Folding@Home
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ddrueding
Fixture
There are perhaps 4 houses in the city with AC. With the exception of the random temp spike, the averages are very mild. It would be a real waste most of the time.
ddrueding
Fixture
The humidity is normally very reasonable. Air to air heat exchangers will manage the fresh air requirements, though simply opening some windows when I get home works fine as well
ddrueding
Fixture
The house insulation keeps it very comfortable so long as I'm not dumping 1000W+ into the air 24/7 during the summer. I'll just need to move some of my folding rigs to the office.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
How about putting a fan in the windows where the computers are. Have it blowing out.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
300000 average points per day and we'll passed 400000 points today and 2 millions points for the week. HA!
And unless either SSD or LiamC still have a big unit up their sleeve, I'll win the week You guys give me a Hell of a race.
And unless either SSD or LiamC still have a big unit up their sleeve, I'll win the week
You guys give me a Hell of a race.
ddrueding
Fixture
The objective is to keep the cool air in. The way to do that is a) avoid air exchange with the outside and b) avoid producing heat inside.
ddrueding
Fixture
Clearly none of you live in a mild marine climate? Did you look at the average annual temps I linked above? There is no need for AC in this environment. Really. $1M+ houses around here don't have it.
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ddrueding
Fixture
I'll include a relevent bit of the data here:
[FONT=geneva,arial] Average Number of Days Above 90F/32C[/FONT][FONT=geneva,arial]Years on Record: 12 [/FONT]
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[FONT=geneva,arial][SIZE=+1]Days[/SIZE][/FONT]30------1---1------11------4
[FONT=geneva,arial] Average Number of Days Above 90F/32C[/FONT][FONT=geneva,arial]Years on Record: 12 [/FONT]
Stereodude
Not really a
I bet that data would have been more useful had the formatting been kept.
ddrueding
Fixture
Yup. And I coulda sworn I'd deleted that post last night when I saw that it hadn't. :shrug:
How can you do that? I assume it doesn't violate any data integrity laws.
ddrueding
Fixture
Data integrity laws? Here is the plan:
1. Buy 4U rackmount chassis.
2. Install bunch o' computing bits
3. Stick computer in rack and connect power and NIC
Obviously, this machine wouldn't be storing any data. It would also be inside the firewall with no ports routed to it, so no significant vulnerabilities. The biggest concern would be unneeded power consumption, but I'll get that OKed without an issue.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Why not opt for the Norco RPC-470 instead of the Antec? It doesn't come with a power supply, but it only cost 82$ at Newegg and it has space for 4 additional internal 80mm fans compared to the Antec you linked. With the ~180$ you save compared to the Antec, you can buy a way nicer power supply than the one bundled with the Antec and you can probably fit some quieter fans than those that come with the enclosure if low noise is a priority.
If you stopped buying OCZ and SSDs constantly you could get that thing fixed in a few months.
Seriously though, I've been in many places and I know that averages don't correlate to particular weeks, months and years. I'm glad that you can handle it, but everyone does not like periods of divergence from the averages. The lack of humidity control would kill me and I'm also quite temperature sensitive. A heat pump might work well in that area.
ddrueding
Fixture
It would actually. I've been considering one not just for HVAC, but also a hot water heater that uses an air-source heat pump.
Just encountered a strange problem. I couldn't work out why only one submitted unit appeared in today's stats. Then I realised, the unit (Project: 6900 (Run 19, Clone 13, Gen 37)) completed and shut down the core (which is unusual), and then when I restarted F@H, it looks like it's restarting the unit from the beginning. Has anybody had a unit complete but not submit and then restart? Two days down the drain...
[20:06:26] Completed 245000 out of 250000 steps (98%)
[20:11:33] - Autosending finished units... [April 4 20:11:33 UTC]
[20:11:33] Trying to send all finished work units
[20:11:33] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[20:11:33] - Autosend completed
[20:34:43] Completed 247500 out of 250000 steps (99%)
[21:02:58] Completed 250000 out of 250000 steps (100%)
[21:03:12] DynamicWrapper: Finished Work Unit: sleep=10000
[21:03:22]
[21:03:22] Finished Work Unit:
[21:03:22] - Reading up to 52713120 from "work/wudata_05.trr": Read 52713120
[21:03:22] trr file hash check passed.
[21:03:22] - Reading up to 42794716 from "work/wudata_05.xtc": Read 42794716
[21:03:23] xtc file hash check passed.
[21:03:23] edr file hash check passed.
[21:03:23] logfile size: 201653
[21:03:23] Leaving Run
[21:03:25] - Writing 95877429 bytes of core data to disk...
[21:03:27] ... Done.
[20:06:26] Completed 245000 out of 250000 steps (98%)
[20:11:33] - Autosending finished units... [April 4 20:11:33 UTC]
[20:11:33] Trying to send all finished work units
[20:11:33] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[20:11:33] - Autosend completed
[20:34:43] Completed 247500 out of 250000 steps (99%)
[21:02:58] Completed 250000 out of 250000 steps (100%)
[21:03:12] DynamicWrapper: Finished Work Unit: sleep=10000
[21:03:22]
[21:03:22] Finished Work Unit:
[21:03:22] - Reading up to 52713120 from "work/wudata_05.trr": Read 52713120
[21:03:22] trr file hash check passed.
[21:03:22] - Reading up to 42794716 from "work/wudata_05.xtc": Read 42794716
[21:03:23] xtc file hash check passed.
[21:03:23] edr file hash check passed.
[21:03:23] logfile size: 201653
[21:03:23] Leaving Run
[21:03:25] - Writing 95877429 bytes of core data to disk...
[21:03:27] ... Done.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
It happened to me last year and I had to transfer the parts into another enclosure afterwards. I have no idea why it happens but it is utterly enraging when it does.
ddrueding
Fixture
Looks like Coug got another machine doing big units to pull ahead of me? What a coincidence...
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I only have three computers doing big units. Nothing changed there. When I average ~50000ppd, it's because I don't use the slowest one, while I get close to 70000ppd when I add it. Right now, I use all three.
You still outproduce me by a few thousand point every day.
You still outproduce me by a few thousand point every day.
ddrueding
Fixture
My biggest annoyance is when I stop folding on a machine for some reason (gaming, photoshop, etc) then realize days later that I forgot to re-start it.
Oh hell yeah. i did that one Friday where I played some games or was doing something CPU intensive so I stopped FAH and didn't remember until Sunday night...pissed me off.
ddrueding
Fixture
GPU Tracker has a "Game Mode" that includes a list of some kind, but I haven't looked into it.
ddrueding
Fixture
Two new personal best days back-to-back
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Somebody find an extinguisher ; SSDrueding is on fire! The highest 7-day average I've ever achieved was 95230 ppd. He's at over 104000 ppd right now.
ddrueding
Fixture
It's only temporary. Though I do have an i7 870 chip sitting here....
ddrueding
Fixture
Wow, that is 249th overall. Crazy.
ddrueding
Fixture
Another temporary addition:
Did you know that a non-OC'd i7-970 can do 155k ppd? (at least according to GPU Tracker V2).
Looks like it will finish a 6900 unit in 19 hours.
Did you know that a non-OC'd i7-970 can do 155k ppd? (at least according to GPU Tracker V2).
Looks like it will finish a 6900 unit in 19 hours.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
According to Grandpa, one of the top-100 producer and member of Stanford's forum, an overclocked i7 970 does ~63000ppd. 155000ppd must be a fluke. If it isn't, even if I'm broke, I'll buy one because I have all the other components to build a system around it.
But it is a fluke.
But it is a fluke.
ddrueding
Fixture
Yeah, it's counting down now. It's doing one percent every ~30 minutes. We'll see how it does after a few completed units.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
My guess is that you'll get about 80K-85K per unit and you'll do one every two days.
ddrueding
Fixture
Yesterday was another all-time-high for the team*! Congrats!
*(and me)
*(and me)
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I've add a Core i7 2600 for the week-end. I run the 64bit Linux client via a bootable Xubuntu 11.4 CD. The first unit it got is a 2684, so I think it's the only one it'll be able to complete until I deliver the system on Tuesday.
I'll soon add a Core i5 2400 too. It should add ~8000ppd by itself, also only for the week-end (must go Monday).
I'll soon add a Core i5 2400 too. It should add ~8000ppd by itself, also only for the week-end (must go Monday).