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

[AngryPickles]

About my drop in points
My water cooling rig loop leaked on my x1900xtx so i have that rig in pieces i hope to have it back together later this week, still don't know if the card is still ok tho
My 2nd computer with a x1900xt randomly crashes, exits programs, freezes, corrupts files and programs, and eue's gpu work units. I think/hope its the mobo and i can just replace that if not i can throw both cards in one box.

[sc00p]

It's been awefully quiet over here anyone home?

Yeah I know what you mean... is this phuking team dying ... oh well... I haven't been around myself...

...but folding is what counts, right? Production appears to be constant.

[Sparky]

Yeah I know what you mean... is this phuking team dying ... oh well... I haven't been around myself...

...but folding is what counts, right? Production appears to be constant.

Yeah production for the most part has been good except for some rough spots here and there. Would be nice if there was more chit-chat going on though, like in the WCG section.

I've been crunching some for WCG as well, as a thank-you for their help near the end of our race. I've thought about it and decided that I think I'll keep a few systems over there since they are in a long drawn-out uphill struggle to #1. It's kind of nice to crunch for both groups actually. But this summer will determine whether I stay crunching for both or if I move back over to F@H totally - the electric bill at home is definitely higher when I have all the systems running there. At school it doesn't matter but home it does. Depending on my income over the summer I may or may not be able to pay for the extra, and if I can't I'll have to shut several systems down (not all of them though). If I have to shut several down I will most likely put all the systems I can run on F@H. Depending on how many I keep running I may leave one on WCG.

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

[GAM]

Heya guys, I'm still here but I haven't been visiting XS so much recently, caught up on preparing worklogs and a forum post building program over at OzCaseMods and OCAU.

Sorry I haven't taken the time to check in and say 'hello'

My output should be consistent except for the odd day when my wife forgets to plug the ethernet cable back into HTPC! I went away last weekend and noticed HTPC was trying to get new work for two days!!! Doh.

L8r

[Sparky]

Well GAM in case you haven't noticed you have a chance to try and pass me since my main rig is down, and I'm on spring break so most of the dedicated crunchers are offline until next week

In case you didn't see this, check this thread out - I think you deserve to be in the XC group! Hey, if I got in, you can get in, no doubt about it

[GAM]

Cheers mate, enrolled.

I had noticed your current pitiful effort, but as much as I'm whipping these bastard machines, they're not going any faster Stay this way for another 2.5 months are we may have a show down.
Whip marks are creating a nice case effect though.

[Sparky]

Cheers mate, enrolled.

I had noticed your current pitiful effort, but as much as I'm whipping these bastard machines, they're not going any faster Stay this way for another 2.5 months are we may have a show down.
Whip marks are creating a nice case effect though.

Well I got an email from Asus today saying that they shipped my board so I should have that soon. Now, just to get my GPU back too...

[GAM]

Sorry mate, I neglected to console you too, as much as I appreciate the opportunity to catch up. I hate it when hardware fails. I was a few weeks without my DQ6, early in the piece, and I hated it. I've had two drives fail recently. A 200GB Seagate 7200.8 SATA full of audio and video (out of warranty) and 1x250GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA2 that has been replaced (nothing lost as I had only just backed up to it). I just have to go and collect it now (45mins each way, driving!).

But, them's the breaks. Good luck with the new board.

[sc00p]

GAM on Sparky... how on earth you didn't fix that board yourself

[jimwah]

Re-overclocked my e6400 to a fairly sedate 3200mhz last night - VMware frame times down from 20mins a frame to ~14mins a frame on the biggies (2604/5 iirc)

It's looking pretty tight around the 100k to 200k mark at the moment, great to see so much good production & battles kicking off

[Big Deel]

Congrats Jimwah on taking 3rd place on the team.

[jimwah]

Congrats Jimwah on taking 3rd place on the team.

Thanks Big Deel I appreciate that I've been pretty busy here & there on the folding front recently...

I've actually cut down the number of boxes running this week - a suspect P4 2.66 has been taken off (found it stone dead, possible PSU gone) and my howling Opty 144 (powered by the antec psu with 80mm & 92mm fan at full tilt in it). The noise reduction from taking off the Opty was amazing, that thing was loud! I've also migrated most remaining boxes to Fedora linux, regardless of SMP CPU or not. Oh & I put my little Sempron back on.

Currently in the works is a rebuild of my PD805, 1gig DDR2, P5N board, 6200LE graphics. Testing the power consumption will decide whether this goes back on at home with SMP, or I try to blag it at work as some kind of 'development' box & get it folding 2 normal clients there Either that, or I buy something a little more power efficient

@Sparky & GAM & AP! how are your repairs going? shame about the Seagate's dying GAM, I got a few duff Maxtor's recently, and I understand they are the same company now iirc. Although I'm lucky with spare parts, if something dies I pick up a new one at work & put it on my tab.

Keep folding guys, after a bizarre points crash yesterday we've come back fighting with 61k done in the last 24hrs

[Sparky]

My replacement mobo came back from Asus, they sent me a new one instead of trying to repair my old one which is good. Now I'm just waiting on newegg to send me the replacement gfx card. They no longer had any X1900XT 512MB cards so they upgraded me to a X1950XT with an accelero X2 preinstalled. Once I get that I'll be putting better numbers up again. Also once spring break is over I'll have my dedicated crunchers running again as well.

[sc00p]

JIMWAH!

YOU HAD 3RD PLACE AND 500K... YOU SHOULD MAKE MORE NOISE OF YOURSELF M8 (englishmen )


And Sparky... I had in dreams I could run away from you but seems tough task ...
...lets see I'm going to try... prob no success cause I've ~week sudden delay

[TopherTony]

The SMP has its own set of WU, have a look down the current WU list here: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html for anything with a GRO-SMP as the code (right at the bottom of the page). Very nice units

I got my windows smp client running project 2651 and its not on that list...whats the dealio?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I got my windows smp client running project 2651 and its not on that list...whats the dealio?

Update fahmon with the latest unofficial built, and download the seperate SMP psummary as described on this page

[jimwah]

Thanks for making a noise sc00p Good to see your blue stats again too, the black & grey didn't suit you

Here's the stats on the Win SMP units Tony:

Project 2610: 1523 points, deadline 4 days
Project 2651: 1760 points, deadline 4 days
Project 2652: 1148 points, deadline 3 days

Hopefully they will appear in the points page soon.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Update fahmon with the latest unofficial built, and download the seperate SMP psummary as described on this page

Pff I made this post but forgot to add the link to it

http://fahmon.fahinfo.org/

[embeejay]

thx for the link MartianInvader

[Sparky]

If the stats are working properly now, I'm still hanging on to the top 20 producers by the skin of my teeth - I'm 20th

[jimwah]

Hang on in there Sparky! The stats are still a bit borked, I think I read upates might on a 6 hourly basis, rather than 3 hourly, from Stanford's servers now I'll check that when I get a minute...

I've had this e4300 sitting around for too long now, got to get a BIOS update sorted then hopefully get ~340fsb out of this nf4 board for another >3Ghz C2D on for XS

[Sparky]

Yeah the stats are still screwed up. Looks like the overall team stats are working OK now, but it hasn't registered the 2nd WU I submitted yesterday and the one that uploaded early this morning. Something still isn't right.

[embeejay]

sometimes one or two of the WU servers are slower to update and become part of the stats than the others, i have noticed this myself on a number of occasions, where a wu i have returned didn't show up in the stats until many hours later, although others did

[Sparky]

Somehow I doubt though that you haven't submitted results today either

[embeejay]

exactly my point Loads of peoples WUs from today are part of the stats, but ours aren't - so we have probably talked to a few of the laggy servers today

I have no doubt i'll see my WU's from today in the stats tomorrow - i am pretty used to it being that way tbh

EDIT: uhm seems i might have been way off - the teamstats are updatiung the individual stats aren't it seems - must be another statsserver problem then.