F@H Contest - New Folders ONLY - 10/15-11/15

[mpcamer]

AMD has teamed up with our AMDZone Folding @ Home team and is giving us the opportunity to give away a processor to new members who have joined us. Folding @ Home is a distributed computing initiative founded by Stanford University. Visit their website at http://folding.stanford.edu/ and download the client. AMDZone's team number is 36837. If you decide to join us, make sure to have your username be the same that it is on the forums.

AMD will be sending an AM2+ Quad-Core Opteron (Budapest) processor*, running at 2.3 GHz, to the contestant with the highest points. The dates of this contest will be October 15th through November 15th. As long as your join date is AFTER October 14th, you are eligible to win. Additionally, you must fold with AMD processors only - Folding with processors from other companies or using GPU folding, while appreciated, will not count for this contest.

If you have met the criteria listed above, post in this thread and let us know that you are folding with us!


Qualifications are subject to change at anytime, per AMD's request.


*AMD is willing to send one (1) Socket F Opteron (Barcelona) running at 2.3 GHz, in place of the Budapest processor, if requested.

[mpcamer]

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MAKE A NEW THREAD - THIS THREAD IS ONLY FOR CONTEST ENTRIES. Thanks!

[abinstein]

I just joined the team a few minutes ago.
Finally got some motive to do folding

[baneofnurgle]

New folder here.

[willmc]

New folder here too!

[lowdes]

Folding baby, lets do this!

[mpcamer]

I will be out of town until sometime next week - if you send me a message and do not get a response, please send it to Brutis. Thanks!

[brackney]

new folder here

[dkbolinger]

I have set up a few boxes for folding this week...trying to catch up!

[Montaray Jack]

bummer that FAH is limited to 4 cpus.
Going to try to run a second smp instances in a different directory.
edit2:Ahh i see, you can append fah6 -smp with the number of cpus to use

[Montaray Jack]

On linux, it might help to pin the spawned processes to specific cores using taskset. The processes seem to jump around from cpu to cpu and overlap. Damned scheduling.
Using schedtool -3 to change the scheduling to SCHED_BATCH might be a performance win also.

[lowdes]

How can you tell if someone is folding with an AMD or Intel CPU?

[brutis]

How can you tell if someone is folding with an AMD or Intel CPU?

It's called the honor system.

All we ask is that if someone enters the contest, that they observe the rules.

[brutis]

I and the rest of the AMD Zone F@H Team would like to thank all of you that signed up and started folding for a good cause. We hope that you will keep folding to help further the science of protein folding so that someday your contributions may lead to cures of diseases that plague mankind.

The winner of the "New Folder" contest is abinstein with 935,282 points.

The point totals for all other participants are as follows:
brackney 115,823
willmc 96,443
Montaray Jack 40,320
baneofnurgle 39,265
lowdes 10,813
dkbolinger 5,718

Thanks to all of you!

[lowdes]

Good job!!!!
Next time i'm going to get more AMD's rocking for this