NBR Folding@home Team

Just shows how many powerhouses are on these forums..

 

Indeed, the top 9 is exclusive to powerhouses
Ayle is folding like crazy on weekends, I mean, 72k in a single day O_O

 

Seems to be. I don't see myself breaking away from #10 unless Prema stays inactive for a few more days. Leaving the i7-2720QM and Quadro 2000M for nearly 20 hours each day isn't getting me the mass amount of points I was hoping for >.<

 

Too bad there's no folding for Xbox... Microsoft shouldnt have given up so easily.

Is there a way to add machines to your client that aren't on your network? I've got a machine or two back home I could set up to run while at school (hopefully 24/7 lol).. I'd like to be able to monitor them and be able to stop them if I need to though..

 

xbox's aren't as powerful as the ps3 is, but it would be nice to have my Xbox 360 doing something other than collecting dust. My PC gets all my attention now.

 

Exactly.. I used to play my Xbox 3-6 hrs a day. Then I got RROD and went a while without one. I came into a little money and decided to buy a new one. I got so used to not playing it that it's lucky if it sees 3-6hrs a week lol.

Plus, I got the extended warranty (my previous xbox died just past warranty), so bring on the the work load!

I just started last night and I'm already obsessing over how to get more ppd lol. How many is a ps3 worth? Maybe I can get a few of those on the cheap lol

 

I have my good old pro console from when they first came out still running. Had the RROD but got it fixed under warrenty. Now its just a shelf ortiment as my PC has better graphics and best of all I don't have to pay to play online. anyways not sure how much a PS3 is worth, but If they are decent, I might have to keep an eye on craigslist and see if I can snag a cheap one.

 

From what I just read, they're not as useful as they used to be. They only average ~1k ppd. Most people want ~ $200 for one on Craigslist in my area. I could grab a case, CPU, ram and a mobo for that much and just stick my eGPU stuff in there for that much and double its ppd (only utilizes pci 1x speeds as an egpu). We'll see. I need to get situated at my new job before I start planning any more expenses lol

 

yea i know the feeling about money. Once I get my 6990m and my SSD installed, I'm gonna start saving for a 2920qm so I can overclock and more have CPU power for stuff like this.

 

Got my first big-ish wu for my gpu.

ETA: 13hrs 4mins
Base Credits: 5187
Est PPD: 9395.32
Project: 7622

 

My 64gb M4 have been running stable on the server 24/7 so at least i know that unit is stable.
Either the Intel SSD 510 is to blame or my Clevo hates SSDs. D;

I ran HDTune Pro after i crashed again last night, think my folding came to about 30% complete.
According to the error scan my SSD is at 100% health.
This doesent make sense. D;

 

Yeah, I ran every hd test I could think of and came up with nothing.. It performed fantastically when it wanted to.. Had a thread going on the crucial support forums and no one was able to come up with anything. Crucial will tell you to power cycle the drive, it's helped some people.. I'm thinking it was just a bad drive, but for a while I suspected the compatibility with my systems ATA drivers. I wiped and re-installed them a million times and it didn't help. The 128gb froze within hours of installing it, and it would be completely random after that.

Haven't seen anything similar with the 256gb yet, so my fingers are crossed. I did have a freeze the other day, but im fairly certain that was due to my eGPU. Ive been meaning to update the drives firmware to 0309, just in case it has any bug fixes other than the 5200hr thing.

 

got a crucial from amazon on the way(ordered yesterday). Hope I don't have any issues with it. Reason I went with the m4 is that as I heard that they were very dependable.

 

That's what I thought as well, but I'm sure I'm part of the minority as the M4 has become very popular since they've been droppin in price.

Bought the 128gb from superbiiz back in October I beleive, so that could be the reason lol. The 256gb is from amazon, and it arrived with 0009FW so hopefully they've gotten the kinks out of the newer batches if what I experienced was indeed a faulty drive.

Just checked and my gpu wu had failed earlier :/ guess it didn't like the increased overclock I was trying lol. I clicked around a bit and got it to restart, so i lowered the OC. hopefully everything is running smooth when I wake up. I'm officially shuttin myself down for the night lol. Got my first class @10 so I don't have to wake up too early

 

I dont even get crash dumps, even if its enabled so now im certain my SSD gets stuck and stops writing.

Last resort: secure erase it with Intel SSD toolbox.

But i am monitoring the folding now so hopefully it will finish.

 

My GPU has officially refused to fold. Now down to a P9700 SMP:2 and a 2670qm SMP:8. I gather the reason is that the new nVidia BETA driver (295.51) has some sort of disdain for F@H. On the plus side, I can now play Project: C.A.R.S. at 45 fps with all settings @ HIGH @ 1080p on my NP8130 .

Jason

 

My GPU is still happily folding on 295.51

 

Same here, havent had any issues with the driver..... yet

 

Yup, never any dumps.. Formatted and re-installed Windows twice to no avail..

People on here had me run memtest over night (i ran for ~20 hours) just rule out the ram before i went through the trouble of rma'ing my drive.

 

Well that sucks.

At least i completed the WUs assigned to me, so we can continue to climb up the rank ladder.

 

Not tryin to be pessimistic, yours could very well have a software glitch that would be fixed with a format and fresh install

My CPU just started a big boy lol. Eta is 2.73 days!

 

Woot Woot! 800k!

 

Congrats DR650SE, you will be shifting past TurbodTalon soon!

Hm, one million.

 

We got some mad folding going on. xD
I feel like such a weakling with my score.

 

I'm hoping to pass you within the hour

Edit: or whenever the rankings update lol

 

wish I could leave my machine folding all day, but I need to take it to and from school and actually use it. so not much folding going on during the weekdays. Bet you will pass me soon as well.

 

Only the past few days have I been able to leave it on all day because I haven't needed it for classes.. I actually turned it of just now while I go to work. One of my roommates turned tge heater on full blast so my room was an oven when I got back from class

 

Wow, so many folders now!

I feel intimidated....

 

I pm'd DR, but maybe he's busy. Nando (thread starter of diy eGPU thread) said was cool if we advertised in the eGPU thread for folding. There are some real powerhouses over there and that thread gets a lot of traffic.

If there seems to be some interest, I'm sure he'd put a banner or speil on the first page where it'd be seen more.

Id do it, but I don't know enough about folding yet to be able to accurately describe it to people. So if any of you more knowledgable users want to do it, I'm sure there's plenty of eGPU users (like myself) who'd love to run their machines with us in the name of science! The team is growing, a little advertising can only help things along

 

Hizzaah, Thanks! got the pm but out of town till tonight. Ill definitely be contacting Nando on it. Its an awesome idea. Havent had time to browse except by phone. Was in Ohio for army reserve drill but my wifes been in the hospital so i missed a day of work and will be forced to leave her in Ohio with my inlaws. Will have some free time this week though. So tonight or tomorrow should be good. Depending when I get home tonight.

 

Welcome to the MILLIONAIRES Club Thierry!

Great job man. You've sure been giving me a run for my money after you added that extra machine. Its doing wonders for your folding. Great stuff, your pushing us along nicely.

I agree some more eGPU folders would be awesome.

Cheers.

Great forward thinking plan man. We'll need more folders if we want to push into the top 500 lol!
Some of the top teams seem to have endless amounts of participants.

Cheers.

 

Help please... I just installed the f@h gpu client. Computer is a Compal FL92 with C2D T8300, ATI 4670 gpu, 3 gigs RAM, running Win Vista Business 32 bit. I had to start the f@h with "-forcegpu ati_r700" then it downloaded FahCore_11.exe successfully, but all I'm getting is early unit ends.

Here is a sample from the log file:

This is from the first work unit, but after that it has kept downloading new units with every one giving the same result.

Edit: The problem appears to be a driver error affecting ATI HD 4xxx cards which doesn't have a solution yet other than to try older drivers. Oh well, I guess I'll be logging off f@h

 

gonna be fun to really start getting close to the top.

 

Thank you! Don't worry about your #1 spot!

 

Reached HALF A MILLION POINTS - woot! In a comfortable 8th...for now.

Looking at the rate we're folding, I'm going to have to create that milestone header real soon.

 

Now guys, I know what you're thinking. Did Jordan (that's me) really just spend the last 45 rigging a usb powered fan, a bunch of foil, a few yards of electrical tape and some plastic cups together to make an air intake to draw air from outside to help cool his eGPU box while folding?

Does this answer your question?

Spoiler

Does it help?
- Not at first. I think my problem is that the fan at the window isn't powerful enough to keep up with the gpu fan. when I pointed another usb fan at the gpu from inside the box, temps dropped ~7C (hovering at +/- 62C for those wondering).

Was it entertaining?
- also eh. made me realize how difficult it is to shape foil without it collapsing the airway

It would definitely work better if I had a larger intake fan, and some of that flexible aluminum ducting.

If ever I was to build an extreme desktop or folding machine, I would rig it to a cheap window AC unit and stick it in a guest room lol.. unless somehow I won the lottery and went quad (or more in the future) sli. then I'd invest in watercooling in a heartbeat.

Great! No rush, I was just being anxious lol. hope your wife is ok!

 

What driver are you using now?
I would try out AMD Catalyst 12.2 Preview since its the newest you can grab.

 

Just picked up a killer desktop to add to my folding..

I can run multiple computers under 1 account, right?

 

Awesome Ryan,

Yup you can run as many machines as you like with the same user name and passkey. GO go go! lol

Cheers.

Congrats on joining the Half Million Club man!

Cheers.

 

there i am, in this club. i'm contributing my home server at 50% cpu. it's a passive cooled dual core system, so it might not do much per se. on the other hand, it's a 24/7 system, and it doesn't have much better things to do, anyways.

But so far, i see only 0%. CPU is taxed, but otherwise no clue if it works, yet..

ok, works. 0.8% so far.. TPF: 13min.

 

Don't forget to changed machine id

 

Thanks, she'll be ok. It'll pass hopefully.

Havn't done much research, but what exactly is an eGPU? I'll have to go back and read that thread, but I'll be contacting Nando tonight when I get off work.


This team is doing great! It's expanding everyday, and we're adding more and more clients. Since my wife is out of town for the week I scooped up her Inspiron 15 and am running F@h on it. The GPU isn't capable of folding, as it wouldn't let me add a GPU client, but it's working the SMP which is only a 2.2GHz C2D. Not many points, but points are points right?

I also was running dual monitors lastnight, using my projector, and something wonky happened, my GPU clocks automatically went to 740/1000 when they are set to stock 715/900. Not sure how it automatically turned on AMD Overdrive, but it messed me up. This causesd the display driver to crash and when I got up this morning, I found a GPU client had crashed and wasn't folding. So hopefully I didn't lose too many points. I reflashed the vbios this morning and disabled Overdrive so as to not have any more issues.

Keep up the great work guys!! We'll be hitting 10 million points in just a few days at this rate!

We hit 10,000 WU!


Don't forget to vote for our thread in the NBR Amazing Content Contest. Linked below.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm currently on 12.1, I didn't know about the 12.2 Preview but I'll try it when I get home tonight. I did a bit more digging in the f@h forum and found that the last known working version is 11.10. Apparently something got broken in 11.11 and later versions.

 

Yea, 11.10 is what I'm on currently with my M17x R2

 

I stopped f@h after letting it churn away for a few hours last night with no results, but I see I got on the board: 257 WU with 0 score!

 

Thats strange, wonder why its doing that.

 

My precision has been running non-stop 24/7 since I learned about F@H, and the first time it finished a WU I got all the credit.

Don't know what the problem is.. Maybe give it a few hours and check the stats on the official site?

 

Hmm, it may be because it is submitting failed WU. I wonder if there is anyway to have the F@h staff remove that.

 

Yep, every single one failed within seconds of starting up. The problem is with the ATI drivers for my HD 4670, I'll try again tonight with the latest driver and if that doesn't work, I'll look for the 11.10 driver and roll it back.

 

Yea, I'm using 11.10 at the moment. Working quite well. Meant to say in my earlier post to check the log.


EDIT: Post 6666... I've had a killer 24 Hours!! 29K