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CougTek
Hairy Aussie
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.
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
Hairy Aussie
Ha! I know what he did : he bought two Geforce 460GTX.
ddrueding
Fixture
Time to step up, Coug. That looks like a permanent investment on his part.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Just watch me.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Today is going to be a great day.
ddrueding
Fixture
I'll keep an eye on you. I noticed Handruin has cut way back; time to turn up the heat a bit on him.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
But...What is there in life more important than Folding? ;-)
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Despite an erratic production these last few years, Tea reached 3000 WU. Congratulations!:beer:
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Pick your certificates quickly. I might not host them for long.
You can get them later from Stanford's web site, but the date won't be good (Tea's certificate is one day late).
You can get them later from Stanford's web site, but the date won't be good (Tea's certificate is one day late).
ddrueding
Fixture
I've got the 6970 folding on my i5 4Ghz. Is that an inefficient use of resources?
ddrueding
Fixture
Holy crap. You weren't kidding. I wonder what else Mark can do?
I see my contribution of around 6K per day and feel... inadequate...
:sad: :blue: :cursin::bibber::eek4::dunno::diablo::hurl:
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Surrender ;-)
No, in fact that's the last thing I want him to do. What's important is that every member contributes to his best and that's what he does.
ddrueding
Fixture
I see my contribution of around 6K per day and feel... inadequate...
Don't feel bad, your persistence means that even at ~20k/day I won't catch you for a long, long time.
ddrueding
Fixture
Doug, 67k points today? Really? Just when I was doing the math on when to pass you...
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Welcome to the newest member of our team : sdbarwick.
sdbardwick
Storage is cool
Only temporary, I'm afraid. I like my space heaters to do something useful.
I don't know, but I don't unstand the whole folding deal. Is there an addictive behaviour to folders?
sdbardwick
Storage is cool
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.
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!
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!
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
Hairy Aussie
You are ambiguous. While we may help find cures for diseases, we won't ever find any cure for deceased.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
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.
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
Fixture
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.
ddrueding
Fixture
Sure. But I was wrong, it is a Gigabyte GTX 570.
ddrueding
Fixture
Not sure. From what I understand, nVidia cards are better at it than ATI, and I needed a gaming card in that price range.
ddrueding
Fixture
According to the FAH GPU Tracker, my 6970 does 3000PPD, and the 570 does 15,600PPD.
I would say that nVidia is the better performer here.
I would say that nVidia is the better performer here.
ddrueding
Fixture
With SMP in both cases.
Stereodude
Not really a
ddrueding
Fixture
Today should be a good day for me.
ddrueding
Fixture
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.
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.