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f@H: another tinker storm?
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Just finished first
Just finished first thing and now i think im going a tinker. Its wierd, this one only has like 5,000,000 steps vs the last one which had 10mil. Kinda expect the % to go up faster but instead its slower which is odd....very odd.
[EDIT: oh wait this is still a gromac but has nearly twice as many atoms...that would be it]
Just finished first thing and now i think im going a tinker. Its wierd, this one only has like 5,000,000 steps vs the last one which had 10mil. Kinda expect the % to go up faster but instead its slower which is odd....very odd.
[EDIT: oh wait this is still a gromac but has nearly twice as many atoms...that would be it]
2 of my 4 CPUs are running Tinkers. Blech... Oh well, I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow for a week and will leave them running, hopefully they will be gone when I come back. 
...the Tinkers, not the CPUs!
...the Tinkers, not the CPUs! 
bousozoku said:
I have an opportunity to get a B&W @ 350MHZ running 10.3. If I get it (take it is more appropriate), I would like to dedicate it to folding, but I have a couple of questions.
1. Is a weak G3 350 even worth it? It would be dedicated 24x7 to the folding effort.
2. It's just a box. I have a PB G4, but was wondering if there was a way I could administer folding on it without shelling out for a monitor, (via my PB and some sort of cabling job).
Any help appreciated!
keysersoze said:
I wouldn't bother. I have a G3/400 which I upgraded to a G3/800. I've been using it for folding for two years and early this year, the demands of folding were getting to be too much. Some work units were taking over two weeks to be completed at 400 MHz. The upgraded machine is doing much better and even bests a G4/800 at Tinker WUs.
Btw, my p212 is gone but my p1092 is going just as slowly at 52 minutes per percent.
keysersoze said:
I WOULD bother... and if you don't want to bother, feel free to send it my way, because I'll bother....
Even though it is slow, it is still something. If you find that it isn't finishing work units, you can set it to run timeless WUs that will take longer, but will never have a deadline.
Got first tinker
Got my first tinker today after 2 gromacs....wow the preferred days is 45 :O.....for the gromacs it was about 6 days and i could do it in about 1.5 days for both of them. Wonder how long this tinker will take...but anyways good luck everyone with da folding
(im hoping for less than 30 days)
Got my first tinker today after 2 gromacs....wow the preferred days is 45 :O.....for the gromacs it was about 6 days and i could do it in about 1.5 days for both of them. Wonder how long this tinker will take...but anyways good luck everyone with da folding
(im hoping for less than 30 days)
krimson said:yay, got 2 more Tinkers (again)
(p638_L939_K12M_ext and p212_villinURE212)
Thanks kinda funny...im doing p639_L939_K12M
bousozoku said:p212 isn't a Tinker, but congratulations anyway.
yeah, i realized that when i got home to check the progress..
I also realized that my PB's also been running p638_L939_K12M_ext for almost 2 weeks now.
I've had 3 tinkers from 5 work units in the past week or so.
- It only took that long because my stepfather unplugged my machine from the damn network while I was away for the weekend... could have got some serious crunching done in that time, instead it was idling looking for more work
I now have a p678, and my missus' useless lappy is running another Tinker. Ugh!
- It only took that long because my stepfather unplugged my machine from the damn network while I was away for the weekend... could have got some serious crunching done in that time, instead it was idling looking for more work
I now have a p678, and my missus' useless lappy is running another Tinker. Ugh!
bousozoku said:
Sorry I missed this while I was out last week...
No re-imaging in our labs since the end of May. We'll have another go 'round at the end of August, but that really only works out to the loss of half a day's work or so.
Last I heard, bertinman had lost a bunch of machines and/or moved to a different job.
Anyway, our output looks pretty consistent with steady, slight growth overall.
Argh!
All 4 of my machines are crunching Tinkers now I don't know how long it will take my dual gig G4 as this is its first Tinker but my other machines will take around a week (if not longer). Balls.
Lethal
All 4 of my machines are crunching Tinkers now
I don't know how long it will take my dual gig G4 as this is its first Tinker but my other machines will take around a week (if not longer). Balls.Lethal
