10-24-2010, 08:29 PM
I received an email this afternoon from Jimmypoo, strange as I haven't heard from him in awhile, and lo and behold he left me in the email the link for this thread...
Like WOW! I never imagined anything like this, but thank you so very much for the sincere best wishes from everyone who has posted here, or who plans on or will post later on, it's all appreciated very much.
To answer those who wonder, or will wonder, how in the world I average 50K+ PPD for this Team 38910 MacResource.com, let me briefly tell you how I do it, then you won't have to wonder anymore.
3 OEM PC Desktops
1) PC No.1 - Cooler Master HAF 932 Case; EVGA Classified BL-141-E760-X58-A1 Motherboard; Core i7 920 2.67Ghz CPU@ 4210Mhz; 12GB G. Skill "Purple Wonders" 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM; Xi-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Sound Card; EVGA GTX-285 1GB DDR5 VRAM SuperClocked Video Cards (2) in SLI; D-Link DWA-556 XTreme "N" WiFi/Network Card; Areca 1680IX-8 SAS to SATA/eSATA Hardware RAID Controller with 2 active busses A) 2TB RAID 0 Boot Volume ( 2 x WD "Black" 7200RPM SATA II 1TB HD's) B) 4TB RAID 5 Media Volume in a FirmTek eSATA 4-Bay Hot-Swap RAID Enclosure (4 x WD "Black" 1TB HD's) and here's its very own web page if you want to see it up close
http://sites.google.com/a/rexrzer.org/ma...0-web-page
2) PC No. 2 - Core i7 920 2.67Ghz CPU @ 4210Mhz; Classified motherboard; BFG GTX-285 OverClocked Video Card; HAF 922 Case; DWA-552 XTreme "N" Network Card; WD Velociraptor 300GB 10K RPM HD
3) PC No.2 - Core i7 920 2.67Ghz CPU @ 4210Mhz; EVGA BL-132-E-758-X58-A1 Motherboard; EVGA GTX-285 Video Card; DWA-556 XTreme "N" Network Card; WD Black 1TB HD
All three have Corsair HX-Professional HX1000 1KW PSU's and individual Belkin 1500W VA Tower UPS's, and they all fold 24/7, programmed exclusively for the PC-specific Core A3 SMP3 Work Units, which are worth anywhere from 3,300 to 10,600 points apiece, and I fold an average of 16-20WU's per day with all three PC's, my current average is a little more than 54K PPD--it has been as high as 61K PPD and as low as 51K PPD recently, but overall it seems to hover about 54-55K PPD consistently.
I passed ChrisBoyce on Sept. 29, 2010 @ about 2PM PST for general knowledge, and although he put up a brilliant resistance, almost hitting parity with me briefly two weeks ago, my sustained output has never varied much and I am now pulling away at more than 16K PPD average, a fitting end to that long, hard fought encounter with CB and I am glad it's over, frankly! I chased CB for some 5 years, and it wasn't until I built my 3rd OEM PC that I actually began closing fast this past summer, and finally I was overtaking him at a rate of almost 20K PPD at the end of the pursuit, so I would say I've been "relentless", and I had a goal to reach and now I've done it, finally.
It has been a pleasure to put up all those points for the MacResource.com Folding Team, but who knows what the future will bring. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to compete for No.1 Folder here, and I am very pleased to now be in that position after so much hard work, daily minding of my machines, and constant fiddling with the adjustments on the motherboards until reaching stability, and full Folding@Home confidence at some point this past summer.
My PC's are now maintenance-free virtually, and the No.1 PC is the server in my photography studio, even while it does Folding@Home 24/7, it's sort of an amazing PC with twin RAID volumes and a very fast Areca 1680IX-8 hardware RAID controller that handles all I/O activity, there being literally nothing on the Classified busses but for network and sound controls, and I enjoy working on it a lot for my creative processes, and of course for game playing with those twin EVGA GTX-285's in SLI to boot!
I hope everybody is having a great weekend, and thanks to Jimmypoo for thinking of me in this kind way, funny as it may seem, as it's been a LOT of work to get to where I am in Folding@Home, where I am now ranked No. 319 in the world out of 1.5 million active individual Folders. My goal is to be ranked within the top 250 Folders at some point, and to maintain my present pace at the regimen of Folding@Home at or about 50-55K PPD for the duration, and the goal will eventually be reached-- I am confident of that, anyway.
Encourage other members of this great group to start Folding again! There are so few of us doing it for this team that it's kind of sad right now, to me it is anyway. I would appreciate some help here, you know!
rexrzer - 10-24-2010
Like WOW! I never imagined anything like this, but thank you so very much for the sincere best wishes from everyone who has posted here, or who plans on or will post later on, it's all appreciated very much.
To answer those who wonder, or will wonder, how in the world I average 50K+ PPD for this Team 38910 MacResource.com, let me briefly tell you how I do it, then you won't have to wonder anymore.
3 OEM PC Desktops
1) PC No.1 - Cooler Master HAF 932 Case; EVGA Classified BL-141-E760-X58-A1 Motherboard; Core i7 920 2.67Ghz CPU@ 4210Mhz; 12GB G. Skill "Purple Wonders" 1600Mhz DDR3 RAM; Xi-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Sound Card; EVGA GTX-285 1GB DDR5 VRAM SuperClocked Video Cards (2) in SLI; D-Link DWA-556 XTreme "N" WiFi/Network Card; Areca 1680IX-8 SAS to SATA/eSATA Hardware RAID Controller with 2 active busses A) 2TB RAID 0 Boot Volume ( 2 x WD "Black" 7200RPM SATA II 1TB HD's) B) 4TB RAID 5 Media Volume in a FirmTek eSATA 4-Bay Hot-Swap RAID Enclosure (4 x WD "Black" 1TB HD's) and here's its very own web page if you want to see it up close
http://sites.google.com/a/rexrzer.org/ma...0-web-page
2) PC No. 2 - Core i7 920 2.67Ghz CPU @ 4210Mhz; Classified motherboard; BFG GTX-285 OverClocked Video Card; HAF 922 Case; DWA-552 XTreme "N" Network Card; WD Velociraptor 300GB 10K RPM HD
3) PC No.2 - Core i7 920 2.67Ghz CPU @ 4210Mhz; EVGA BL-132-E-758-X58-A1 Motherboard; EVGA GTX-285 Video Card; DWA-556 XTreme "N" Network Card; WD Black 1TB HD
All three have Corsair HX-Professional HX1000 1KW PSU's and individual Belkin 1500W VA Tower UPS's, and they all fold 24/7, programmed exclusively for the PC-specific Core A3 SMP3 Work Units, which are worth anywhere from 3,300 to 10,600 points apiece, and I fold an average of 16-20WU's per day with all three PC's, my current average is a little more than 54K PPD--it has been as high as 61K PPD and as low as 51K PPD recently, but overall it seems to hover about 54-55K PPD consistently.
I passed ChrisBoyce on Sept. 29, 2010 @ about 2PM PST for general knowledge, and although he put up a brilliant resistance, almost hitting parity with me briefly two weeks ago, my sustained output has never varied much and I am now pulling away at more than 16K PPD average, a fitting end to that long, hard fought encounter with CB and I am glad it's over, frankly! I chased CB for some 5 years, and it wasn't until I built my 3rd OEM PC that I actually began closing fast this past summer, and finally I was overtaking him at a rate of almost 20K PPD at the end of the pursuit, so I would say I've been "relentless", and I had a goal to reach and now I've done it, finally.
It has been a pleasure to put up all those points for the MacResource.com Folding Team, but who knows what the future will bring. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to compete for No.1 Folder here, and I am very pleased to now be in that position after so much hard work, daily minding of my machines, and constant fiddling with the adjustments on the motherboards until reaching stability, and full Folding@Home confidence at some point this past summer.
My PC's are now maintenance-free virtually, and the No.1 PC is the server in my photography studio, even while it does Folding@Home 24/7, it's sort of an amazing PC with twin RAID volumes and a very fast Areca 1680IX-8 hardware RAID controller that handles all I/O activity, there being literally nothing on the Classified busses but for network and sound controls, and I enjoy working on it a lot for my creative processes, and of course for game playing with those twin EVGA GTX-285's in SLI to boot!
I hope everybody is having a great weekend, and thanks to Jimmypoo for thinking of me in this kind way, funny as it may seem, as it's been a LOT of work to get to where I am in Folding@Home, where I am now ranked No. 319 in the world out of 1.5 million active individual Folders. My goal is to be ranked within the top 250 Folders at some point, and to maintain my present pace at the regimen of Folding@Home at or about 50-55K PPD for the duration, and the goal will eventually be reached-- I am confident of that, anyway.
Encourage other members of this great group to start Folding again! There are so few of us doing it for this team that it's kind of sad right now, to me it is anyway. I would appreciate some help here, you know!
rexrzer - 10-24-2010