Welcome to the folding team Walter, and off to a very good start I see, a Jump of 47 places in the last 7 days.

I have just started folding for the Briskoda team now... Got two clients running at same time while using the pc... set up for 4 (quad core) and will run them all while idle...

Is 'Walter Anderson' your username on there then Phil?

Some of the names on the FAH list I can't match up Mine is straightforward

Steve

Mine is philje123... same as my briskoda one.

But i cant find my name in the team list??!!

Mine is philje123... same as my briskoda one.

But i cant find my name in the team list??!!

If you've only just started, you may not have done a unit yet to get on the list. Plus the overclockers forum I use to check up on the team is around 6 hours behind normal time, but has loads of stats on it.

Briskoda.net - Team Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats

:eek: Where the hell has this guy come from? He's storming on the folding!!!!

Walter_Anderson - User Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats

ah... there we are then.

Have only just started, got the 4 clients set-up and havn't completed a unit yet.

What kind of hardware is this guy using!!! He must be doing it 24/7.

I'm trying to work out a 1760 point unit. I've never done a work unit worth more than 600 points before and that took a good 4 days to crunch...

Wow.. that guy is really crunching through work units!

That should help boost our daily average somewhat

Nice one Walter

One of my machines has picked up a 1487, which at 1161 points is the biggest unit I've ever had. Unfortunately the Athlon 64 that's got it is going to take a month to complete running 24/7 :(

I'm tempted to bin it as it will do nothing for my daily average - that machine would normally produce double that number of points in a month.... but I do want to see it finish it!

:eek: Where the hell has this guy come from? He's storming on the folding!!!!

Walter_Anderson - User Summary - EXTREME Overclocking Folding @ Home Stats

I used to fold for overclockers.co.uk (Team 10) - but I got 1M points with them and I wasn't really making a significant contribution to the team so I'm putting my 4 insanely overclocked systems over to Team 42567. Once all the systems are transferred over you should see 6000-8000ppd from me.

:woohoo:

Nice one

I used to fold for overclockers.co.uk (Team 10) - but I got 1M points with them and I wasn't really making a significant contribution to the team so I'm putting my 4 insanely overclocked systems over to Team 42567. Once all the systems are transferred over you should see 6000-8000ppd from me.

Watch out BPM, the number one spot is now at risk.

How on earth do you get 4 overclocked machines to fold at that rate, I have nearly 20 CPUs and my daily average is low in comparison. 2.5 years on and 1.3 million points.

Watch out BPM, the number one spot is now at risk.

How on earth do you get 4 overclocked machines to fold at that rate, I have nearly 20 CPUs and my daily average is low in comparison. 2.5 years on and 1.3 million points.

SMP Client on multi-core machines. But you need to dedicate processor time to get them completed within the very tight deadlines. Plus they're all running at least 3.6GHz.

Watch out BPM, the number one spot is now at risk.[/Quote]

I think I now have that....

Wow... and here was me thinking I was doing well when I hit 200,000 points lol - it took my little machines almost 2 years to do that

Welcome aboard, Mr Anderson

Holy smoke

Superb effort

Steve

I've just joined very recently, but I can't for the life of me work out how Walter_Anderson is generating that many points/WUs with only 3 CPUs.

I have 10+ CPU cores working away (none of them full time though) but still can't generate units that fast! Even on a Dual 3.06Ghz Xeon system, it's taking over a week for one work unit from each core.

What the heck have you under the PC bonnet Walter !?!?!? :eek:

Yup, that's one sorted setup.

SMP Client on multi-core machines. But you need to dedicate processor time to get them completed within the very tight deadlines. Plus they're all running at least 3.6GHz.

So is the SMB client better than running the normal client 1 per core?

I thought the SMB client is less efficient than instance per core (except you get through 1 unit quicker than 2 at once)

The SMP client gives the developers a very fast solution to a targetted problem. There is a very high risk of the WU failing, plus there is a very high risk of you not hitting the deadline on time, in each case you get null point. To compensate for this, the SMP WUs have very high values. An overclocked Core2Duo allowed to run 24/7 with office duties only through the day/evening will do 1000ppd on the SMP core. An overclocked Q6600 will do 3000ppd.

It is well worth running one instance of the SMP core (you can only run one) if;

1. You have at least an AMD X2 or a Core2Duo

2. The machine is left on 24/7

3. You don't mind checking the machines regularly to ensure the core hasn't become corrupted etc.

Thanks for that.

I decided not to run the SMP version as it said on the site that it was designed for 4 cores and isn't supposed to be very efficient on a 2 Core system.

Testing it here on my X2, it didn't use a great deal of CPU time. (About 33% versus 100% for two individual instances) and has the disadvantage of not being easy to determine how far it's got (no DOS box or graphical client, just the log file to check)

EDIT:- Running it as a normal Command Console client, it runs better, but still not 100%. Obviously has an issue with running as a service for one thing.

EDIT2:-Had to drop back to 2-client method. After a while of processing on the SMP client, I get the dreaded general error, "Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x01"

EDIT:- Running it as a normal Command Console client, it runs better, but still not 100%. Obviously has an issue with running as a service for one thing.

EDIT2:-Had to drop back to 2-client method. After a while of processing on the SMP client, I get the dreaded general error, "Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x01"

That's the risk running beta clients. In theory, all my systems running flat out 24/7 will do 10,000ppd but I'm actually doing less than half that at the moment because of lost WUs etc.

Damn. I've got competition. Looks like I've about 2 years before I get overtaken, going by your current folding. I can't believe you've only 3-4 machines, I've got roughly 30 and I'm only getting half your ppd. I think I'll have to recruit a quad core or two for the cause...

I've got the SMP client running on some Dual_Xeons but they

don't finish a unit much faster than two separate clients. I guess the SMP units are more complicated to compute.

Your kit must be multi-Quad-Core units.

I've got the SMP client running on some Dual_Xeons but they

don't finish a unit much faster than two separate clients. I guess the SMP units are more complicated to compute.

Your kit must be multi-Quad-Core units.

I wish I did! - I have 2 G0 Q6600's, a B3 X3210, a 2180 and a Dual-core Acer laptop. Nothing has more than 2Gb RAM, but everything except the laptop is overclocked beyond 3GHz.