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It's a great week for Folding! (post your bragging here)

daveL said:
Well, I have the 2x2 Opteron (just brought it up night before last), and I have a 2x2.5 G5. So far, though, I'm getting different WUs on each, so I can't compare directly, yet. I keep getting p1475 on the Opteron, while I've been getting almost nothing but p113x WUs on the G5. That's why I asked the question ^^ above. The p1475 is taking the Opteron around 20 hours (one on each cpu). The p113x are taking about 40 hours on the G5 (one on each cpu). Meanwhile, the p1475 yields about double the points of the p113x, as best I can tell at this point. If anyone has other data points, I'd be interested.
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Recent WU on my 2x2 (970FX) have been something like the following.

Keep in mind I am a developer and use the machine on a regular basis, running some fairly heavy apps with folding in the background (one instance per processor). Given that, the results are probably not as good as they could be.

p131x: ~26.6 Hrs.
p1278: ~13.3 Hrs
p1276: ~11.5 Hrs.
p724: ~11.6 Hrs.
p736: ~28.3 Hrs.
 
My Team's Bragging

Whelp - if I don't fold for MacRumors, can I still brag? It was, after all, the folks here who got me into folding.

I created my own team a few weeks ago so I could watch my computers (personal and work) duke it out. So far, the iMac G5 has been able to keep a small lead over the Gateway. Which is kind of sad, really, since the G5 is a much better machine. Makes me wonder if the Windows version of the folding software is better. ;)

We reached a team ranking of 6400 today! Woohoo!!!!!

I do really wish lower ranking teams could see where they fall in the fold (pun fully intended). Let's face it, my five computers will never make the top 100, but it would still be nice to be able to see the 100 teams around me and form some self-delusional rivalries with teams I can actually pass up.

Maybe some day ExtremeOverClocking.com will go from listing the top 2000 to listing the top 6400. Better yet, Stanford should already do this!

Anyway, we're having fun. And by "we", I mean my computers. Boy is my life pathetic. ;)
 
vannote said:
Recent WU on my 2x2 (970FX) have been something like the following.

Keep in mind I am a developer and use the machine on a regular basis, running some fairly heavy apps with folding in the background (one instance per processor). Given that, the results are probably not as good as they could be.

p131x: ~26.6 Hrs.
p1278: ~13.3 Hrs
p1276: ~11.5 Hrs.
p724: ~11.6 Hrs.
p736: ~28.3 Hrs.
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I received a single p724 last night, the only non-p1475 I've gotten on the 2x2 GHz Opteron, and it took 10.5 hrs., so that's pretty close. It happened during the evening/night, so there was no contention, except for the WU running on the other CPU.

I really wish they (Stanford) would do a better job of normalizing the points per WU, but maybe they adjust points to state their intended project priority. I guess, over time, the luck of the draw averages everything out. It's not that I'm a point monger; I'll fold regardless.
 
I'm afraid that my bragging rights are on the negative side. Two days ago I fell 2, and now another. My MacRumors rank is now 160.
 
The tinkers are taking my PB 1.33ghz about 10 days to fold. How are your speeds? Also, on my PM dual 1.8 G5, I notice the f@h client does not use both processors efficiently. How are you guys folding to get mac cpu cycles?
 
Hard to believe, but I've completed 399 out of 400 frames of that giant Tinker I've been crunching. I should finish it in about 10 minutes.

EDIT: It's done...and I got the exact same Tinker as my next work unit. Here we go again...
 
Lacero said:
The tinkers are taking my PB 1.33ghz about 10 days to fold. How are your speeds? Also, on my PM dual 1.8 G5, I notice the f@h client does not use both processors efficiently. How are you guys folding to get mac cpu cycles?
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You are running 2 WUs at a time on the dualie, right? The Folding sticky has instructions on how to set ti up from Terminal.

My 2 GHz Opteron and 2.5 GHz G5 get through tinkers in about 40 hours or slightly longer.
 
Dreadnought said:
my dual 1.8 gets through them in 38 hours! :D
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My single 1.25 G4 takes about 156 hours, or 6.5 days (about 4x longer) for a typical Tinker. The actual time depends on how much it gets used during that time, of course. If even a dual 2.5 G5 can only manage 40 hours for a Tinker, what will it take to finish one in 24 hours? Are there any computers (not clusters) out there that could do this?
 
i'm 3 points away from regaining 8th place (BlackAdder bumped me down). sorry, Fritz.

i've been averaging around 45k/mo since november. assuming i don't lose any machines, i should be in 5th place by august.

fwiw, i was in 941st place on june 24, 2004.
 
I pass 5000 pts today, avg over 150 a day so far. sprakleytone is chewing my tail bone, but opened on him for a day of two, he will probably get a 1000 pt day today after 4 tinkers, but like a bunny eating fresh grass in the sunny part of the lion den, I'm happy for now. :p
 
Question about InCrease 2.0

Do any of you run InCrease 2.0?

I'm running InCrease on a DP G5. I've noticed that even though I have the Mac set to never sleep (only the display sleeps), when I leave the machine for a while and return, the status in the InCrease dialog reads "Inactive for xxx hours."

If I select a line and click refresh, the folding seems to resume, but I'm sure if it's just a refresh thing or if the folding for some reason went inactive.

Can anyone shed some light on this?
 
daveL said:
You are running 2 WUs at a time on the dualie, right? The Folding sticky has instructions on how to set ti up from Terminal.
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Just 1 WU right now. I'm running the F@H client with the fancy graphics. Where do I find the Folding sticky?
 
My bragging rights are pretty much limited to feeling good about contributing to the Folding@Home project. I'm averaging 23 points per day, so just about EVERYONE that hasn't already passed me will probably do so soon.
 
Dreadnought said:
WHOEHOEEEEEEEEE, overtaken somebody today, finally #38! I believe that's my highest ranking ever. Good job Dreadnought, good job! :D
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there's been a startling amount of movement in the top 20 in the past couple days, too. like the planets are aligning or something :)
 
Could you possibly make a copy of the F@H client app and start it up? I tried that and it used both processors fully. But both clients displayed the same work status progress bar so I wasn't sure if both apps were folding with duplicate results or actually working on the same protein in partnership.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
My bragging rights are pretty much limited to feeling good about contributing to the Folding@Home project. I'm averaging 23 points per day, so just about EVERYONE that hasn't already passed me will probably do so soon.
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But you have to admit, it's still pretty damn macho to tell people you use your computer to help do research for a major university. No matter how big (or small) your contribution might be.

I say you should be proud of whatever you can commit.
 
Lacero said:
Could you possibly make a copy of the F@H client app and start it up? I tried that and it used both processors fully. But both clients displayed the same work status progress bar so I wasn't sure if both apps were folding with duplicate results or actually working on the same protein in partnership.
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You cannot use two of the graphical applications to fold. You need at least one console application set to -local to use both processors.
 
Lacero said:
Could you possibly make a copy of the F@H client app and start it up? I tried that and it used both processors fully. But both clients displayed the same work status progress bar so I wasn't sure if both apps were folding with duplicate results or actually working on the same protein in partnership.
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Sorry, I should have been more clear: You have to kill the graphical client (wait till it finishes a WU, then quit it after it reports results back to Stanford). Then delete the graphical client folder. Now, download the DP Folding script from the URL I gave you and run it from the Terminal.
 
RugoseCone said:
But you have to admit, it's still pretty damn macho to tell people you use your computer to help do research for a major university. No matter how big (or small) your contribution might be.

I say you should be proud of whatever you can commit.
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I tend to agree with this view. Thanks for the encouragement, RugoseCone!
 
sparkleytone said:
You know, while we're bragging and all...I'm doing just fine thank you very much.
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Uh-oh! Stubeef better watch his back!

Both of you guys are doing a fantastic job.

And to the Wrldwzrd... you are quite welcome. I'm glad you've rejoined the effort with renewed vigor.
 
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