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Who's folding large?

Oh, and also, I've completed two WUs that failed to upload. I chalked those two failures up to the WU being rebooted several times during its progress.
 
Definitely a downside to running a unit that takes two to three days to complete, one little glitch and it's toast.
 
Yeah definitely. I think I may build a new i7 rig if prices ever drop and just use that as a dedicated folder so that I don't have to worry about life happening.
 
The_Heretic said:
Definitely a downside to running a unit that takes two to three days to complete, one little glitch and it's toast.
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Made worse by the fact that Stanford requires 80% success rate to maintain bonus eligibility, FWIU.

mrmylanman said:
Yeah definitely. I think I may build a new i7 rig if prices ever drop and just use that as a dedicated folder so that I don't have to worry about life happening.
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Dedicated folder is far better for these WUs.
 
APOLLO said:
Made worse by the fact that Stanford requires 80% success rate to maintain bonus eligibility, FWIU.
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uhoh :eek:

Tomorrow morning it'll be interesting to see if i get bonus.

I have NOT been hitting 80%
 
Jeez. Bad news there. Maybe I'll have enough money after Christmas to build a relatively cheap folder.
 
The_Heretic said:
Definitely a downside to running a unit that takes two to three days to complete, one little glitch and it's toast.
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I can swear to that. One time I walked away from my PC my wife played cards on it and then logged me off. :eek: Then another time I accidentally closed the VM window instead of minimizing it. :eek::eek:
 
Good thing is you can crank out a few 1920s to get it back up, and you should be doing 3 or more a day thatway
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jebo_4jc said:
uhoh :eek:

Tomorrow morning it'll be interesting to see if i get bonus.

I have NOT been hitting 80%
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Well for what it's worth, I prolly dropped at least 10 or so of my first -bigadv WUs when I started because of my bad OC. I got my first one turned in a few days ago and it gave me the 50k still. So I'm not sure if that's in effect still..?
 
I don't think anyone ever found out what it was 80% of. Maybe once you hit 80 you get a flag and then it never checks again, and that flag gets you the bonus

It's anyones best guess really
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I read it as 80% of completed WUs were within the "bonus"/recommended time frame
 
That could be, either way, I've not read alot if others missing the bonus due to bitches units so you should be fine

On the second note, damn you doozer, when I finally get above your PPd you have to use bigadv :(
Can't wait to get my SMP rig setup, maybe I can start closing that gap, I've let you get way to far ahead of me LOL
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I'm hoping that santa leaves another i7 under the tree for me this year :D
 
Evil man doozer.... Evil man

Ok, not evil, it's for a good cause, but damn, this whole catching up thing is getting expensive

For the [H]orde!! :)
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Haha. Sleeping through the night hearing my computer running with the fans on full bore (glad I sprung for those Noctuas) I decided if I get another rig going, I'll be letting it sit at my work to do its folding there... lol.

When it was colder it wasn't a problem (hell the computer worked as a good enough heater lol) but it warmed back up the past day or so.
 
Yea, noise can be a real issue, try folding 7 200 series cards in the same room, you'll want to club baby seals LOL
It's good they'll let you take it to work, helps on the power bill!
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Vaulter98c said:
Yea, noise can be a real issue, try folding 7 200 series cards in the same room, you'll want to club baby seals LOL
It's good they'll let you take it to work, helps on the power bill!
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It was bad enough for me with my PC being in the living room and my 275s going full blast when OC'd. I tossed the stock cooling and put in new heatsinks and fans and it's really tolerable.
 
tjmagneto said:
It was bad enough for me with my PC being in the living room and my 275s going full blast when OC'd. I tossed the stock cooling and put in new heatsinks and fans and it's really tolerable.
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did you find decent coolers that didn't take up more space than the stock cooler? That's my biggest issue with three gtx275 back to back in my X58-UD5

FWIW, I turned in the bigadv WU last night, and I got 50k for it, despite having a success rate of about 25% after I turned in the first 10 SMP units.
 
I got robbed! I forgot to wr mem on our FW and i lost all my fah NATs. Came in this morning and my -bigadv clients couldn't connect to send the results. I lost all the bonus. :(

We'll see how the next round goes in 3 days.
 
I noticed my computer blue screened sometime today. Luckily I was able to recover the WU and it'll probably complete in time to still get the bonus.

This is kinda worrying me though, my CPU isn't overclocked very high and it's been rock solid for a while now (couple months) but it's starting to give me problems lately. Halfway considering putting it back to stock, but do you think a 2.66GHz i7 would be able to cut it? I sorta doubt it.
 
I doubt it. Still might get better PPD than 1920s tho
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mrmylanman said:
I noticed my computer blue screened sometime today. Luckily I was able to recover the WU and it'll probably complete in time to still get the bonus.
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I heard that some people didn't lose a -bigadv WU after a crash. They seem to be more fragile than regular SMP WUs but not a guaranteed loss if there's a crash.

This is kinda worrying me though, my CPU isn't overclocked very high and it's been rock solid for a while now (couple months) but it's starting to give me problems lately. Halfway considering putting it back to stock, but do you think a 2.66GHz i7 would be able to cut it? I sorta doubt it.
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That seems unlikely but even if you can make it, a small amount of downtime for whatever reason can result in missing the bonus. That's an ever-present risk even for faster systems that ordinarily make the deadline by a big margin.

However, the upside might be slightly better PPD than with standard SMP WUs even if you can't make the bonus. This is comparing equal clock frequencies. It might be better to opt for a high OC that is stable with standard WUs as opposed to -bigadv with no bonus and no OC. There are several possibilities and you will have to experiment to see which configuration is best for your setup.
 
Yeah I hear ya. I need to improve my cooling situation some (hence 3.2GHz) but it is peculiar that I'd start getting blue screens now all the sudden.

I am thinking I may just start saving up for a decent multiprocessor system to fold on (and leave it at work. my boss doesn't pay utilities there so as long as it ain't illegal it's ok).
 
I'm O/c'd to 3.3 gig and pulling about 41-42 min a frame. Using the bonus point calculator, even if your frame time was 55 min ea. that's 5500 min = 91.6 hours = 3.83 days = 44,993 points.

I don't think Folding 1920s in that same amount of time would yield almost 45K points. How about try the CPU at say 3.1 gig and see how it does ?
 
I played with the voltages a little bit, and am trying some more at 3.2GHz. So far it's been okay for an hour. It must have blue screened after noon toady because I got some points at the 3pm update on extreme overclocking so I probably wouldn't see a blue screen until late tonight or whenever.

We'll see though. Maybe my tweaks solved my problems. I don't want to push the voltages that high because my room is somewhat warm until it cools down outside so I don't want to run into a heat problem.
 
Yeah I'm running it at stock core voltage to keep its heat down and safer with the 1156 socket.
 
3.3 at stock voltage is pretty damn good. I could get to 3.1 on my old motherboard at stock voltage. Not so on this one unfortunately.
 
My first round of bigadv have been added to the stats. It took 4 years but I've gone from 7k to over 130k is just a week. I never thought I'd move up the rankings so fast, lol.

 
sorry if this has been said already, but assuming this is accurate, 57 minutes and 36 seconds is the absolute maximum frame time that will get you bonus points. (at 57:37 you miss it :))

I think I've seen people running stock clock i7 920 that get better TPF than that. So I think even a stock 920 would be good to go, assuming no slowdowns or downtime.
 
If I get another blue screen I may drop it down then. Hopefully won't though. It's gone all the way from 22% to 31% now though, so I'm thinking hopefully it's okay? It seems like quite a bit of progress anyway.
 
jebo_4jc said:
sorry if this has been said already, but assuming this is accurate, 57 minutes and 36 seconds is the absolute maximum frame time that will get you bonus points. (at 57:37 you miss it :))
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I'd be a bit wary of the maximum acceptable frame time indicated in that calculator. It might not be taking into account the amount of time between the last frame is completed and the next WU is begun. There could be a substantial amount of time and it varies greatly. I've seen reports ranging anywhere between ~20 minutes to well over an hour, depending on several factors including disk subsystem performance and ISP speed. YMMV.

mrmylanman said:
If I get another blue screen I may drop it down then. Hopefully won't though. It's gone all the way from 22% to 31% now though, so I'm thinking hopefully it's okay? It seems like quite a bit of progress anyway.
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Did the WU resume after the restart?
 
sorry if this has been said already, but assuming this is accurate, 57 minutes and 36 seconds is the absolute maximum frame time that will get you bonus points. (at 57:37 you miss it )
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This is not counting time at the end of the WU for MPI to synchronize threads, for the WU to finalize, or for the WU to upload (which may be significant, especially with dialup and slower DSL connections).
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
This is not counting time at the end of the WU for MPI to synchronize threads, for the WU to finalize, or for the WU to upload (which may be significant, especially with dialup and slower DSL connections).
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You're exactly right, so if we want to add an hour extra for finalization & upload, that would be .6 of a minute per frame, or 36 seconds per frame.

So, call it 57 minutes even.

If you're completing frames in 57 minutes, you'll have an hour to finalize & upload and still hit the bonus
 
Hmm that's very interesting. Maybe I can make up some extra points there, my upload is like 2-4MB/s.

Gotta love corporate OC192s
 
Well my PC blue screened again.

Back to stock now we'll see how it likes that. I lost my WU this time. Probably wouldn't have finished on time anyway.
 
Well my PC blue screened again.

Back to stock now we'll see how it likes that. I lost my WU this time. Probably wouldn't have finished on time anyway.
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Add more CPU volts. And stability test with IBT instead of Prime, its usage pattern is much closer to the SMP client than Prime is.
 
Added a 3rd -bigadv 8core HS21 to the cluster. :cool:

Working on getting some HS22s
 
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