Posted my first couple work units in over a year. Feels good to be back and on the climb... The CLIMB is the most exciting part, is it not?

It's interesting what got me "excited" about folding again. The fact that they announced support coming for folding on ATI GPUs. Makes perfect sense! And the speed you could achieve with a GPU -- probably amazing!

I remember the good old days! When SPCR was in its infancy, and the Folding Team was going strong.. When we had battles back and forth with the Knights who Say Ni! and others -- I won't ever forget the fun and comraderie.... taunting each other on forums, etc. Good times -- I fired up F@h on this PC...

After a long hiatus, I'm back for some more folding action, for my FAVORITE team of course! Got a couple crunchers going (2.8c and 2.4b)... I used to be in the top 100 for our team, but now I'm WAY DOWN there! Good to see so many coming in and helping. I guess my goal for now is to get back into the...

Well I'm back... Got a couple of CPUs crunching for us -- two instances on a 2.4c and a one running on a 2.4b.

Randy Clements
Salt Lake City, UT

I am back... forgot to keep a couple of desktops going after I had to deploy that stack of new P4 2.4Bs...

I made it into the top 100 really quick (under a week) but now I can see I'm down to 111 already! Good job fellas!

Randy Clements
Salt Lake City, UT

Yes they have started a heavy push! Graph surprised me tonight!

I think I'm just going to shutup and let the graph speak for itself...

He's butchered that beautiful work of engineering!!! What a WASTE!

Randy

It's alright... I always have something up my sleeve. (Remember what you guys told me about karma, Mac?)

Randy

Dang... RAM was delivered this morning for these 20 CPUs. I'm going to rollout the first 10 today-tomorrow. I've restarted the clients with the -oneunit flag so they can finish up what they're working on before I have to deploy.

...searching for other "less-used" machines to borg...

Randy

They claim that their Macs don't choke on the Tinkers, but I think they have just as many PCs as we do. (And PCs don't like Tinkers...) They know that PCs are a much cheaper way to fold.

Randy

Welcome Crono... Help us beat back the Mac fellas who were threatening to overtake us... Every folder counts!

Randy

Actually, I've only started doing this again over the weekend, and I think I have the sickness...

I think I've checked stats 10 times today... My wife, "Every time I see you, you're staring at graphs! What are they anyways?!?"

Help. Me.

Randy

I don't know if this is legit or not -- maybe they're just messing with our heads... Latest from THEIR forum: TEAM MEMBERS: Well it's after 8 PM so we know that all the mothers of those SPCR folders have put them to bed. Seems as if they have also helped them with their use of numbers... Betty Lou h...

YEAH! Got that nice up-slope going now! Much better now that my borgs have turned in their Tinkers... I've got one or two machines spitting out WU with no team designation! I'm home sick from work today or else I could find it right away... Tomorrow I should get it straightened out. Too bad already ...

YEAH! Got that nice up-slope going now! Much better now that my borgs have turned in their Tinkers... I've got one or two machines spitting out WU with no team designation! I'm home sick from work today or else I could find it right away... Tomorrow I should get it straightened out. Too bad already ...

*edit * Why the heck do I keep double-posting?!

yay! (finally finishing up those Tinkers...) I fired up 10 of 'em around 4-5 pm on Friday. Guess they're finally getting through them.

I've gotta figure out a way to get some more permanent borgs. These 10 won't help us when I have to pull them offline to deploy to users this week.

Randy

What the ???? Is he saving 'em up!?

http://stats.zerothelement.com/cgi-bin/ ... ?team=1971#

Check out NoahJ's stats... ??? From our favorite team!

Randy Clements
Salt Lake City, UT

OOPS - DUPE POST.

EVERY SINGLE ONE of my 10 borged units are working on Tinkers... :( I have 5 others that I started up day before yesterday, but most of them have the GUI client (my 10 have text client, and I can see they're doing Tinkers). I am using -forceSSE -advmethods on all, but they all are getting Tinkers......

...More good news... I got in a shipment of 20 brand new P4 2.4b machines that need some "breaking in". I loaded up 10 on a cart and brought 'em in the work area where I can plug 'em all in a hub on the LAN. I'll let these 10 burn all weekend and see how it goes into next week. I need to deploy them...

Welp, I've been able to assimilate five CPUs for the collective... None have submitted any finished units yet (I have forgotten how long these take!) but this weekend we should start to see a boost from me. It was weird, lying awake last night -- WORRYING about those G5s passing us up... I was tryin...

You guys need help...

I haven't folded for the team in nearly 6 months, (I've only contributed 12 WU)... I started the client up on a 2.4c I have here @ my desk and a couple of P3 1GHz machines nearby I use for testing.

We shall beat them down...

Randalee

The fan I used was a Delta AUB1212M pulled from a Delta-labeled power supply pulled from a more recent HP Vectra desktop PC. I'll see if I can get some pics tonight - I have a cheapo webcam so it won't look really nice, but will at least give you an idea. The only place I could find specs from Googl...

I modded my Antec TruePower 430 with a 120mm fan (only) -- replaced the two "harmonizing" fans with one quiet one.

Randy Clements
Salt Lake City, UT

Antec TruePower 430 -- I get the high-pitched squeal either way I run it(error checking off OR on). This is the one I did the 120mm fan mod to. Oh yes - P4 2.4b, (2) 256 sticks of 333 DDR, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, Cuda IV and (yuck!) WD1200JB, Sony DVD+-RW, 48x CDRW, cheapo Firewire card, Video capture ...

Now that my beloved Antec TruePower 430 warranty has expired, I decided to modify it. The two stock fans seem to be a bit noisy, especially after the PC is nice and warmed up. What is worse, is that they seem to oscillate against each other, with a rising/falling noise/vibration. Rather than swap ou...