and "they always drop in the summer"..................................
jmo
wizard james
12-26-04, 01:23 AM
yes ..but ..who knows.. maybe someone will join with us?.. like another team?
..or maybe someone will get his lazy a$$ off the computer and go to his cliets he has to build them there computers.. i am the lazy guy btw and theres 20+ people who got 5K+ in there pockets for new computers.. 3.4 ht systems.. and amd 64 ... think about it.. folding 24-7.
I.M.O.G.
12-26-04, 01:39 AM
We have the means to compete with them right here, the issue is just that we need to utilize our resources better... We should have picked up all these new folders a long time ago. ;)
In the future, if we continue to be better about this, the game could take on a whole new face. :)
Other teams? Blah, they can do their own work - the Overclockers folding team is representing overclockers.com, its followers, its forum members, and their efforts to contribute towards this cause. I have too much pride in this place to want to give some other team from some other place the privilege of folding under our name. We got where we are on our own accord, and we can keep improving by our own merit. :D
Gee and only 9.44 years...thats quick!
Lets be real, if in 3 months, we are still gaining, it will mean something. Till then it is meaningless because, they are in summer and "they always drop in the summer"..................................
jmo
We need to take any opportunity available to close the gap. This being such an opportunity.
davekusa
12-26-04, 07:18 AM
I just got another rig up that puts me up to 4. It looks like ocau is not the one to worry about. Hardcop is pulling away from us.
Xenocide
12-26-04, 09:05 AM
down to 3033 days :D
CaptnBackfire87
12-26-04, 10:29 AM
While our production may be going up you still have to keep this in mind: It is summer over there now, but it is winter for the majority of us. When the summer comes for them many of them have to back down their overclocks. And as lots of you do, when it gets winter over here we use our computers as our heaters :). Just one thing to keep in mind. But, in the mean time keep building, borging, and recruiting.
i wish i had the funds for a farm!
im actually kinda glad to hear that allot of productions are down over vaca, because mine is going to drop pretty hard when i get back to school...U?nless i can find some rigs to borg there. (which i doubt, the teachers are teh stupid)
sadly, my laptop will spend more time off than on when in school, and little time on power...and i dont want it folding on battery, this prescott at full takes too much power as it is (CANT get 1.5 hours, even doing nothing)
we WILL take #1...i mean, come on. they are in australlia, and there only....How can tehy have anything over us, who are EVERYWHERE?
oh well. Go 32!
Good to see some enthusiasm.
I'll be out for the next 3 days if anybody cares, and my meager production might drop a bit, but I'll be back soon enough.
About the time issue: The point is not "We are going to catch up and beat OCAU in 9 years". The point is we are outproducing OCAU by a margin of a few thousand something that is a CRITICAL first step in order to close the gap. If we can pull into 2nd in a reasonable amount of time (assuming our production goes up), we SHOULD be able to go after [H] next.
The problem that some are noticing is that we are still getting the crap kicked out of us by [H]. We are getting curb-stomped on a daily basis, mainly because [H] is outproducing us by oh...about 34,000 DAILY. We can't let that happen. At the very least, we have to stick with [H] or the rate they're at. They're set to overtake OCAU in 3 months, which is likely to drop, but we really should start thinking above them. If we can beat [H], then we can beat OCAU easily. Again, we have about 15 mil to make up with the [H]orde, and about 18 mil to make up with OCAU. The point I'm trying to make is, it only takes a few thousand more PPD for us to be in a 3 way race for first. Remember, we came from gaining a few hundred on OCAU a few days ago to gaining 6,000 daily on them. This shows how much power we have added and how much they have lost.
To put it into perspective, [H] is OWNING OCAU by a small amount of, oh, 40,000 points DAILY. I promise you, [H] will pull away if we don't keep them in check, so I'm calling for an INTENSE borging session on our part. Add production by ANY means possible. Be it massive farms, gigantic borgs, or a massive increase in production of equipment we already have, we MUST increase production. Let's take it straight to [H] and OCAU, and show them what team 32 can do!
[/inspirationalspeech]
-Fyber
well I modded my dual xeon setup, got so far an additional 800 mhz out of it, tryin to get another 1.2 ghz out of it. we'll see.
but if we're still gaining come january third, thats the real test, than all of our school borgs come back online :D
o, 'n has anyone come up with a one click for linux? I still have about 4-5 machines that would be folding if we just had a one click for linux....
FizzledFiend
12-26-04, 12:57 PM
I will try to get these 4 pent II 400's up in the next few days..not likely to happen as i have to sort the network needs for them....somewhere there is a switch i can pick up cheap..already got the cards ;)
Newegg. You can pick up a decent 5 port for like $35 maybe.
Or bigger for about $50
aniwarp86
12-26-04, 01:17 PM
I'll have a total of 8.4Ghz within the next 3 days folding. Hooah!
Mr.Furious
12-26-04, 04:18 PM
Now its down to 2872 days.... 7.8 years :D
I dont care what it is as long as its going down - going down = good.
OCAU better get ramping up :)
Mr.Furious
12-26-04, 04:31 PM
I dont care what it is as long as its going down - going down = good.
OCAU better get ramping up :)
si senor :attn: :burn:
davekusa
12-26-04, 05:12 PM
Hardocp is pulling away from us. Forget ocau. Harpocp is the one we need to catch.
wizard james
12-26-04, 06:32 PM
after my vottmod (when ever my stuff gets here) i will be ready for ocing my computers. ..few for ppw for me then. ..ordering heatsink for my other computer today too i hope
veryhumid
12-26-04, 07:42 PM
791 active members!!! to the people who have been promoting folding recently: I AM KISSING YOUR BOOTS YOU ROCK!!!
I.M.O.G.
12-26-04, 09:56 PM
We are over 100 new members joined in the past week. :D
Hardocp is pulling away from us. Forget ocau. Harpocp is the one we need to catch.
one at a time
wizard james
12-26-04, 10:06 PM
sweet, ..ok..someone start up a new website and to join you must download fah and install it for team 32 ... a gameing site that gets lots of people ..:)
naa..i dont con peple.. its tricking them into it lol.. or maybe.. something on tv ..a computer add for info promoting ocforums and folding for team 32
subliminal messages from rice krispies is the way to do it. We would never be found out.
We need someone from the inside...a kellogs janitor, perhaps?
whta happen over at H cop anyway? they seem to have suddenly gone through the roof. maybe teh bugged a mirosoft web database :O
wizard james
12-26-04, 11:07 PM
HACKERS.. ..that would be funny if someone looked at the databases ..
"you jim ..take a look at this" "whats wrong phill? " "theres over 20 million work units coming from m$" "what team?" " looks like its H" "o well.. i guess they needed the points so bad casus there ass was getting kicked from overclockers.com that they hacked m$" "o well.. ..where the del team butten? " "right here"
LOL.. if you can understadn that.. good luck. ..if you lose whos talking.. o well.
veryhumid
12-26-04, 11:11 PM
HACKERS.. ..that would be funny if someone looked at the databases ..
"you jim ..take a look at this" "whats wrong phill? " "theres over 20 million work units coming from m$" "what team?" " looks like its H" "o well.. i guess they needed the points so bad casus there ass was getting kicked from overclockers.com that they hacked m$" "o well.. ..where the del team butten? " "right here"
LOL.. if you can understadn that.. good luck. ..if you lose whos talking.. o well.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. that was awesome!
snap crackle *fold for team 32* pop, rice *are ya folding yet?!?!* crispiesiaeahsesasssssssss!111 ;)
DarkHawk
12-26-04, 11:26 PM
Just picked it up after a 2 year break of "not caring about anything".
Have produced more WU's in the 2 months I have been back than in the year I did it before. Thank god for newer hardware.
veryhumid
12-26-04, 11:34 PM
Just picked it up after a 2 year break of "not caring about anything".
Have produced more WU's in the 2 months I have been back than in the year I did it before. Thank god for newer hardware.
and i (we) thank you for it! :attn:
wizard james
12-26-04, 11:35 PM
yay , we need all the rigs we can get.. even 500 mhz rigs.. i got a xp 3000 ..i might make a heatsink of a pipe and start it up.. lol
DarkHawk
12-27-04, 12:37 AM
Welcome, even jumping into the IRC every now and then.
schismspeak
12-27-04, 09:40 PM
Finally got my dads 1.9ghzXP and my sisters PII400 added now that we have dsl.(dialsuck took to long to upload WU's for 3 pc's..)
DarkHawk
12-28-04, 02:01 AM
Just added my work computer, a 600mhz celeron I believe
1,520 days..getting there. Last week it was over 10,000 days. We needs more folders.
Turd Furguson
12-28-04, 09:16 AM
LOL I just turned on my A64 rig again since the holidays is over.
I.M.O.G.
12-28-04, 09:41 AM
Our membership should surpass theirs later today! This could be a very good long term sign, especially as our production rises and our membership continues to grow.
I noticed that many new folders were starting to turn green and blue - their production was starting to show that they may be getting more than just single installs too! Some people who just started a week ago already hit the 1000 point milestone. :D
Teh n00b pwn j00! http://www.ocforums.com/oc_images/images/smilies/beerchug.gif
Xenocide
12-28-04, 09:42 AM
well im screwed then, just gonna keep fallin :D
Yeah, looks like tonight I'll be getting one rig running again and possibly buying 2 motherboards for 2 xp2400+ cpu's just to keep a spot in the top 20.
I.M.O.G.
12-28-04, 12:40 PM
Still so impressed by this surge... Check out these numbers:
We got beat by OCAU by a margin of ONE MILLION PLUS for every month for as long as EOC tracks (May '04). We got beat by 2 million in July. Basically we were being outproduced by around 20% or so as a rough estimate. This roughly means that at that pace, it would take us atleast 15 months to fold what OCAU could fold in 12. We will beat OCAU this month by 100-200k points.
[H]ardOCP is catching OCAU very quickly right now, however they are still going to fall about a million points short of what OCAU would typically put out in the past few months. OCAU is in summer, they have much more potential than where they are currently.
We are currently at 814 users, while OCAU is at 820. However, as of right now, OCAU outnumbers us by 1111 CPU's. [H] only outnumbers us by 461 processors. OCAU averages 6.91 CPU's per folder. [H] averages 4.98 per folder. We average 5.59 CPU's per folder. CPU numbers used in calculations represent activity in the past 50 days.
We have the most dedicated folders as 17.33% of our folders are still active. [H] retains 14.29%, while OCAU keeps 15.55%.
Summary:
We have made great moves lately, but really need to keep this coming. Great job 32!
Who came up with grey? Very hard to see the stats. Must get up into blue so I can find me. Only one rig folding and the little a64 3000 (754) is going hell bent for leather. 1,481 days....We're still closing.
hope my spot up here is still safe, I'm addin 3 rigs a week it seems 'n still not gainin ground
hope my spot up here is still safe, I'm addin 3 rigs a week it seems 'n still not gainin ground
Let's see, MLMIB, spot twelve....yep, it's official, no threat from me.... :D
Arkaine23
12-28-04, 03:43 PM
The latest Overclockix release has boosted my cpu count slightly. About +20 extra cpu's turned in at least one WU in the last few weeks, and perhaps an extra half a dozen have been turning in work in the last week. These no doubt come from non-folding-addicted OCix users.
hope my spot up here is still safe, I'm addin 3 rigs a week it seems 'n still not gainin ground
One day, all shall bow to the mighty ninjas ... :sn:
One day, all shall bow to the mighty ninjas ... :sn:
chaser and azn seem to be the only ones that threaten my peaceful existence here, but worry I shall not, I have a plan ;)
chaser and azn seem to be the only ones that threaten my peaceful existence here, but worry I shall not, I have a plan ;)
I have a little plan as well, which may help us. It is far from ready yet ...
dark_15
12-28-04, 06:05 PM
we're getting closer...
I just added:
2 - 1.8 GHZ A64's
1 - 2.6 GHZ P4 HT
the garynator
12-28-04, 09:54 PM
i just got a 3500+ A64 to switch from google and the same user is adding his dad's Barton...somewhere around 3000+ and his lappy... 3.0c i believe, and his dad's 3...soon to be 4 work computers...still trying to raise my borg count, got about 3 in the last couple of weeks. GO TEAM 32!
hafaphoto
12-28-04, 11:01 PM
I just ordered an AMD 1.5gz to replace a 750mhz. Both will be up and folding in a few days!
E
Got water cooling on the way for my computer, maybe a few more Mhz there too!
I.M.O.G.
12-28-04, 11:05 PM
We have surpassed OCAU in total membership!
OCAU = 814
OC = 815
We also posted the biggest update on EOC in the past 24 hours with 33,831 points in a 3 hour span!
Nevermind, different update I think. 14,717 ahead of OCAU now :)
We now broken 15g as in 15,544 on OCAU. We need to keep it growing. I should have one and maybe two more boxes folding next week. Everything is order, just have to wait on it and put it together when it gets here.
w0000000r!
I leave for 3 days and look what happens! You guys have completely owned up on OCAU, shortening our intercept to 1,000 days at present update! I really should leave town more often :)
/me blows train whistle
"IMOG, add more coal to the boiler!"
Also, your subliminal messages and dialogues are weak compared to the elaborate plans of IMOG and I to drop a massive EMP onto Austrailia, and selectively EMP towns with excessive [H] folding activity. We got it covered. Now...to read up on the works of Tesla...
dark_15
12-29-04, 11:21 PM
w0000000r!
I leave for 3 days and look what happens! You guys have completely owned up on OCAU, shortening our intercept to 1,000 days at present update! I really should leave town more often :)
/me blows train whistle
"IMOG, add more coal to the boiler!"
Also, your subliminal messages and dialogues are weak compared to the elaborate plans of IMOG and I to drop a massive EMP onto Austrailia, and selectively EMP towns with excessive [H] folding activity. We got it covered. Now...to read up on the works of Tesla...
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/nov03/1103ebom.html
Thank you!
/me decends to basement once again
I'll wait for the next update before posting words of enouragement.
I.M.O.G.
12-30-04, 05:27 AM
LOL... Just incase that fails however...
5Ghz just added yesterday, and hopefully I will have about 22 Ghz waking up after people come back from vacation... Unless the clients died altogether, I think the machines are just shut off while people are away from work. ;)
EDIT: Altered Ghz expected to wake up, lost half of my CPU's through the holidays - 25--->12. Nonethless, despite our loss from just me alone, our CPU total is still climbing according to stanford. :D
I.M.O.G.
12-30-04, 12:31 PM
CPU count increasing to 4578.
Active members decreasing, but still above 800 for now.
The CPU shortage has been decreased somewhat - we have reduced H's chip lead by 4.3% and we have decreased OCAU's chip lead by 6.8%. This change occured in about 48 hours.
w00r
At present update:
WE ARE SET TO OVERTAKE OCAU IN 1111 DAYS, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE HAVE REDUCED OUR OVERTAKE TIME TO 1/10TH OF WHAT IT WAS A WEEK AGO
This is GREAT news. We've put together a rediculous drive and we're pawning up OCAU on a daily basis. Now, if only we could have production nearly matching [H]. That's about 20,000 more PPD. That's not an incredible amount to make up. If we each added about 500PPD to our current arsenals, we could EASILY have this done. Anyway, keep up the good work 32!
Remember the 3 Bs!
-Fyber
here's the weird part. at work we have a 48 port switch, it has piggy backed 2 16's 'n an 8. all of the 48 are full. minus 5 for things that can't fold, -3 for the switches. so we have....40 comps there, than on the 16 we have 8 in use, on the 8 we have 3, on the last 16 we have...hmm....10, so 61 pc's there alone folding, some are hyperthreaded, some are old. but no matter how many of there I check 'n add my count dosn't seem to change. let alone reflect that number....
I dunno, maybe it's because they're 9-5 folders. (this isn't even counting my family 'n friends borg)
in more up beat news, got 4 more machines borged at work as of late(was upgrading all to SP2, 'n noticed i missed 4)
Quattro
12-31-04, 05:20 AM
I just got one of my work computers up and running it's only a 1.1Ghz AMD, but it's another rig on the list I guess.
FizzledFiend
12-31-04, 06:29 AM
I just got one of my work computers up and running it's only a 1.1Ghz AMD, but it's another rig on the list I guess.
everything counts..just put an 868 pent III online last night.
wizard james
12-31-04, 06:42 AM
i feel so left out.. i think i am going to beg my dad into bring me into his work.. so i can borg his computer
OCAU got something up..looks like they picked up production a few points.
I.M.O.G.
12-31-04, 08:00 AM
They had a terrible bomb day a couple days ago, probably a bunch of people just turning in WU at the same time - their CPU count is still diminishing, and ours is still rising.
Time to add my 2.4Ghz of XP-M power and the old 1600+ I think. They have been sitting idle for a week or so, I need a kick up the arse. :)
I.M.O.G.
12-31-04, 10:12 AM
*IMOG provides kick up the arse*
*me kicks also, just for fun*
:D
Arkaine23
12-31-04, 11:50 AM
Got a P4 2.8 going where I work. Fixed up a friend's box too, XP @ 2105.
samuraisam
12-31-04, 12:03 PM
*me kicks also, just for fun*
:D
*/me kicks as well, sorry, but it's just bloody fun*
-Sam
Awesome. So how much power HAVE we added to the team so far? I sense a LOT. Hopefully I should be able to double my meager production over the next few weeks, maybe get a few more rigs borger, maybe get a new rig running for me, etc. Right now the priorities are computers and cars, but I'm likely getting something semi-inexpensive for a car (71-76 Fleetwood), but in the meantime I'm thinking about working on a mod project of my own, so I might need that money instead.
Either way, Go 32!
I.M.O.G.
12-31-04, 12:32 PM
By the most conservative estimate, I would say that we have added 200Ghz lately... Just my guess, but looking at the membership joins, and regular additions to power that established members contribute, I would consider that pretty conservative.
Next week, I may or may not have ~25 part time Ghz wake up... I anxiously await. Old borgs, went on vacation for the holidays. Hoping they come back. :)
dark_15
12-31-04, 03:08 PM
I just added another 7.8 GHZ today...
FizzledFiend
12-31-04, 03:12 PM
added another 1.7 gigs this afternoon...brog what ya find....going to make up a flyer in the next couple of days and start handing them to the customers I pick up and deliver the John Deere lawn mowers and tractors to...might get us some folders this way..would be nice to find a direct link to the oneclick as I am way to lazy/busy to search for it ;)
DarkHawk
12-31-04, 04:35 PM
Host a one click file that they can open and run. Just need some simple file hosting that way. The one-click has Wedo's name by default, might wanna make it yours so you can get credit for your own borgs. Not that I don't wanna help Wedo...
I have mine hosted and am considering handing out flyers for it as well.
<--- Check out the new Mao Zedong style Team 32 propaganda! Also, the thing he's holding is the "1337 folding box" if you can't read that.
Woohoo, just checked the sister's PC, and it grabbed a 600 pointer! Bigpackets might be a VERY lucrative thing to enable if your system can handle it...600 points, even if it takes awhile, is more than I have from a lot of CPU hours.
That should bring me above 1,000 at least, and I just enabled it on my 2.4B rig, and will probably do a little bit more research. I've seen some decently lucrative TINKER cores from about 50-85 points, which I'm thinking about trying out. Maybe a new rig coming up soon if I can afford a 2.4A presshot for overclocking, and then that'll be the last purchase for a WHILE until I can afford my next big purchase.
Quattro
12-31-04, 06:45 PM
Whats a Tinker core anyway? I'm working on one now.
Whats a Tinker core anyway? I'm working on one now.
The Tinker core was made specifically for Folding@Home... and was the original core. The WU's consist of 100 to 400 frames, and typically take a few days to complete. The Tinker core is in the process of being optimised, but most new computations are done with the faster Gromacs core. But certain calculations cannot be done with the Gromacs core, and so the Tinker core is continuing to be used.
There ya go. Now looking at the TINKER and AMBER cores, it seems like the TINKERS either have more frames than the GROMACS (usually 100) or about 50. The 400 frame TINKERS are worth about 200 points, which is about .5 pts/frame. Compared to a typical GROMACS, you're looking at anywhere from about .27 pts/frame to something rediculous like the new peptides (big 600 pointers), which are about 6 pts./frame. I would consider finding a flag that would try to bring in those 250pt. tinkers, which are about 400 frames long. Worth a hell of a lot though.
Edited per David's request
Any word from you more experienced folders?
I may be wrong but if that flag is the one that only the beta people use (i'm not sure if that's the real flag or not though), you're not supposed to mention it around non-beta users. If people start using it to get the newer units and don't give any feedback, it'll hamper the progress of the project.
Yeah Happy day!!!
I got a 600pt. WU
AND
My dad ordered a DFI UT 250Gb with a A64 3000+ for my sister's PC (soon to be built, OCd, and folding)
AND
we get a free copy of Far Cry
AND
we get a free t-shirt
HOORAY!
Please do not mention the flag used to get the beta work units. This is intended for members of the beta testing team only, who provide feedback to Stanford via the Beta team forum at the Folding Community. These units are not intended to be used to boost peoples scores, and these units can be very unstable and cause more problems than they are worth.
If you arent a member of the Beta team, dont use their flag.
veryhumid
01-02-05, 07:35 AM
I actually just got 2 600 pointers on an ht machine and I am just running wedos one-click with big packets on. I guess they are no longer beta?
I got a 600 point WU as soon as i turned bigpackets on in the cfg (well as soon as I finished my then current WU)
PS I broke 1k HOORAY
Not all 600 point WUs are Beta. However, those that are beta may be less stable than those that are not. Hence why the beta team are the only ones meant to process such units - they have volunteered to process these units, take the possible production hit if the WU is not stable, and report back on how each unit is.
I.M.O.G.
01-02-05, 01:01 PM
In five days we have cut OCAU's chip lead by 15%! On the 28th, they lead by 1111 CPU's, and today the 2nd, they lead by only 938 CPU's, and we are still outproducing them by a good margin every day.
Need more p0w4h!
Sorry David, problem has been fixed.
Based on the problems some people have with the non-beta units, trying out the betas might not be such a great idea as you said.
Woohoo, about 100 days out in terms of production from OCAU. We need more! Tomorrow, hopefully many more of our borgs should come online, and we should start pawning up on OCAU even more hopefully. Either today or tomorrow, I should know from my source of those 60something Pentium II 450s will be available for any OCForums folding members in good standing to choose from. We'll see, and I'll post any information as soon as it becomes available.
-Fyber
samuraisam
01-02-05, 10:21 PM
Hey guys, check it out. http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=32
Top 20 producers, nothing but RED. :) I don't think I've seen that for oc.com yet.
w00t
-Sam
Mr.Furious
01-02-05, 10:39 PM
65 new users in the past 7 days :attn: :clap:
oh and im definately waiting for tomorrow to see peoples borgs come online.
Mine personally should be jumping pretty good because tomorrow ill have 3 other computers coming online :santa2:
I.M.O.G.
01-02-05, 10:44 PM
Good call!
They have actually all been red before, but it tends to fluctuate and I might have only seen it a couple times.
Good showing from our top 20 though, very encouraging! WTG guys. :)
dark_15
01-03-05, 06:16 PM
My New Year's Present Came in... about 10.4 GHZ from my latest borg @ the school...
Xenocide
01-03-05, 06:23 PM
:D nice....
samuraisam
01-03-05, 07:32 PM
My New Year's Present Came in... about 10.4 GHZ from my latest borg @ the school...
Which school?
-Sam
dark_15
01-03-05, 07:58 PM
the high school - the college won't let me borg...
samuraisam
01-03-05, 07:59 PM
Ah, well, I don't get respected enough anywhere to borg. Why? Well, I have no clue on that, but **** them all anyway.
Anyhow, back to your normal programming...
-Sam
We broke 70 million points and have finally gotten below 1000 days behind OCAU. Good milestones.
I.M.O.G.
01-03-05, 09:29 PM
That is correct Silver, very COOL milestones indeed, in a very nerdy kinda way! :D :beer:
We are really humming along currently - I do not know if we have ever broken 200k PPD average, but we are definetly flirting with doing just that currently too!
Wow. Awesome work guys!
School started so production=owned, but I still get a few decent hours in each day. Turning in 1,200 points in about a week should be AWESOME.
I.M.O.G.
01-05-05, 01:44 PM
We have now reduced the OCAU CPU defecit by 25% in just a couple weeks time! :D
OCAU = 5499
OC = 4671
Wow.
I feel sorta useless when dark_15 has is red already and he came in at about the same time I did...
Oh well, just wait until I grab those 200 2.4Cs I've been thinking about to I.M.O.G.
;)
Fold on.
just to point out, the france team is also making a move.....
Wow.
I feel sorta useless when dark_15 has is red already and he came in at about the same time I did...
Oh well, just wait until I grab those 200 2.4Cs I've been thinking about to I.M.O.G.
;)
Fold on.
if u got 200 2.4 c's u'd give me a run for my money, which not that many ppl are doin anymore.
dark_15
01-05-05, 07:19 PM
if u got 200 2.4 c's u'd give me a run for my money, which not that many ppl are doin anymore.
I'm only about 5 days away from being able to open up those 2.4 c's. Our oldest (P2 350-400 mhz) rigs will be tested; if none of them die, I will be able to unleash the power of all of those rigs...
I had a close scare yesterday though... one machine did die, but it was due to a faulty graphics card... a quick switch of cards, a tweak or two, and some prayers got it up and running again.
And Fyberwire, no CPU cycle that is put toward folding is useless. We need all the power we can get. I just may have more access to more machines. I have 23 rigs currently running under my name (5 rigs are getting bigpacket 600 point WU's turned in every two or three days). THAT is where my points are coming from. Just don't give up... we're putting this to a good cause.
Of course, if you wanted to... you could always fold under my name... this way we can chase after those :sn: I keep hearing about... ;)
lol I'm just kidding!!!!!
O yea, I just added a 400 mhz and 350 mhz machine under overfoldix! The 400 mhz rig is running without a case... but works like a dream!
petteyg359
01-05-05, 07:36 PM
If I had a reliable internet connection... Got my 2.2, an old P200, and a PII-350 that could be running it. But my connection is darned slow and almost always down. (Mainly because it's not really mine)
edit: Just set up the Google Toolbar version on my comp... now running for team 32.
I.M.O.G.
01-05-05, 08:31 PM
Wow, what happened with france? They are even outproducing OCAU today, and they almost even are tieing us so far today!
All of a sudden on the third their production started looking a lot more like the top 3 than it did like everybody else... I wonder if that will keep up however.
Probaby a freak event. Francophone's got nothin on us. Nothing.
Remember how OCAU had a crazy good day a few days ago? Probably one of those day.
Damn, building myself a huge farm is looking better than ever.
Either way, great job 32!
Probaby a freak event. Francophone's got nothin on us. Nothing.
Remember how OCAU had a crazy good day a few days ago? Probably one of those day.
Damn, building myself a huge farm is looking better than ever.
Either way, great job 32!
they where givin us good chase a few months back....don't just think they can't touch us
I.M.O.G.
01-05-05, 09:33 PM
We've got plenty of room to expand our membership, and we've got better hardware than most teams it would seem - OCAU has 800 more CPU's than us, and we are outproducing them still... perhaps this is due to the higher prices on hardware over there, so many people are still on older bits?
While the francophonies can put up a surge on occasion, as perhaps they are doing now as a result of the threat from 2cpu lately, we not only have the ability to make great improvements, but we also have some of hte best member retention out of any big team. OC'ers who fold together stay together. :)
hey all...I am new to Team 32 (joined last week)....and just broke 1000 today. I only wish I could be running 24/7...but as it is I got in the neighborhood of 17Ghz running at least 10 hrs a day...glad to help make an impact.
How do I get the big point WU's tho???
I.M.O.G.
01-05-05, 10:21 PM
BigPackets usually are worth more points, other than that though it is the luck of the draw. If you are running version 5 you can enable bigpackets in the installation options or by changing bigpackets=no to yes in teh client.cfg with notepad.
samuraisam
01-05-05, 11:55 PM
Did everybody notice oc.com is over 200,000 ppd as of RIGHT NOW?
-Sam :D
hey all...I am new to Team 32 (joined last week)....and just broke 1000 today. I only wish I could be running 24/7...but as it is I got in the neighborhood of 17Ghz running at least 10 hrs a day...glad to help make an impact.
How do I get the big point WU's tho???
512 ram in the system seems to be a requirement, and there worth double(had a bp 'n a small runnin, the small on my system was givin 4 points per hour, the bp was givin 8(somethin like that)
I.M.O.G.
01-06-05, 06:12 AM
512 ram in the system seems to be a requirement, and there worth double(had a bp 'n a small runnin, the small on my system was givin 4 points per hour, the bp was givin 8(somethin like that)
He's referring to Bigpacket work units - these take up more ram and take longer to download and upload.
He's referring to Bigpacket work units - these take up more ram and take longer to download and upload.
yup, on my duel xeon it only picked up bp's after I put a gb of ram in, before that I had 384 in there 'n it wasn't picking up a thing.
I.M.O.G.
01-06-05, 10:04 AM
*IMOG looks at EOC team list (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=)*
If this morning is any indication, this could be an interesting day.
Anyways, CHECK OUT THESE GRAPHS:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_users.php?s=&t=32
:drool: :D
2cpu is out producing us as of now...... as in franco (but only by 1k)
If all goes well I just got permission to borg about 10 gig of p4's and P4 cellys. Hopefully this might push us closer to [H] and keep me in the top 10 for a while longer :D
belorsch
01-06-05, 12:54 PM
If all goes well I just got permission to borg about 10 gig of p4's and P4 cellys. Hopefully this might push us closer to [H] and keep me in the top 10 for a while longer :D
Scweet!!! GO you DJ.. GO :)
I.M.O.G.
01-06-05, 01:04 PM
2cpu is out producing us as of now...... as in franco (but only by 1k)
This won't last all day... Quite odd though, as not much has really changed much with them lately, and they've always outnumbered us terribly.
If all goes well I just got permission to borg about 10 gig of p4's and P4 cellys. Hopefully this might push us closer to [H] and keep me in the top 10 for a while longer :D
nice one :)
I.M.O.G.
01-06-05, 04:34 PM
Just had 10 Ghz of mine wake back up! :D
BorgIncarnate
Woohoo!
Not only has this thread passed 6 pages, I feel like we've put Team 32 into overdrive. Awesome.
I'll have to figure out the logistics of a farm later on. Either going with major PPD producing more expensive layers, or cheap lesser PPD producing layers (but a lot more).
the garynator
01-07-05, 06:43 AM
finally hit the 10k points mark! gotta find out why two of my borgs went down, will be producing more soon.... GO TEAM 32!
Gasoline
01-07-05, 08:24 AM
yup, on my duel xeon it only picked up bp's after I put a gb of ram in, before that I had 384 in there 'n it wasn't picking up a thing.
My 3 dual HT xeon boxes are just using plain-jane console FAH configs (4 consoles each box). What options should I turn on in the config files to get more points out of these. They are 3.2GHz each, with 2GB ram in one box, 4GB in the second, and 8GB in the third box. These are brand new Proliant servers being "burned-in" right now, doing absolutely nothing else but folding, while waiting two more weeks before business apps will be installed on them and put into business production use. I will not be able to fold on them after that, but while I have access to them, I want them to fold as hard as they can.
I.M.O.G.
01-07-05, 08:41 AM
In the config.cfg file, change bigpackets=no to bigpackets=yes and be sure to use notepad to make this change, not wordpad.
Arkaine23
01-07-05, 09:18 AM
My 3 dual HT xeon boxes are just using plain-jane console FAH configs (4 consoles each box). What options should I turn on in the config files to get more points out of these. They are 3.2GHz each, with 2GB ram in one box, 4GB in the second, and 8GB in the third box. These are brand new Proliant servers being "burned-in" right now, doing absolutely nothing else but folding, while waiting two more weeks before business apps will be installed on them and put into business production use. I will not be able to fold on them after that, but while I have access to them, I want them to fold as hard as they can.
I passed off folding@home as an anti-idle process which maintained CPU health (by keeping constant temperature), and served as an early warning for any stability issues... back when I was folding on company servers and workstations.
I.M.O.G.
01-07-05, 09:22 AM
I passed off folding@home as an anti-idle process which maintained CPU health (by keeping constant temperature), and served as an early warning for any stability issues... back when I was folding on company servers and workstations.
LOL I love it!
BTW, we have currently gained 32% on OCAU's CPU's... I really think we will cut their lead in half before we are done. We are only 757 behind, whereas we were trailing by 1111 3 weeks ago. We are only 390 CPU's behind H. :D
belorsch
01-07-05, 09:36 AM
LOL I love it!
BTW, we have currently gained 32% on OCAU's CPU's... I really think we will cut their lead in half before we are done. We are only 757 behind, whereas we were trailing by 1111 3 weeks ago. We are only 390 CPU's behind H. :D
While I definitely like our cpu count going up I think its the quality that counts.
Compare the number of cpu's Alliance Francophone has as compared to 2CPU's.
What a difference. :eek:
I.M.O.G.
01-07-05, 09:38 AM
While I definitely like our cpu count going up I think its the quality that counts.
Compare the number of cpu's Alliance Francophone has as compared to 2CPU's.
What a difference. :eek:
Oh quality definetly counts - you picked a great example, and we are even a great example - we were outproducing OCAU even when they had 1000 more CPU's than us. However, there is a lot that can be said for quality + quantity. :D
Shawn123456
01-07-05, 09:41 AM
my school is very technologically oritented and we have alot of computers! we have more computers than students and we have about 720+ students, so thats a lot
most are dell pentuim 3 quite slow but not hoirrible, and then we have a pc lab which are all high end dells. It would be amazing if i could some how get them to fold but i dont think they would grant permission, i mean its a school
And plus they are alway complaining about how people play games and other stuff and are very picky about things taking up system resources and slowing down the servers
and there is no way to hide the f@h console right? so i am sure people would mess with it, but ill see what i can do! that would be awesome if i could get some of them to fold!!
I.M.O.G.
01-07-05, 09:52 AM
If you install folding as a service, it is completely transparent unless you find the directory where it is installed, look in task manager to find the running process, or look in services.msc to find the service entry. There is nothing apparent to the novice user. The service will run on machines without anyone being logged in, so it'll run if the machine is on, period. If it gets stopped, it will start again when the machine restarts. To stop it, you must disable it in services.msc.
That said, you should not attempt doing this covertly on a school network, it would break their usage policies and be highly unethical. Bad publicity is bad for the project. What many people do is write letters or speak with the powers that be, requesting permission. It might help if you ask to run a trial on the lab tech machines, to see how the PC's behave with folding installed so that they are comfortable with the program. It is always wise to get permission before installing F@H.
dark_15
01-07-05, 12:52 PM
my school is very technologically oritented and we have alot of computers! we have more computers than students and we have about 720+ students, so thats a lot
most are dell pentuim 3 quite slow but not hoirrible, and then we have a pc lab which are all high end dells. It would be amazing if i could some how get them to fold but i dont think they would grant permission, i mean its a school
And plus they are alway complaining about how people play games and other stuff and are very picky about things taking up system resources and slowing down the servers
and there is no way to hide the f@h console right? so i am sure people would mess with it, but ill see what i can do! that would be awesome if i could get some of them to fold!!
Always get permission first. You can get into serious trouble otherwise... plus it gives the folders a bad name (which is never good). Also, some people normally write letters or propositions to their technology departments to get stuff like this passed. Here is an example:
3/24/02
To the (Your School Name Here) Technology Department,
I am writing on behalf of the members of the Folding@Home community to bring the Folding@Home Distributed Computing project to your attention.
The Folding@Home project uses spare processor cycles to synthesize and calculate how proteins fold, misfold, and aggregate. The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious repercussions, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project, which in essence is a technique that uses the internet to create a tremendous super-computer. By splitting the workload and sending small portions out to volunteers who donate their CPU time, the project is able to harness tens of thousands of CPU’s and move forward more far more quickly than it would running on a Cray super-computer. The folding client runs on an idle priority and never takes CPU cycles that are needed for other processes. Think of a CPU’s cycles as a glass of water. When you browse the internet or process documents, you only drink 1/20 of the glass, and the rest is unused.... The folding client "drinks" the other bits of water. The client lets the other programs take as much as they need. This in no way spies on your activities. Studies have shown that Folding@Home does not impact the performance of computers, and it only needs internet access to receive work packets and to send results, which occurs anywhere from three times per day to twice per week depending on the particular work unit and CPU involved. Bandwidth use is minimal and it operates on standard www and https ports 80 or 8080. Many schools and corporations are starting to help the scientific community by joining this or similar projects.
If security is an issue with your decision on allowing the client to be installed, I can assure you that the F@H client is quite safe. It uses a digital signature that is verified with each download of a new work unit. The signature is a very secure way to verify that no bogus files have been downloaded that may attack/affect your system. The Folding@Home project does not cost anything to you. The school can form its own official team for stats tracking and can then compete against teams (even other colleges) worldwide. Your individual lab administrators may form their own usernames within the team and compete with each other. Clients are available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.
You do not gain anything from folding, but science does and perhaps someday this research will cure protein disorders or find new treatments for some types of cancer, in which case the whole human race benefits. All in all, the client is free and uses very little hard drive space. You may find other uses for the client as well. In monitoring a few dozens of folding@home clients, I've found that they can help pinpoint hardware problems. The folding@home community and I hope that you will think about allowing this client to be installed on some of the school’s computers, even if only on a trial basis. Whatever you decide, I thank you for your time and consideration.
I urge you to seek more information about this exciting DC project at the official Folding@Home site: http://folding.stanford.edu
A free program to track folding@home clients across a local network can be found at: www.em-dc.com
Sincerely,
Name
Email
Member of Team 32
Username
Gasoline
01-07-05, 06:14 PM
In the config.cfg file, change bigpackets=no to bigpackets=yes and be sure to use notepad to make this change, not wordpad.
Thanks. I actually had to delete the old client.cfg files and regenerate them since the bigpackets option wasn't included in any of my existing files and I didn't know the order in which all those the parms were supposed to occur. I also didn't know what that binary parm separator byte was supposed to be or how to key it using notepad.
Luckily all my in-progress work units picked up at the last checkpoint when I restarted the consoles with the brand new client.cfg files. I was worried that all the work in process would get tossed out and new WUs would get downloaded, but it looks like it was going to be able to finish all the partially-done WUs just fine. I now have 14 of these consoles going on these temp machines. (12 consoles across 3 dual Xeon boxen, 2 additional ones on a single-cpu Xeon box just installed today). If I can get a network link up to another building, I can add 6 more of these dual Xeon boxen to be temporary folders for a couple weeks while they get "burned in" prior to production deployment. :drool:
810 days till ocau pwnage at current rate
honoroable mention- franco, no overtake on OCAU yet but they are on the threat list
I.M.O.G.
01-08-05, 10:42 AM
Are stats correct again? A couple hours after the midnight update last night everything was messed up - it showed no midnight update on EOC and the points for 9PM yesterday were huge (included 9PM and 12 points all in one)..... Goes to check.
@md0Cer
01-08-05, 02:51 PM
Now down to 805 days. [H] is scheduled to overtake them in 74 days. Francophone is also outproducing them, but not by much at and I don't think AF will be able to pull it off at their current production.
EDIT: It looks like the stats are normal to me.
wizard james
01-08-05, 05:56 PM
with in on monday get my si-97 so i get my other computer up, that measn that another 2.3 ghz is added. also going to go and borg 7 ghz at a friends.. tommorw if not on monday
the garynator
01-08-05, 06:40 PM
my buddy is borging all 5 of his father's work computers and his father's desktop(A64) and his brothers beast of a comp and his lappy while he's at school...i already converted him from google to team 32 so he will be producing some decent numbers :D
MoonWolf
01-09-05, 04:04 AM
Gonna try to bring a few more borged boxes online. Keep up the great work guys, lets get 'em!
OMG, I just outproduced all may previous weeks combined by 2!!!! and just today (1-9-05) I have turned in 6 WU for only 48 points? anyone else have something like this happer (I can't find what projects they were b/c they are on my dad's work computer).
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=117348
wizard james
01-09-05, 08:51 AM
nice, i liked my stats when 7 of my rigs all turned in 600 points with in 20 mins.. ever see a line go Stright up???
(well.. its odd.. ots sunday and i wake up at 7:54 as if i had somewere to go.. this is bad..really bad.)
FizzledFiend
01-09-05, 08:57 AM
OMG, I just outproduced all may previous weeks combined by 2!!!! and just today (1-9-05) I have turned in 6 WU for only 48 points? anyone else have something like this happer (I can't find what projects they were b/c they are on my dad's work computer).
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=117348
explain this? seems to me you turned in work units and it took 1 or 2 updates before rainbow got the news..happens..anyways killer spikage m8!
petteyg359
01-09-05, 11:07 AM
Is the Google Toolbar version of F@H as good as the standalone client? Also, how to enable "bigpackets" in Google Toolbar version?
I.M.O.G.
01-09-05, 09:31 PM
The non-graphical client running as a service is generally the best version to use - least conflicts and overhead. The graphical client sometimes conflicts with things, and I don't really know about the google toolbar version specifically, but I bet someone else can help you out.
Turd Furguson
01-13-05, 03:00 PM
2.7ghz Celeron added....
Voodoo Rufus
01-13-05, 07:55 PM
Whoa, just read this whole thread.
Perhaps the little Folding plug on the main page helped a bit eh?
Hell yes it did.
Our gain on OCAU has pulled back a bit, maybe one of their bigger borgs came back online, but I think we can pull at least a little bit closer to them and [H] with every passing day. It is most imporant we keep folding, no matter what happens. With our constant production this high, we're near unstoppable. You look at people like dark_15 who little more than a month ago didn't even exist, and now he's one of our top 20 producers thanks to his massive borg.
As for myself, the starter of this thread, I can't really put down the numbers on paper of my folding vs. others, but I do the best I can. This isn't to say I don't have a few tricks left up my sleeve...
-Fyber
Voodoo Rufus
01-13-05, 08:01 PM
/me underclocks CPU, goes to services.msc and restarts FAH.
H2O cooling or not, I'll be folding. :D
Leviathan41
01-13-05, 08:02 PM
/me underclocks CPU, goes to services.msc and restarts FAH.
H2O cooling or not, I'll be folding. :D
Excellent :thup:
I.M.O.G.
01-13-05, 10:09 PM
We are actually closer to [H] in 24hr ave than we have been in a long time right now... We are within 10k. :D
dark_15
01-13-05, 10:24 PM
I added a 3.06 GHZ HT BigPacket just the other day or so...
Damn you Dark.
Anyway, I just threw in a 600 pointer under my new username "Seven".
Will become my new username here if Luta or Mr_B read my PM and agree to change it.
Anyway, one of my close online-friends was diagnosed with cervical cancer a few days ago, and so I'm rededicating myself to the cause. No more toying around, I'm going to boost production up by a ton. In fact, quadding my current PPD is my goal (It'll be about 600PPD by the 12PM update), so that's 2400PPD. Anyway, keep them points coming guys (and our girl folders)!
Fyber/Seven
Arkaine23
01-13-05, 11:25 PM
3.0 press-hot borged. Should turn in its first 2 600-pointers tomorrow.
At 7pm's update last night, we were ahead of [H] for the day again by 2.6k.
Leviathan41
01-13-05, 11:30 PM
We are actually closer to [H] in 24hr ave than we have been in a long time right now... We are within 10k. :D
Dude!! We are!! That's awesome, we keep inproving every day :clap:
Woohoo! Seven immediately takes up 600PPD and a NICE looking spot near 2,000.
600 pointers rock. I have to remember to change my borg usernames before they turn in WUs for fyberwire. I should grab another 50 pointer soon and another 600 pointer on the other 2.4 rig.
Now to pick up a huge borg...
Voodoo Rufus
01-14-05, 12:04 AM
Hmm, how do you enable these big point ones? Or should I just leave my oneclick install the way it is?
1) Make sure you have the newest FAHconsole (5.0.2? It's in wedo's install thingy)
2) Wait until current unit finishes if answer to question 1 is no.
3) Instal current version of answer to question 1 is no.
4) Once you are up to speed, in your client.cfg file, look for bigpackets=yes. By enabling these, you can grab the 600 point GROMACS which are worth a ton. I've had 2 straight on my 2.4B, which I should OC (note to self)
5)Monitor carefully. Make sure the 600 pointers aren't stopping, if so, clock down a bit, or boost voltage.
6) Enjoy uber-pointage.
I.M.O.G.
01-14-05, 12:27 AM
V_R: Open client.cfg with notepad only, find bigpackets=no, change it to bigpackets=yes.
Voodoo Rufus
01-14-05, 12:27 AM
I'm running on FAH Version 4.00. I guess that's old? :D There's no bigpackets in the cfg.
I DL'ed the new Wedo one click. I'll install it once I load a new OS.
Thanks for the help.
I thought I had Spikage Before :drool: :drool: :drool:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=117348
Anyways It looks like I am about to enter the area of more extreme competition, I need to find PC's to borg..
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!
Leviathan41
01-16-05, 01:05 AM
Wow, that's an awesome day gulp! Congrats :thup:
wizard james
01-16-05, 01:25 AM
SWEET, one of my friends computer.. i guess was workin on a big packer for over a week.. (turns his pc off) and it got turned in ..mine 600 got turned in ..and my other computers got turned in ..with in 4 hours. it was sweet lookin.
well.. i am in the prosseces of building another computer.. a64 ..3200+ with the new SLI motherboard from asus ..that will be folding 24/7.. thing is that the owner is a slow payer..so it might be a few weeks till thats up
Awesome. Damn gulp, I remember when you were right up on my tail, now you've really pulled away.
Don't worry though, I have more up my sleeve.
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dark_15
01-16-05, 01:36 PM
I thought I had Spikage Before :drool: :drool: :drool:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=117348
Anyways It looks like I am about to enter the area of more extreme competition, I need to find PC's to borg..
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!
Excellent work, Gulp! Hopefully I'll see you soon in the top 20!
EDIT: On another note, my 10 GHZ I just added started to turn in WU's today... my total processors just spiked by ten... and there's still another fourteen processors to show up... hehe!
but I lost my dually 200 mhz and another 200 mhz machine though... they are undergoing repairs...
So dark, when are you hitting page 1?
It amazes me how people who started out when I did have so much powah right now that I can't even compete. Great work guys!
Also, THANKS for the 200-some replies this thread has generated! I really appreciate it!
I don't know if this is the point of the thread, but.....
You'd better look behind you upstreamcurrent....... two spots behind and closing ;)
You're the only person in close range that I know..... I can't wait to reach page 2 so I can recognize most of the people.
Oh BTW..... our subteam just hit 50k :beer:
Voodoo Rufus
01-18-05, 01:21 AM
926 days to overtake.
And FAH is taking 100MB+ of ram. Shame on you guys for making me update! :cry:
Wow... this thread has inspired me to start folding again. =) Thing is, folding has a noticable impact on my electric bills here, so it's always on 'n off for me.. hopefully I can keep it up. But in the meantime, I'll have 2500MHz + 2000MHz + 1100MHz + 1400MHz + 1700MHz = 8.7GHz folding again part-time for a few weeks. Just a little bit to help out 'ole team 32. =)
welcome back!! everything helps, everything counts!
the garynator
01-18-05, 11:45 AM
HAHA, i borged an austrailian's 2 computers and he's going to borg a few more of his friends comps....got them workin against themselves :D
Wow... this thread has inspired me to start folding again. =) Thing is, folding has a noticable impact on my electric bills here, so it's always on 'n off for me.. hopefully I can keep it up. But in the meantime, I'll have 2500MHz + 2000MHz + 1100MHz + 1400MHz + 1700MHz = 8.7GHz folding again part-time for a few weeks. Just a little bit to help out 'ole team 32. =)
Welcome back to team 32!
I wish I sorta had the money/resources to help out anybody who needed help with electric bills for F@H, but sadly I'm not incredibly wealthy, so no can do.
However, welcome back! Hope to see you on EOC stats sometime soon!
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Leviathan41
01-18-05, 06:42 PM
Wow, this is great! People are getting more and more excited about folding by the day. Keep those boxen folding and keep those sigs/avatars/locations recruiting!
FizzledFiend
01-18-05, 08:17 PM
926 days to overtake.
And FAH is taking 100MB+ of ram. Shame on you guys for making me update! :cry:
what does this mean?
FizzledFiend
01-18-05, 08:19 PM
well I went and did it. I turned my ram ratio down from 1:1 so i can up my oc and fold harder..took this baby back up to 2.68 today..folding saw a difference, but I haven't noticed a change..still borging as usual gain 2 lose one :(
Welcome back to team 32!
I wish I sorta had the money/resources to help out anybody who needed help with electric bills for F@H, but sadly I'm not incredibly wealthy, so no can do.
However, welcome back! Hope to see you on EOC stats sometime soon!
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Thanks for the welcome back, Seven (:0 I just got my two Bartons (4.5GHz) and my two Pallies (3.1GHz) online. Now it's time to re-borg the girlfriend's 1.7GHz plus whatever else I can scrounge up... 10GHz should help a lil bit. Unfortunately I'm not a big ballah like everyone else, so I don't have the resources to utilize big packets.
FOLD ON!!!! :sn: WASABI! :sn: :sn: :sn: :sn: *getting sushi*
Voodoo Rufus
01-18-05, 09:31 PM
Well I saw it was 926 days to overtake OCAU.
Thanks for the welcome back, Seven (:0 I just got my two Bartons (4.5GHz) and my two Pallies (3.1GHz) online. Now it's time to re-borg the girlfriend's 1.7GHz plus whatever else I can scrounge up... 10GHz should help a lil bit. Unfortunately I'm not a big ballah like everyone else, so I don't have the resources to utilize big packets.
FOLD ON!!!! :sn: WASABI! :sn: :sn: :sn: :sn: *getting sushi*
Well, you could always fold for me ;)
Plus Stanford gives you a 10% point bonus when you fold for Seven (not really true, but I wish it was)
Anyway, glad to have you back on the team. Thanks for the powah!
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I've sent in another (shorter) folding plug to Ed, to see if he'll give us some front page exposure again.
Woot.... just hit 1000 ppd :D
Not good enough for a color change, but it's a new record for me :attn:
I've got three instances (two on my computer and one on my lappy), my little bro's got one instance, Enduro's got one instance, Sentential's got three, and Red Barron's got one instance.
Not a bad amount of folding powah :D Once we start work at our college again we'll see if we can borg the 5 or 6 P4's in our computer lab..... they're not that fast (1.8
s with SDRAM), but every point helps.
I.M.O.G.
01-19-05, 08:08 AM
Yup, yesterday we produced 245k and the [H] put up 242k, so we outproduced them again!
Lets hope david's plug goes well and shows up on the frontpage... I don't think we have a contest ready to accompany it right now, but this will give us a chance to see how much semi-regular frontpage updates alone can help us.
So David, how about attaching the sneak preview huh? :D
First 1/3 - 1/2 of the article:
If Science Isn't a Big Enough Reason to fold, then what is? Does a bit of friendly competition sound like fun to you?
Last month you may remember how we appealed to Overclockers.com readers to stop wasting idle CPU cycles and help a valuable scientific project which has already published results that may possibly lead to advances in cancer research.
If that isn't enough to get you involved, then check out the Folding@Home statistics here. See Overclockers.com. Yeah, they are currently in third place but poised to take second in the near future. With a few more members, just like you, we can close the gap quicker and set our sights on first place.
I.M.O.G.
01-19-05, 08:42 AM
Nice, I like it so far. :)
And congratulations on your promotion David - I hope to follow in your footsteps and also one day become an UltraSuperMegaDuper senior! :D
Leviathan41
01-19-05, 10:07 AM
And congratulations on your promotion David - I hope to follow in your footsteps and also one day become an UltraSuperMegaDuper senior! :D
lol! :p
Sounds good David, hopefully we can get it on the front page and add some folding power! We are only 7400 PPD behind [H] at the moment! That's only a few more borgs or new folders, and the gap has been shrinking as of late, we are headed in the right direction. :cool:
Nice, I like it so far. :)
And congratulations on your promotion David - I hope to follow in your footsteps and also one day become an UltraSuperMegaDuper senior! :D
Hey I gotta get something for my contributions ... rofl :D
Leviathan41
01-19-05, 01:19 PM
We are only 7400 PPD behind [H] at the moment!
Make that <6K PPD as of the 12PM update, and we are beating [H] by 10K today!!
I.M.O.G.
01-19-05, 01:37 PM
In the past 3 weeks, we have cut OCAU's CPU lead by 80.46% - from 1111 behind to just 217 CPU's behind. We have reduced [H]'s CPU lead by 32.97% - from 461 behind, to just 309 behind. OCAU's power has dwindled slightly while we have strengthened, and we have gained ground still on [H] despite the fact that they too are making nice improvements to their output.
OC = 4849 CPUs
OCAU = 5066 CPU's (217 ahead)
[H] = 5158 (309 ahead)
Clean_Baldy
01-19-05, 02:00 PM
Today, we're 10,000 ahead. It's only 3PM, but that's quite a bit.
We've also closed the daily average gap, and we're only 6,000 ppd behind them.
We're so close! :beer:
Woohoo!
Damn, I remember 8 pages ago when I started this, we were JUST gaining on OCAU. Now we're getting close to [H]! Awesome awesome awesome.
Go 32!
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Arkaine23
01-19-05, 04:29 PM
I've gotten a nice boost this last few weeks. Overclockix 3.7 getting mentioned on slashdot has a lot of ppl trying it which has brought my CPU count up to 46 active the last week (where I can account for perhaps 25 of them as my own), and 96 active in the last 50 days.
These generally aren't permanent additions but just ppl trying a live CD and folding a few WU. Some do wind up installing it though... The information about the folding service and how to change or disable it is disclosed on Overclockix's main page and on the CD, and the folding client is automatically downloaded at boot rather than packaged with the OS, so as far as I know I'm cool with Stanford and Overclockix users.
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