Halfway to 10,000! [Archive] - MacRumors Forums

wrldwzrd89

Jul 3, 2004, 05:06 PM

I'm making progress towards the 10,000 mark. I reached 5,000 recently - I'll probably get to 10,000 points by September.

bousozoku

Jul 4, 2004, 12:29 PM

Congratulations! :) The team definitely appreciates the contributions.

jimjiminyjim

Jul 4, 2004, 01:02 PM

I just reached 19.7 (do i get a cookie?)

What are you running to get so many points - 5000 by September?

bousozoku

Jul 4, 2004, 02:03 PM

I just reached 19.7 (do i get a cookie?)

What are you running to get so many points - 5000 by September?

No cookies (they're for browsers), just certificates. :) That's a lot of paper.

MacFan25

Jul 4, 2004, 02:53 PM

Congrats on 5000 points...you must have several computers running Folding.

It seems like our team is steadily increasily our production. We're now at 36,000 points on the 24 hour average production.

wdlove

Jul 4, 2004, 03:16 PM

Congratulations on your folding progress. Thank you and all our members for the great work. :)

wrldwzrd89

Jul 4, 2004, 03:47 PM

I just reached 19.7 (do i get a cookie?)

What are you running to get so many points - 5000 by September?
My 1.25 GHz iMac and my 3.2 GHz Windows machine, both running Folding@Home 24/7.
EDIT: I've reconfigured my Windows machine for optimum WU production. I re-enabled HyperThreading, set up two instances of the Folding@Home console, and assigned them to different virtual CPUs.

mj_1903

Jul 5, 2004, 08:19 AM

My 1.25 GHz iMac and my 3.2 GHz Windows machine, both running Folding@Home 24/7.
EDIT: I've reconfigured my Windows machine for optimum WU production. I re-enabled HyperThreading, set up two instances of the Folding@Home console, and assigned them to different virtual CPUs.

From memory that will actually slow down your Folding. HyperThreading has a 5-6% raw CPU loss, plus the incurred memory and IO could mean a much more significant decrease.

If someone has figures that prove me otherwise, feel free to correct me, my figures are about 6 months old.

wrldwzrd89

Jul 5, 2004, 08:37 AM

From memory that will actually slow down your Folding. HyperThreading has a 5-6% raw CPU loss, plus the incurred memory and IO could mean a much more significant decrease.

If someone has figures that prove me otherwise, feel free to correct me, my figures are about 6 months old.
Someone else on these forums (in another thread) said that enabling HyperThreading on a Windows machine, then setting up two consoles on each virtual CPU increases point production by 33% - that's why I did it. Now I'm getting conflicting advice :confused:

Nanuq

Jul 5, 2004, 11:25 AM

I stated I had read it in several forums. Increase of up 20-33% in total points per day or something like that. I'll post links to the information I've found, as soon as I find them.

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showpost.php?p=1056436&postcount=9

Amani

Jul 5, 2004, 12:38 PM

I just reached 19.7 (do i get a cookie?)

What are you running to get so many points - 5000 by September?

lol know how you feel. i probably won't reach 500 before next year.

wrldwzrd89

Jul 5, 2004, 01:21 PM

Nanuq

Jul 6, 2004, 10:01 PM

That settles it, then. Thanks Nanuq!

No problem! I haven't tested it out yet, I only have one machine with HT and it produced fairly well with only one client running, but have not had much time to check performance since I've added the second client. I hope it works out...

wrldwzrd89

Jul 7, 2004, 03:40 PM

No problem! I haven't tested it out yet, I only have one machine with HT and it produced fairly well with only one client running, but have not had much time to check performance since I've added the second client. I hope it works out...
Whoa - Folding@Home performance SHOT up after I made the change. Check my stats - I've already surpassed 6,000 points.

Nanuq

Jul 7, 2004, 10:34 PM

Whoa - Folding@Home performance SHOT up after I made the change. Check my stats - I've already surpassed 6,000 points.

Very nice! I just wonder if maybe it's more because of the WU's you got, maybe you just had a few tinkers loaded up? But in any case, even if it just helps a little, it'll go a long way!

Keep it fun!

wrldwzrd89

Jul 8, 2004, 10:38 AM

Very nice! I just wonder if maybe it's more because of the WU's you got, maybe you just had a few tinkers loaded up? But in any case, even if it just helps a little, it'll go a long way!

Keep it fun!
Yeah - I got TWO big ol' tinkers after I reconfigured F@H. Those gave me a big pile of points.

britboy

Jul 8, 2004, 11:13 AM

Yeah - I got TWO big ol' tinkers after I reconfigured F@H. Those gave me a big pile of points.

It's nice when you get a couple of those finishing at the same time. Yesterday was my highest single-day points score to date: 824 points :) Looks good, even if I can't keep that up all the time.

bousozoku

Jul 8, 2004, 12:20 PM

It's nice when you get a couple of those finishing at the same time. Yesterday was my highest single-day points score to date: 824 points :) Looks good, even if I can't keep that up all the time.

That works, but if you're like me, it may be a long while before you have any more points because of new Tinkers. :D

Nanuq

Jul 8, 2004, 09:43 PM

It's nice when you get a couple of those finishing at the same time. Yesterday was my highest single-day points score to date: 824 points :) Looks good, even if I can't keep that up all the time.

Yeah I had my biggest day the other day too, 1700+ points!! I was so very surprised when I checked my stats.... average of about 900-950 per day up to 1700+...

Keep up the fold!

Nermal

Jul 9, 2004, 04:57 AM

I'm at 1263 points, and I hardly ever run the thing :rolleyes:

Don't panic

Jul 9, 2004, 08:53 AM

Yeah I had my biggest day the other day too, 1700+ points!! I was so very surprised when I checked my stats.... average of about 900-950 per day up to 1700+...

Keep up the fold!

Nanuq,
would you consider folding for the Macrumors team? You've been around these boards for a while and we certainly would love to have you in the team.
You are a one-man(woman?) team, so you'd be able to keep track of all your points just the same, and your personal overall stats won't be affected if you don't change username.
Besides, with your kind of production you'd swoosh up the ranks in our team and quickly reach a level for some healthy head-to-heads.
Hey, you might even pass me! ;)

just give it a thought

michaelrjohnson

Jul 9, 2004, 08:54 AM

I finally have a computer that can actually do some good! Before early this week, I only had sub-1GHz Macs running it. Now, I have a 1.33GHz 12" PowerBook. We'll see how much I can do. Thanks for your contributions!

mj_1903

Jul 9, 2004, 09:10 AM

Today I did a 6 point work unit (among others). Is this a work unit being half completed or failing? I can't seem to find a 6 point work unit in the project summary.

SilentPanda

Jul 9, 2004, 09:35 AM

ExoticFish

Jul 9, 2004, 09:49 AM

britboy

Jul 9, 2004, 10:26 AM

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=

Probably the best f@h stats site out there.

SilentPanda

Jul 9, 2004, 11:15 AM

Oh no! Now that you've shown me that link I feel like I *have* to fold more... at my current rate I'll outfold BlackAdder on 04.27.11, @ 4pm. :) Although once I get home and I figure out how to utilize the hyperthreading and when I OC my CPU... he best watch out... :)

ExoticFish

Jul 9, 2004, 11:15 AM

wow awesome! thanks! looking at that really makes me see how we need to do better! even though i'm slowly moving up the ranks i need to get some more power to fold!! :)

wrldwzrd89

Jul 9, 2004, 01:34 PM

Hmmmm... so I should be running two instances of F@H on my P4 2.4 with HT? If somebody can tell me how/what I'm supposed to do I'll go ahead and do it... then once that runs stable for a week I'll slowly start overclocking it (I can OC it in the BIOS easily) until it reaches a good neutral point. I never use the durn machine anyhow...
Here's how I do it:
I download two F@H text consoles for Windows, set them up in their own directories, configure them by opening the command prompt and running FAH4Console.exe -configonly, then tell Windows to run them as scheduled tasks on system startup, using the -local and -service switches, and unchecking the box that says stop this task if it runs for more than X hours. Once that's done, I restart, then open Task Manager, and assign each F@H core to a logical processor.

Dreadnought

Jul 9, 2004, 03:33 PM

check this

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=3446&p=1

SilentPanda

Jul 9, 2004, 04:37 PM

Here's how I do it:
I download two F@H text consoles for Windows, set them up in their own directories, configure them by opening the command prompt and running FAH4Console.exe -configonly, then tell Windows to run them as scheduled tasks on system startup, using the -local and -service switches, and unchecking the box that says stop this task if it runs for more than X hours. Once that's done, I restart, then open Task Manager, and assign each F@H core to a logical processor.

Well... hmmm... I think it's working... I guess I'll find out... will it show 2 CPU's on my stats page once I get a WU turned in?

Nanuq

Jul 9, 2004, 05:37 PM

Well... hmmm... I think it's working... I guess I'll find out... will it show 2 CPU's on my stats page once I get a WU turned in?

It should if you have the two clients as machine ID 1 and 2 seperately

Nanuq

Jul 9, 2004, 05:44 PM

Nanuq,
would you consider folding for the Macrumors team? You've been around these boards for a while and we certainly would love to have you in the team.
You are a one-man(woman?) team, so you'd be able to keep track of all your points just the same, and your personal overall stats won't be affected if you don't change username.
Besides, with your kind of production you'd swoosh up the ranks in our team and quickly reach a level for some healthy head-to-heads.
Hey, you might even pass me! ;)

just give it a thought

I used to fold under MacRumors under the nick twiztidn8v, and I'm still in 37th place, even though I'm idle under that nick. I've put some money into PowerMacUnited.com, so I'm not sure I want it to go to waste..... Understand?? Although nobody at this time seems to be joining my team, I keep hoping....

Don't panic

Jul 9, 2004, 07:11 PM

I used to fold under MacRumors under the nick twiztidn8v, and I'm still in 37th place, even though I'm idle under that nick. I've put some money into PowerMacUnited.com, so I'm not sure I want it to go to waste..... Understand?? Although nobody at this time seems to be joining my team, I keep hoping....

i visited powermacunited. cool homepage (i like the font), but how do you plan on getting the site and the team off the ground? It's very hard to start a "community" single handed.

how do you advertise/actively recruit? do you want to attract "switchers" from other teams or new folders?how do you plan on differentiating from the other many mac-oriented sites/teams?

I wish you luck with your team and your site, but as an alternative you could consider morphing it into a "home" for the macrumors team (if the people in charge of team 3446 agree, of course), where we could have infos, FAQs, links, stats and additional forums.

In any case, keep folding. You're doing a great job!

Don't panic

Jul 9, 2004, 07:33 PM

now i've been folding for a little while now and i don't mean to sound dumb but, how do you guys get these stats like how many daily points you get or how long it'll take to surpass another team and stuff like that? :confused:

a list of folding stat links:

http://www.statsman.info/folding2stats/html/
the official site. weird graphs

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=
THE stat site

http://teamstats.macnn.com/fold/stats.php?page=b1&TID=3446
limited to macteams, but a lot of info and nice graphs

http://stats.geekfolding.com/
similar to EOC, but sortable. no graphs. Avg calculated differently

Nanuq

Jul 9, 2004, 11:57 PM

i visited powermacunited. cool homepage (i like the font), but how do you plan on getting the site and the team off the ground? It's very hard to start a "community" single handed.

how do you advertise/actively recruit? do you want to attract "switchers" from other teams or new folders?how do you plan on differentiating from the other many mac-oriented sites/teams?

I wish you luck with your team and your site, but as an alternative you could consider morphing it into a "home" for the macrumors team (if the people in charge of team 3446 agree, of course), where we could have infos, FAQs, links, stats and additional forums.

In any case, keep folding. You're doing a great job!

I had originally planned the website to be a home for MacRumors of sorts. It was just going to be a website with information, but I read something of the sort of uniting the mac teams, but it never fell through. However unlikely the idea is, I thought I would at least give it a try.

I've read in the folding forums, as a possible idea, to have the ability to have subteams within a team built into the stats and client, and I thought that maybe, if there were an option to mold more than one team over under a united name, this would be a great option for the various mac teams to unite under. I realize it's unlikely, but one will never know unless he/she tries...

To me it doesn't matter where members come from, but that they come at all [which seems to not be the case so far...].

Thanks for the well wishes, and the best to you and your team, you are doing quite well!

Dreadnought

Jul 10, 2004, 05:32 AM

It sounds good to me, and I would like it if we could get all the mac teams under one name with subteams (like team 3446), but I wouldn't join by my own. I like the thought of individualism, what our team and page stands for. By putting every mac owner on one big pile, it isn't very mac/apple like, if you get my drift. Good luck with the page!