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lordonuthin
Apr 27, 2010, 09:48 PM
Good news on the GPU3 front (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/04/prepping-for-the-gpu3-rolling-new-client-and-nvidia-fah-gpu-clients-will-need-cuda-22-or-later.html) it's getting closer now.

I thought I would start a thread on news about Folding like the above...


SciFrog
Apr 28, 2010, 02:23 AM
No mention of Mac support yet... Patience patience. But these NVidia GT4XX look like they will be monsters at Folding.

Still waiting on bigadv to move to a3 core though...
twoodcc
Apr 28, 2010, 09:38 PM
well that is good news. it seems GPU3 will be out very soon
lordonuthin
May 11, 2010, 01:23 AM
Update on the problem getting work units (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/05/update-on-wu-shortage.html)
twoodcc
May 11, 2010, 10:25 AM
Update on the problem getting work units (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/05/update-on-wu-shortage.html)

yeah i read this last night. glad they are working on the issue
SciFrog
May 22, 2010, 11:03 AM
Got an a3 unit but it says bigadv in the Wudget...

4 mins time frame, doesn't look like a bigadv...

Core 2.21 is also ready now.

Update: one a3 bigadv has been released, it is project 2684. I did not get it though and got assigned a 6012 which is a regular a3, never got one before...

Update 2: one crashed at 2%, the other one at 10%, then I got an a2 bigadv... Go figure.

Stanford doesn't seem to have solved the early crashing problem yet that 2.21 was supposed to fix.
twoodcc
May 22, 2010, 12:29 PM
Got an a3 unit but it says bigadv in the Wudget...

4 mins time frame, doesn't look like a bigadv...

Core 2.21 is also ready now.

Update: one a3 bigadv has been released, it is project 2684. I did not get it though and got assigned a 6012 which is a regular a3, never got one before...

Update 2: one crashed at 2%, the other one at 10%, then I got an a2 bigadv... Go figure.

Stanford doesn't seem to have solved the early crashing problem yet that 2.21 was supposed to fix.

hmm. interesting. well at least something is going on. hopefully soon they'll have something worked out
DeSnousa
May 23, 2010, 07:53 AM
So does this mean that if I get a ATI graphics card, it will fold great?
DeSnousa
May 23, 2010, 08:00 AM
So does this mean that if I get a ATI graphics card, it will fold great?
SciFrog
May 23, 2010, 09:02 AM
No, these are CPU clients.

The ATI vs Nvidia PPD difference is not going away anytime soon, something where the architecture of Nvidia cards better suited to Folding.

What we are waiting for however is a GPU client for Mac/Linux.
lordonuthin
May 30, 2010, 05:07 PM
GPU3 open beta is out for testing (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/05/open-beta-release-of-the-gpu3-clientcore.html)
SciFrog
May 30, 2010, 09:08 PM
Not for macs/Linux. :(
lordonuthin
Jun 1, 2010, 02:10 PM
Not for macs/Linux. :(

Yes, but at least maybe they will have time to start work on mac/linux versions soon, I hope...
SciFrog
Jun 3, 2010, 12:07 PM
It looks like a3 bigadv produce 20-30% less PPD...
lordonuthin
Jun 4, 2010, 05:28 PM
It looks like a3 bigadv produce 20-30% less PPD...

That is quite a difference!
SciFrog
Jun 5, 2010, 01:09 PM
No idea of points yet, but my completion time went from 2 days 22 hours to 3 days 14 hours. Before I was getting 51k points per unit. Oh and it is using core 2.22 for these a3 bigadv.

Somehow though according to the table, it should yield the same 16.5k PPD. My machine is a 8 cores with no PPD hit? It looks like the one getting hit by 20-30% less PPD are 4 cores plus 4 virtual.

We will know for sure in two days.
SciFrog
Jun 7, 2010, 05:32 PM
Yup, 58.5k points with the bonus so more than the a2 units, very small PPD loss in the end, unlike the virtual cores... And this a3 unit survived a restart! Great update!
SciFrog
Jun 15, 2010, 12:21 PM
Some a3 servers are down, uploads are not working... Also the a3 now serves a 6701 unit, quite a slow one...
SciFrog
Jun 17, 2010, 07:32 PM
All the problems seem solved.

Hey, where is everybody?
SciFrog
Jun 22, 2010, 08:03 PM
Core a3 2.22 is out, it is somewhat faster than 2.21. It doesn't seem to update by itself yet, so once a unit is finished, you need to manually delete the core to get the new one.
johnisgood11
Jul 19, 2010, 09:25 PM
Core a3 2.22 is out, it is somewhat faster than 2.21. It doesn't seem to update by itself yet, so once a unit is finished, you need to manually delete the core to get the new one.I am new... but i have heard quite a bit about seti@home. Can you explain a bit about why people are doing it?
SciFrog
Jul 20, 2010, 07:50 AM
Medical research. Many people felt SETI was fun but a bit useless. Please refer to their site for more info:

http://folding.stanford.edu/
lordonuthin
Jul 22, 2010, 04:23 AM
All the problems seem solved.

Hey, where is everybody?

Ha ha, out to lunch I think!
lordonuthin
Jul 22, 2010, 04:56 PM
We are back to 58th place again, 57th didn't last very long :rolleyes:
twoodcc
Jul 22, 2010, 11:28 PM
We are back to 58th place again, 57th didn't last very long :rolleyes:

yeah i noticed that. we need to get back on it!
SciFrog
Jul 23, 2010, 12:22 PM
Our outlook is getiing dire again. We need more firepower...
twoodcc
Jul 23, 2010, 10:48 PM
Our outlook is getiing dire again. We need more firepower...

yeah i know. i now have 6 GPUs going. i actually have 7 but my 9800 gt isn't working right. i still haven't started back with the cpu units. i'm not sure if i will since i won't get the points i was getting before
SciFrog
Jul 28, 2010, 07:51 AM
The 2685 bigadv is one fast puppy. Worth trying bigadv agian if you have stopped.
twoodcc
Jul 29, 2010, 10:09 PM
The 2685 bigadv is one fast puppy. Worth trying bigadv agian if you have stopped.

i've been out of the loop for awhile now, and it seems a lot of things have changed. care to fill me on it? before i was running bigadv units in a linux VM inside windows.
SciFrog
Jul 30, 2010, 09:00 AM
No more LINUX bigadv because there is a bug. But runs fine on Mac OS X, and Windows now too I think.
twoodcc
Jul 30, 2010, 11:32 AM
No more LINUX bigadv because there is a bug. But runs fine on Mac OS X, and Windows now too I think.

ok. but can i still run bigadv on my i7 with only 4 real cores, 8 logical cores?
SciFrog
Jul 30, 2010, 11:57 AM
Yes
twoodcc
Jul 30, 2010, 01:22 PM
Yes

alright i might try it soon on one of my systems, and see how it runs. i gotta get a good overclock again though
lordonuthin
Aug 20, 2010, 10:05 PM
Vijay would like us to test our rigs for accuracy (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/08/memtestcl-a-gpu-memory-tester-for-opencl-supports-ati-and-nvidia-gpus.html). I will probably test mine just so I know that I'm sending them good data.
twoodcc
Aug 20, 2010, 10:55 PM
Vijay would like us to test our rigs for accuracy (http://folding.typepad.com/news/2010/08/memtestcl-a-gpu-memory-tester-for-opencl-supports-ati-and-nvidia-gpus.html). I will probably test mine just so I know that I'm sending them good data.

yeah i read this the other day. i don't overclock my gpu, but i guess i do need to test my cpus
lordonuthin
Aug 30, 2010, 04:51 PM
I just checked our status and we have produced 2,932,144 (http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=3446)points in the last 7 days, our highest weekly points in a very long time!!
twoodcc
Aug 30, 2010, 05:11 PM
I just checked our status and we have produced 2,932,144 (http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=3446)points in the last 7 days, our highest weekly points in a very long time!!

so close to 3 million! we still need more users! come on someone with a new mac pro!
lordonuthin
Aug 31, 2010, 05:09 PM
so close to 3 million! we still need more users! come on someone with a new mac pro!

We are just over 3 million points for the last 7 days!!
twoodcc
Aug 31, 2010, 05:30 PM
We are just over 3 million points for the last 7 days!!

alright! way to go team!

but we still need to push!
SciFrog
Aug 31, 2010, 07:40 PM
Congrats to all, we now have a great base to lift off from!
lordonuthin
Sep 1, 2010, 08:22 PM
Well, BitGamer has passed us :( it was inevitable though as we couldn't make the 4.5 million points per week that they are doing. So that puts us in 59th place for a while.
twoodcc
Sep 2, 2010, 11:22 AM
Well, BitGamer has passed us :( it was inevitable though as we couldn't make the 4.5 million points per week that they are doing. So that puts us in 59th place for a while.

yeah i saw that. nothing we can do, but pass someone else
lordonuthin
Sep 2, 2010, 04:42 PM
yeah i saw that. nothing we can do, but pass someone else

It will take us about 40 days to pass Portugal@folding to put us back in 58th place for a while. In 3 to 4 months we will be overtaken again this time by Russia then by p2p-community and awachs shortly after that which will put us at 61st place around the end of the year :( We are doing better than we were though :)
twoodcc
Sep 2, 2010, 05:21 PM
It will take us about 40 days to pass Portugal@folding to put us back in 58th place for a while. In 3 to 4 months we will be overtaken again this time by Russia then by p2p-community and awachs shortly after that which will put us at 61st place around the end of the year :( We are doing better than we were though :)

wait, i think we are going to overtake Russia and p2p
lordonuthin
Sep 2, 2010, 07:28 PM
wait, i think we are going to overtake Russia and p2p

Oh, I wasn't looking at the numbers, but yes WE will overtake those 2 and awachs will overtake us. So we will end up at like 57th place maybe... at the end of the year :D
twoodcc
Sep 2, 2010, 11:06 PM
Oh, I wasn't looking at the numbers, but yes WE will overtake those 2 and awachs will overtake us. So we will end up at like 57th place maybe... at the end of the year :D

yeah something like that if we keep the current pace, which will be hard to do.