Free-4-All Gauntlet Time!

**Angus** · 05-08-2003, 05:36 PM

Finally!!!

REDNESS

**IronBits** · 05-08-2003, 07:03 PM

Good work Angus!

**IronBits** · 05-09-2003, 01:34 AM

We are in 67th place!

Go Free-DC Go!!!

**Cmarc** · 05-09-2003, 09:08 AM

nice going FDC!
Cheers,
Marc

PS: I don't think I commented on it earlier but that's a mighty fetching av IB

**IronBits** · 05-09-2003, 10:34 AM

hehehe, Cmarc, see what happens when ya let a women dress you in the morning? /me looks over at Moogie
Where is Condor?
Just when Angus and I get up to speed to

We are kicking it HARDer than [H] almost

**Angus** · 05-09-2003, 05:16 PM

Is this better, Master?

**IronBits** · 05-09-2003, 06:12 PM

Oh so splendid!!!

Angus, you is

**IronBits** · 05-10-2003, 02:05 AM

Go man go! Looking good over there!

**IronBits** · 05-10-2003, 07:02 AM

Last run: Sat May 10 01:22:17 PDT 2003

**Angus** · 05-12-2003, 07:43 PM

From a post by Theseum on the Ars Team Egg Roll site:

As of now, we are getting our asses handed to us by that damn splinter group as well as some [H]eavy Hitters so hurry up and find some ghz to throw on the pile!

(who they talking about? splinter group? )

**IronBits** · 05-13-2003, 02:31 AM

I had TWO network outages today!!!

Was able to get one back up after 12 hours or more, thanks to my brothers heroic efforts!

Still have one down here, and I don't know why yet?

Will have to wait until I find out from www.DSLExtreme.com what they did to my main IP 66.51.209.61, which is not working !!! :bs:
All my computers behind the firewall, on that IP, are toast until tomorrow evening sometime...

**IronBits** · 05-15-2003, 01:35 AM

BOOYAAaaaaa!!!

**IronBits** · 05-15-2003, 01:52 AM

Good showing everyone!!!

**IronBits** · 05-15-2003, 10:09 PM

Well I'm sure the beasts have been riled over at [H] and Ars, so dig in boys, here they come!

**IronBits** · 05-18-2003, 03:54 PM

I will be terminating the Gauntlet at the end of Week 3.

**IronBits** · 05-22-2003, 12:32 AM

Ok, only the top 5 in week 3 total

**IronBits** · 05-22-2003, 12:33 AM

Top 5 in overall gauntlet totals

**IronBits** · 05-22-2003, 12:39 AM

1 Ars, 2 FDC, 2 [H]OCP in the top 5 - good fun!

Hard client to run

We climbed way up the ladder in the overall official stats to!!!
All the way up to 53rd place! Not shabby at all

Great show of force by whilden from Ars!

Here's the graph of everyone! It's bigger so will only provide linkage so we can see all the particpants!
www.dbestern.com/files/gauntletfahweek3.png

**IronBits** · 05-30-2003, 09:05 AM

Congratulations to Condor

He was the clear winner on the Free-DC Team

**Condor** · 05-30-2003, 10:54 AM

Heh, only because I had far fewer problems than most.

Ironbits and Angus had great runs also.
The important thing is that the team moved up about 30 places
during those four weeks. So congrats to all !!!

**Paratima** · 05-30-2003, 11:03 AM

Spoken like a winner!

**Supp** · 05-30-2003, 11:16 AM

Ya!

**rsbriggs** · 09-12-2003, 09:50 PM

Well, I'm not going to stand for us having dropped from 86th place to 88th place over the last couple of days. That is, if I can manage to do anything about it...

Let's see what a couple of P4's running over the weekend can do for us here...

**IronBits** · 09-12-2003, 11:43 PM

Good

I put one xp2600 on it yesterday

OGR to

**Condor** · 09-12-2003, 11:47 PM

Now that's the spirit.

**IronBits** · 09-12-2003, 11:58 PM

And two more today

**IronBits** · 09-13-2003, 11:52 AM

Well, the one I had running on the mail server caused it to crash, so I moved it over to OGR instead.
So now it's three on OGR and 2 on FAH, for now...

**PCZ** · 09-13-2003, 12:42 PM

What WU's are being dished out ?

Any nice fast Gromacs ?

**IronBits** · 09-13-2003, 01:01 PM

You need to get the BETA 3.25 client (not really a beta, but fixes a bug so it will use SSE on AMD XP processors)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/beta/beta.html

Then use the following command line to FORCE it to use SSE
FAH3console.exe -advmethods -forceasm -local

Gromacs will be handed out IF you use the above command line.
You want to get EM to monitor the client(s) to

www.em-dc.com

Each 2 GHz should be good for at least 33 points per 24hrs.

Stats are here

http://stats.zerothelement.com/cgi-b...rs.pl?team=758
here
http://marcc.no-ip.org/ter/userstatsfdc.php
or here, if it's not down temporarily for stats updating
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?TeamID=758

**PCZ** · 09-13-2003, 01:54 PM

IB
33 PPD from an Athlon XP 2400 is a bit low. If the current Gromacs are scoring that low then I think I will pass.

**rsbriggs** · 09-13-2003, 01:54 PM

Nice jump for me today +5326 clear up to, erm, uhhh, 90,681 th place.

**GHOST** · 09-13-2003, 02:18 PM

3.25 beta (unmarked)
--------------------
- If -forceasm is used, then on every execution of the core until the
client is restarted, SSE optimizations will be used if possible (if
the chip is an AMD chip, then be default, without the flag, it would
not be chosen over 3DNow). Prior to this client, this effect would have
held true only for the first work unit run after starting the client.

What is the difference between sse and 3dnow? Only one can be used at a time?
And how exactly do I put in this flag?

I saw this,
Then use the following command line to FORCE it to use SSE
FAH3console.exe -advmethods -forceasm -local

but I am missing something, not doing something right.

I started this beta and it is using 3dnow. Can it be edited after it has started?

Thanks.

**IronBits** · 09-13-2003, 02:46 PM

Yes! Stop the client and run FAHconsole.exe -config
You need to re-configure it, say YES to change Advanced Options, choose FAH only etc.
I just ran it again for you to see what you need to put in there

My responses are in BOLD

Code:

FAHconsole -config

User name [IronBits]? IronBits <-- change to yours, or not ;)
Team Number[758]? 758
Ask before fetching/sending work [no] (yes/no)? no
Use Internet Explorer Settings [yes] (yes/no)? yes
Change advanced options [no] (yes/no)? yes
Client Type [fah] (no-pref/fah/gah)? fah
Core Priority [low] (idle/low)? low
CPU usage requested [100]? 100
Disable highly optimized assembly code [no] (no/yes)? no
Ignore deadline information (mainly useful if...) no
...system clock frequently has errors)? [no] (no/yes)? no
Machine ID (1-4) [1]? 1  

Client takes off from here and shows...

[19:01:14] - Ask before connecting: No
[19:01:14] - Use IE connection settings: Yes
[19:01:14] - User name: IronBits (Team 758)
[19:01:14] - User ID = 4373E4977BF0A512  <--- This HAS to be different for each client
[19:01:14] - Machine ID: 1
[19:01:14]
[19:01:14] Work directory not found. Creating...
[19:01:14] Loaded queue successfully.
[19:01:14] + Benchmarking ...

The STOP the client and run it with
FAHconsole -advmethods -forceasm -local

**IronBits** · 09-13-2003, 03:07 PM

Originally posted by PCZ
IB
33 PPD from an Athlon XP 2400 is a bit low. If the current Gromacs are scoring that low then I think I will pass.

I was guessing, FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF and let me know what you find out

**PCZ** · 09-13-2003, 03:08 PM

Ghost
How did you start the program?
If you have a shortcut just add the flags to it.
right click on the shortcut and select properties.

If you are running the program in a command window just press control C
to stop it.
Restart using FAH3console -advmethods -forceasm
this will turn on SSE. If you are using version 3.25 it will stay using SSE when that protein is done. If you have version 3.24 it will revert back to 3dnow.

If you started the program without the flags you might have got a Tinker WU
they take ages to crunch and the points awarded are very low in comparision to the Gromacs.

The reason people use the advmethods flag is to increase the likelyhood of getting the more desirable Gromac WU's.
They were in Beta for a while and advmethods is the public beta test flag.

**GHOST** · 09-14-2003, 01:23 AM

Thank you IB, PCZ.
SSE is on.
I was using this-FAH3console.exe -advmethods -forceasm -local
I needed this-FAH3.25-Console-beta -advmethods -forceasm -local

Darn- I shut off the client before checking the times. But, with 3DNow, 34 out of 100 units completed in 10 hrs. about 17 min each. With sse a unit is taking 8.5 min.

[QUOTE]How did you start the program?
If you have a shortcut just add the flags to it.
right click on the shortcut and select properties.

Tried this but did not see how at first. Now I see. This is the main reason I'm here, to learn.

**IronBits** · 09-14-2003, 03:59 AM

Well it made my XP box crash, so I moved it over to SOB17 instead.

**PCZ** · 09-14-2003, 05:01 AM

Most people rename the 3.25 executable to FAH3console.exe. Sorry I forgot to mention that.

**Cmarc** · 09-14-2003, 12:19 PM

Main reason to rename the exe is to keep shortcuts and service installs (made with pks excellent installer ) working without undue fuss.
nice to see FDC starting to move again

Cheers,
Marc

**GHOST** · 10-01-2003, 10:40 PM

I have to reinstall windows every 30 days, did that today and put fah on two machines. I really had a problem last time with this beta and flags.Sometimes it would not configure from the console and I made sure my i's were dotted and t's crossed.

Anyway, I downloaded Firedaemon to run fah as service and put the flags in the parameter box and that is so simple!!

One machine is only folding. The second is my main computer, and it did crash a couple times right away. Lowered the fsb a couple points, that did not help. Changed priority from low to idle and cpu usage from 100% to 95%. Working now.

Thread: Free-4-All Gauntlet Time!

Thread Tools

Rate This Thread

Display

Beyond

Statsman FAH

Week 2

Week 2 All

Week 3 scores

Week 3 score Total

Posting Permissions