cokeman54Welcome ArtyD. System specs not required but it helps us in giving you any info you may need. Did you get a passkey and register for the EVGA bucks? Enjoy your stay and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

No... How do I get one?
 
Nevermind, found the passkey thing.  next up evga bucks?

ArtyD42

cokeman54Welcome ArtyD. System specs not required but it helps us in giving you any info you may need. Did you get a passkey and register for the EVGA bucks? Enjoy your stay and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

No... How do I get one?
 
Nevermind, found the passkey thing.  next up evga bucks?

http://www.evga.com/folding/promo.asp link to bucks program. The 660 ti does not fold well on the new drivers and point totals reduced by half. Your passkey is new so will need to be primed (complete 10 wu's) then you can get QRB (bonus points). Only work with bonus at this time 8900, 7810 and 7811. If you are doing 8018 let us know so we can show you how to get more points. I rolled my drivers back to 320 and TPF was cut in half. Just a heads up as there are several ways to tweak systems to get max points. One more thing on bucks program, your forum name must match your folding name and you have to request the bucks.

So I need to change my folding name to ArtyD42... grand.
 
Edit: I am folding whatever they give me.  If I only picked what would give me points fastest I wouldn't be contributing as much useful information.

Hi,
Always been interested and kind of off and on folding. I finally found a way to contribute. I work with servers at work and we have been using a stress program to load the servers, but I figured we might as well load the servers with something useful so now I'm using the folding program on 5/6 servers with dual xeon processors no graphics cards. Work is kinda excited with it because then we could put the bucks toward gfx cards to fold on some of our other machines.
As long as I see the points on my folding page, then everything is going fine right?
I used to get only like 20k/week with just my desktop. These servers are running at 100k/day (supposedly according to one full 24 hr day during my burn in test) :D

I am currently using a terminal only folding program so if you have any tips about running folding servers in ubuntu that would be helpful. Also is there more micro adjustments than medium, full etc. I'd like to find a way to incrementally play with the CPU load when we want to run other tests.

And with my new account I now have my 10 completed work units relating to ArtyD42.  Odd that it would be so easily done.  Makes the passkey valid now right?

ArtyD42
And with my new account I now have my 10 completed work units relating to ArtyD42.  Odd that it would be so easily done.  Makes the passkey valid now right?

Looks like you are doing 8018 work for 5757 points. Those are old units without any bonus points. https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=18187 that link is a guide to put in a flag that will get you core 17 work so your passkey gets primed. Your PPD will increase dramatically under this core vs old core that you are now running. Bonus work at this time 8900, 7810, and 7811.

Changes made.  Thanks cokeman54.

In case it wasn't clear, the core 15 WUs you completed didn't count towards priming the passkey.  Only bonus-eligible WUs affect passkey qualification, and core 15 projects have no bonus.

gumibears
Hi,
Always been interested and kind of off and on folding. I finally found a way to contribute. I work with servers at work and we have been using a stress program to load the servers, but I figured we might as well load the servers with something useful so now I'm using the folding program on 5/6 servers with dual xeon processors no graphics cards. Work is kinda excited with it because then we could put the bucks toward gfx cards to fold on some of our other machines.
As long as I see the points on my folding page, then everything is going fine right?
I used to get only like 20k/week with just my desktop. These servers are running at 100k/day (supposedly according to one full 24 hr day during my burn in test) :D

I am currently using a terminal only folding program so if you have any tips about running folding servers in ubuntu that would be helpful. Also is there more micro adjustments than medium, full etc. I'd like to find a way to incrementally play with the CPU load when we want to run other tests.

Welcome aboard Gumibears!!  Folding is an excellent way to stress test any PC or Server.  From what your shared, it appears that your work is on-board with allowing Folding and this is good because that is a requirement (from Stanford).  They require that any corporate Folding is approved by the company that owns the equipment.  So, good stuff and other companies (large and small) have used Folding to do stress testing.
 
Couple of things to consider for your points.  Make sure that you have a Passkey (from Stanford) because it is optional when you sign up and request a Folding Username.  With a Passkey, after you have processed 10 WUs that support QRB (Quick Return Bonus), you can qualify for Bonus Points on those WUs .  Also make sure that your Forum Name here is the same as your Folding Username if you want to earn the EVGABucks rewards.  That is an EVGA requirement for EVGABucks, not a F@H requirement.  Also, log-into the EVGA website, go into "My EVGA", then "My Profile" and make sure that your "EVGA Folding Name" is entered on that profile page.
 
Please feel free to post any technical questions that you have in our Main Folding Forum or over in the Folding Help section of our Forum.  We're glad to have you on our team, make yourself comfortable here and thank-you for choosing Folding to help with this great cause.

Zagen30
In case it wasn't clear, the core 15 WUs you completed didn't count towards priming the passkey.  Only bonus-eligible WUs affect passkey qualification, and core 15 projects have no bonus.

I think this is the 15th time I've gotten the 8018...