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konufis wrote:wow.. i got some kind or over power computer and since the last 5 minute i only complet 4% of the processing... it's quit a big program they got there

Bara wrote:

G3n0c1de wrote:

berserker29 wrote:Roadrunner is the name of a supercomputer. The worlds most powerful supercomputer.

Dear god... and I was scared about the Quakecon team, and these up and comers Calguns... but this, this thing is a true beast. It folded 328,614 points yesterday.

Well, for what it is worth I don't think this is actually the Roadrunner in Los Alamos, New Mexico that we are working against. Possibly someone appropriated the name for themselves? F@H info on Team 171808 only shows 20 CPUs. This is more on line with a server rack setup than a supercomputer owned by a Federal agency. (Use of assets by the Feds must be accounted for by pretty strict accounting standards and when this machine is not doing government work all its processing time has to be accounted for. Can't have some govenment flunky linning his pockets by selling time under the table on a honking big supercomputer.) Roadrunner is a hybrid system using AMD Opterons and IBM Cell processors. All software has to be written specificly for the hybrid architecture. There is no F@H client for this architcture and I don't know if they would allow ANYONE to submit results done with code they don't control. If someone had custom written the code and gotten approval from F@H to use it and were running in spare cycles of the Roadrunner supercomputer I'd expect to see numbers with wild fluctuations as other programs ran and mainainence was done, etcetera. Since they have only shown up in tracking for a little while I expect it will require more time to tell. Last but not least if they are the Feds at Los Alamos, New Mexico why name their team "Folding_Texas"?

All that said, yep they will pass us eventualy if they maintain their current pace. After all the teams we dusted in passing I can't summon much fear of being threatened by two teams. I don't like it, but as its working for good results I can't complain too much if someone is working better than I am.

berserker29 wrote:All that being said, It's kind of nice to be one of the only teams that works... like a team!

Pickles wrote:Fie, found two of my work folders running without F@H.
....not the best for folding, but a MONTH'S worth of work

G3n0c1de wrote:So what is all this nonsense about Bara occupying our team's top spot? Gratz

Waru wrote:Not sure if I'm doing the best I can right now, But I'm running the gpu client with my 4890, my ps3, and I have one instance of the normal client running[phenom II x4 940 3.00GHz]. I should really OC my cpu.

Tweaked wrote:Ahoy-hoy! New guy here supporting the cause.

I'm currently using both of my 4890s to crunch the numbers, but smp/cpu client seems to run slow on my i7. Any tips to make it faster is appreciated, but just glad to be here.

Also, Rin is love.

Pickles wrote:CPU client will usually run slower than the GPU, as it handles different types of WU which require different processing. However, workstep for workstep, my anecdotal evidence suggest that CPU WU are worth more points than GPU ones....just that GPU WU have more step in 'em.