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Not sure yet.

Petrik_CZ said:
Hi, welcome to our team :) I am afraid you ve some problem with your GPU client, because there is no WU completed for user Grey410 on F@H web stat. Look at some FAQ or forum and try to figure it out :) good luck and good folding
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I only started folding yesterday afternoon. My GPU client has completed 38 so far. I believe it has to complete 100 to finish a WU. Correct? My CPU is almost done with 1 WU on each core and my AMD has already finished 1 WU. The C2D 6300 is about 90% done with 1 WU and 65% done with another one. Haven't started on the Opty or the P4 yet. But keep me posted if it looks like I'm not busting them out. Thanks! :P
 
You are running GPU client and two normal clients on the same computer? Check this: http://folding.stanford.edu/news.html

The primary issue now appears to be the CPU use of the GPU core. Due to how graphics drivers work in Windows, the CPU must poll to see if the GPU has completed. This polling is very CPU intensive (as the GPU does complete its work fairly quickly). We are working on a fix to this, but it is also likely that future GPU cores may use CPU power for scientific calculations which cannot be run on the GPU.

Thus, we are asking donors who run the GPU core to leave some CPU power (~1 core) available for GPU's to use. We need to compensate donors for this additional use of resources, so the points have been increased. The very idea of a GPU core and GPU software is new, so we are still working out what's the best way to handle these issues, but in general, we will of course award points based on the hardware used -- more hardware used, more points. As we develop the GPU core, the points may need to be changed (possibly up, especially if more CPU is used, possibly down if essentially no CPU is needed).

Grey410 said:
I only started folding yesterday afternoon. My GPU client has completed 38 so far. I believe it has to complete 100 to finish a WU. Correct? My CPU is almost done with 1 WU on each core and my AMD has already finished 1 WU. The C2D 6300 is about 90% done with 1 WU and 65% done with another one. Haven't started on the Opty or the P4 yet. But keep me posted if it looks like I'm not busting them out. Thanks! :P
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Somewhere other forum I read that you can have one processor core at 100%, one at 95%, and the GPU at 100%, and it is the sweet spot.
 
New settings

I gave the 95% Core 1, 100% Core 2, and 100% GPU Core a try. We'll see. The GPU is at 46 so 54 more to go. I'll try and see if the CPU @ 95% speeds it up any.:D
 
Rambo said:
Ok, I'm back to folding again. I had to start over... You should see me whizzing up the charts again very soon :D
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No no no, that is fine! :P

My P4 needs all the help it can get in catching up to you. :o I'll have another WU finished this evening...should have the gap closed to within ~250 points by then...which is when you'll probably end up with another WU finishing haha
 
Saurian said:
No no no, that is fine! :P

My P4 needs all the help it can get in catching up to you. :o I'll have another WU finished this evening...should have the gap closed to within ~250 points by then...which is when you'll probably end up with another WU finishing haha
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Well... it's a long story... but, to cut it short... I was halfway through 2 GROMACS Cores (one was around 400 points and the other 535 points) when I wiped my HDD...

Well, it wasn't my fault exactly... I was formatting a partition to an HFS+ File System (don't ask why), when it decided to muck up and wipe the whole thing...

I'll start folding again once I get everything sorted out. But it still means I have to rewrite all my business studies coursework... :(
 
A challenge :)

Hello guys,

first of all, thanks to all helping us out. We are progressing amazingly fast. Now, I checked out the F@H at extremeOC and I saw that the projected date of our overtake of the 1000th team will be :

12.02.07 (Day.Month.Year.) 6am / 103 Days

Now here's my challenge. Let's beat that!

I am predicting that we will overtake the 1000th team 2 weeks before then, possibly before the start of February.

JAN :D
 
Oh, we'll beat that easily. We have recently gotten some more folders on our team, so it hasn't fully come into effect. In addition, we are going to keep on getting more ppd. Just wait for your X1950 Pro :). The 2500 point difference between us will diminish fairly quickly :D.
 
That's something that makes me sad. I would love to go X1900 XTX or X1950 Pro for folding, but I WANT Crysis, and am willing to early adopt G80 just to get it. Bah....

I hope they do something lik they have with the ATI GPU client for the G80. The programmable unified shader arrangement would be compatible, I'd think...
 
:( One more WU lost. Not that I am sad about it :). It was a 6 day 400 pointer. Congrats to everyone who got closer to me due to it :D
 
C: Drive Only?

Does the F@H client have to be on the C: Drive? Can I place on another partition? Thanks! :D
 
jancz3rt said:
Hello guys,

first of all, thanks to all helping us out. We are progressing amazingly fast. Now, I checked out the F@H at extremeOC and I saw that the projected date of our overtake of the 1000th team will be :

12.02.07 (Day.Month.Year.) 6am / 103 Days

Now here's my challenge. Let's beat that!

I am predicting that we will overtake the 1000th team 2 weeks before then, possibly before the start of February.

JAN :D
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Wait where are you getting that? We are predicted to overtake the 1000th team in 2 weeks exactly. :confused:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overtake.php?s=&t=44358&p=10
 
dont get it, it says that we overtake 1000th place in 14 days, but we overtake 995th place in 12 days :confused:
 
Just that specific team. If you look at the whole list, there are certain teams that we actually won't overtake (more points/day than us...).
 
Between us and 900, there's only like...~10 teams producing close to our points, a couple making a few more, most making a few less.
 
Announcement :)

Well since I want us to even better than we are currently doing, I have bought an X1950 Pro (F@H was a significant reason). It should be with me within 3 days. I hope I will be able to help out the team even further :) Go cofo! Go Jan! ...oopz did I just say that?

BTW, as a sidenote, is anyone also getting these 600 pointers? - http://fahwiki.net/index.php/Projects_2400-2499

JAN :D
 
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I thought I'd ask you guys, does the electronic microscope have any other function at all other than monitoring progress? If not I think I'll ditch it. I rarely check it anyway and I don't think I've lost a single WU so far. Both my cores been under full load 24/7 a few weeks now. A C2D closing in though, then I should be able to advance above 5ft place, up there with you fast & efficient people, well hopefully. :)
 
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