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Any of which may happen to the other teams...

 

That was very nearly a 'coffee hits keyboard' moment. Funny!!!!

 

ill do it. im borrowing a 9600gso and il have my 9800gtx+ folding aswell. so we pause at 99% then resume at about 8:05?? cheers boothy

 

No pausing before. You can change over username at 7pm but dumping hundreds of WU's in ot the account in the first hour will get us disqualified.
Especially when posting the idea onm a public forum that the other teams are looking at.

 

Passed both earlier today, with a few days in hand before the challenge starts; perhaps I'll manage to get the last 4 GPUs folding before changing my name

 

this challenge is costing me a fortune,dont tell the wife though ive just spent another 200ish quid on a 9800gx2 to go with its twin brother that came last friday,oh!! and the 2 motherboards that came last friday too.am i a naughty boy or what??? no comments saspro please
lets rock!!
cheers spunky

 

You're lucky - I'm a dead man walking! I just pulled the trigger on the AsRock Supercomputer MB, another PS, and Core i7 920, to support the 4 additional GTX295's that should be arriving today! That way I don't have to start shuffling more hardware between machines. I'm not sure that justifies the expense, but oh well.....

 

Lottery win or just mad spending?

Get it delivered to work then build it and sneak it in when she's getting her hair done.

 

Just mad!

 

if i had had a lottery win saspro i would be shipping all my rigs to some sunny beach matey and my points would definately go through the roof
cheers spunky

 

Flippin' heck! I wish I were able to justify buying that kind of hardware (much as I'd like to), never mind the electricity bills.

 

You'd miss the banter.

Already planned my lottery win farm. Now just need to win it

 

I already posted about the extra 4x GTX295's. They're only really for the duration of the challenge. After which, my brother is taking a pair and I'll probably sell on the other pair. Likewise, I'll make a decision on keeping the ASRock mb or switch back to the Asus P6T Deluxe I have (which is currently 'spare'). I certainly can't justify the electricity bill to run 6x GTX295 for folding.

 

(mention stopping work units at 99% and restarting when the challenge begins)

Too many folders doing that would crash the Stanford servers, and they have forbidden it.

Edit:

 

I'll give the ASRock and GTX295s a good, albeit warm, home...

 

[irony]Never mind that fact you're hurting the science being done if you do that.[/irony] WUs are generated serially, and any delay in returning 1 set of results introduces delays into creating the next generation of the same run and clone.

 

We start from scratch and play fairly full stop.
If we can get enough people taking part then it we could be finished within the month.

 

Indeed.

 

After a result is returned, is the assembly of the next generation of units (or whatever phrase is most appropriate) totally automatic, or is some human input and decision required? Is the F@H project ever likely to reach the point where there are so many volunteers returning so many results that the humans get overwhelmed?

 

It is automatic unless the PI notices that something has gone awry with a particular set, at which point manual intervention is required.