The Folding@Home team updates thread

Hi all,

Just added a 4.8 GHz i7-2600k folding -bigadv (~ 49000 ppd) to my MacRumors contribution.

This is being helped by:

3.8 GHz i7-860 folding -smp 7 -bigadv ~ 22000 ppd
2.8 GHz i7-860 folding -smp 6 ~ 8000 ppd
3* GTX 460 ~ 32000 ppd combined
1* GTX 430 ~ 4000 ppd

All running in wine under Ubuntu 10.04

Hopefully I can maintain a reasonably stable 100k ppd, at least until the weather gets warmer when the graphics cards will have to stop.

Rob

And all that hardware for less than a souped up iMac...

SciFrog said:

And all that hardware for less than a souped up iMac...

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Yeah, it's silly isn't it...

I look at the latest iMacs and can almost convince myself to upgrade from my 2.4GHz C2D iMac, but it's still fine for daily use and the cash buys so much more horsepower elsewhere.
However, if Apple put a decent nvidia card and an i7 2600 in the next 27 inch revision I'll be sold!

Rob

techfreak85 said:

Droooll....
Those 2600ks are pretty tempting. Was it hard to get to 4.8ghz?

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Ridiculously easy!
I just set the multiplier to 48, core voltage to 1.35, everything else on auto and it just worked!
4.4GHz worked with stock voltages (the chips automatically over-volt themselves up to a point using a dynamic Vid)
I've since had to increase Vcore to 1.37 and Vtt to 1.21 to get the RAM to 1600.

However, i couldn't get any faster without much higher voltages (and heat!) - 4.9GHz required 1.5V. I think later bios versions with PLL over-volting work better, but I'm stuck with the old bios until Gigabyte release a Q-Flash version or I can work out how to do it in Linux.

Rob

rwh202 said:

Hi all,

Just added a 4.8 GHz i7-2600k folding -bigadv (~ 49000 ppd) to my MacRumors contribution.

This is being helped by:

3.8 GHz i7-860 folding -smp 7 -bigadv ~ 22000 ppd
2.8 GHz i7-860 folding -smp 6 ~ 8000 ppd
3* GTX 460 ~ 32000 ppd combined
1* GTX 430 ~ 4000 ppd

All running in wine under Ubuntu 10.04

Hopefully I can maintain a reasonably stable 100k ppd, at least until the weather gets warmer when the graphics cards will have to stop.

Rob

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nice! thanks for sharing that! it's nice to see what hardware people are folding with.

i am having trouble with another system now after the move. my last overclock isn't working now for some reason, so back to square 1 again. hopefully i can get it back up again.

Hmmm, twoodcc, you're just behind me as the # 17 contributor of our team... Don't think that will last long. There goes my #10 spot in a couple of days

Dreadnought said:

Hmmm, twoodcc, you're just behind me as the # 17 contributor of our team... Don't think that will last long. There goes my #10 spot in a couple of days

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well you never know. just keep it up! you'll get there!

This is what i got...

Hello chaps this is what i have brought to the Folding team .. i hope it helps.

Macbook Pro late 2009 (2.8ghz core 2 duo) Running the SMP Client
Win 7 x86 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.12Ghz running the SMO Client
GPU 2 client for a Radeon 2600 XT

also currently building a 3.06ghz Pentium D machine with 64bit Ubuntu 10.10

I have applied for and recived my passkey and I am using the macrumours team code the name i am using for folding is fiddlesticks_13

Hope this helps

P.S if anyone more technical minded than my self wnats to review any of the config files they are welcome and also is there a GPU version for Mac or CUDA Mac version I would like help with setting it up

danielfisher said:

Hello chaps this is what i have brought to the Folding team .. i hope it helps.

Macbook Pro late 2009 (2.8ghz core 2 duo) Running the SMP Client
Win 7 x86 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.12Ghz running the SMO Client
GPU 2 client for a Radeon 2600 XT

also currently building a 3.06ghz Pentium D machine with 64bit Ubuntu 10.10

I have applied for and recived my passkey and I am using the macrumours team code the name i am using for folding is fiddlesticks_13

Hope this helps

P.S if anyone more technical minded than my self wnats to review any of the config files they are welcome and also is there a GPU version for Mac or CUDA Mac version I would like help with setting it up

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hey there! thanks for joining our team! every little bit helps!

as of now, there is no native gpu client for mac.

Well that was fun ....
I am not entirely sure everything is running right, i am doing one work unit every 26 hours on the mac... its the SMP client and its a dual core 2.8ghz .. i get the feeling if i were running it on my bootcamp partion it would be better plus then i could utilize the graphics processer as well


however i installed ubuntu on the other 3.06ghz pc and well lets say that folding doesn't like it ... so i am now installing open Suse... so far so good ...

Selected Unit:

Active Team: 3446
Active User: fiddlesticks_13
Client: fah6
Client/Core State: Running/Running
Code: Gromacs SMP2
Core: FahCore_a3.exe
Due: 03/02/2011 18:09
Expected: 29/01/2011 19:50
Host: Daniel Fisher’s MacBook Pro
Issued: 28/01/2011 18:08
mid: 1
Owner: F@H
Path: ~/Library/Folding@home
Platform: OSX; x86
Points: 481
Preferred: 31/01/2011 18:09
Progress: 96
Project: 6066
Pts/hr: 18.723
Queue Index: 2
Remaining: 60 minutes
Run, Clone, Gen: 0, 39, 197
Server: 171.64.65.54:8080
Status: running
Team: 3446
User: fiddlesticks_13
WU Name: --
WUs Done: 1

thats the config from InCrease ... maybe i need to switch to terminal client ?
any help would be appreciated

danielfisher said:

Well that was fun ....
I am not entirely sure everything is running right, i am doing one work unit every 26 hours on the mac... its the SMP client and its a dual core 2.8ghz .. i get the feeling if i were running it on my bootcamp partion it would be better plus then i could utilize the graphics processer as well


however i installed ubuntu on the other 3.06ghz pc and well lets say that folding doesn't like it ... so i am now installing open Suse... so far so good ...

Selected Unit:

Active Team: 3446
Active User: fiddlesticks_13
Client: fah6
Client/Core State: Running/Running
Code: Gromacs SMP2
Core: FahCore_a3.exe
Due: 03/02/2011 18:09
Expected: 29/01/2011 19:50
Host: Daniel Fisher’s MacBook Pro
Issued: 28/01/2011 18:08
mid: 1
Owner: F@H
Path: ~/Library/Folding@home
Platform: OSX; x86
Points: 481
Preferred: 31/01/2011 18:09
Progress: 96
Project: 6066
Pts/hr: 18.723
Queue Index: 2
Remaining: 60 minutes
Run, Clone, Gen: 0, 39, 197
Server: 171.64.65.54:8080
Status: running
Team: 3446
User: fiddlesticks_13
WU Name: --
WUs Done: 1

thats the config from InCrease ... maybe i need to switch to terminal client ?
any help would be appreciated

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well the best advice i can give you is to tell us every step that you take. we need to know what client you downloaded, how you installed/run it.

a lot of us use the terminal (console) client. it gives you more control over it. but you don't have to use it.

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@ ORANGESVTGUY: please lower your folding output, you'll be overtaking me within the next 5 days... (GRMBL!! And some censored cursing: $@&#^%!!!!)

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@ ORANGESVTGUY: please lower your folding output, you'll be overtaking me within the next 5 days... (GRMBL!! And some censored cursing: $@&#^%!!!!)

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If I am not mistaken, the Macross should be (or already did) finishing a -bigadv unit bringing me into the 1 Million point range... *FINALLY*

jav6454 said:

If I am not mistaken, the Macross should be (or already did) finishing a -bigadv unit bringing me into the 1 Million point range... *FINALLY*

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Nope, not yet, you still have to do 26,000 points, so a little over 2 days

great job guys! we are averaging over 500,000 points per day as a team right now!

we still have some teams that are going to overtake us, but we will overtake some as well. we are doing much better than before! but we gotta keep it up!

Yeah I had my computer shut down for the weekend but it's back up and running right now. I lost out on over 100K+ .

I might build another computer as I have a i7 920 laying around and maybe I can run another bigadv client. I'm also looking to purchase a home soon so I may be in a out a bit while I get re-situated into my new place. I also can't be spending too much on computer goodies

OrangeSVTguy said:

Yeah I had my computer shut down for the weekend but it's back up and running right now. I lost out on over 100K+ .

I might build another computer as I have a i7 920 laying around and maybe I can run another bigadv client. I'm also looking to purchase a home soon so I may be in a out a bit while I get re-situated into my new place. I also can't be spending too much on computer goodies

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glad you are back up!

might as well put that 920 to use!

good luck with the home buy! i know how that can be! (i just bought one exactly 1 month ago!)

yeah i can't be spending too much either

twoodcc said:

glad you are back up!

might as well put that 920 to use!

good luck with the home buy! i know how that can be! (i just bought one exactly 1 month ago!)

yeah i can't be spending too much either

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Thanks. Put my offer in on one so hopefully it gets accepted.

I'm sitting on 48-9k PPD right now. 950 @ 4ghz and 1750mhz on the shaders of the 460. Not too shabby.

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Updated the Nvidia drivers to 266 and now the GTX 460s are both folding at 15K + each. That's an increase of 3-4k PPD each.

OrangeSVTguy said:

Thanks. Put my offer in on one so hopefully it gets accepted.

I'm sitting on 48-9k PPD right now. 950 @ 4ghz and 1750mhz on the shaders of the 460. Not too shabby.

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Updated the Nvidia drivers to 266 and now the GTX 460s are both folding at 15K + each. That's an increase of 3-4k PPD each.

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Guess I'll be overtaken in the next couple of days... On the other hand, I just noted that your output is less then a couple of day ago. So it will take another week before you overtake me!

Dreadnought said:

Guess I'll be overtaken in the next couple of days... On the other hand, I just noted that your output is less then a couple of day ago. So it will take another week before you overtake me!

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If only I had it running this weekend.... Watch out

OrangeSVTguy said:

Thanks. Put my offer in on one so hopefully it gets accepted.

I'm sitting on 48-9k PPD right now. 950 @ 4ghz and 1750mhz on the shaders of the 460. Not too shabby.

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Updated the Nvidia drivers to 266 and now the GTX 460s are both folding at 15K + each. That's an increase of 3-4k PPD each.

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well good luck with the house. if the offer isn't accepted, stand your ground! don't agree to a higher price! they will come down eventually

that's a nice upgrade! now just add that 920 @ 4ghz and you'll be smokin!

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OrangeSVTguy said:

Dreadnought said:

Guess I'll be overtaken in the next couple of days... On the other hand, I just noted that your output is less then a couple of day ago. So it will take another week before you overtake me!

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If only I had it running this weekend.... Watch out

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1.5 weeks now, keeps getting better!
Good luck with the house!

Was moved to get back into DC recently after a long absence. Not adding anything too significant, but I still like contributing. (note that only the first two are actually mine, the rest I just have access to)

-MBP 13" 2.53 C2D (my main computer, gets used for lots of other things including video work so it's not exactly a rapid contributor right now)

-AMD X2 64 4600+ [2.4] (my 6 year old pc in a Shuttle chassis, haven't gotten around to building a new one yet, only has a 7900 series gpu so no gpu folding unfortunately)

-i7 iMac (the quad core sleeper)

-base i3 iMac

I also have access to two 2.0 C2D MacBooks but they probably aren't worth utilizing because of their sporadic use patterns combined with their relatively low speed.


I also have a PS3 which I would use if it was possible for it to fold in the background while playing games, watching movies, etc. But apparently that's not possible.


As far as a new PC goes, I'm torn between spending money on the PC or [more money] on a new 15" MBP whenever the next gen comes out.

Also I feel like I came up with a rather ingenious idea for keeping track of all of the computers' progress (from anywhere). I used a combination InCrease and Dropbox. All of the computers have Dropbox installed on them, and each computer except for the main one has a separate folder all of its own in the Dropbox folder where F@H lives for that machine. These folders are then added to InCrease for monitoring. That way whenever the log file or queue file or whatever is updated, it's immediately synced to the main computer and shows up in InCrease. That way even if I'm traveling and I want to check and see what the boxen are doing at home, I can. And it's all seamless. I'm actually pretty proud of myself for having the idea haha