wish we were back in 10th place

[Jester]

Some bad news, or good news depending on how you look at it,
All 5 boxen currently populated with "scrooge Wu's" almost 11 hours on my flagship A64 box for a pitiful 59 points, 32 hours for 139 points on an Xp3200 box,
If this is a general trend then any teams chasing us are going to take a lot longer to catch up, and a downturn in points per hour may discourage all but the most dedicated Folder.
Another plus for the team, 'cause when it comes to dedicated Folders, the Frogs have them in abundance.

[noorman]

I 'm still awaiting the delivery of a replacement board for my defective 8RDA+.

I hope it arrives soon; I have to experiment on it with that Mobile Athlon I bought.

hope that OC 's very well; it 'll fold full time for the Team !!!

Then I 'll have 3 rigs approx. all like the one in my SIG that are running 24/7 and all 3 Folding 100%.

Only 1 of those 3 is used for mailing, surfing, etc. apart from the Folding work ...

Meanwhile, noorman has enterd the realm of the TOP 100 Folders of our Froggie team.

Very happy to be working with you guys !!!

KEEP ON FLDING

KEEP ON FLDING

KEEP ON FLDING

[Annirak]

I keep trying to hunt down cheap, low power processing power to devote to folding. How much RAM does folding actually need? Been looking into DSPs that run uC Linux. I think something like that might make a nice folding farm.

I've found a floating point DSPs that run at 600MHz, and have Ethernet. A system board for that kind of processor isn't going to cost much, and they're tiny and low power. But so far, I can't find any systems built with them. Still too new, I guess.

[Edit:] Bah! There's only FAH support for x86 Linux. There goes that idea.

[noorman]

I keep trying to hunt down cheap, low power processing power to devote to folding. How much RAM does folding actually need? Been looking into DSPs that run uC Linux. I think something like that might make a nice folding farm.

...

My 2nd machine is doing a 600 pointer on FaH Core 78 and uses just over 105 MB ram (F@H running at 100%) ...

hope this is of any use to you ... !

[TheGlasMan]

I think we will be suffering until new AMD compatable WU's are released. I am assuming a preponderance of Athlons here because of the sites history.
My son's p4 is doing 400+ppd on the QMD cores. Meanwhile my A64 is getting 240=/- pt tinkers annd tough little gromacs, none of those wonderful 360 and 340 ptrs. No 600 ptrs either, which didn't really go that fast, maybe now that I have -forceasm on they will go like the 360's.
By the way overclockers extreme's site dosen't show the 100,000 pt days the amdmb site does, and our output has increased back to it's previous level, around 2,200.000 pts, well above the end of 04, which also ended by growing 200,000 a month, at 1.9M..

[Annirak]

My 2nd machine is doing a 600 pointer on FaH Core 78 and uses just over 105 MB ram (F@H running at 100%) ...

hope this is of any use to you ... !

So a tiny linux system with 128MB of RAM should work fine.

[noorman]

that I can't say; named (Windows2000) system's total use of memory is 295 MB of RAM.

it also runs an Antivirus pgm, Firewall, AtomClock sync pgm, 8rdavcore and HDDhealth ...

winFaH.exe uses about 14MB.

I think Windows uses about half of the difference; half of 295 -105 -14 = 176/2 = 88 MB ...

I think 256 MB would be best (reliable).

at the moment, DDR (I) memory is cheap enough ...

[noorman]

So a tiny linux system with 128MB of RAM should work fine.

And, what 's been going on since ... ?
I (at least) am curious !

and ...


keep on FLDING

[Annirak]

Well, I'm thinking of putting up a couple of new FAH boxes, but I have other things that, unfortunately, have to take priority.

[JeremyWills]

totally understand, thats where Im always at, something else takes priority