Top 10.000 reached by team Guru3D

Hilbert Hagedoorn

Congratz guys and girls.

Within a week we drop from spot 60.000 something towards rank number 9134. Very nice.

Finchwizard is crunching numbers like a lunatic ! Here's the top 10 from the past week.

Team members
Rank (within team)User Score WU

1 Finchwizard 7766 8
2 Xenthalon 830 2
3 Godfather_[Guru3D] 823 6
4 MrFox 615 4
5 Stan_Hall 542 4
6 Follow_The_Leader 500 1
7 DrSiN 429 3
8 Golden_Dragoon 429 3
9 Sprecker 397 4
10 Guru3D_MeRock59 372 2

Me Rock · 05-05-2007, 10:24 | posts: 210 | Location: Washington

My gaming desktop has completed 2 Work Units in about four days, while both my laptop and my "Woodbox" are still on their first Work Units, with about 5 days to go for each of them. It's amazing how older computers differ in folding performance from newer computers.

My gaming rig has a dual core processor, and it seems to me like Folding@Home likes to dump all of its workload on to a single core. Has anyone found a quick fix to this? Is there a way that I could run two instances of Folding@Home at once? (One on each core.)

Hilbert Hagedoorn · 05-05-2007, 11:39 | posts: 16,963 | Location: Guru3D testlab

For that you need the SMP client. Then:

simply type fah.exe -config

Follow the installation, yet when requested got to advanced mode. Now there eventually you'll be asked the following:

CPU Usage requested (5-100).

Go play with that entry a little.

Me Rock · 05-06-2007, 07:25 | posts: 210 | Location: Washington

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn

For that you need the SMP client. Then:

simply type fah.exe -config

Follow the installation, yet when requested got to advanced mode. Now there eventually you'll be asked the following:

CPU Usage requested (5-100).

Go play with that entry a little.

Thanks for the help, although I don't want to give up the GUI. I like having a client that I can start and stop with minimal effort, as I need to disable the client before I start up a game. F@H is just making me want to get more computers.

nm+ · 05-05-2007, 19:47 | posts: 10,253 | Location: Not Minneapolis

Man, I'm still getting shorted by one WU. . . .

Anarion · 05-05-2007, 19:52 | posts: 9,166 | Location: Finland

I am soon completed my second WU (80% done, I have done more than 20% of this WU today so I think that it is completed tomorrow). My GPU is doing work when I do not need GPU power, if I only had R600...

John · 05-06-2007, 08:59 | posts: 16,388 | Location: Northern Norway

Hah! Finally after ONE week of work on the massive WU I sat up on my poor Athlon XP file server, it's done! STRAIGHT in on 8th place. Hah hah!

Finchwizard

Just hit over the 10k mark, come on people, catch up.

Me Rock · 05-06-2007, 10:24 | posts: 210 | Location: Washington

Quote:

Originally Posted by Finchwizard

Just hit over the 10k mark, come on people, catch up.

Finch, I was looking at your stats, and it said that you have had five active CPUs within the last 50 days. What are the specs of these computers? I have three computers folding, two of which have not finished their WUs yet.

darknight909 · 05-07-2007, 03:24 | posts: 4,845 | Location: San Diego, CA

Quote:

Originally Posted by Finchwizard

Just hit over the 10k mark, come on people, catch up.

your going down im turning on my ps3 now and downloading it

double_cut · 05-07-2007, 09:57 | posts: 2,150

Quote:

Originally Posted by darknight909

your going down im turning on my ps3 now and downloading it

The PS3 is ridiculous compared to all the PC's iv set up to fold, including a number of Core 2 Duo systems. I would have thought to be caught up with Finch by next weekend thanks to that big black box under my tv.

Finchwizard

I've got a few Dual Xeons doing work for me.

One is a new Dual Core Dual CPU server, so Quad CPU machine =)

Me Rock · 05-06-2007, 21:42 | posts: 210 | Location: Washington

Quote:

Originally Posted by Finchwizard

I've got a few Dual Xeons doing work for me.

One is a new Dual Core Dual CPU server, so Quad CPU machine =)

Wow. Just wow. I have my main gaming rig with an X2 3800, my laptop with a 1.6GHZ Turion, and my fileserver with a 733MHZ Celeron

Zammy · 05-07-2007, 01:19 | posts: 1 | Location: Canada

Hey all,

I've been visiting Guru3d for several years now, I just never registered on the forums. I used to do folding@home with a Canadian online retailer I used to buy from, but kinda stopped.

I have 5 systems at home sitting around doing nothing, so once I get home tomorrow I'll setup the systems for folding@home.

I always liked looking at those statistics going up

Gaboou · **Doing as much as I can -** 05-06-2007, 15:03 | posts: 201 | Location: Bonn

I have a Quad Core CPU so the SMP Client would appear to be the best one for me. Unfortunately I don't want to run my PC 24/7 and the beta SMP Client isn't resuming work after a restart and it takes approximately 20 hours for one WU to complete (they're rather large for SMP)... But I am running the "normal" GUI version all the time while doing something on my computer so one of the spare cores has something to do :-) I am gonna try to run a "no nonsense" version in addition to the GUI one too. I like this project a lot and want to support it as much as I can afford it. It's a pity that I can't do GPU Cores (ATI only feature)... OK, enough talk :-) Kudos to everyone doing something for humanity!

DrSiN · 05-06-2007, 15:27 | posts: 3,177 | Location: UK / Derbyshire

Wow finch , just wow. Thats some real hardcore folding going on there

Does anyone else's GUI version crash occasionally when recieving a new work unit?

I install Folding@Home on our workstations at work but when they are switched on they're usually being used (no idle time really) and are not particually powerfull enougth to complete WU's in the short time they are idle.

Finchwizard

I thought about buying a PS3 =)

darknight909 · 05-07-2007, 03:40 | posts: 4,845 | Location: San Diego, CA

Bah i have it running here and its going to take 7 hours to do 1 WU, whats your average time to finish 1 wu

nm+ · 05-07-2007, 20:39 | posts: 10,253 | Location: Not Minneapolis

Quote:

Originally Posted by darknight909

Bah i have it running here and its going to take 7 hours to do 1 WU, whats your average time to finish 1 wu

Ps3 folding is specifically set do do 8 hr wUs.
Basically, leave it on ehwne you sleep and/or go to work/school

Finchwizard

7hrs is pretty good, I don't know how long mine take.

I just start it up in a terminal then close it.
All Unix and Apple servers.

darknight909 · 05-07-2007, 08:53 | posts: 4,845 | Location: San Diego, CA

Yeah, when its running I can't run it in the background of my PS3(which is crap). So its my whole Cell processor going at it

When I wake up I should be close to having 2 units done

Finchwizard

Ahh, wondered why you were flying up the ladder.

I'm going to have to find more Quad core machines to put Folding on =)

Should have another 8 or so decent machines to contribute over the coming week or so.

Darkasantion · **Memory**: OCZ 2x2GB @ 548 5-5-5-15

Hmm, might do a return in folding@home, did quit it quite some time ago because of some changes that not everyone liked. Still I already support the DPC(Dutch Power Cows) in RC-72 and OGR-25, so might give the folding to Guru3D

Icebird · 05-07-2007, 12:55 | posts: 11,592 | Location: North

Damn, I'm #24.

kwak · 05-07-2007, 13:05 | posts: 6,569 | Location: Galactic Sector QQ7 Active J Gamma

i still haven't got any points, my computer is still working on its first wu, and when i run the console from a usb drive at school, i get a lot of wu's that end early and dont give me points