Posted on 01/08/2006 7:41:43 AM PST by texas booster
OK, new thread for the next week.
First, a big shout out to the SETI and BOINC members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0.
Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 384 processors and 192 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with nearly a dozen folders now from GetLoaded.com all popping onto the hit list this week.
Special mention to Klutz Dohanger, who has quietly volunteered 80 systems to fold. That is 20% of all of the Free Republic Folders systems actively engaged in research. He is on a pace to pop 100,000 points personally before the end of January.
Malsua, uriah, Ken in Texas and Andrewksu are solidly in the top 10. Malsua is continuing to add (fast) systems and is now the number two folder on the team. Andrewksu will be the next member to hit 10,000 points. Great job!
Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page
On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 624. We are poised to overtake (today):
Flowers of Happiness (awww, ain’t that sweet)
SpongeZone
Team Redneck Beatdown
Go Navy!
French-Krew
and the Rochester Institute of Technology
As we continue to grow there are a number of milestones coming around the bend:
Top 600 by Monday
Top 500 within eight days
Top 400 within three weeks
We have 430,000 points so far. We will reach:
500,000 points by Thursday
750,000 points by Jan 24
1,000,000 points in early February
Thanks again to all that are helping us advance science and promote the peaceful use of computers.
Extreme Overclockers Stats for Free Republic
A quick look at some numbers:
F@H FReepers***** DUmmies
hahahahahahahahaha
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.
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 :(
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
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399 CPUs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bring it on Tony (grin).
I was speaking to us Truckers. I Shoulda' made that clear, sorry.
:O)
P
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.
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.
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!!!
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!
| 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 |
400 CPUs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
198 folding members (although they may be a few duplicates)!!!
Can we get 500 CPUs???????
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.
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.
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