WCG Christmas Race 2009

[sierra_bound]

After 18 days

[Angmaar]

Way to go everyone!

[INFRNL]

Why didn't anyone remind me

I've had my new 920 sitting for about 2 weeks now cause i have been working 80hrs a week I will add it in.

We could have cheated and gone for other projects, but I am strictly on HFCC and HCC. I will go temporarily setup my new 920 for the remainder of the race I could have signed the divorce papers and bought another one last week too

Too bad WCG doesn't support gpu's yet; I now have 10 GTX 275's and 1 GTX260 I could have added

Wonder if a system will produce better without gpugrid or f@h running on the same system I think I will try just WCG and a cheap gpu, see if it will produce any better than running a GPU for folding on the same system

forgot to say GREAT JOB FELLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[123bob]

Why didn't anyone remind me

I've had my new 920 sitting for about 2 weeks now cause i have been working 80hrs a week I will add it in.

We could have cheated and gone for other projects, but I am strictly on HFCC and HCC. I will go temporarily setup my new 920 for the remainder of the race I could have signed the divorce papers and bought another one last week too

Too bad WCG doesn't support gpu's yet; I now have 10 GTX 275's and 1 GTX260 I could have added

Wonder if a system will produce better without gpugrid or f@h running on the same system:shrug: I think I will try just WCG and a cheap gpu, see if it will produce any better than running a GPU for folding on the same system

forgot to say GREAT JOB FELLAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

....Don't even think about stopping your GPUs. I WILL run you over like a cheese sandwich, under an asphalt roller, on GPUGrid.... On Stanford folding, well, I'll just increase my lead....

Seriously, I have noticed now detrimental effect of running folding or GPUGrid along with WCG. I did look at this early on, when I was bringing up GPUs for folding and the Grid. I did not do the kind of in-depth work we did on the "860 vs 920" thread we did, but I can say that I did not see noticable difference.

Just for the record, right now I'm running only a stable of 12 260-216s, all 55nm, and one lonely 8600GTS that is stuck on folding. We seem to be really close on production on the GPU side, both GPUGrid and folding. Interesting....

My best to you INFRNL, you rock,

Bob

[jcool]

GPUGrid takes about 1-2% total of a hyperthreaded Nehalem machine per GPU, so it's not that big a hit. FAH is similar, and milkyway is even better on the ATIs (running an HD5970 on milkyway, I never saw more than 1% CPU load with WCG halted).

[INFRNL]

....Don't even think about stopping your GPUs. I WILL run you over like a cheese sandwich, under an asphalt roller, on GPUGrid.... On Stanford folding, well, I'll just increase my lead....

Seriously, I have noticed now detrimental effect of running folding or GPUGrid along with WCG. I did look at this early on, when I was bringing up GPUs for folding and the Grid. I did not do the kind of in-depth work we did on the "860 vs 920" thread we did, but I can say that I did not see noticable difference.

Just for the record, right now I'm running only a stable of 12 260-216s, all 55nm, and one lonely 8600GTS that is stuck on folding. We seem to be really close on production on the GPU side, both GPUGrid and folding. Interesting....

My best to you INFRNL, you rock,

Bob

Thanks BOB, I did notice that we are neck and neck between F@H and on the grid. I have been having various problems with 2d downclocking lately so my production is all out of wack

Maybe I should have listened to you guys in the past. I could have sworn I was making more of a difference with my 275's than the guys with their 260's I could have stocked up on those $130 refurbs oh well. on avg I only paid approx $175 per GTX 275

so basically you have 2 more 260's than I have 275's, plus you have your 8600. I just sold my 9800gt for dirt cheap to help out burninator That was good for 4-6k ppd on folding. Maybe I need to figure out a way to get my shaders higher on my 275's I have to turn some down recently for some odd reason
I normally run@1620 shaders, I have 1@1593 now to avoid errors(this is on my P55 rig) I have had odd issues with my p55 compared to all my x58 machines

GPUGrid takes about 1-2% total of a hyperthreaded Nehalem machine per GPU, so it's not that big a hit. FAH is similar, and milkyway is even better on the ATIs (running an HD5970 on milkyway, I never saw more than 1% CPU load with WCG halted).

Thanks for the info fellas. So I can run my new GTX 275 in my new 920 machine, but I need a new psu to power the electic hungry gpu

Maybe it would have been better to go 260-216' not much less production, but cheaper on the utility bill. My wife gave me a dirty look last night and about fell over when she saw the utility bill was almost $400

I know this bill does not compare to a lot of you guys, but its probably double of what we normally pay. This does not include the new 920 and gtx 275 either

[sierra_bound]

After 19 days. XS keeps rolling along.

[don_xvi]

You know, for grins, we could fill our work buffers and then freeze communication on all of our clients until the challenge is over and try to give the other teams a chance to catch up !

[lkiller123]

That's a good idea.

[DAK1640]

Thanks BOB, I did notice that we are neck and neck between F@H and on the grid. I have been having various problems with 2d downclocking lately so my production is all out of wack

Maybe I should have listened to you guys in the past. I could have sworn I was making more of a difference with my 275's than the guys with their 260's I could have stocked up on those $130 refurbs oh well. on avg I only paid approx $175 per GTX 275

so basically you have 2 more 260's than I have 275's, plus you have your 8600. I just sold my 9800gt for dirt cheap to help out burninator That was good for 4-6k ppd on folding. Maybe I need to figure out a way to get my shaders higher on my 275's I have to turn some down recently for some odd reason
I normally run@1620 shaders, I have 1@1593 now to avoid errors(this is on my P55 rig) I have had odd issues with my p55 compared to all my x58 machines



Thanks for the info fellas. So I can run my new GTX 275 in my new 920 machine, but I need a new psu to power the electic hungry gpu

Maybe it would have been better to go 260-216' not much less production, but cheaper on the utility bill. My wife gave me a dirty look last night and about fell over when she saw the utility bill was almost $400

I know this bill does not compare to a lot of you guys, but its probably double of what we normally pay. This does not include the new 920 and gtx 275 either

Now they tell me

[sierra_bound]

After 20 days

[sierra_bound]

Here's another challenge that started on December 16 - the WCG Cannonball Run. I think it's safe to declare a winner. Team 2ch averages around 20 million a day.

[123bob]

Too bad we didn't know about that one. Even if we would have been #2. I think we still should have done it. Our purpose of getting our team name out there would still have been served.

Even if we couldn't give too much smack to Team2CH about a WCG contest, we could have smack talked about running them over on GPUGrid....

Seriously, they are a high class team. I respect that.

On this WCG contest, we were quite nicely invited by the sponsor. I think that was good.

My best to everyone involved, from all teams. Good work!

Bob

[123bob]

Here's another challenge that started on December 16 - the WCG Cannonball Run. I think it's safe to declare a winner. Team 2ch averages around 20 million a day.

Sierra, does that challenge show up only on your Captain view of the team page? I didn't see it, while logged in as "123bob", on our team page.

The reason I ask is that I'm Captain of the TR team. I don't see this particular challenge there either, logged in as "123bob_TR". I was going to throw us into it, just to show up on the roster.

The other thing of note I noticed recently is that I have an "appoint new captain" link next to my Captain name on the TR team page. Do you have that too, on the XS Captain page, or am I being told something here? If so, I'll get the heck out of the way......

Thx,
Bob

[don_xvi]

Here's another challenge that started on December 16 - the WCG Cannonball Run. I think it's safe to declare a winner. Team 2ch averages around 20 million a day.

Isn't 2ch from Japan ?

[D_A]

The other thing of note I noticed recently is that I have an "appoint new captain" link next to my Captain name on the TR team page. Do you have that too, on the XS Captain page, or am I being told something here? If so, I'll get the heck out of the way......

Thx,
Bob

All the captains have that link, I suspect due to the number of complaints about captains going "AWOL" and leaving teams headless. As for the various challenges, there's too many to list in the box provided so you only see the first 'n'. When you enter some you get other challenges showing up in their place.

[123bob]

All the captains have that link, I suspect due to the number of complaints about captains going "AWOL" and leaving teams headless. As for the various challenges, there's too many to list in the box provided so you only see the first 'n'. When you enter some you get other challenges showing up in their place.

Thx DA.

Bob

[lkiller123]

Isn't 2ch from Japan ?

They ARE Japan Out of the 17,224 members from Japan, 11,108 members are in 2ch.

[Angmaar]

They ARE Japan Out of the 17,224 members from Japan, 11,108 members are in 2ch.

Is 2ch like 4chan or something?

[jspace]

Is 2ch like 4chan or something?

I think they are the same, minus the stupid.

[SoulsCollective]

I think you meant to say, minus the oarsum, and with a dash of added weeaboo and moonspeak.

[Angmaar]

I think they are the same, minus the stupid.

Oh, there's alot of stupid on 4Chan.

[sierra_bound]

After 21 days

[CaptMorgan]

when the race end officially?

[SoulsCollective]

Looking good folks. Let's see if we can get a 40mil lead by the end.