(Vanity) Folding@Home FReepers - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

self ^ | 01/08/2005 | self

[dfwddr]

A quick look at some numbers:

F@H FReepers***** DUmmies

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Users -- 198 ****** 64
Processers -- 396 ****** 89

Points Total -- 453,321 ******* 49,614
Points last week -- 177,497 ******* 33,278
Points last 24 hrs -- 23,296 ******* 5,354

Projected rank in 30 days -- 297 ******* 1,199


While they may be closing on ranking numbers, they actually fall further and further behind us every day in points.

They think they are going to pass us "in a couple weeks", yet we're out producing them at a rate of over 5 to 1.
They keep looking at their rank numbers (which mean squat in their position), and are not considering production.
I guess that the word "production" sounds too close to "work" for them.

[processing please hold]

They keep looking at their rank numbers (which mean squat in their position), and are not considering production. I guess that the word "production" sounds too close to "work" for them.

hahahahahahahahaha

[soccer_maniac]

Yeah.

They do rise faster in the rankings but that is misleading. The real indicator is total number of points and they are falling behind every single day.

They will be in the Top 1000 in less than 30 days if they keep adding CPUs at this rate.

[Klutz Dohanger]

grrrr.... I discovered today, that due to a power outage at work, my lab with 32 folders in it had rebooted around 11am Saturday morning. Almost 48 hrs worth of folding, halted in mid-stream.


Say what you will about the differences between the console and gui version, the gui version doesn't launch until a user is logged in. All of my pretty folders were just sitting there, begging for some keystrokes. (the console version would have been folding away at that point)

So... unless you have free and easy access to all of your cpu's, beware of the fickle finger of your electric company :(

[Klutz Dohanger]

Summary - Folding Links of Interest

1. Where to get the Folding@home client
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

2. FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120

3. Extreme Overclockers stats for FreeRepublic.com
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120

NOTE:
Only the top 2000 teams are included on Overclockers, and when a team reaches the top 800, individual stats are included.

4. Our Competition:
a. Democratic Underground
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157
b. Daily Kos
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48083

5. Another Statistics Page
a. Sortable Team Member Stats
http://fahstats.com/t.php?t=36120
b. Team Production
http://fahstats.com/tp.php?t=36120
c. Teams on the Radar Scope
http://fahstats.com/tr.php?t=36120

6. Third Party monitoring software
http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/

7. DU Folding Thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x38723

8. How much are those work units worth?
a. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/allprojects
b. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html

8. Stat Image Generator
a.Link http://www.statgfx.com/statgfx/getlink.cgi?service=folding


Previous threads (for those who wish to catch up):

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (#1700)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1537549/posts

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,550)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1541538/posts

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,450)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542884/posts

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,200!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547014/posts

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@HOme Project Update - top 1000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1549077/posts

(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - TOP 900!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1550060/posts

(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - We're in the TOP 850!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1550656/posts?q=1&&page=1

(Vanity) Searching for a name and at #777
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1551486/posts

[DocRock]

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[soccer_maniac]

399 CPUs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Drango]

If Tony (Tonystransportation) can get the time, he's gonna' put on more machines, he's got 40, then he'll eat our lunch!

Bring it on Tony (grin).

[Drango]

As long as we are talkin' smack. Who is laying claim to the single fastest CPU rig? Overclocked? We need to hear some cool descriptions of some high powered rigs so I can drool on the local Fry's ads and convince Mrs Drango how badly I need to upgrade.

[papasmurf]

I was speaking to us Truckers. I Shoulda' made that clear, sorry.

:O)

P

[Drango]

No need to apologies, none at all...I welcome Tony's participation. Bigtime. It's I who need to apologies, my post was all in friendly jest and it now appears some took it as snarky. Me Culpa, for using the wrong tone..

[Craigon]

"As long as we are talkin' smack. Who is laying claim to the single fastest CPU rig? Overclocked"

Yea I want to hear some OverClock stats too. For any other geeks out there who care...

I dropped out of folding for a day while I tried my hand at overclocking for the first time. Spent half the day at ExtremeOverclockers forums learning about it. Then another half day trouble shooting. Turns out my Albatron 865PE ProII MB has a bug (confirmed while googling the topic) that prevents you from Overclocking while using SATA drives (I have 2 SATA, 2 IDE). The BIOS’s AGP//PCI/SRC frequency lock does not work correctly. Grrr...! The rig would hanging at POST screen when I went over FSB of 202Mhz. I had to rearrange my 4 drives which included moving my c: (XP home) from the SATA to one of the IDE’s. Thanks to Norton Ghost, that was not a big deal. So when overclocking, I can’t use my SATA drives…have to unplug them or it hangs at POST screen even with the XP system on the IDE drive. Have to save up for a new MB!

Since it’s my first try, I am overclocking the 3.0Ghz at a conservative 3.495Ghz. Just enough to fully utilize my DDR466 Corsair 1Gig ram. I’ll let it run like this for a week before seeing how close I can get to 4Ghz! Doubt I can get there with my current fan since I already run at at 58-deg with the below settings.

- CPU is an old P4 Northwood 3.0C. (3.0Ghz).

- FSB=233Mhz. 33Mhz over default 200Mhz FSB. That's 233Mhz*2=466 to utilize the DDR466 PC3700 RAM.

- Memory timing at 3-4-4-8 (don’t fully understand this part, but that's what the mem specs say it can do and many at the forums run this setting)

- Bumped vcore voltage up 1 notch from default (I think it is 1.52??)

- Per a freeware utility (SpeedFan), CPU seems stay at 58-deg while folding. The unloaded CPU temp is 46-47. - Aftermarket CPU Sync/Fan is a Zalman NPS7000B

I stopped the fold that was running before overclocking. It was taking about 20min/frame. This should be a big point Fold, as most only take 3-6min/frame. Anyway, after Overclocking to 3.4+Ghz, that same fold is taking 13min/frame..woohoo! I learned a lot yesterday thanks to this Folding project. I probably would not have messed with overclocking if not for this project and my new found need for speed.

[VeniVidiVici]

Ok. Since Papa asked me for this the other day and I procrastinated y'all can look at mine first.

I had brought up the other day that my dualcore amd/Intel boxes were running neck-and-neck. They are back that way again right now at 27 and 28 with the Intel box ahead by 100 pts.

Specs:
AMD BOX
========
Proc AMD64 X2 4400
Asus A8N-SLI
Memory
Phys 1GB
Virt 2.41GB
Avail Virtual 1.47
Video:

Single GPU NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6800 Ultra
pci-x
Bus Type AGP
Memory 256MB GDDR3
Core Clock 425MHz (vs. 400MHZ standrd)
Memory Clock 1100MHz (effective)
RAMDAC Dual 400MHz

Storage:
Maxtor 6B250S0
250GB 16mb buffer
===========
Intel
CPU EM64T P4D 3Ghz
Memory 2GB
Tot Vir Mem 3.85GB
Avail Vir Mem 3.51GB

Motherboard:
Gigabyte GA-I955X Royal

Video

BFG GeForceT 6600 GT OC
pci-x
Memory 128MB GDDR3
Core Clock 525MHz
Memory Clock 1050MHz
RAMDAC Dual 400MHz

Storage:
Maxtor 200GB IDE

Both nodes share a Cheetah 36GB x 4 External Scsi array

At this point, I think that processor speed matters probably more than anything. I have a few other machines on there (including one named "MyMacMini" that got a late start but still has only finished 2 WU) but another named Veni has four machines behind it. Two are single cpu P4s, one running at 2.4Ghz and the other at 3.0Ghz. Another one is a PIII two-proc Xeon running at 550Mhz, 2GB of ram and a console assigned to each, with the last machine is a PIII 4-way 500Mhz with 4GB of ram and a console assigned to each processor.

The old Xeon's appear to be processing this painfully slow. However, the 4-way was only added a week ago and, last I looked, still had yet to complete its assigned projects. BUT it will still finish them before the deadline.

[Drango]

It was taking about 20min/frame... after Overclocking to 3.4+Ghz, that same fold is taking 13min/frame.

Sweeeeeeeet. 7min a frame savings! WU-hooooo

Have to save up for a new MB!

Word up!

Spent half the day at ExtremeOverclockers forums learning about it.

Yeah, when I need a serious geek fix, Extremoverclockers is perfect. Then I'm over to Anandtech costing everything out. However, I've got a serious case of the lazies right now. To start my next rig, I need Linux and well, the geek skills...they be rusty.

Thanks for the inspiration!!!

[Marie Antoinette]

I'm running the console on this one, our power blipped yesterday and it started over again on the protein!! It was nearly finished! (Did I mention we are now looking at UPS so this doesn't happen again?) What do I do? On a previous thread, I think this happened to pbrown.

WHere do I find this wu?

Help!

[soccer_maniac]

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

Date of last work unit	2006-01-10 06:08:04
Active CPUs within 50 days	400
Team Id	36120
Grand Score	471556 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	3927 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	583 of 42136
Home Page	http://www.freerepublic.com
Fast Teampage URL	http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html

[soccer_maniac]

400 CPUs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

198 folding members (although they may be a few duplicates)!!!

Can we get 500 CPUs???????

[Straight Vermonter]

I downloaded the software and started running it last weekend but I have only gotten about 40% through the 1st WU. Does that sound right?

I guess I should say I have it running on an old 533mhz machine.

[ezsmoke]

If it is a big WU then yes. One of the machines I have running is a Pentium 3 500MHz running F@H and it takes about 9 days. I have it set to get deadlineless WUs.

[Clara Lou]

I have the same 533 mhz. I had a unit that took nearly 13 days [240+ pts.]. Now I have a unit that will take about 10 days, also 240+ pts.