TRFrankenbot -- Scary for 2010!

[farmpuma]

Anyone helping Frank out this October for Halloween??
I am!

Fuzzhead

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Tis the season!

[Flying Fox]

Anyone helping Frank out this October for Halloween??
I am!

Fuzzhead

The official campaign starts on the 1st, so we will see who did the first post of the new thread!

[fuzzhead]

What post I thought I just made a post. We need a new thread? Anyway put a GPU on Frank to get his heart going!

Fuzzhead

[farmpuma]

Whew! It took some shuffling, but I finally have the right posts in the right thread. So, jump right in and let us know how YOU are helping to make Frankie Scary this year.

Tonight I will switch my single core "heaters" to the effort and for the week of Halloween I will switch my GPU machine. Plus anything I add between now and 31 October will fold for Frankie until The Witches Sabbath.

Flying Fox sent a PM reminding us that TRFrankenbot will need a Passkey if anyone wants to contribute SMP bonus points to the effort. If no one has an objection and if no one has already created one, I will create a TRFrankenbot Passkey late, late, late tonight. Just send me a PM request and I will PM back with the Passkey number.

[DancinJack]

I'll add an i7 860 SMP to Frankie tonight!

[Chun¢]

I'll consider throwing my 965 smp and 3870 over, but no promises

[DancinJack]

Flying Fox sent a PM reminding us that TRFrankenbot will need a Passkey if anyone wants to contribute SMP bonus points to the effort. If no one has an objection and if no one has already created one, I will create a TRFrankenbot Passkey late, late, late tonight. Just send me a PM request and I will PM back with the Passkey number.

I already have one created, sorry about that. Anyone have objection to me posting it here? I can do the pm thing too.

[Flying Fox]

I really don't know if there is any security implications of letting the passkey be known to the entire interwebs. I suppose we can wrap it in the spoiler tag to at least keep the casual lookers out (or in?)?

[DancinJack]

Should I keep my passkey secret?

In general, yes! Do not post a passkey on the Forum, etc. The natural exceptions to this general rule are using the passkey in the client (of course) as well as Folding@home web sites and related sites. We are working to use the passkey to allow donors to get more information about their Folding@home client machines. Also, we are working with partners to use the passkey to validate donor's names with their emails.

That is from the F@H passkey FAQ. I think we'll just stick to PM(s). So if anyone wants to fold for Frankie with the SMP client shoot me a PM and i'll get the passkey to ya.

[DancinJack]

I just added my 5850 to Frankie too. I know it's not much, but every bit counts!

[Flying Fox]

That is from the F@H passkey FAQ. I think we'll just stick to PM(s). So if anyone wants to fold for Frankie with the SMP client shoot me a PM and i'll get the passkey to ya.

Thank you for the initiative and as a reward you will be doing this every year!

[DancinJack]

Thank you for the initiative and as a reward you will be doing this every year!

The joy i'm feeling right now is overwhelming.

[DancinJack]

10.05, 12pm 0 0
10.05, 9am 69 1
10.05, 6am 384 1
10.05, 3am 511 1
10.05, 12am 0 0
10.04, 9pm 347 3

Come on guys, Frankie needs some help!

[just brew it!]

Got one of my systems switched over today. It was crunching on a fairly large WU, so the credit won't show up until tomorrow.

[fuzzhead]

OK I just put a GPU back on Frank. IF you do a GPU you do not need a passkey.

Download the tray client use TRFrankenbot for user and 2630 for team without
a passkey.

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
Download the first one. Read the guide first and then post with ?'s

My participation depends on you! I will try to match your points!

Up for the challenge?

Fuzzhead

[Flying Fox]

JPinTO not join us last time, way to be a party pooper.

[just brew it!]

Just flipped a second system over to Frankie...

In keeping with the spirit of things, my Frankenbot systems are my two "scariest" systems at the moment:


On the left is an ABIT AN8-SLI with an Athlon64 X2 4800+. Yup, this one isn't even in a case; that's an inverted plastic "office in basket" thingy it's sitting on top of (the hard drive is tucked underneath). The motherboard, CPU, and RAM were given to me several months ago by a co-worker, with the caveat that it was really unstable. Turns out that one of the 4 original DIMMs was defective; removing the defective DIMM stabilized it. I removed another DIMM to use in my homebrewed router box, leaving the two DIMMs you see in the pic. Gotta love the gratuitous blinking LEDs on those Corsair XMS DIMMs!

On the right is an ASUS M3A78-EM with a Phenom II X2 545. This is basically my "screw around" box, that I use for various experiments. Normally it is the box I use for trying out different Linux distros; recently, it was also my router for a few weeks (until I built the previously mentioned dedicated router). Tonight it is being used to build an upgraded OS image for my web/SSH/etc. server, using Ubuntu 10.04 Server LTS. That's the software RAID-1 array hanging out the side. As I type this it is resyncing the RAID-1 array -- something glitched earlier this evening, causing one of the disks to drop out briefly; I currently suspect a loose/flaky SATA cable. It's folding during the RAID array rebuild, of course!

[DancinJack]

I7 860 and 5850 back on tonight!

[DancinJack]

Place where I can get breakdown and average times based on CPU per WU?

Should have been more clear... A "chart" where you could see PPD or PPWU based on different CPU configurations?

[DancinJack]

Time Points WUs
10.13, 3pm 3,750 3
10.13, 12pm 2,850 5
10.13, 9am 0 0
10.13, 6am 1,509 4
10.13, 3am 1,683 3
10.13, 12am 872 3
10.12, 9pm 1,390 3
10.12, 6pm 656 2
10.12, 3pm 931 2
10.12, 12pm 587 1
10.12, 9am 0 0
10.12, 6am 481 1
10.12, 3am 0 0


WE NEED MORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fuzzhead]

Look out Frank is in the top ten for points today!
Can we do better? Yes we can!

Fuzzhead

[just brew it!]

Whoa... look at Frankie go! Over 20K points yesterday!

[PhilipMcc]

Dug this up from last year's thread: Frankie

[fuzzhead]

I just added some GPU's to Frankenbot. May add more!

How is a goal off passing LordIcon which at one time was our
number one folder.

This is the last week of Oct.

Make Frank scary!

Fuzzhead

[Flying Fox]

I just added some GPU's to Frankenbot. May add more!

How is a goal off passing LordIcon which at one time was our
number one folder.

This is the last week of Oct.

Make Frank scary!

Fuzzhead

Catching the Silent One is a good goal. I was watching Frankie's conquest list and had the same idea too. However, with our current leaders seemingly uninterested in the effort (yes JPinTO I'm looking at you, he never has been in previous years), I am not so sure. Even making Frankie scary to the point of being the #1 producer on the team is now looking very unlikely.

[fuzzhead]

Never say never Mr. Fox.

We will at least get very close.

Fuzzhead

[Flying Fox]

Never say never Mr. Fox.

We will at least get very close.

Fuzzhead

If we can keep up the 50K+ points per day production we would catch LordIcon, but to be #1 ppd producer on the team Frankie may not be scary enough, this time.

[Flying Fox]

Frankie is finally waking up! 70K for the last 2 days so catching the Silent One on this step whatever should be no problem.

Can it touch 100K ppd for 2nd on the TR top producers' list? Not the average I think, but at least for a day?

[fuzzhead]

Frank is number 2 in points today are you happy Mr. Fox?

Frank is scaring me! Can't wait to put my GPU's back under Fuzzhead.

Cheers,
Fuzzhead

[Flying Fox]

That's more like it. Due to the lower point the average 7-day ppd Frankie has just climbed to 4th. I wonder if we can touch 100k on Halloween now that would be real scary. However, looks like passing the Silent One is a definite go tomorrow, yay!