I'm making progress towards the 10,000 mark. I reached 5,000 recently - I'll probably get to 10,000 points by September.
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I just reached 19.7 (do i get a cookie?)
What are you running to get so many points - 5000 by September?
What are you running to get so many points - 5000 by September?
My 1.25 GHz iMac and my 3.2 GHz Windows machine, both running Folding@Home 24/7.jimjiminyjim said:
EDIT: I've reconfigured my Windows machine for optimum WU production. I re-enabled HyperThreading, set up two instances of the Folding@Home console, and assigned them to different virtual CPUs.
wrldwzrd89 said:
From memory that will actually slow down your Folding. HyperThreading has a 5-6% raw CPU loss, plus the incurred memory and IO could mean a much more significant decrease.
If someone has figures that prove me otherwise, feel free to correct me, my figures are about 6 months old.
Someone else on these forums (in another thread) said that enabling HyperThreading on a Windows machine, then setting up two consoles on each virtual CPU increases point production by 33% - that's why I did it. Now I'm getting conflicting advicemj_1903 said:
I stated I had read it in several forums. Increase of up 20-33% in total points per day or something like that. I'll post links to the information I've found, as soon as I find them.
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showpost.php?p=1056436&postcount=9
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showpost.php?p=1056436&postcount=9
wrldwzrd89 said:
No problem! I haven't tested it out yet, I only have one machine with HT and it produced fairly well with only one client running, but have not had much time to check performance since I've added the second client. I hope it works out...
Whoa - Folding@Home performance SHOT up after I made the change. Check my stats - I've already surpassed 6,000 points.Nanuq said:
wrldwzrd89 said:
Very nice! I just wonder if maybe it's more because of the WU's you got, maybe you just had a few tinkers loaded up? But in any case, even if it just helps a little, it'll go a long way!
Keep it fun!
Yeah - I got TWO big ol' tinkers after I reconfigured F@H. Those gave me a big pile of points.Nanuq said:
britboy said:It's nice when you get a couple of those finishing at the same time. Yesterday was my highest single-day points score to date: 824 points
That works, but if you're like me, it may be a long while before you have any more points because of new Tinkers.
britboy said:It's nice when you get a couple of those finishing at the same time. Yesterday was my highest single-day points score to date: 824 points
Yeah I had my biggest day the other day too, 1700+ points!! I was so very surprised when I checked my stats.... average of about 900-950 per day up to 1700+...
Keep up the fold!
Nanuq said:
Nanuq,
would you consider folding for the Macrumors team? You've been around these boards for a while and we certainly would love to have you in the team.
You are a one-man(woman?) team, so you'd be able to keep track of all your points just the same, and your personal overall stats won't be affected if you don't change username.
Besides, with your kind of production you'd swoosh up the ranks in our team and quickly reach a level for some healthy head-to-heads.
Hey, you might even pass me!
just give it a thought
I finally have a computer that can actually do some good! Before early this week, I only had sub-1GHz Macs running it. Now, I have a 1.33GHz 12" PowerBook. We'll see how much I can do. Thanks for your contributions!
Today I did a 6 point work unit (among others). Is this a work unit being half completed or failing? I can't seem to find a 6 point work unit in the project summary.
Hmmmm... so I should be running two instances of F@H on my P4 2.4 with HT? If somebody can tell me how/what I'm supposed to do I'll go ahead and do it... then once that runs stable for a week I'll slowly start overclocking it (I can OC it in the BIOS easily) until it reaches a good neutral point. I never use the durn machine anyhow...
now i've been folding for a little while now and i don't mean to sound dumb but, how do you guys get these stats like how many daily points you get or how long it'll take to surpass another team and stuff like that?