FR Folding@Home Project Update -- The Need for Speed (#56 - 19,000,000 Points)

Stanford University Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project ^ | 02/02/2007 | Stanford University

[texas booster]

OK, new thread for the next week, celebrating 100,000 Work Units!

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 1040 processors and 420 user names.

We now have 29 members who have contributed at least 100,000 points each. Woo-Hoo!

Even more impressive, our team now boasts 342 members who have folded at least 1,000 points. That is more than the entire number of folders for our erstwhile left-wing environazi competitors!

Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page

On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 56. We will be in the Top 50 within 6 months!

Thanks again to all that are helping us advance science and promote the peaceful use of computers.

[walkerk]

Good on ya! You're really moving along.

And welcome to Bernie638 and JCEccles who's moving up fast!

[GOPBiker]

JosephW gave unstintingly of his time to help me set up my new AMD dual core machine with a Linux system running in VMware, both of which are new to me.

We installed VMware in Vista Ultimate, apparently the reverse of what many do. The trick, if any are going to do the same, is to hit F8 while Vista is booting and choose to disable device driver signing. This will allow VMware server to install in Vista. If you do not do this then it will appear to install and then at the last minute will rollback without explanation. Annoying.

Another weirdness was after rebooting the computer my network setup was disabled. (I have a local lan w/router). We spent a few minutes trying to get VMware working before noticing. After starting the local network VMware was happy to let us logon on to the 'local' host so we could proceed with the kubuntu install.

Thanks again to JosephW for helping me navigate the bumps in a much speedier fashion than I would have alone (we are talking days here) and without loss of hair, which I can ill afford.

[JosephW]

Looks like you just finished your first SMP WU (and your first WU of the day). This one by itself has given you what looks like your best day yet.

Congratulations.

[MediaMole]

I just got an X1950pro.

If anyone has any tips for the GPU folding stuff, I would appreciate them. It was an adventure just fitting the thing into the case. The 400 watt PSU seems to be holding its own, but I've got a new 500 watt PSU waiting, unopened, if the 1950 needs the extra juice.

I downloaded the GPU client, but it seems to be finishing up the old Gromacs unit before it starts anything.

[texas booster]

Only one GUI can run at a time. Go into the F@H configuration panel and click the "Ask before using Network" box. F@H will finish up the old WU before starting a new series.

Stanford does not like folks dropping WUs in midstream. It slows the progress of science since they have to wait as much as a month before that WU is assigned to someone else for completion.

If you want to test the new GPU GUI, right click on the tray flower and Quit the WU. Wait five minutes (allows all writes to complete) and click on the GPU GUI in the correct F@H directory. You should see the flower appear and begin processing.

If the work unit ends early then you have the wrong drivers. Uninstall the ATI 6.12 drivers and Catalyst 7.1, and reinstall just the 6.11 drivers. This should be all that is needed to get F@H running on a GPU.

Sometimes it can be more difficult, so keep us posted!

[Mount Athos]

[texas booster]

That looks good on you!

[Egon]

FAHMonitor is going to be offline for awhile today, as the server (which I've been having stability problems with) is resurrected as a VM on a different box.

With any luck (and an absence of Murphy), this will be a short outage-- something less than the recent outages caused by the instability even.

[Egon]

OK. This is assuming the @#$% server will recognize the @#$% FireWire external drive. Grr.

I'm recursed about four levels down into this @#$% project...

[texas booster]

Well, three days after the upgrade you have jumped to #10 (at the 3:00 pm Thursday update) of the top FReeper Folders.

You will really enjoy seeing your points climb so fast.

[JosephW]

Well it looks like your second SMP WU just came in, and it is worth more than any single week's total previously.

You will soon be flying up the ranks. Maybe I have some competition after all :)

Best of luck,
JosephW

[GOPBiker]

tb, My link to stats has me at #159 for the team. Is there another list somewhere?

The times listed on the overclocking site and the times on my machine don't seem to coincide. I know the time on my computer is set correctly for pst. Overclocking is probably gmt or something but even so the times in my working window are not pst and they don't seem to match overclocking ... puzzling.

Anyway, it is fun to see my standing increase.

[GOPBiker]

I don't think you have much to worry about from me yet. Maybe when I get flush and make a quad box ...

[texas booster]

The stats servers at Stanford update their database every three hours, and updates to individuals can occur anytime (not really, but it seems that way). The average time to credit points is between 3 and 6 hours.

I show you at #156 among all users and #111 among active users. I mostly look here for stats because it is easy:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120

[JosephW]

Well you did post more points than me yesterday :)

I think that has already been taken care of for today.

Your one dual core is faster than any of my systems (mine are a bit on the older side with a few exceptions.

[texas booster]

New thread is here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1790939/posts