Been a bit quiet here hasn't it?

Good to see the team up to 138 in the WORLD!

Good to see a good smattering of numerous members all making their contribution to the cause. I'm down to 1 pc now, but still going for it!

Keep it going everyone!

I'm still going at full pelt, but for some reason the number of wu's I am completeing has dropped back. Must be some big wu's in progress.

What impresses me is that we are still catching others up but our nearest rival is over 9 months away.

Quite a few new members joined recently - worth some fresh advertising?

Quite a few new members joined recently - worth some fresh advertising?

Kind of why I started this thread. I'm strictly forbidden from using work's decent I.T equipment, but thats their right. I only have one desktop PC but it seems capable for a 1gb ram, 1.66ghz Athlon XP2200.

I'm still going fairly strong, and now with a new Higher position in IT to start end of the month and the control of a new roll out of 300 P4 machines, i may just start to make ground on the top three

I finally got round to creating some scheduled tasks to start and stop my folding so it's not interrupting my work during the day, so my work laptop is back on stream.

If anyone can work out how to have more than 8 systems processing work units thats great as I have plenty of spare CPU cycles, but no spare Machine ID's

Just sign up a second id and join the Briskoda team?

If anyone can work out how to have more than 8 systems processing work units thats great as I have plenty of spare CPU cycles, but no spare Machine ID's

You can have loads of machines, as many as 1,000,000,000 all with machine ID "1" if you want. The "1" and "2" are only needed when you have two core processors working (i.e 50% capacity running on each core) Something to do with it running two folding programs at the same time, one on each core.

So hang on if i have a 4 core machine i need to have ID1/2/3/4 for each one folding on that machine but then other machines can have ID 1/2/3/4 too?

I've still got my 2 machine test cluster, plus 1 other Dell server, my desktop and my laptop running.

And I'm on call this week, so my lappy is on all night, too, though I've had to throttle the CPU back to 80%, as Dell 610's get flipping hot when you run the CPU at 100% all the time!

Phil, folding, folding, folding........

So hang on if i have a 4 core machine i need to have ID1/2/3/4 for each one folding on that machine but then other machines can have ID 1/2/3/4 too?

Yes, as far as am aware, coz i have several machines all using ID1 (single core cpu machines) last count i have 14 or so working under one user name

So hang on if i have a 4 core machine i need to have ID1/2/3/4 for each one folding on that machine but then other machines can have ID 1/2/3/4 too?

ID is only relevant to ONE system. So if you had an eight core machine, each core would have to do 1/8th the work each with a different ID to distinguish them. If you had shedloads of single core PCs each can run with the default ID, 1.

I've still got my 3 pcs running at home pretty much 24/7.... think I'm averaging around 300 points a day which isn't too bad really!

edit: OOH, MAKE THAT 400

ID is only relevant to ONE system. So if you had an eight core machine, each core would have to do 1/8th the work each with a different ID to distinguish them. If you had shedloads of single core PCs each can run with the default ID, 1.

:iagree:

:eek: Oh no, someone's had to agree with Jason!:P

Has been quiet on here, but we steadily plug away.

For the first time in a little while, Active users are back in the majortiy again, but for how long?

Keep on folding.

All the Best

Chris

I've had to turn off at least 2 machines in order to save on the electricity bill at home!

Still running ahead with out 26 machines...

For the first time in a little while, Active users are back in the majortiy again, but for how long?

What was I thinking, what a load of rubbish! Perhaps I was just hoping.......

For the record: 55 Active, 62 Inactive.

Ahh it's ok then i'll bring another 8 cores online at some point

Hypertheically, if i have two dual core CPUs and each core is hyperthreaded should I run 4 or 8 instances on the machine?

Ahh it's ok then i'll bring another 8 cores online at some point

You'll be into the top 20 in no time at the rate you're going!

All the Best

Chris

What does hyperthreaded mean?

All I DO know for sure is that a two core CPU uses 50% of total power for each folding executable, so need two folders, one with each executable in, and one with machine ID 1 and the other with 2.

You have the real dual core, then you have the thing where intel chips show up unused CPU units as a second CPU. At the moment I am guessing 4 is the best unless anyone knows otherwise.