Posted on 01/02/2006 9:53:26 AM PST by systematic
New thread for this week.
Congrats to all new members who joined this week!
We've made excellent progress so far and have smoked the DUmmies and Kossacks. Let's keep folding!
Just went to 301 cpu's
I think at this point we need to get an official position from Jim. His mods are apt to spike our threads.
I did see that. After I installed a console beside a graphic. Crashed my win2k box hard, lost my 600 pointer half way through. ugh!
I'm really struggling with my other dual cpu boxes. Both folding extremely slow. They, otherwise, are performing very well and zippy. 42 h 10 min on a 500 fr 46 point wu. I think I'll shut them down and install the console on each cpu on them only...they're Intel, the other is AMD MP which, I also read, there is an issue with amd mp's on tyan boards.
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I theenk you ment to say "you" insted of "ya". :-)
This update is still processing after 29 minutes.
It's not meant to be addressed to you as your fault, just that you seemed to be a prime mover of this effort. A site that claims to be by, for and of OC'ers should get their updates done in a snappy fashion.
Me theenk u spell bad two.
We just turned green at EOC.
I have a graphic FAH going with a console FAH in a dual processor W2k box. The console version is started from a command line after the box is all up and the other FAH is started. I have to tell the machine to start the console version twice [ w/ -local both times], but then after that, all is well for days at a time.
pikky, pikky, pikky.....
Yay us!!
It's bio-technical.
Maybe a compromise is the best way. Let's differentiate between "News" and "Discussion".
How about a post in Technical for milestones like the 1000 mark was, and a post in Bloggers for the other milemarkers like 850? (We'll encounter more resistance as we go up the ladder, naturally... and the Bloggers forum is possibly the 2nd best forum for visibility.)
Half way through my third WU----hoooo!!!
The problem I've run into with Hyperthreading, in other applications, is not that the applications are *confused* over the virtual cpu's, but that memory is allocated out, and if you have 2 cpu's, with HT, your memory is cut in 1/4, with each quarter going toward each HT/CPU. This isn't a problem, if you have plenty of memory, but the allocations start to get weird, if you get into overlaps, and having to swap memory spaces between two unique I/O processes. I'm running 4 versions of the console on three dual processor servers, but each server has 16gb of ram, so there is 4gb allocated to each HT/CPU. Plenty enough room to play in, and I haven't had a single abort or early work end, on any of these three yet. I do notice, on the HT/Multiple CPU computers, that the core process is using more ram, than that on a single instance computer. On one HT/MCPU, it's up around 140,000. If you've only got a gig of ram on your board, then you've got 60,000k worth of data, all trying to swap in and out of virtual memory, and then *crash*...
I'm not suggesting that FR's folding effort is news. It however doesn't deserve to be spiked from technical. That's a specific group that folks can ignore at their leisure.
Jim Robinson needs to comment on our effort. We will take folding to the top 100. If he doesn't want that to be a part of FreeRepublic, just say so and we'll all drop out of it. End of story.
I'll have to check the FAQ for the correct info, but as I recall, Stanford makes available a summary text file for download by sites like EXOC; it's updated about every hour or two.
Sites such as EXOC then pull down the updated file and feed the updates into their own data base. Once that update is complete the new results are available. So, it's likely that updated results will take several hours to trickle out to the various sites that display F@H statistics.
If your problem is getting the WU into the mother ship, I don't know. I've had at least one hang up, but I also have occasional DNS issues here.
Technical does appear under the "News/Activism" umbrella, which means it shows on the main FR comments page. I'd bet excellent money that's why one of the mods spiked it, and that it has nothing to do whether this topic is actually technical or not.
Definatetly technical, definately PRO-FR, why did a mod spike it?
How 'bout a weekly update, say a Saturday morning recap of the F@H project in the technical, that just references whatever current thread happens to be current in the bloggers. That way, there is still exposure, but not undue stepping-on-footage, as there appeared to be recently.
For the same reason that some Evolution threads get yanked out of Science when discussion gets too active... nothing personal. In today's slow news day, we dominated the News comments page.
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