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LiamC

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I'm out for a month or two by the looks. Ambient is in the low to high 30's Celsius, (90's Fahrenheit) so CPU temps are elevated. I'll be back.
 

CougTek

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For the first time of our history, we will produce more than 3 million points in a single month.

Oh and does somebody have an extinguisher? Mark's ass is on fire. 45000 points today and it's not over yet. I don't know if he'll keep that pace or not, but if he does, January will be his best month ever.
 

CougTek

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Pick your certificates quickly. I might not host them for long.

cert_Tea3000WU.jpg


cert_Handruin2million.jpg


You can get them later from Stanford's web site, but the date won't be good (Tea's certificate is one day late).
 

Handruin

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:-D Our PPD are very close. I get a burst over 3 days or so at around 60K. Your PPD are more consistent than mine.
 

sdbardwick

Storage is cool
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I'd say more competitive than addictive, but I am sure somebody is addicted to amassing points.

EDIT: Whoops, just re-read my previous post and it could be interpreted as dissing Folding; it wasn't meant to, as I do consider Folding useful.
 

Bozo

Storage? I am Storage!
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Folding is manipulating proteins to find a cure for deseases. By using thousands of small computers, you end up with a 'supercomputer' of sorts.

After 9-11 there were snail mail envelopes showing up with anthrax spores in them. The 'folding nation' switched to looking for a cure for human anthrax. Within a month or so, the folders had found a cure. (cure might be a little strong as there was still more work to do).
This story actually made the evening news.

:beer: Toast to the folders!
 

CougTek

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Congratulations everyone, last week was our first week to produce over a million points!

My third system is down again. It hang Thursday at 97% of a P6900 unit (~67000 points) and when I restarted it, it flushed the current work and downloaded another. I shut it down for a day and yesterday, after running the client for half an hour, it rebooted, frooze and displayed no image. That computer is the one I own with the higghest-end parts and it's the least reliable. I'll try to re-install the heatsink (Xigmatek HDT-S1283W) and replace the power supply (OCZZ850M). The motherboard is an Asus Sabertooth X58 and the RAM is a 6GB kit of DDR3 1600MHz, pretty safe IMO.

But thanks to increases from Handruin and Ddrueding, my dropback didn't show too much on our team output.
 

ddrueding

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Since my house is currently being heated via resistance electric, it may as well be a bunch of circuits. I have an nVidia 460 on the way, we'll see what it can do.
 

LiamC

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I'd be interested to know how much juice a 460 chews through. Any chance of measuring system load before and after starting folding on the 460?
 

Handruin

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I'm curious about a couple things. Is the 570 faster than a 460 when folding (I'm asking anyone, not specifically you)?

ddrueding, are you using your 570 along with CPU/SMP folding or is it running by itself?
 

Handruin

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Oh man ddrueding...you're out-producing me now.

Estimated time until you surpass me!
4/11/2014, 8:28 AM / 1,169d 0h 46m 52s
 

ddrueding

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Yeah, 3+ years. Right.

I did turn off the CPU folding and left on just the GPUs, it seems to have helped overall, and the responsiveness issues I was having with the system have gone.
 
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