The Folding@Home team updates thread - Page 6

rwh202 · Mar 13, 2011, 03:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alphaone

Lame! I just had an Early_Unit_End on the p6900 I was 60% though. What a waste. Must have been a bad WU because this computer has been rock stable so far, not so much as a hiccup. And to add insult to injury the replacement WU is a 2684, the slowest bigadv there is.

Hi,

Are you using the latest 6.34 client? Most of the new units are 6901s that need it to use the a5 core. The a3 units should be being phased out.

If you are still using 6.29, you will likely be getting the dregs of the old WUs - all the ones that everyone else failed to complete.

However, if it happens again, it might be worth considering that bigadv folding will find fault with even '100% stable' overclocks.

I had a system that was to all intents and purposes stable, but after 2 weeks of bigadv, glitched and failed a WU. I reported the WU as bad, but someone else was able to complete it, so knocked bclk back 2 MHz and been stable since.

Keep folding!

Rob

alphaone · Mar 13, 2011, 04:47 AM

Yeah I'm running 6.34/a5. If it happens again then I will definitely look into it deeper, but I think it may have been just bad luck.

techfreak85 · Mar 14, 2011, 07:19 PM

Hey we finally passed someone! Keep up the good work guys! Only 3.2 weeks till we pass another team! We should really start kicking butt again when a new OS X client comes out so us Mac/Hackintosh folders can run Bigadvs again!

twoodcc · Mar 14, 2011, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by techfreak85

Hey we finally passed someone! Keep up the good work guys! Only 3.2 weeks till we pass another team! We should really start kicking butt again when a new OS X client comes out so us Mac/Hackintosh folders can run Bigadvs again!

yes we did! we are now ranked #61! keep it up!

techfreak85 · Apr 22, 2011, 08:16 PM

Come on guys! We gotta get crankin' out WUs again! We seem to have lost a lot of that steam that we had a month or two ago. Losing bigadv for OS X has been an issue, hopefully we will get a new client soon!
I am disappointed that my output has dropped, especially over the last few days...I reformatted my computer, but I should be back up now. In a few weeks, after I am done with this Final Cut project, I might boot into Windows and crank out some bigadvs + GPU to give us a boost.

OrangeSVTguy · Apr 22, 2011, 11:54 PM

I have only been folding with my GPUs since folding the CPU puts off way too much heat. Im hoping to have my air conditioning hooked up soon, it's all free since I work in the sheet metal/hvac trade

techfreak85 · Apr 23, 2011, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OrangeSVTguy

I have only been folding with my GPUs since folding the CPU puts off way too much heat. Im hoping to have my air conditioning hooked up soon, it's all free since I work in the sheet metal/hvac trade

Hmm... I would have guessed that GPUs (not to mention 4

) put off a lot more heat and power usage than a CPU at 100%.

OrangeSVTguy · Apr 23, 2011, 12:43 AM

I have my office on the first floor but just going to turn it into a guest bedroom and move my office to the basement. It's always cold down there so I'll be able to run all my clients again. 6 cores at 4.2ghz puts of quite a bit of heat even with 1.27v. 4 GPUs @ 900mhz puts off quite a bit too lol.

SciFrog · Apr 23, 2011, 11:23 AM

The CPUs running bigadv especially are much more efficient (better ppd/watt) than GPUs...

-tWv- · May 8, 2011, 04:08 PM

Just added a pentium 4 windows machine to the MacRumors team. It will be folding 24/7.. It's old but hopefully it'll help out a little bit

twoodcc · May 8, 2011, 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by touchdownjesus4

Just added a pentium 4 windows machine to the MacRumors team. It will be folding 24/7.. It's old but hopefully it'll help out a little bit

every little bit helps!

designed · May 15, 2011, 08:42 AM

Hi again chaps, been a while!

The reason I'm here is that lately I've been getting a lot of
a) new package not available from Stanford
b) this, which more often than not comes in at the first 10% of the work unit:

Quote:

8 particles communicated to PME node 1 are more than 2/3 times the cut-off out of the domain decomposition cell of their charge group in dimension xThis usually means that your system is not well equilibrated

and I'm wondering is my Fah-installation falling apart or something, i.e. is the problem at my end? I decreased the amount of SMP from 16 (8 cores x HT) to 14 some months ago to allow for smoother basic workflow. Folding assigns the 14 nodes as 8 particle-particle and 6 PME only.

P Mentior · May 19, 2011, 08:02 PM

Congrats everyone! we are at #59 now with another overtake estimated in 3.2 weeks. Great job

OrangeSVTguy · Jun 2, 2011, 11:23 AM

Congratulations Macrumors Team. We had our beat month yet at 19+ million points for the month of May, June is looking very good as well so far as I think we'll top 20 million. This is amazing considering it's also getting warmer out.

Way to go Macrumors. Lets keep it up!

twoodcc · Jun 2, 2011, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OrangeSVTguy

Congratulations Macrumors Team. We had our beat month yet at 19+ million points for the month of May, June is looking very good as well so far as I think we'll top 20 million. This is amazing considering it's also getting warmer out.

Way to go Macrumors. Lets keep it up!

that's awesome! keep it going!

linheli · Jun 26, 2011, 08:22 PM

I usually just use my PS3 guess I should ramp it up then? Running full throttle on MBP i7 for a while! Using laptop on my lap.... the pain it burns! Ah my legs on fire!

rwh202 · Jun 28, 2011, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linheli

Using laptop on my lap.... the pain it burns! Ah my legs on fire!

Now that's commitment!!

I'm having to back off a bit with the weather being warmer. That and not wanting the thunderstorms to wipe me out!

Keep folding!
Rob

twoodcc · Jun 29, 2011, 08:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linheli

I usually just use my PS3 guess I should ramp it up then? Running full throttle on MBP i7 for a while! Using laptop on my lap.... the pain it burns! Ah my legs on fire!

how's that i7 MBP folding for you?

yeah i've had to back off completely. power bill last month was $400!

so i'm out until winter

techfreak85 · Dec 1, 2011, 02:48 PM

Hey! Looks like we just moved up a place to #61! Although looks like another team will be passing us in about a week, but we are set to pass another team in about three weeks!

Looks like our PPD is going up as well! Keep up the good work guys!

twoodcc · Dec 1, 2011, 04:45 PM

yep! good jobs guys! now we still need more users! when i first joined the team, we were ranked in the top 50 teams! we can still get back there!

swordfish5736 · Dec 1, 2011, 09:37 PM

I'm back up and running on my mac pro and ps3 after being gone for thanksgiving. I've thought about running it on my macbook pro but not sure how much it will be able to handle

Lkgboater71 · Dec 2, 2011, 04:03 PM

Hi All -

I added my 5770 GPU/AMD Phenom 965 on my Win 7 box, Mac mini core i7 2.7 Ghz, and an older Athlon X2 with a 9800GTX+. I cannot seem to get the GPU client working with the 9800GTX+ GPU though. Keeps immediately failing with the UNSTABLE error.

Hope this helps out!

twoodcc · Dec 2, 2011, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CRIIM44

I'm back up and running on my mac pro and ps3 after being gone for thanksgiving. I've thought about running it on my macbook pro but not sure how much it will be able to handle

alright!

you could try the mbp if you want. every little bit helps. which gpu does it have?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lkgboater71

Hi All -

I added my 5770 GPU/AMD Phenom 965 on my Win 7 box, Mac mini core i7 2.7 Ghz, and an older Athlon X2 with a 9800GTX+. I cannot seem to get the GPU client working with the 9800GTX+ GPU though. Keeps immediately failing with the UNSTABLE error.

Hope this helps out!

thanks for joining! if you need help with that gpu, just start another thread with more details about what's going on, and we'll do our best to help you.

how is the mac mini doing?

techfreak85 · Jan 6, 2012, 01:32 AM

Congrats guys! We just passed another team!
Unfortunately, it looks like another team is going to pass us in about a week, but a few days later we should pass another team, and the tide turns in our favor for about 5-6 months of passing teams without to much risk of getting passed ourselves. Keep up the good work! I'm liking these high 700k points days! Let's see if we can get to 800k/day this next week!

rwh202 · Jan 6, 2012, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by techfreak85

Let's see if we can get to 800k/day this next week!

Well I've got the parts for another i7 2600k / GTX 560 rig coming tomorrow, so that should help!

There will be a few days of leak and stability testing before it gets unleashed, but hopefully by midweek there will be an extra 45k ppd.

Mar 14, 2011, 07:19 PM	#128
techfreak85 Thread Starter macrumors 68040 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Places	Hey we finally passed someone! Keep up the good work guys! Only 3.2 weeks till we pass another team! We should really start kicking butt again when a new OS X client comes out so us Mac/Hackintosh folders can run Bigadvs again! __________________ Join the MR folding team! Help cure cancer! Take it. Embrace it. Love it.™
	0

Apr 22, 2011, 08:16 PM	#130
techfreak85 Thread Starter macrumors 68040 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Places	Come on guys! We gotta get crankin' out WUs again! We seem to have lost a lot of that steam that we had a month or two ago. Losing bigadv for OS X has been an issue, hopefully we will get a new client soon! I am disappointed that my output has dropped, especially over the last few days...I reformatted my computer, but I should be back up now. In a few weeks, after I am done with this Final Cut project, I might boot into Windows and crank out some bigadvs + GPU to give us a boost. __________________ Join the MR folding team! Help cure cancer! Take it. Embrace it. Love it.™
	0

Apr 22, 2011, 11:54 PM	#131
OrangeSVTguy macrumors 68040 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northeastern Ohio	I have only been folding with my GPUs since folding the CPU puts off way too much heat. Im hoping to have my air conditioning hooked up soon, it's all free since I work in the sheet metal/hvac trade __________________ *010011110111001001100001011011100110011101100101010100110101011001010100011001110111010101111001*
	0

Apr 23, 2011, 12:43 AM	#133
OrangeSVTguy macrumors 68040 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northeastern Ohio	I have my office on the first floor but just going to turn it into a guest bedroom and move my office to the basement. It's always cold down there so I'll be able to run all my clients again. 6 cores at 4.2ghz puts of quite a bit of heat even with 1.27v. 4 GPUs @ 900mhz puts off quite a bit too lol. __________________ *010011110111001001100001011011100110011101100101010100110101011001010100011001110111010101111001*
	0

May 8, 2011, 04:08 PM	#135
-tWv- macrumors Demi-God Join Date: May 2009 Location: Ohio	Just added a pentium 4 windows machine to the MacRumors team. It will be folding 24/7.. It's old but hopefully it'll help out a little bit __________________ Macbook Pro with Retina Display: 2.6/512/16 Hackintosh: Intel quad core i5 overclocked to 4.2GHz, Gigabyte Radeon HD 6850, 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 1TB HDD iPhone 4: 16GB iPad: 16GB
	1

Mar 13, 2011, 04:47 AM	#127
alphaone macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2003	Yeah I'm running 6.34/a5. If it happens again then I will definitely look into it deeper, but I think it may have been just bad luck.
	0

Apr 23, 2011, 11:23 AM	#134
SciFrog macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jul 2008	The CPUs running bigadv especially are much more efficient (better ppd/watt) than GPUs...
	2

May 19, 2011, 08:02 PM	#138
P Mentior macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ohio	Congrats everyone! we are at #59 now with another overtake estimated in 3.2 weeks. Great job __________________ -P Mentior 15" 2.5 GHz Macbook Pro (retired) \| 11" 1.4 GHz Macbook Air \| 32GB iPad (retired) \| 16GB Black iPad 2 (WiFi) \| 16GB Black iPhone 3G (retired) \| 32GB Black iPhone 4 (retired) \| Apple TV 2
	0

Jun 2, 2011, 11:23 AM	#139
OrangeSVTguy macrumors 68040 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northeastern Ohio	Congratulations Macrumors Team. We had our beat month yet at 19+ million points for the month of May, June is looking very good as well so far as I think we'll top 20 million. This is amazing considering it's also getting warmer out. Way to go Macrumors. Lets keep it up! __________________ *010011110111001001100001011011100110011101100101010100110101011001010100011001110111010101111001*
	0

Jun 26, 2011, 08:22 PM	#141
linheli macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2011	I usually just use my PS3 guess I should ramp it up then? Running full throttle on MBP i7 for a while! Using laptop on my lap.... the pain it burns! Ah my legs on fire! __________________ Microsoft Office Professional 2010 Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 outlook 2010
	0

Dec 1, 2011, 02:48 PM	#144
techfreak85 Thread Starter macrumors 68040 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Places	Hey! Looks like we just moved up a place to #61! Although looks like another team will be passing us in about a week, but we are set to pass another team in about three weeks! Looks like our PPD is going up as well! Keep up the good work guys! __________________ Join the MR folding team! Help cure cancer! Take it. Embrace it. Love it.™
	0

Dec 1, 2011, 04:45 PM	#145
twoodcc macrumors G5 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Right side of wrong	yep! good jobs guys! now we still need more users! when i first joined the team, we were ranked in the top 50 teams! we can still get back there! __________________ tville Smarter than the average bear
	0

Dec 1, 2011, 09:37 PM	#146
swordfish5736 macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Belle View	I'm back up and running on my mac pro and ps3 after being gone for thanksgiving. I've thought about running it on my macbook pro but not sure how much it will be able to handle __________________
	0

Dec 2, 2011, 04:03 PM	#147
Lkgboater71 macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2011	Signed up today Hi All - I added my 5770 GPU/AMD Phenom 965 on my Win 7 box, Mac mini core i7 2.7 Ghz, and an older Athlon X2 with a 9800GTX+. I cannot seem to get the GPU client working with the 9800GTX+ GPU though. Keeps immediately failing with the UNSTABLE error. Hope this helps out!
	0

Jan 6, 2012, 01:32 AM	#149
techfreak85 Thread Starter macrumors 68040 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Places	Congrats guys! We just passed another team! Unfortunately, it looks like another team is going to pass us in about a week, but a few days later we should pass another team, and the tide turns in our favor for about 5-6 months of passing teams without to much risk of getting passed ourselves. Keep up the good work! I'm liking these high 700k points days! Let's see if we can get to 800k/day this next week! __________________ Join the MR folding team! Help cure cancer! Take it. Embrace it. Love it.™
	2

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

Similar Threads
thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Death of the iPod	jamied95	Buying Tips and Advice	5	Jun 8, 2011 01:12 PM
Folding@Home team members: Why you want a passkey.	techfreak85	Distributed Computing	32	Feb 11, 2011 12:55 AM
Folding@home shout out! - Join the cause and our team.	DeSnousa	Distributed Computing	100	Jun 1, 2010 02:17 PM
macrumors folding@home team stats	twoodcc	Distributed Computing	9	Sep 18, 2009 06:23 AM
How Do You Get The Folding @ Home Thing To Work!!!???	G5orbust	Mac Help/Tips	14	Jul 8, 2002 10:45 PM