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Declining Production?

Hi from the Something Awful Goons :cool:

The reason we last through Tinker storms is because most of the processors are Athlons. Our Macs (including my old G3) do take hits, and I have to keep reminding everyone about -advmethods. I'll make sure to see if your autorun script is better than ours :D

As for that whole scoring thing,
1) we bought some banner ads on our forums recently
2) "SA Forum Goons Currently Logged In: 2699

There are currently 2422 SA Goons (out of a possible 27,970) and 277 wanna-be members on the boards"

If you want to know why TINKER is so slow and GROMACS is fast... TINKER is written in FORTRAN, and there are no good FORTRAN compilers for Macs. GROMACS is in C and uses AltiVec.
 
Mr VacBob said:
Hi from the Something Awful Goons :cool:

The reason we last through Tinker storms is because most of the processors are Athlons. Our Macs (including my old G3) do take hits, and I have to keep reminding everyone about -advmethods. I'll make sure to see if your autorun script is better than ours :D

As for that whole scoring thing,
1) we bought some banner ads on our forums recently
2) "SA Forum Goons Currently Logged In: 2699

There are currently 2422 SA Goons (out of a possible 27,970) and 277 wanna-be members on the boards"

If you want to know why TINKER is so slow and GROMACS is fast... TINKER is written in FORTRAN, and there are no good FORTRAN compilers for Macs. GROMACS is in C and uses AltiVec.
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haha I love the site...
Each category in the rating system is based out of a possible -10 score (-10 being the worst). The overall score is based out of a possible -50 score (-50 being the worst).
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Yeah which one is worse? never got that hahaha.

If we could harvest the power of the guest on this forum... we could own... but...
At 1 AM EST...
433 (64 members and 369 guests)
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Errrrrr? :eek:

We know why the tinkers are slow... just why even use them anymore? no frikken reason IMHO... make everything go slower...

The Teams lose and folding loses... gah.


BTW, tell your team to SLOW DOWN!

Geez. :eek:
 
mc68k said:
yes, do tell ;)
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Hmm, Don't force a public code review. I remember taking a look at the scripts a while ago and I did have some suggestions (I did cringe a couple of times).

Let me know and I will re-review the latest scripts and PM my comments/suggestions.
 
Hmm, I wonder if the 20 GHz of pentium machines I just added will fair better in the upcoming Tinker storm, (um, yeah 8 more machines in my fleet, but I had to settle for Pentium 4s).

Hey Shemp9999: "INCOMING!"
 
shemp9999 said:
congrats!!!

is that from one G5? a dual 2 GHZ? sweet! :cool:

p.s. are you named after the iron-coated wooden battleships of yore? (thank you history channel);)
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Thanks Shemp9999! It's not a 2.0 but a dual 1.8 folding 24/7. And the name comes from a Magic (the Gathering) card. Also heard a while back on the Discovery channel of the English fighter class ships called Dreadnought, but no!
 
got you dreadnought! ;)

now on to the top 100! and then 10000 points! and then I take new mexico! oregon! south dakota! california! florida! and then the white house!!!!!

ok... where is my valium.......
 
Don't panic said:
got you dreadnought! ;)

now on to the top 100! and then 10000 points! and then I take new mexico! oregon! south dakota! california! florida! and then the white house!!!!!

ok... where is my valium.......
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Yeah, noticed that... saw you coming from a mile away! Even thought about it to get my B&W up and running, just to keep you off a bit longer! But if I remember correctly you fold with 6 procs, I only have two... But watch out, one day I will get you! LOL ;) You are the first that passed me! But your goals are good, I have the same!
 
FritzTheWonderM said:
Hmm, I wonder if the 20 GHz of pentium machines I just added will fair better in the upcoming Tinker storm, (um, yeah 8 more machines in my fleet, but I had to settle for Pentium 4s).

Hey Shemp9999: "INCOMING!"
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i got a few PIII procs (4 now) in my farm, but they did just replace a dual 900 PIII with a dual 2 Xeon this week...

and, yeah, you are stabilizing on me. i had been passing you by a few hunnies a day, but now were sitting tight at ~9500 pt diff. i'm looking for you in my threats. if you persist, i may want to turn the home macs back on. and maybe find a few more nighttime machines at the office (i have easy access to about 2 terahertz - and that's just on the linux desktops).

but i might just let you roll on by, too. i'm not gunning for anything in particular, and i feel like i'm giving, so...
 
FritzTheWonderM said:
Hmm, I wonder if the 20 GHz of pentium machines I just added will fair better in the upcoming Tinker storm, (um, yeah 8 more machines in my fleet, but I had to settle for Pentium 4s).

Hey Shemp9999: "INCOMING!"
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hahaha.

Competition is good.

Don't give up!

Friend, Reletives, People you see once in a blue moon!


RECRUIT! :p
 
shemp9999 said:
but i might just let you roll on by, too. i'm not gunning for anything in particular, and i feel like i'm giving, so...
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I agree, I already passed any milestones I wanted to hit. I won't be rolling by anybody anytime soon though as someone powered off half my machines, (that lab isn't being used right now). :(
 
FritzTheWonderM said:
I agree, I already passed any milestones I wanted to hit. I won't be rolling by anybody anytime soon though as someone powered off half my machines, (that lab isn't being used right now). :(
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that's too bad, man. you did wake me up though. i was looking over mah shoulder...
 
An update on my production. My wife just allowed me to install folding on her 15" PowerBook 1.25 and iBook clamshell 500. Neither one is going 24/7, but I hope that it will still help. The installation was flawless because of the patient assistance from MrMacman on my PowerMac. Again thank you.
 
wdlove said:
An update on my production. My wife just allowed me to install folding on her 15" PowerBook 1.25 and iBook clamshell 500. Neither one is going 24/7, but I hope that it will still help. The installation was flawless because of the patient assistance from MrMacman on my PowerMac. Again thank you.
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Anything to help the team out. :)
 
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