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Congrats to Atlas Folder

Congrats.....

What kinda pimp hat does that milestone get?
 
Atlas lives about 15 minutes from me. You'd think that would be close enough I'd get some points just of the breeze his farm makes!
 
Wesleynator said:
Atlas lives about 15 minutes from me. You'd think that would be close enough I'd get some points just of the breeze his farm makes!
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As much heat as his farm puts out, i'm surprised you havn't seen microscale global warming in your neighborhood. Next time you get a brown out in your area, you know who to blame for loading up the electrical grid.
 
amdgamer said:
As much heat as his farm puts out, i'm surprised you havn't seen microscale global warming in your neighborhood. Next time you get a brown out in your area, you know who to blame for loading up the electrical grid.
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his rigs are in a business warehouse so i doubt there will be any brown outs :p but it would be funny as hell..
 
I just read in his blog that he went from gpu-2 client to gpu-3 client. from what i can tell none of his cards are 400 series. why would he do this?
 
lehmann said:
I just read in his blog that he went from gpu-2 client to gpu-3 client. from what i can tell none of his cards are 400 series. why would he do this?
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Dunno.

He needs to switch the farm over to SR-2 boards with hex core chips.
 
He could sell 50 gpus and a shit ton of other hardware, build himself 4 dual hex rigs and increase his output while only pulling around 2400 watts, I'm assuming that's about what two of his quad 295 boards drew.
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Kinda makes you wonder what his long term plans are with that farm.

Regardless though, its an amazing accomplishment.
 
He may believe he's accomplishing more science with all those GPU clients, but I'm not sure. I recall he was extremely motivated by the science research with GPUs. I could be mistaken, though. It would be great if he could post here a bit...
 
APOLLO said:
He may believe he's accomplishing more science with all those GPU clients, but I'm not sure. I recall he was extremely motivated by the science research with GPUs. I could be mistaken, though. It would be great if he could post here a bit...
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i have a feeling he will probably be changing them over at some point.. but i'd say its the amount of time and effort it would take to switch over all the rigs that he probably doesnt want to deal with.. especially since its all working as it currently is..
 
Judging from these posts....gpu farm I assume? I feel bad for saying I've never heard of the guy. :( Sorry Atlas Folder but congratulations and thanks for your donation to the cause :)
 
zero2dash said:
Judging from these posts....gpu farm I assume? I feel bad for saying I've never heard of the guy. :( Sorry Atlas Folder but congratulations and thanks for your donation to the cause :)
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He posted about his farm a while back when he was getting started.

Good guy, he is doing it for the rite reasons.
 
Thanks for the link leagle, I kinda remember now seeing that link somewhere.
My heart goes out to him for his family and his reasons for folding but like he says in his blog there, folding is like a therapy for him (for all of us, I would say). :eek: Good stuff...makes me re-feel those good feelings from being a part of this with not only all of you guys, but everyone part of the cause as well. :)
 
On his main page, it states his farm uses 13000 watts of power continuously. That is incredible and talk about dedication to a cause.
 
amdgamer said:
On his main page, it states his farm uses 13000 watts of power continuously. That is incredible and talk about dedication to a cause.
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Thats 9,360 kilowatt hours a month.

@.13 cents/kwh = $1,216/month in electricity

Thats without knowing what his actual cost per kilowatt hour is. I would say that he's probably spending between $1k-1.3k per month alone in electricity. Quite the commitment for sure.
 
He sets the standard that's for sure lol
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And if any of us had the spare cash we'd all have setups like that.. don't deny it..

*we need to bribe him to join the horde.*
 
Veeb0rg said:
*we need to bribe him to join the horde.*
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We suggested it over a year ago but he wanted to stay where he was. He did say that if there was another place he'd go, [H] was at the top of the list, IIRC.
 
very nice, I'd love to listen to him talk about setting up a farm like that
 
APOLLO said:
We suggested it over a year ago but he wanted to stay where he was. He did say that if there was another place he'd go, [H] was at the top of the list, IIRC.
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that was a nice thing to say

boy, wouldn't that be a nice shot in the arm
 
Thanks for all of the kind words!

I'd be happy to answer any questions about my farm, but as to the reason I went to GPU3 on my GTX295s and 9800GX2s, I want them to be available to Stanford for the most advanced research then can do, not simply the maximum number of points. I'm also on the Folding@Home beta team and see my running GPU3 as a form of beta contribution as well.

It ain't all about points, but points are fookin' nice!

Also (and this is non-trivial) I've seen a substantial increase in stability for all of my GPUs using nVidia 258.96 drivers and GPU3. The across-the-board increase in stability over the 110 or so GPUs (damn EUEs!) appears to have compensated for any minor loss in PPD.

Here are the answers to some of the questions above:

I'm in Oklahoma where power is relatively cheap. While it fluctuates summer vs winter, my power is as low as 9 cents per KWH.

I have a single Fermi 480 at home but I'm waiting for dual-Fermi cards before evaluating a changeover for the entire farm.

I fold for team HUNT-DIS, the team created to represent Huntington's Disease which is what my father suffers from. If I were not trying to raise awareness for this particular disease I would probably fold [H]ardcore or EVGA as the communities in both places have been extremely nice to me. This is also the reason that I've resisted joining the Chimp Challenge for any team -- choosing one would be extremely hard.

Fold on.

Jason "Atlas Folder" Farque
 
Glad to have you respond!

I'm looking forward to the evolution of your farm.

Fold on!
 
watching your farm evolve helps us understand our strategies and potential upgrade paths. Good luck to you in your effort!
 
Atlas Folder said:
Thanks for all of the kind words!

Fold on.

Jason "Atlas Folder" Farque
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I would love to see a few pics of the shelf setup, I know you mentioned what kind of shelf you have but I'd like to see how you've got everything attached to the shelf.
 
Veeb0rg said:
I would love to see a few pics of the shelf setup, I know you mentioned what kind of shelf you have but I'd like to see how you've got everything attached to the shelf.
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There are a few older photos of my first rack (there are two now) on my Specs page.

jebo_4jc's google search is good also.

Best place to check it all out in my opinion is my YouTube Channel. The current system is shown in this video starting around 1:40. There are also some dry but informative videos on how I built the machines on my channel.

Jason
 
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I was just curious how you had attached the motherboards and video cards to the shelf. In the pics I've seen the video cards aren't screwed into anything?
 
Atlas Folder said:
I'd be happy to answer any questions about my farm, but as to the reason I went to GPU3 on my GTX295s and 9800GX2s, I want them to be available to Stanford for the most advanced research then can do, not simply the maximum number of points. I'm also on the Folding@Home beta team and see my running GPU3 as a form of beta contribution as well.

It ain't all about points, but points are fookin' nice!

Also (and this is non-trivial) I've seen a substantial increase in stability for all of my GPUs using nVidia 258.96 drivers and GPU3. The across-the-board increase in stability over the 110 or so GPUs (damn EUEs!) appears to have compensated for any minor loss in PPD.
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Just wondering - I've recently done the same thing myself -
obviously you're on a greater scale, but are you running -advmethods to continue running the older WU's, or are you running without it to only run the newer core15 WU's? Just curious.

I have EUE issues on my 8800GT especially (as I've complained about especially lately :D) and I hoped doing the upgrade would help me out, but running upgraded -advmethods so far hasn't helped at all. Again, just curious as to what you're doing...new client/old core WU or new client/new core WU.

Again - congrats and thanks for your contributions as well!
 
That is an amazing setup! Congratz on this accomplishment.
 
Veeb0rg said:
I was just curious how you had attached the motherboards and video cards to the shelf. In the pics I've seen the video cards aren't screwed into anything?
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It's described in the first minute or so of this video I made, but no they're not attached to anything. I looked long and hard for an open shelf that had the ability to do that but never turned one up. There are some more elaborate motherboard trays around now that I might use if I were building the system today. Mountain Mods for instance.
The shelf that I use is designed for DVRs or satellite receivers and has two crossbars with foam on the bottom. I use these crossbars to simply press down slightly on the cards. I stand the cards up and hold them with one hand while I tighten the crossbar's nut with the other. Works pretty well.

Jason
 
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zero2dash said:
Just wondering - I've recently done the same thing myself -
obviously you're on a greater scale, but are you running -advmethods to continue running the older WU's, or are you running without it to only run the newer core15 WU's? Just curious.

I have EUE issues on my 8800GT especially (as I've complained about especially lately :D) and I hoped doing the upgrade would help me out, but running upgraded -advmethods so far hasn't helped at all. Again, just curious as to what you're doing...new client/old core WU or new client/new core WU.

Again - congrats and thanks for your contributions as well!
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Yes I am running advmethods on GPU3. I haven't done anything special besides running the latest nVidia drivers. I'm running on XP x64 but OS is making less and less difference nowadays.

That said I've got a handful of GPUs that either won't fold or that EUE a lot or will EUE on specific WUs. My farm ain't special -- I wrestle with the same sort of issues that you do all the time, just on a larger scale. ;)

Jason
 
Atlas Folder said:
Yes I am running advmethods on GPU3. I haven't done anything special besides running the latest nVidia drivers. I'm running on XP x64 but OS is making less and less difference nowadays.

That said I've got a handful of GPUs that either won't fold or that EUE a lot or will EUE on specific WUs. My farm ain't special -- I wrestle with the same sort of issues that you do all the time, just on a larger scale. ;)

Jason
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So any plans to start shifting over to smp rigs now that they have the winsmp client running bigadv WU's? might save ya a bit on the electricity bill..
 
When you do start upgrading, what do you usually do with your outgoing equiptment?
 
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