The ***OFFICIAL*** F@H Harassment and discussion thread!!!

[sc00p]

Hmm.... what's this I see? 4.2 weeks, and I'm due to pass A. Pickles. Oh, and look at that, 1.1 months, and I'm due to pass... you, sc00p!

Do we have then two (or even three) Sparkle Days

[Sparky]

GAM isn't gonna get any Sparkle days of the original type, I've got some horsepower in reserve now Unless he suddenly brings some extras to front as well I find it interesting that he redefined Sparkle day though. C'mon GAM, I dare ya to challenge me again sometime

[GAM]

Just trying to be realistic there Sparky

'Sparkle Day' has such a nice ring to it, it would have been a shame to drop it altogether.

...I wonder if I could coax my brother into putting his two machine into the fold, for me of course....

Hehe, no don't worry. It won't happen. I won't be increasing output anytime in the forseeable future. Fold on Sparkster.

[jimwah]

Ok I think I'm almost done playing with my Core2 rig, and it will be rebuilt in my Antec900 soon, & the Xeons will be decommisioned. Hopefully this will kick off this evening, & I can get back up into the bright red realms of production again asap

I just need to decide where my Core's are going, I've disabled VT on the 6400 in my main rig so I might swap it out for the e6300 in my dedicated folder - then get VMware on the go.

I'll have Timarak back in my sights again soon I hope, and I've got to keep Windforce & XSTM at bay for as long as I can

( ps. good point sc00p, I might keep the power usage figures to myself )

[Sparky]

Ok I think I'm almost done playing with my Core2 rig, and it will be rebuilt in my Antec900 soon, & the Xeons will be decommisioned. Hopefully this will kick off this evening, & I can get back up into the bright red realms of production again asap

I just need to decide where my Core's are going, I've disabled VT on the 6400 in my main rig so I might swap it out for the e6300 in my dedicated folder - then get VMware on the go.

I'll have Timarak back in my sights again soon I hope, and I've got to keep Windforce & XSTM at bay for as long as I can

( ps. good point sc00p, I might keep the power usage figures to myself )

Nah keep the xeons running in another box

[WindForce]

..., and I've got to keep Windforce & XSTM at bay for as long as I can

...better hurry, i'll throw in a few more rigs into the fire starting next week

[[XC] DragonOrta]

I'll have Timarak back in my sights again soon I hope, and I've got to keep Windforce & XSTM at bay for as long as I can

( ps. good point sc00p, I might keep the power usage figures to myself )

That won't do. Time to bring the x1900xt back into service.

[jimwah]

Aargh! I should've kept my mouth shut I've managed to negotiate a swap today at work, my e6300 for a 6400 - this means I'll hopefully have 3x e6400's put on folding this week (1 on VMware Linux, 1 on Windows, 1 on native Linux)

Thanks for the service install guide Sparky, I set that up on my work box, since I've found people have used my machine & closed the clients in the past (I might bump that thread if/when I do a vmware install) Xeons have gotta go off, too much power being eaten & not enough work being done unfortunately.

On a side note, do you think you could drop an x1900 into the second slot in an SLi board, and just use it to fold on, as a secondary display with no monitor connected? Last time I looked the linux-64 client was maxing @ ~80% CPU time, perhaps leaving enough CPU for a GPU folder

[Sparky]

I don't see a problem doing that, it should work. Trying to run in crossfire takes some driver hacking but for two independent cards it should work fine. But I've never had more than one graphics card in my computer so I can't be totally sure.

[jimwah]

...better hurry, i'll throw in a few more rigs into the fire starting next week

That won't do. Time to bring the x1900xt back into service.

I'm putting my foot down a bit now - catch me if you can

I'm run off my feet with various jobs at the moment, so I think I'll shelf the 2x GPU plans for now - although I might find a dirt cheap PCI-e skt 754 (or even s478 board if they exist?) and drop an old sempron or P4 in with the x1900. It would be interesting to measure the power draw on such a box too. None of this will happen until the next pay-day, I've had to pay my tab at work this month for a variety of drives & a few C2D's

[WindForce]

I'm putting my foot down a bit now - catch me if you can

Finally, a good fight
Time to step up ( ...and for all the wcg lurkers, i'm not lowering my production over there )

[GAM]

I'm putting my foot down a bit now - catch me if you can

...None of this will happen until the next pay-day, I've had to pay my tab at work this month for a variety of drives & a few C2D's

Ha ha, the things we do...

@Sparky, Da-key will be behind me in an hour (probably by the time you read this ) and then in another 5 days or so I'll slip by Big Stan and right be behind you in the XS rankings at 14! 'Redefined Sparkly Day' here we come...

[Sparky]

Hmm wonder if I should gear up a couple more systems....

[Sparky]

Anyone else been having the projects 3038 and 3039 (I think the numbers are) ending with EUE's? Or is it just me? Fold4 and fold5 seem eat those at between 12% and 35% or so. Makes me frustrated when I see EUE's

[WindForce]

Anyone else been having the projects 3038 and 3039 (I think the numbers are) ending with EUE's? Or is it just me? Fold4 and fold5 seem eat those at between 12% and 35% or so. Makes me frustrated when I see EUE's

Been having plenty of those for the past 3 days...Add to this 2 rigs down because of a power shortouts, so my prod. went down from 6-7k to 3-4k
Luckily i added a few rigs throughout the week, so we'll gonna see some results soon

[Scimitar]

Yep, about 1/2 of my 30XX projects EUE. Sucks, wish I had Patty Melts again.

[jimwah]

Yeah I noticed a 6 pointer go in for me the other day, I guess that must've been an EUE on one of these units too - couldn't see anything wrong on the machines when I got back a few hours later. Good luck getting the machines straight Windforce; although it's quite relaxing for me seeing your ETA to "Jimkle Day" (no doesn't work does it) is over a year at the moment

[GAM]

Hehe, 'jimkle day'

HEAPS of 3038/9's here for weeks and weeks now but no apparent problems.

[Sparky]

yeah not all the systems seem to have trouble, but every so often they just eat them. Not sure why.

Fold3 pulled a strange stunt earlier today. It stopped doing checkpoints so the log file reports an EUE and it supposedly uploaded the WU. But while I could access the log file and ping the system I couldn't log into it. So I rebooted it and when it came back up it continued working on the WU it supposedly uploaded?

[mad mikee]

Thank YOU Mr. DragonOrta!

Now If I can only get time to get heater set up on another SMP client

That won't do. Time to bring the x1900xt back into service.

[WindForce]

Good luck getting the machines straight Windforce; although it's quite relaxing for me seeing your ETA to "Jimkle Day" (no doesn't work does it) is over a year at the moment

Yup, had to change my UPS ( 15KVA ) at the office
One of the rigs is fixed but shutdown, and the other one is still @ the ER waiting for a PSU that will arrive on Sunday...
I had so much work this week that i barely added 2 new rigs in F@H, so yes, you can relax for at least a week

[Sparky]

I've got an opportunity to buy a s754 mobo, A64 2800+, 512MB RAM, and (somewhat cheapo) 400W PSU for $112, or $92 without the PSU... So tempting! I have the money... but if I do this that puts me that much further away from watercooling my PC... What to do?!

[GAM]

Enjoy one GOOD machine and put the doh aside for watercooling

[jimwah]

Yeah I've got to agree with GAM, hang on for the watercooling & push that 165 It'll kick more arse when the WinSMP arrives, or if you get VMWare/Linux on there

Hope that machine gets it PSU & comes out of the ER safely today Windforce, you need it on to catch me

[GAM]

'Redefined Sparkle Day' has arrived (for GAM)!

I look ahead and all I see is Sparky giving me the moon
And so he should given he is 48,412pts ahead!!!!