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Originally posted by MacBandit
What's up with all the small work units everyone including me seems to be getting lately. They've slowed down my work process by almost half.

Be glad you didn't start folding way back when. I used to get WUs which took the G3/400 10 hours and gave 0.6 points. Now, those seemed useless but it's all about helping people.
 
Originally posted by bousozoku
Be glad you didn't start folding way back when. I used to get WUs which took the G3/400 10 hours and gave 0.6 points. Now, those seemed useless but it's all about helping people.

I know just what you mean. I actually did start folding way back when for the XlR8yourmac.com team. That was on my B/WG3 400. It was so frigging slow and I ended up quiting. Before I started getting these new small units that take a lot of time my Dual/1.4 was getting about 1100 points/week on it's own.

I think the reason our daily point gap is getting smaller and smaller between us and the Knights is because of these little work units. I can't think of any other reason unless there's just a bunch of machines that were not being used over the winter break and were just folding but are now busy doing other tasks.
 
Originally posted by bousozoku
Be glad you didn't start folding way back when. I used to get WUs which took the G3/400 10 hours and gave 0.6 points. Now, those seemed useless but it's all about helping people.

I know have one which takes an hour for 1% when my G3 B&W 400 is idle... So this is gonna be a while...
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
I think the reason our daily point gap is getting smaller and smaller between us and the Knights is because of these little work units. I can't think of any other reason unless there's just a bunch of machines that were not being used over the winter break and were just folding but are now busy doing other tasks.

More and more G5's! That's my 2 cents.
 
Originally posted by Dreadnought
I know have one which takes an hour for 1% when my G3 B&W 400 is idle... So this is gonna be a while...

Sure but before the new core, that took a lot longer. I had one that took 4 hours 10 minutes per percent on my G3/400 and 1 hour 23 minutes on the G4/800.

We will all get there. Stay with us. Your contribution is appreciated. :)
 
[21:05:25] + Processing work unit
[21:05:25] Core required: FahCore_78.exe
[21:05:25] Core found.
[21:05:25] Working on Unit 03 [January 7 21:05:25]
[21:05:25] + Working ...
[21:05:26]
[21:05:26] *------------------------------*
[21:05:26] Folding@home Gromacs Core
[21:05:26] Version 1.56 (December 23, 2003)
[21:05:26]
[21:05:26] Preparing to commence simulation
[21:05:26] - Looking at optimizations...
[21:05:26] - Created dyn
[21:05:26] - Files status OK
[21:05:26] - Expanded 509414 -> 2524925 (decompressed 495.6 percent)
[21:05:26] - Starting from initial work packet
[21:05:26]
[21:05:26] Project: 920 (Run 59, Clone 8, Gen 12)
[21:05:26]
[21:05:26] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[21:05:26] Entering M.D.
[21:05:33] Protein: p920_vpf910
[21:05:33]
[21:05:33] Writing local files
[21:05:34] Testing CPU type...
[21:05:34] Done testing.
[21:05:34] Extra AltiVec boost OK.
[21:05:34] Writing local files
[21:05:36] Completed 0 out of 250000 steps (0)
[21:10:19] Writing local files
[21:10:21] Completed 2500 out of 250000 steps (1)
[21:15:03] Writing local files
[21:15:05] Completed 5000 out of 250000 steps (2)
[21:19:47] Writing local files
[21:19:49] Completed 7500 out of 250000 steps (3)
[21:24:31] Writing local files

Yeah Dual G5's is shweet. This X2.

But what I wanna see is a Xgrid enabled folding client. I already asked the head honcho about it on the stanford forum and he said it had been discussed internally, whatever that means.

He needs to know that we mac users want a Xgrid enabled client as soon as the xgrid beta is made final. With xgrid and a few mac using universities and businesses the mac teams would rule.
 
[sorry double post]

I checked out the Folding Stats...

Ahh Oh My God!

We hit ORANGE!

:eek: :eek:

Attached picture cause their server is having load problem issues.
 

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Originally posted by MrMacman
[sorry double post]

I checked out the Folding Stats...

Ahh Oh My God!

We hit ORANGE!

:eek: :eek:

Attached picture cause their server is having load problem issues.

Well that's awesome. Too bad I'm still getting these tiny 30 point or less work units that take as much time as the 60 pointers I use to get.
 
I'm trying to hit orange on a personal level. :D but I think I am about 2 CPU's short. Computer show coming up this weekend and I'm gonna be on the look out for cheap cpu power to put online here. I want a dedicated folder farm so I can reclaim my "fun" computers without feeling guilty that I'm taking them off the grid.

Our user count has gone up 15 folks in the last week too. Come on you guys I wanna see the Knights bite the big one. :D
 
I had my first 1000+ point day yesterday. You wouldn't think that adding a single G5 to my other 19 processors would make a big diff but...

My apologies to LordMord and backspinner who I will be passing shortly on my way to the toop 10.:cool:
 
Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Holy crap!!! :eek:

We rock!

Wow! We made to orange on the Extreme stats page!!:D

It would be great if we could keep it there!

And I just passed 10,000 points recently :D

D
 
Congrats, D!

And congrats and thanks to everyone that has ever done even a single WU for the team. It's an awesome collaborative effort and it's amazing to me to see how far we've come with the team. :)
 
Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Congrats, D!

And congrats and thanks to everyone that has ever done even a single WU for the team. It's an awesome collaborative effort and it's amazing to me to see how far we've come with the team. :)

It's amazing to think it was just a few months ago when our goal was to reach 10,000 units a day. Now we're doubling that. It's simply insane.
 
i just added 6 more dually linux boxen at work today.

they are:

6 x 900 MHz PIII
2 x 1.4 GHz PIII
4 x 2.0 GHz Xeon

to add to the other 3 procs at work:

1 x 733 MHz G4
2 x 1.0 GHz G4

and the 5 procs at home:

1 x 400 MHz G3
2 x 500 MHz G4
2 x 2.0 GHz G5

for 20 procs all in all. :cool:

maybe i can hit 4-5k week now. although i might retire the g3. and when i get the electric bill i might remove the home g4 and g5, too. :(

i'm looking at some low-end g4s at scanner stations, too. i'm trying to not abuse more machines than i should :D

the xeons got tinkers and they look to be slow...11 mins a frame. but soon the WUs they come a rollin' and the knights they go a fallin'... :p

ok, i just hurt my smiley maker...tata
 
Rower, Mr. A --
Does Orange + 20 Place = Front Page?




[I keep pushing for it... only cause it recruits a ton of people]

it recruited me in early december - right when i got the g5 back from the shop and wanted to test it out a bit ;)
 
Originally posted by MrMacman
...
Rower, Mr. A --
Does Orange + 20 Place = Front Page?

;)

[I keep pushing for it... only cause it recruits a ton of people]

On a slow news day. ;)

I'll PM arn to see if he can squeeze an announcement in.
 
Well, we've done it 2 days in a row, lets see if we can stay at this level for a while. At our current rate we could *eventually* end up 14th overall - that's damn good! :D

D
 
Hi all, I am folding@home now, but have at work a 2.0 Pentium 4 running windoos 2000 (that's 2000 more errors!!). And it's sitting idle a lot. Have tried to run folding on it, but it didn't get through the firewall of my company, and the IT support doesn't want to help me with it or give me the port! Does anyone know a program that scans the open ports, so that I can install folding on it and that it gets data from stanford? I know, it's a bit illegal, but it's for team 3446! :D
 
Originally posted by Dreadnought
Have tried to run folding on it, but it didn't get through the firewall of my company, and the IT support doesn't want to help me with it or give me the port! :D

Don't tell anyone, but "someone" here got around IT by finding out the address of the HTTP proxy server. We're set up for autoconfiguration, which does silly things like block web based email and who knows what else...
 
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