Hi Mannyo - it seems we've entered the 4 week window so I wonder if you'd be so good as to roll up the capets and give slot No. 2 good clean-out as I'm moving in soon:thumbup:

I'll leave beer in the Fridge in No. 3 to soften the blow.

My word! That be fightin' talk bouyyy....

Walter, I am letting second place go gracefully, you are a worthy champion. You only have bernard after me, and I am gaining on him, so you'll soon be number one.

My word! That be fightin' talk bouyyy....

No, it's all very friendly. For the fighting ones I usually roll up with a crew from the online version of Battlefield 2142 and blow up the slot before forcibly taking possession:D

I am a little concerned that we may have to rename the team "Briskoda featuring Walter_Anderson", after which I'll go on to a solo career:P

Walter, I am letting second place go gracefully, you are a worthy champion. You only have bernard after me, and I am gaining on him, so you'll soon be number one.

I'm REALLY confused why we're not doing more points, given the power of some of the machines on here. Maybe we need to go on a recruiting drive?

When you consider I have 15 machines at it 24/7 (non smp) and an smp part timer I do wonder sometimes.

Folding@Home

I dont have a PS3 or a powerful graphics card so I am quiet limited with the clients I can use.

The GPU folding client on my machine gave up after several WU's in a row failed whilst processing.. :(

Everything worked fine with the last beta client I was using.

Also given current energy prices etc I'm not surprised at our folding score at all.

An 8800GTX takes about 2 hours to finish a GPU client WU, and the 280GTX about 85 minutes and I'd say most folks have their PC turned on for roughly 2 hours every night. That means that anyone with a high-ish spec. PC should be able to do 480 points per night, so that would make a huge difference if we could get 10 people to do that, although I do appreciate that no everyone wants to run 3 8800GTXs and 2 280GTXs 24/7, I do think we could scare up a few more points, no?

What about the 9800 series of cards, I could get one of those to up my production.

I'll admit my quad core deosn't fold anymore as the FAH client went mental, I tried a few times to re-install, but it wasn't having any of it. I do use the ps3 from time too time, but as said the current elec prices have got me by the short and curlies.

£100 a month is a little excessive for my liking tbh.

After a good session on the PS3 I usually leave it on running folding whilst it charges up the pads.. It can usually complete a WU in about 6hrs and you can set it to switch the console off when its done.

Having an economy7 meter as well means this is the cheapest time for me to run folding.

I used to have access to a couple of quad core machines I used to have folding 24/7 but that's no longer an option for me.. :(

An 8800GTX takes about 2 hours to finish a GPU client WU, and the 280GTX about 85 minutes and I'd say most folks have their PC turned on for roughly 2 hours every night. That means that anyone with a high-ish spec. PC should be able to do 480 points per night, so that would make a huge difference if we could get 10 people to do that, although I do appreciate that no everyone wants to run 3 8800GTXs and 2 280GTXs 24/7, I do think we could scare up a few more points, no?

Agreed and it would be great if we could get a few more on board, but also during that time most people with such machines are going to be using them for what they bought them for in the first place...

What about the 9800 series of cards, I could get one of those to up my production.

9800GTX should do 4000-4500ppd. That'd basically double your output on just 1 machine. Not to mention fend me off for another 20 minutes or so:P

Agreed and it would be great if we could get a few more on board, but also during that time most people with such machines are going to be using them for what they bought them for in the first place...

So it might take 3 hours to do a work unit - most GPU WUs have a 36-48 hour time allowance so even with 25% load available it should still be feasible to get a marked increase in points. The problem as I see it is too many people just don't have the clients installed.

I know what you are saying about the electricity bill (my 2 machines are running about 1200W between them, which is like boiling the kettle 24 hours a day) but the whole point is to use unused processor cycles - CPU or GPU. That's when the PC is switched on and if it does a bit of good work then so much the better. I'm just a bit extreme:D

my old 8600gt is folding away quite merily.....

Not quite sure why it was failing on my 8600gts... :confused: It did work fine on one of the older betas. :(

Not quite sure why it was failing on my 8600gts... :confused: It did work fine on one of the older betas. :(

One of the clients needed to be forced to download a new engine file. If you did that it ran fine, otherwise it died. I think you also need to completely uninstall any previous copies, plus it doesn't run as a service under Vista.

I did uninstall the previous beta before installing this one.. after several failed WU I got this msg in the log file..

[09:17:25] EUE limit exceeded. Pausing 24 hours.

I've fired the client back up now see how it goes.. oh and Fista definitely isn't an issue here

For me its the energy cost...

The pc isn't on that much TBH... we generally use the laptop's for general internt stuff and the PC just gets used for the odd game and heavier or prolonged work use.

I know how much I'd be able to clock up with the 8800GTX but just can't afford to run the PC all the time with it on... at idle with just the PC running we use about 180w of power (that includes 15w for fish tank, cordless phones, router etc) and to run the GPU client would push that up to around 300w!

I did uninstall the previous beta before installing this one.. after several failed WU I got this msg in the log file..

[09:17:25] EUE limit exceeded. Pausing 24 hours.

I've fired the client back up now see how it goes.. oh and Fista definitely isn't an issue here

Ran fine up to 25% then failed again... the following several WU's all failed before 10% then I got another "EUE limit exceeded. Pausing 24 hours." msg. :(

GPU never got above 60 degrees C which isn't bad for a passively cooled one so it's not that... must be driver/software related.

it sounds like you are running the same WU over and over, I had this once with the normal client and to clear it takes a bit of work from the command prompt.

From the stanford site you need to find the qfix application for the gui client, and also know the executable name and install folder of the fah software.

Assuming the folder is c:\folding and the executable is fah.exe, (substitute as neccessary)

copy qfix.exe to the fah install folder

start > run >cmd

cd c:\folding

qfix

fah -send all

exit

restart the client and see what happens, if it picks up the same wu again try deleting queue.dat from the install folder along with the work directory.

I don't have the log to hand but looking at my folding stats it looks like it uploaded what it had processed as I have been awarded some points.. :confused:

I'll try your suggestion when I get home.

It's the same story here - with the increase in electricity costs, it was nice to be able to help out on the folding front, but sadly it had to stop.

Might pop it on my main quad core and will see about it again on my fileserver, but that isn't really that powerful, so the benefits won't be that great. I do fold on the PS3 when I can though...

Steve

Luckily for me, I only use 2 pc's at home for folding. One is on fulltime as its my main fileserver and hosts my website and the other only runs part time. The main bulk of my folding is done at work, where I have 14 instances of the console client installed on a mix of xeon and core2 machines.

They don't have a client that will run on the sorts of machines I have access to at work.. mind you thats probably for the best..

I used to have folding running at my job and was getting a fairly decent score from only acouple of machines..