Folding@Home

[sdbardwick]

Quick update on the C32/G34 match.
Turns out the C32 board really wasn't totally dead, just dead for me. Needed to update the BIOS and then the 4280s were recognized. Of course you can't update the BIOS without a functional 4100 Opteron, so Amazon is getting one returned this week (hey, they shipped the MB with an old BIOS).

Interesting result on project 6901:
Opteron 6128 gives 21m12s TPF, while 4280 gives 21m13s. Much better than I expected. The two boxes haven't had another matchup in projects, so I can't give any more AMD/AMD data yet.

Intel/AMD 4280
i7-2600k @4.2 on project 6097: 10m7s (this computer is under moderate use most of the day)
i7-2600K @4.2 on project 6097: 8m23s when otherwise idle.
Opty 4280x2 @2.8 on project 6097: 7m44s (while lightly loaded - web browsing/LibreOffice document editing)

The 6128 box finally got another big unit, so it will be preoccupied for a couple days.

 

[CougTek]

How about looking at Inpharm or Inpharm with his 152 processors. He just started 10/06 or just 4 months ago to get 12 million points. He's generating 144,000 points per day or over 1 million a week. At my current rate, it will take me a little less than a year to produce 1 million points. To consistantly average 1000 PPD per processor he must be running most of those processors as Linux 64 bit SMP clients.

I overtook Inpharm late yesterday. Took me five years. Persistence pays.

 

[CougTek]

I noticed two things today :

1. We passed the 150 million mark.
2. Tea out-produced Santilli this month (so far).

 

[CougTek]

So...small day at the office Ddrueding?

 

[ddrueding]

A special thanks to the Coug for helping me get a ridiculous machine up and running for the cause! Not sure how long it'll be around, but it is making a mess of things while it is here!

 

[Santilli]

Go TEA!!!

I noticed two things today :

1. We passed the 150 million mark.
2. Tea out-produced Santilli this month (so far).

 

[CougTek]

Dave did a single unit that practically equaled my production for the first 12 days of the month. Ok.

 

[ddrueding]

Still battling stability issues with that machine. After tweaking memory speeds and voltages it now randomly reboots instead of hard locks.

 

[CougTek]

I forgot to mention it, but Mark passed the 40 million mark. Mark passed mark, get it?

 

[ddrueding]

Still battling stability issues with that machine. After tweaking memory speeds and voltages it now randomly reboots instead of hard locks.

Seem to have fixed the stability issues, but these work unit results are 200MB+, and the upload is timing out before completion on the slow internet link it's attached to. Great.

More testing is obviously required

 

[LiamC]

Congrats to Mark!

What's the best - most productive - SMP client to be running on Windows? 6.34 or the new 7.x

What's the best/most productive SMP client on any OS?. i7 2600K

 

[CougTek]

What's the best - most productive - SMP client to be running on Windows? 6.34 or the new 7.x

I don't think there's a performance difference between both.

What's the best/most productive SMP client on any OS?. i7 2600K

Linux client, hand down. Ddrueding uses the v.7 beta client on his mentally-ill-oriented server box and the results are good. If you don't want to f**k around too much, the old stable release for Linux is ok too. On a *ubuntu installation, you can install it through apt-get.

 

[CougTek]

I missed it earlier today, but the v.7 client is now the latest stable client too.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

 

[CougTek]

Also, it's sad there's no client for Solaris.

 

[Chewy509]

Also, it's sad there's no client for Solaris.

That's because no one uses Solaris these days... No, I got it, Oracle doesn't want the world to know how powerful their servers are, so they tell everyone not to bother with Solaris... Ummm, there is no CUDA support in Solaris... Ummm, Look there's no FreeBSD version either! <runs away and hides>

 

[CougTek]

You can use the Linux version on BSD and it's supposed to work according to what I read in Stanford's forums. Also, at least in PC-BSD, you can directly install the FAH client (albeit an aging one) directly from the packet installer/updater tool (which I forgot the name of).

It's possible to run either the Windows client (thru Wine) or the Linux client (using Virtual Box) on Solaris, but you waste CPU cycles doing so.

BTW, is it possible to install Linux in a Solaris Zone? This could take care of the issue.

 

[Chewy509]

BTW, is it possible to install Linux in a Solaris Zone? This could take care of the issue.

Yes, from Solaris 10 8/07. (It's called a 'Linux Branded Zone' - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/817-1592/gchhy/index.html ).

However Linux Branded Zones were dropped with Solaris 11. (Oracle would you rather use Oracle Linux on bare metal, or run Linux via VirtualBox).

 

[Howell]

I forgot to mention it, but Mark passed the 40 million mark. Mark passed mark, get it?

Nice one. Jokes are a mark of language competency.

 

[mubs]

Coug has always had a way with words, even if his English competence wasn't up to snuff in the early days. He's got a large funny bone, real or virtual, in his head.

 

[CougTek]

There's been a power outage today that lasted ~3 hours and I wasn't home for another ~1.5 hours after the power came back. It runined my production for the day.

 

[ddrueding]

I wish this person would pay me, but in the meantime, it's nice to be in the top 150 for daily production (was top 100 for a week).

 

[LunarMist]

There's been a power outage today that lasted ~3 hours and I wasn't home for another ~1.5 hours after the power came back. It runined my production for the day.

No UPS?

 

[Stereodude]

No UPS?

What sort of UPS do you have that will power a folding rig running flat out for ~3 hours?

 

[LunarMist]

Well maybe an hour, but shouldn't it shut down gracefully then?

 

[sdbardwick]

The impact isn't due to lost work, just lost time; graceful shutdown doesn't matter if you don't make the bonus deadline.

 

[CougTek]

I wish this person would pay me, but in the meantime, it's nice to be in the top 150 for daily production (was top 100 for a week).

Who, me? You make close to ten times my earnings, are you shitting me? Your reward is your achievement in "the game". Nothing else.

If I'd make as much money as you do, I would probably build myself a quad-node/2U SuperMicro rackmount server with 8x Xeon E5-2670 in it. Would cost me ~17K$, but damn it would kick asses! Right now, I have other priorities, like bare survival for instance.

Also, if I'd be multi-millionaire, I would fill a 42U with Blade bays, each containing 16 IBM 7875E3U (2x Xeon E5-2670). Would cost me over 1.1 million total. Would put me in the top spot in no time. Would be awesome.

I think I'll run to buy lotery tickets now...

 

[ddrueding]

Not you, the person I built the system for. I didn't spend the money to build a folding machine, it was for a client. Of course, until she pays me it may as well keep folding.

 

[CougTek]

Ah ok. For such a pricey machine, you should at least have asked a substantial deposit before building it. It's not like you're made of money...oh wait...nevermind.

 

[ddrueding]

It was a car accident already. I'd built a different machine (latest i7 and 64GB of RAM) for her, and she changed her mind and wanted something more. For a $4k machine I don't worry about deposits, for a $10k machine I should have. But the ball was already rolling, so...

 

[CougTek]

She still hasn't paid you? Great for the team, but sad for your wallet. Are the stability issues gone?

 

[ddrueding]

Still hasn't paid me. The machine is now openly for sale, I'll need to put a write-up on here when I can. Just looking to recover some of the cost.

Coug, I know you want it

 

[CougTek]

Oh I know I want it too, but I also know I can't afford to spend 10K$ right now. Even 500$ would be too much in my situation. I won't have extra money before November. Forgive me, but I'll pass.

 

[CougTek]

BTW, what have you done with the dual socket-2011 Supermicro board that wasn't compatible with your Zalman heatsinks?

 

[ddrueding]

Still kicking around in the box if you are interested.

 

[CougTek]

You wrote earlier that you replaced it with an Asus Z9PE-D8 WS. ?

 

[CougTek]

At least I finally made it to 40 million points. Only took me 10 years or so.

 

[Santilli]

A bit of a side note. I'm now 16 on our group.
One of my friends is living at Stanford Med center. He has multiple melinoma(SP?) He also has Kaiser, and, he's been living at Stanford Medical center. The chemo, and treatments make him a drug addict, mainly morphine, in intense pain, and barely functional, while he goes through the killing of his bone marrow, and the replacement.
Incredibly painful. It's also made him a bit of a nut. Morphine tends to do that to you.
My GF is playing nurse ratchet.

Her suggestion is if you ever have this. Take your money, go on a world cruise, and enjoy the rest of your life.

I guess, from the outside, being a morphine addict is not an attractive way to live your life.

It's not fun, it's not funny. It fucking sucks.

 

[ddrueding]

Enjoying your last days as #2 on the team, Coug? The sale of this box is finally pending, but I don't think it will go out for another week at least

 

[CougTek]

Yep, I will. And with the news I've received today, I sure won't be able to buy parts to compete with you. The only thing I'll be able to do will be to put back an additional Core i7 2600 in my Folding farm since I won't need it for the development of the new project I was working on at my job.

 

[ddrueding]

Sorry to hear that. It will actually be a close call, as this machine will be leaving over the weekend. It was a good (but very expensive) run.