New Members Welcome & Advice Thread

**GTSRboy** · 03-25-2009, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by MaK2000

You better watch out! This

gets addicting. 8000 PPD won't cut it for the top rung of the team. I started at 5KPD when the PPD used to be higher and now am doing 40KPD with the worse PPD per WU.

Yea it should be good for the top 20 producers! I dont have enough equipment to go anything above that! when or if i get two 285's i should do better

**Sparky** · 03-25-2009, 12:17 PM

What I find amazing is my normal output per day (not my current, post-spring-break slump) is over half of what the ENTIRE team used to make a couple years ago. People like WFO are making 2-3x as much as the team used to make. The team, as a whole, is making a whopping 24 times MORE now a day than it did a couple years ago. That's HUGE guys.

**GTSRboy** · 03-25-2009, 12:54 PM

when did the folding@home team XS start? How long have you been in the top 100?

**GTSRboy** · 04-20-2009, 01:05 PM

I ended up buying a XFX GTX285, i plan to hold onto it for a loooonng time. Ill SLI it within the year. Its going to be a WHILE before two GTX285's arnt enough, like at least 5 years

**WFO** · 04-20-2009, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by GTSRboy

when did the folding@home team XS start? How long have you been in the top 100?

Good questions!

I don't think I joined till they were already top 40 or somewhere thereabouts.

**kevikev** · 04-24-2009, 11:39 AM

Newbie question about the stats @ ExtremeOC: why is it that the 12pm stats update rarely yields any points? It's pretty consistent each day that there is little or no updates during that time period. It's almost as if the stats take a lunch break

**WFO** · 04-24-2009, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by kevikev

Newbie question about the stats @ ExtremeOC: why is it that the 12pm stats update rarely yields any points? It's pretty consistent each day that there is little or no updates during that time period. It's almost as if the stats take a lunch break

That is a great question kevikev! I checked several of our top 10 producers and you are right! Zilch for the 12:00pm update.

I'd post over at EOC but it's Friday. The tequila is kicking in and I'm feeling very lazy right now.

**Sparky** · 04-25-2009, 07:21 PM

Could be a server bug perhaps. Or like you said, out to lunch

I really don't know, never noticed before!

**annihilus** · 04-27-2009, 10:05 AM

joined the team

**shadowwind** · 04-27-2009, 10:23 AM

welcome to the team be warned its a addiction once you start.

**WFO** · 04-27-2009, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by shadowwind

welcome to the team be warned its a addiction once you start.

**annihilus** · 04-28-2009, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by shadowwind

welcome to the team be warned its a addiction once you start.

now he tells me

**DAK1640** · 04-28-2009, 04:18 PM

Welcome annihilus, thanks for helping...Tell your companion to beware of Riptide, he likes those kind of animals...

**WFO** · 04-28-2009, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by DAK1640

Welcome annihilus, thanks for helping...Tell your companion to beware of Riptide, he likes those kind of animals...

Rip is going to rip you a new one for that.

**annihilus** · 04-28-2009, 05:37 PM

now you got him all exited

**GTSRboy** · 05-03-2009, 11:40 AM

does anyone know what it means when you call a GPU "Vanilla"?

**OldChap** · 05-03-2009, 12:52 PM

From wiki

Vanilla is also commonly used to mean "plain" or "conventional," derived from the use of vanilla extract as the most popular flavoring for ice cream.
Vanilla option, in finance, a "simple" or well understood option
Vanilla sex, a term referring to what a society regards as standard or conventional human sexual behavior
Vanilla software, referring to software that is used "as delivered"

**shadowwind** · 05-03-2009, 12:52 PM

nilla was a good overclocker my first nilla was an old TI 200 made by gainsward wow i paid alot for that card when it first came out in fact im looking at it right now lol.
means factory stock setting not oced .

**OldChap** · 05-05-2009, 11:51 AM

Those of you with a K9A2 platinum...I need help!!

The clear cmos jumper is not fitted ...I cannot determine which is pin1. Where should the jumper be? nearest the cpu and centre or furthest from cpu and centre?

**GTSRboy** · 05-05-2009, 12:38 PM

so vanilla = stock.

Im not getting a nilla 285, i got a 670mhz XFX 285 im about to buy.....still waiting for newegg to give me a refund
----
As you can see below, no 285 has resulted in some crappy folding recently

**shadowwind** · 05-05-2009, 01:43 PM

yup it is gts if its used to in terms of hard ware like vid cards some call them
plain janes .

**shaolin95** · 05-12-2009, 09:11 AM

Hi all!
I just started yesterday. Currently just using my GTX280 while I learned how to add my 8800gt and quad Phenom II 720 to the task as well.
Its fun to do this...but lets see how the energy bill reacts to it. :-)

**shadowwind** · 05-12-2009, 10:02 AM

Welcome to the team your set up should do all right on the electricity side
of it , but folding can be a addiction you will be wanting to add more.
you have been warned lol.

**Quad-Damage** · 05-12-2009, 10:28 AM

Hey guys I just joined, I work for a IT job and I have access to 100's of computers. I have a Mac Mini with a duo core in it trying to get it to work correct. Not sure if i set it up correctly. I can't see my name in the stats, not even sure if it's running. Here is the the info I'm getting, anything I should or need to change. It's for a Mac with 10.5.6 2ghz core 2 duo and 2 gb of ram. I never use this mac, just to help users with Mac problems.
Folding@Home Client Version 6.24R1

http://folding.stanford.edu

################################################## #############################
################################################## #############################

Launch directory: /Users/Alex/Library/Folding@home
Executable: /Users/Alex/Downloads/FAH6.24.1-OSX-Intel-Console/fah6

[18:13:14] - Ask before connecting: No
[18:13:14] - User name: QuadDamage (Team 36362)
[18:13:14] - User ID: 7B2E215B4EDFD40C
[18:13:14] - Machine ID: 1
[18:13:14]
[18:13:14] Loaded queue successfully.
[18:13:14]
[18:13:14] + Processing work unit
[18:13:14] At least 4 processors must be requested; read 1.
[18:13:14] Core required: FahCore_a2.exe
[18:13:14] Core found.
[18:13:14] Working on queue slot 01 [May 12 18:13:14 UTC]
[18:13:14] + Working ...
Warning: Ignoring unknown arg
Warning: Ignoring unknown arg
Warning: Ignoring unknown arg
Warning: Ignoring unknown arg
[18:13:14]
[18:13:14] *------------------------------*
[18:13:14] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[18:13:14] Version 2.07 (Sun Apr 19 14:29:51 PDT 2009)
[18:13:14]
[18:13:14] Preparing to commence simulation
[18:13:14] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[18:13:24] - Looking at optimizations...
[18:13:24] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[18:13:24] - Files status OK
[18:13:26] - Expanded 4845838 -> 24003985 (decompressed 495.3 percent)
[18:13:27] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=4845838 data_size=24003985, decompressed_data_size=24003985 diff=0
[18:13:27] - Digital signature verified
[18:13:27]
[18:13:27] Project: 2672 (Run 0, Clone 128, Gen 126)
[18:13:27]
[18:13:27] Entering M.D.
NNODES=4, MYRANK=2, HOSTNAME=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
NNODES=4, MYRANK=3, HOSTNAME=Folding@Home Client Version 6.24R1

http://folding.stanford.edu

################################################## #############################
################################################## #############################

Launch directory: /Users/Alex/Library/Folding@home
Executable: /Users/Alex/Downloads/FAH6.24.1-OSX-Intel-Console/fah6

[18:13:14] - Ask before connecting: No
[18:13:14] - User name: QuadDamage (Team 36362)
[18:13:14] - User ID: 7B2E215B4EDFD40C
[18:13:14] - Machine ID: 1
[18:13:14]
[18:13:14] Loaded queue successfully.
[18:13:14]
[18:13:14] + Processing work unit
[18:13:14] At least 4 processors must be requested; read 1.
[18:13:14] Core required: FahCore_a2.exe
[18:13:14] Core found.
[18:13:14] Working on queue slot 01 [May 12 18:13:14 UTC]
[18:13:14] + Working ...
Warning: Ignoring unknown arg
Warning: Ignoring unknown arg
Warning: Ignoring unknown arg
Warning: Ignoring unknown arg
[18:13:14]
[18:13:14] *------------------------------*
[18:13:14] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[18:13:14] Version 2.07 (Sun Apr 19 14:29:51 PDT 2009)
[18:13:14]
[18:13:14] Preparing to commence simulation
[18:13:14] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[18:13:24] - Looking at optimizations...
[18:13:24] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[18:13:24] - Files status OK
[18:13:26] - Expanded 4845838 -> 24003985 (decompressed 495.3 percent)
[18:13:27] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=4845838 data_size=24003985, decompressed_data_size=24003985 diff=0
[18:13:27] - Digital signature verified
[18:13:27]
[18:13:27] Project: 2672 (Run 0, Clone 128, Gen 126)
[18:13:27]
[18:13:27] Entering M.D.
NNODES=4, MYRANK=2, HOSTNAME=
NNODES=4, MYRANK=3, HOSTNAME=
NNODES=4, MYRANK=0, HOSTNAME=
NNODES=4, MYRANK=1, HOSTNAME=

this mean it's working?

**Quad-Damage** · 05-12-2009, 10:30 AM

I'm getting a host name from my domain network, i just deleted it, u could see where I work if that was the case

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