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Scotttheking · Feb 17, 2004, 01:58 AM

Where has our production gone? The team was doing 10-11K/day, now we aren't even hitting 10K. Have people left? Gotten tired? Lost production? What's up?

OneMacGuy · Feb 17, 2004, 08:20 AM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:
Where has our production gone? The team was doing 10-11K/day, now we aren't even hitting 10K. Have people left? Gotten tired? Lost production? What's up?

Well, CobraMac is down almost 1K per day by himself, that might account for a bit of it. Another thing that seems to be a barometer to look at is forum activity. It is almost zero! This place is as quiet as outer space.....

jccbin · Feb 17, 2004, 10:05 AM

ONe of my CLI apps is using the fah65.exe app, the other is using fah78.exe. What's up with that? My production dropped a lot when the 65.exe app started working.

OneMacGuy · Feb 17, 2004, 10:22 AM

Originally posted by jccbin:
ONe of my CLI apps is using the fah65.exe app, the other is using fah78.exe. What's up with that? My production dropped a lot when the 65.exe app started working.

Different cores use different apps to analyze their folding characteristics. There are only two (I think, plus maybe a third one for Tinker cores), they are the two you mention, FAHCore_65.exe and FAHCore_78.exe. There should not be any significant difference between the two. What you may be seeing is that one of the CPU's has a core worth a lot higher points, this will take anywhere from 2-6 times as long to process. If you are unlucky enough to get a Tinker core on a Mac, I woul delete it and let it get another core. The Tinker cores take forever on my old G4/533 duallie to finish, generally weeks!

jccbin · Feb 17, 2004, 10:45 AM

Thanks much OneMacGuy!

I've noticed the drop in production too (I made lots of progress up the list in the last couple of weeks - more than I should have, even with the G5).

Turias · Feb 17, 2004, 11:11 AM

It seems as though a lot of teams have lost production. Maybe it's a project-wide change?

And we were so close to taking down those pesky OCers!

reader50 · Feb 17, 2004, 01:39 PM

FAHCore_78.exe = Gromacs. Very competitive on G4/G5, not bad on G3 or AMD or Intel.

FAHCore_65.exe = Tinker. Awfully slow on PPC, fast on AMD or Intel.

FAHCore_ca.exe = Genome. Not available on PPC (yet).

jarling · Feb 18, 2004, 12:33 AM

my production also dropped for no apparent reason.

Scotttheking · 03:57 AM

Originally posted by jarling:
my production also dropped for no apparent reason.

My production also dropped, but I blame that on enough parts failing from 5 comps to build a full comp out of bad parts.
I'll see if I can get my production back up in the next 2 weeks.

I challenge this team to raise production levels to 12K per day.

Kevin Moon · Feb 18, 2004, 11:09 PM

My little bit of production that I had dropped a bunch. Then I noticed that all the units I got from the server were worth 11 or 13 points. Today I'm back to the 30 pointers again. Supposedly the tinker units now only go to windows and linux machines. Anyone on a mac gotten a tinker lately?

billybob128 · Feb 19, 2004, 03:41 PM

yeah both of my cores were downloaded and came out to be tinker only problem was that happend after i left the house today - if it had been gromac then id be 80% through them by now

Zimmerman · Feb 20, 2004, 09:43 AM

One of those tinker cores takes over 18 hrs on my 2.3ghgz Athlon machine... I'm crunching a gromacs right now and it takes about 7-8 hrs. I put up over 300 pts/week with my one rig though. Doing my part at 2.3ghz...