Help fight cancer with F@H! join team ECF today!!!!!!

[Ryedan]

On another note - and sorry, I have not read all the posts in this thread, but thought I would mention this anyway JIC it's not been brought up yet. Watch your CPU temperature. Mine increased from 40 C to 50 C after about 10 minutes of folding at 100% CPU usage on a Intel dual core E6700 running at 3.2 GHz (nothing fancy). I'm running Windows 7 and had no app onboard that would show me the CPU temp. I downloaded this one and it seems to be working for me. I have set the app to shut down my system if the CPU temperature rises above 75 C.

 

[classwife]

My first one got done during the night !
got another going - a 2+ dayer !

 

[Lbox88]

 

[Lowstorm]

I keep getting bumped in our standings! AHHHHHH horrible. Ya'll are working faster than me.

 

[xanderxman]

My first WU is a big one. It is due in 7 days. It ran overnight for almost 8 hours and was 6% complete when I woke up. At that rate I will finish about 18% in 24 hours. Which means I will be just over 5 days to get it complete. I am anxious to contribute my first part to the team. This is a wonderful thing and I wash I had known about it before.

 

[Robino1]

Just a quick question. Since I started, they have put two units running on my computer simultaneously. Is this common? Yes, they are BOTH running.

 

[Paislia]

I keep getting bumped in our standings! AHHHHHH horrible. Ya'll are working faster than me.

Not all of us . . . .
My first WU was supposed to be 5.2 days. I'm 4 days in and only 60% complete. I'm a-guessin' I'll have to start all over once this expires. Sigh.

 

[X P3 Flight Engineer]

My first one got done during the night !
got another going - a 2+ dayer !

Your first one was the size of my first 7! Way to go!

You take the ball and run with it. I'll be a Cheerleader!

 

[shades]

Just a quick question. Since I started, they have put two units running on my computer simultaneously. Is this common? Yes, they are BOTH running.

I am going to assume that one is for your GPU and one is for your processor. If it is not slowing your system down Awesome! However if it is slowing down your system you might want to pause the gpu one while you are using it and then let it run when you are Away

 

[beebopnjazz]

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Sort of, since it only uses one processor they can give you more complex units that may fail when split up in smp mode.
but usually you can just run 1 uni per core and the units will just be smaller with less point but faster finishing units.

Well I must have screwed up the settings....before it said that it was estimating about 1600 credits per day - and I was shutting down at night.....now I'm up all night and my estimated credits are about 600.

Since I'm 77% done with 1 and 61% done with another I don't want to pause and change anything right now....

Can you tell me what my settings should say? Sony Vaio laptop - running Windows 7 Professional - duo core - nvidia Geforce video card

When the GPU acted up and the packets were failing..I changed my settings....and those weren't right either...so I changed the values back to -1 so the software would make the selection (as it states) but I had checked the uniprocessor......I'm not sure what my settings should be or if I should leave the uniprocessor on to run those larger packets.

 

[beebopnjazz]

...and yes my standings are falling too..... not that that really matters in the scheme of things.

 

[Robino1]

I am going to assume that one is for your GPU and one is for your processor. If it is not slowing your system down Awesome! However if it is slowing down your system you might want to pause the gpu one while you are using it and then let it run when you are Away

I'm mostly away from my computer. I use my iPad mostly. The only thing I have noticed it slow down are games. Internet use, I don't notice any change. Thanks for answering

 

[X P3 Flight Engineer]

...and yes my standings are falling too..... not that that really matters in the scheme of things.

The Wonderful thing is... the Team ECF standings are steadily rising! (4629 of 216924)!!

Our standings are falling because faster computers (like Classwife) are joining Team ECF, sometimes in multiples (like shades)!

Martha would say, "That's a Good Thing"!!

 

[Ictinike]

Well I must have screwed up the settings....before it said that it was estimating about 1600 credits per day - and I was shutting down at night.....now I'm up all night and my estimated credits are about 600.

Since I'm 77% done with 1 and 61% done with another I don't want to pause and change anything right now....

Can you tell me what my settings should say? Sony Vaio laptop - running Windows 7 Professional - duo core - nvidia Geforce video card

When the GPU acted up and the packets were failing..I changed my settings....and those weren't right either...so I changed the values back to -1 so the software would make the selection (as it states) but I had checked the uniprocessor......I'm not sure what my settings should be or if I should leave the uniprocessor on to run those larger packets.

PPD or Points Per Day is a floating calculation and based on the current last "frame". Essentially it determines how long it took, full throttle, to do a frame which is from Point A to Point B. Based on that time frame it calculates that you would get X PPD if you let it go running as it was when it was calculated. As soon as you shutdown the process the timeline alters because now you've not gone start to finish full throttle. It then calculates the remaining time in the day and adjusts the points lower because you cannot get as many since the process as stopped, if that makes sense

PPD is a nice thing and gauge and really can only be trusted if you get a work unit, that can be completed within 24 hours and you let it do the entire thing at once without interruption of causing the process/gpu to fluctuate in % used. Seeing how Windows constantly adjusts CPU/GPU usage as you do other things such as opening a web browser or retrieving email it's can be a constant changing value. Only the reported work units completed in a day's time is calculated and other sites can give you those point values.

Also, different work unit "cores" or the application that crunches the numbers give different point values. Typically GPU work units offer higher point values at shorter runs because of the raw processing power the GPU can harness however while doing so do think you can play a game or even watch YouTube as when mine is cranking full bore YouTube skips video and even locks up at times. It's all how much you can dedicate at that time and just like vaping any work you can do is a great achievement!

~Icky

 

[GinnyDragon54]

Signing up! This sounds like an awesome cause! I know so many people who have either died from cancer, or are cancer survivors. This is for them! ^_^

 

[NuLLMyndZ]

One down, many more to go!

 

[beebopnjazz]

PPD or Points Per Day is a floating calculation and based on the current last "frame". Essentially it determines how long it took, full throttle, to do a frame which is from Point A to Point B. Based on that time frame it calculates that you would get X PPD if you let it go running as it was when it was calculated. As soon as you shutdown the process the timeline alters because now you've not gone start to finish full throttle. It then calculates the remaining time in the day and adjusts the points lower because you cannot get as many since the process as stopped, if that makes sense

PPD is a nice thing and gauge and really can only be trusted if you get a work unit, that can be completed within 24 hours and you let it do the entire thing at once without interruption of causing the process/gpu to fluctuate in % used. Seeing how Windows constantly adjusts CPU/GPU usage as you do other things such as opening a web browser or retrieving email it's can be a constant changing value. Only the reported work units completed in a day's time is calculated and other sites can give you those point values.

Also, different work unit "cores" or the application that crunches the numbers give different point values. Typically GPU work units offer higher point values at shorter runs because of the raw processing power the GPU can harness however while doing so do think you can play a game or even watch YouTube as when mine is cranking full bore YouTube skips video and even locks up at times. It's all how much you can dedicate at that time and just like vaping any work you can do is a great achievement!

~Icky

Oh I understand what you're saying - it's just the "average" was 3x higher when I wasn't running 24/7...and my GPU was involved at that time.

I lost the link for the signature - like yours - and I couldn't find a number for myself - just my name and the team number....I feel like such a ..... and to think I used to build computers out of spare parts when it was all dip-switches and cards...and figuring out error codes by the beep sequence at start up .....

 

[tnt56]

Ok I'm confused, like always. I think I finished a fold or two. I got three machines working 24/7. I still don't know how to get the credit for what I've done. It's not about me but those we can help. I'm only trying to do the cancer folds, cause I lost so many loved ones from it. Sorry just kinda slow with all this. HELP. Or at least explain?

 

[xanderxman]

I am sad that my first WU was such a large one. I want to feel like I have contributed something, and I know that the use of my excess CPU time is something, but I really want to complete it and see that I have finished the first of many WUs. Only 5 days to go according to the FAH control panel. Good thing too. It has a 7 day deadline.

I am also happy to see Team ECF jumping so high in the rankings so fast. Not because I feel this is a competition but because it goes to show what a wonderful community of people we have and the great effect we can have when we put our minds to it. I have never felt so connected to an online group as I do to ECF.

 

[sashwa]

It shows that you have completed 1 WU and sent it back today for 217 points.

tnt56's contributions to Folding@home

If you open up your FAH Control, you will see your name and the team number. If you click on your name, you will go to the above like. If you click on the team number link, you will go to the teams page.

Team 223274's contributions to Folding@home

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