Posted on 02/12/2006 1:46:32 PM PST by soccer_maniac
I'm putting 2 of our office computers on today and possibly a 3rd if I can convince my hubby that his won't blow up if we put it on there :).
Not sure I'd characterize it as misinformation-- I think you're probably right in 95% of cases. This is one instance of only a couple I have found that F@H doesn't play well with others-- and it very might be the other way around.
Another instance I just found was with SecondLife. Here, the problem isn't as pronounced, but there's definitely a performance degredation if F@H is actively folding. In this case, it's simply a matter of pausing the folding until you're done with the game.
Pausing, unfortunately, is something you can't do with the console version. However, even stopping the console version, you'll restart at the last saved spot, so it's not too bad-- unless you have a crappy WinME machine that always fails the checksum, restarting the whole blasted project over again.... but I digress!
"Our growth rate has turned negative".
I’ve noticed that it seems to drop during weekends. Also possibly coming into play are the large number of Double Gromacs Cores being distributed for those of us running Big WU’s. I currently have 4 nodes all crunching Double-G’s. Two are P4 3.0Ghz and two P4 2.2Ghz. The 2.2Ghz are diskless nodes I just brought online Saturday. Each Double-G is 650-730 pts! I just had a big jump in points when 2 double-g’s finished along with 2 smaller WU’s within the last 6 hrs. I won’t have any WU’s completing for…oh …perhaps another 24-30 hours. Then I’ll have a big jump of over 2500 points in short order!
BTW, for any geeks (yes, you would have to be one to do this kind of thing :) ) with an extra Motherboard or two laying around capable of booting from Lan, here is a super easy way to set up diskless folding nodes using XP. I picked up two used MB on eBay along w/ CPU and 1Meg DIMM for each for about $200 total. All you need is a MB, Power supply, Switch/Hub, and CAT cable. Then follow these simple and short directions. No linux experience needed. I recently stumbled across this googling for help while trying to do the same thing with linux to no avail. But I had this method up and running within an hour.
http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/diskless.html
No problem. I was playing Dungeon Siege II last night, which I just got. I paused folding while running it. When it started I had a lot of annoyance with it minimizing at the end of movies (startup movies and cutscenes). During actual gameplay it ran fine. I'm not sure if it was my firewall, my virus scanner, or F@H. I'll give it a shot when I get home and see if it persists in minimizing with F@H completely exited.
Do not panic! ;-) My first WU should finish in a few hours.
My putt putt puter' will carry the hour. We will step from the battle field...victorious. ;-)
29. My only objection is when those who own the computers aren't aware of it
In an earlier thread someone quoted a freeper saying "Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 714 processors and 271 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over a 50 computers now from GetLoaded.com, a trucking support website, all contributing while their owners ply our freeways keeping the nation moving." .... My question is, do these owners know that their computers have been co-opted for this purpose? If not, then it isn't cool. It is akin to Bush expanding his pResidential powers for domestic wiretapping without telling anyone that he's doing it.
She's on to you! How did she find out that you guys can steal CPU cycles from all the wireless-equipped households you pass while you're driving down the highway, due to the dylithium crystals in Halliburton laptops that Rove gave all you guys? Loose Lips.....you know....
Better pass on to everyone to turn the decoder ring to the right 7 times, and then back 3 to the left. John has a long moustache...
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That's funny :)
More DUmmy funnies here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=396309&mesg_id=396309
There are MORE OF THEM! Than there are of US!! I'm SCARED!!!
I'm just hallucinating that I'm a new folder, because they state clearly that we have no new folders. Pity.
I'm quaking. Oh no! My Stats, they're dropping!!! AH.
Oh, nevermind, had a power outage during the "blizzard", had a dozen machines offline for 36 hours(waiting at select OS prompt). I'll dip for a bit.
It's really frightening how dummies project their fears and desires on us. I guess that's why they think we secretly want high taxes, nanny gov't and state mandated enemas.
Machines are here. The suspect machine is Qo'nos. You can view its log file by clicking on the server name. Unlike the other machines, it's reporting every time if finishes a frame. Unclear what else it might be doing.
Any thoughts or advice would be gladly accepted!
| 216 | Microsoft | 3,814 | 2,763 | 7,765 | 1,906,042 | 21 | -246,187 | 37,896 | 02.20.06, 5am / 6 Days |
Most of the slump can be explained by those newly borged IRS computers taking the weekend off.
So, I guess that means they'll also slow down for a while right after April 15th? Hopefully Klutz's co-opting of all the computer labs running the special No Child Left Behind software (ver. FR_W04) will be completed by then, and carry us over that slow patch...
Other notable teams we are gaining on:
Team Novell 18 days
SISD 49 days
AMD Developer Center 36 days
Apple Computer Inc. 114 days
Pande Lab 152 days
Team Firefox 180 days
I'm afraid I can't help much, but for what it's worth...looking back at your log, I see some of the recently problems were running very slowly at 3 hr for 1% completed. Is the computer heavily loaded at times?
Your latest problem looks to be moving better. I've got a similar project running on the Tinker core right now, and your log looks nearly identical to mine, at least up until yours shutdown. Different cores use different reports, not sure why. Mine is running 5 min/frame vs 15/min per frame for yours but that could be just because of a different problem.
Hope this helps somehow.
Great, as long as you're borging the IRS computers, can you tweak my tax return for me? I'd like a couple extra thousand back.
YES, DU, IT'S TRUE! All your IRS are belong to us! That's why we rich Republican's never pay any taxes. :-D
It took us two months to rack up our first 1M, the 2nd million will have taken us 25 days.
I have amended your return to reflect this recent charitable contribution. </wink>
Tell me about it. I've been harping on my bosses to "get something done" about electrical protection, surge protection, and getting enough amps to juice the labs properly.
When do they elect to do it? Right in the middle of the Mid-Winter folding campaign. Sucks..... big time.
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