SG Broadband Community

btracy

Thanks Rick.

All my video cards are nVidia but I only GPU fold on one box currently (and that is with an old card). I will try modifying it tomorrow.

btracy

Thanks for the information Rick. Say I have a single GPU system on a box showing 8 cores (technically 4 are HT). Is the test I should be trying dropping the number of SMP cores doing folding down to 4 or 2?

Someday I should really start folding with my more powerful GPUs at home. You seem to have ...

btracy

Thank You!

btracy

That is the hope anyway.

btracy

Thanks!

btracy

It has been a good long run and I am by no means quitting but I have to shut off most of my home PCs and my PS3 for the time being. I have a few thousand a month in medical bills (all in the name of baby making!) that have forced me to squeeze out every dollar I can.

I am still folding at work and ...

btracy

I am late to this thread but congrats!

btracy

When:

1) When genome@home was a separate project from folding@home?

2) Speedguide was close to our team number in terms of team ranking (forget where exactly we got to back then).

3) When all the stats started over for Folding@Home 2.0. All those years of work just to get above 10K gone.

btracy

I am trying to convince my wife to just let me open the gtx260 she bought me for Christmas. Heh. It is more fun chasing people to the top. I start trying to scrounge up ways to get more folding boxes.

btracy

Congrats on becoming #1 (again)!

I will be back on your tail at some point. Whether it is days or years keep a look in your rear view mirror.

BTracy

btracy

Woohoo! Congrats and here is to that second million!

BTracy

btracy

Nice Work! Looking forward to the next million.

btracy

Ding! Nice!

BTracy

btracy

Hehe thanks. Yeah I have a ways to go before I would be in the #1 slot. Usually, as I get closer YeOldeStonecat all of a sudden blows the doors off his production for 6 months.

It has been long but fun run trying to catch you Rickoic. I look forward to a resurgence someday.

BTracy

btracy

Indeed FINALLY I am catching up with you. It only took a few years and you dropping a good portion of your farm to do it but hey I will take what I can get!

btracy

Grats!!!!!

Don't slow down or I just might catch you!

btracy

It is a lot easier these days since the console executable can set itself up as a service for you instead of having to do it yourself or use a third party app.

Since you want to run 2 services it sounds like you have a dual core box. You just need to download the console version, put copies in 2 ...

btracy

I put a few more coals on the fire..... let's see if they make a difference.

btracy

Pfff it isn't like you haven't been pulling ahead slightly the last few weeks anyway.

Can't wait to see how bad it gets now.

BTracy

btracy

At least for now.

It seems to flip back and forth between us every few weeks or it has historically and depending on the WU flavor of the week my production fluctuates wildly.

btracy

Months indeed!!

rickoic 2 -808,512 3,390 03.03.08, 9pm / 7.9 Months
YeOldeStonecat 1 -103,768 860 11.07.07, 1am / 4 Months

Usually it reads years for you but my production is unusually high currently. I am sure it will slow down again and switch you back to years. :D

YeOldeStonecat will drop off ...

btracy

I was doing just fine until you had to post 7 or 8 K in points yesterday by the last time I looked. I was thinking you can just turn off all your folding comps for a while and let me pass you. Then you won't have to worry about staying ahead.

btracy

Bah!! You were running away from me for the last 30 days or so until just last week. I was hoping I could close the distance a bit for once. :P

I keep trying to find more procs for my cause.... Someday I will get you!!!! Some day!!!!!!!!

btracy

I am pretty excited about trying this but I am going to wait until after beta likely.

I have a dual quad core Xeon I just put the fah client(s) on and it would be nice to run fewer instances. I can only run FAH on this box about 12 hours a day but that is better than nothing.

I am getting 3 new ...

btracy

Ahh, I am trying to catch up anyway. I don't think I will be pulling out ahead in the long run.

It has been a battle with power outages in my server room and a raid array that just doesn't want to stay up but maybe by next week I will have all mine running again. They are all aging but they still ...

btracy

Still trying to catch up to all of you big time folders. :P

btracy

Yeah I built myself a new Athalon X2 4400+ box a few months ago and recruited one of my old exchange servers at work which is now a test box to fold for me. :) Ahhh the power of 3 ghz Zeons.

It goes up and down though. Just depends on what WU's I have going and if I realize I lost power on a few ...

btracy

No. I won't be leaving SG, not that I have ever been an "active" poster outside the Team forums. I was among the first to G@H & F@H along with Jughead, BTracy, matt420. While I enjoyed the "tag" game with Ghost and Ace lately, the fun is getting the team going and getting folks to join up ...

btracy

Woohoo! I just realized that today. I thought I had a week or so more to go before I made it there!

Thanks!

btracy

And he has officially passed me.

Congrats!

BTracy

btracy

Congrats on passing me up.

Your production the last few months has been insane!

BTracy

btracy

Thanks Philip! I hope to pick up some more boxes in the near future. My farm has aged (and my points show it).

btracy

Wow. Nostalgia. I think it was another month before I signed up. Been fun ever since. So many things are different since then. The changeover from FAH1 to FAH2 being one of the biggies.

We left all of our old stats behind which would be what these days? A few days worth of points now if even that ...

btracy

Ahhh those were the days. All those .6 point WU's really took a long time to add up.

Congrats Chris.

btracy

I am still cruising along...

I am trying to hold the new gen of folders at bay for a little longer.

Looks like I will be giving up the total WU completed crown soon too.

btracy

Statsman's stats do that when it's download of stats has been interrupted for a period of time.

Note the large time differential since the last update before the jump. It was 9/13 6:00 to 9/15 15:00

btracy

I agree that it is more work to run FAH on HT procs.

I am sure they are looking for a way to make it easier. I would guess their dev crew is pretty small and they are faced with balancing fixing bugs, adding new features, dealing with technical difficulties, and analyzing the data. Since there is ...

btracy

I remember when 9 points was a huge number. Heck any unit over .6 of a point was huge.

btracy

As it has been stated earlier, using 50% of the CPU on a HT box is not "broken" In order to utalize full CPU resources with multiple CPU's, virtual or physical, you have to run multiple instances of FAH.

You can use FireDaemon or WatchCat. I personally use FireDaemon though.

If I ever want to ...

btracy

I was doing some searching for HT and server platforms a while back and I remembered coming across an article that detailed some driver updates that were necessary to get HT to run well on an NT box. NT support for HT was limited even with the newer updates if I remember correctly.

All I can find ...

SG Broadband Community

Search found 193 matches

Cutting production for a while

Congrats Rickoic on #1

YeOldeStonecat to take #4 slot any time now