Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 17th March 2006

Folding@Home Team News - w/e 17th March 2006


Current Team Position: 53rd
Current Team Score: 12,750,509
Crunched This Week: 214,827
Change from Last Week: -10,624


Next on the stomping horizon

50 Hewlett Packard - 77 days
46 AOA Forums - 66 days
49 Free-DC - 53 days
51 Team MacNN - 37 days

Teams stomped this week

54 Slo-Tech

Ones to keep an eye on

89 TSC! Russia - 155 days


This Week's Top Dumpers

DarkendViper - 33,159
sculptor(OcUK) - 30,163
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 23,521
Bigstan - 7,536
_Berserker_ - 5,804
hornytoe - 5,426
polandro - 5,415
vent - 4,904
MajorPart - 4,254
Concorde_Rules - 4,091
DreederOcUK - 4,012
rich99million - 3,560
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 3,474
duggyruss - 3,385
Trick - 3,128
kinnison - 2,874
The_Alabama_Slamma - 2,785
Mattus - 2,457
AcidHell2 - 2,160
aceface57 - 2,157
aXeR - 2,139
Walter_Anderson - 2,073
Hominid - 1,878
Staffy - 1,865
ShaunBrewer - 1,863
A_N_Other - 1,821
Saberu - 1,692
froggy - 1,631
piggott - 1,631
Prescott28 - 1,590
Huddy - 1,508
Ken - 1,502
Sammael(OcUK) - 1,499
Gunda - 1,475
Haly - 1,463
cheets64 - 1,438
the_running_man21 - 1,383
Pilgrim57 - 1,372
beatvar - 1,316
OcUKWildweasel - 1,288
BlackAndWhite - 1,280
diogenese - 1,267
dr.who - 1,136
Joe42 - 1,131
Plasmoid - 1,074
Kyzia - 1,035
BigChris - 1,016
casale - 1,010
pmbuzz - 1,010
Fatiain - 1,000
Ricko - 961


This Week's Top Stompers

LordShadow - 255
F10yd - 153
Tumbler^ - 124
SB - 49
martin7330 - 48
The_Alabama_Slamma - 46
The_Ohio_Psycho - 39
BeaumonT - 38
DreederOcUK - 38
oceaness - 27
MajorPart - 17
Saberu - 17
iraiguana - 14
MaTt - 10
MrWhippy - 10
A_N_Other - 9
Dunky - 9
J - 9
OcUKWildweasel - 9
piggott - 9
johannes001 - 7
Pilgrim57 - 7
Joe42 - 6
aceface57 - 5
Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 5
Ricko - 5
BlackAndWhite - 4
spring85195 - 4
BlackAqua - 3
cheets64 - 3
Fatiain - 3
MartinH - 3
beatvar - 2
blitz2163 - 2
divine_madness - 2
Huddy - 2
Napalm - 2
Plasmoid - 2
Staffy - 2
the_running_man21 - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

sculptor(OcUK) - 750,000
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 700,000
_Berserker_ - 325,000
hornytoe - 325,000
Bigstan - 160,000
aXeR - 90,000
vent - 70,000
Prescott28 - 40,000
BlackAndWhite - 30,000
MajorPart - 20,000
aceface57 - 15,000
Joe42 - 10,000
BlackAqua - 10,000
mhalsall - 10,000
DreederOcUK - 7,500
piggott - 7,500
Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 7,500
Saberu - 5,000
OcUKWildweasel - 5,000
MartinH - 5,000
The_Alabama_Slamma - 2,500
SB - 1,000
BeaumonT - 1,000
oceaness - 1,000
Dunky - 1,000
MaTt - 1,000


This Week's New Members

F10yd
LordShadow

Welcome to the team!!!

If you haven't done so already then why not check out the Folding@Home Setup Guide and the Quickie Guide for more foldy-tastic tips especially for when you're in a rush

Dunc has taken week 2 of the Xeon slug out, helped by the fact that Billy's skip-harvested HDD went a bit wayward. Hope you get it sorted soon Billy - you can't let dunc have it as easy for the next couple of weeks. We want to see smoke coming off that thing - in a good way of course!
Sorry anyone who's not been mentioned - you know what to do now


Stats compiled from Stanford official stats page and EOC stats page
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 17:50 March 10th and 17:40 March 17th
Previous Weeks' News: March 10th, March 3rd, February 24th, February 17th, February 10th, February 3rd, January 27th, January 20th, January 13th, January 6th, December 30th, December 23rd, December 16th, December 9th, November 25th, November 18th, November 11th, November 4th, October 28th, October 21st, October 14th, October 7th, September 23rd, September 9th, September 2nd, August 26th.

Good week, folks. Welcome to the new team members, thanks for the news Rich.

Damn taking my linux box offline really kills my output!

Must ... stop... being ... lazy ... and ... fix... linux ... box...

Nah too much like hard work!

Stomp stomp

Thanks as usual Rich!


Anyone else notice the spiffy new comma delimiters in the output numbers?

Hopefully this week is better than last loads of 56p's going about.
Billy hope your chruncer is all sorted.

Let us know how that new core a0 goes..

Mattus said:

Anyone else notice the spiffy new comma delimiters in the output numbers?

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hehe - thanks for noticing

today is the first time in ages that I've actually looked at what I'm doing rather than just churning it out - hence why it took me a good hour today
(don't worry - I didn't sit there adding all the commas manually - it was more contemplation time than actual work time)
keep your eyes peeled for a few other additions in the coming weeks

I'm making a steady push for the first page on the EOC stats page! Woot!

Week's down a bit prodcution-wise but I'm sure that will pick up when the decent WUs return. I've been stuck with 41 and 48 pointers

Thanks for your work, Rich!

Got some big WU recently, 2 x 250 and now on 2 x 404

I'm mightily tempted to do some more borging. I have two potential rigs... a Smeleron 2.4 and my Pentium M 1.7. However being a laptop that I use daily at school, I have to take extra care with power management - so not only disabling crunching on battery, but also disabling crunching when on AC at any time during the school day - this way it charges faster - and I really do have to make the most of AC when it's available else I risk running out of powah mid-lesson!

..If there was a way around that I'd have no hesitation in borging it.

Also, thanks to Rich for the stats

Other problem with Folding at school is that it could annoy people if they're trying to work and the fans are going flat out on your laptop!

nice stats there guys!

Hi all,

Started up folding for the team as of now

Got a P4 2.2a folding atm and will try and add more as time goes on. Building a new rig soon, hopefully dual core so I can get more clients added.

Every little helps

Regards,

Ben

Welcome to the warm foldy embrace of Team 10, Bennah.

null said:

If there was a way around that I'd have no hesitation in borging it.

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How about going into services.msc and disabling the start-up service then manually starting and stopping the console with a batch script? That way by default it would be in power saving/charging mode (school) then you could turn FAH on when you want it to run (home).

Dunc has taken week 2 of the Xeon slug out, helped by the fact that Billy's skip-harvested HDD went a bit wayward. Hope you get it sorted soon Billy - you can't let dunc have it as easy for the next couple of weeks. We want to see smoke coming off that thing - in a good way of course!

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Nice stats Mr 99million Sah,

Hope all is going well now Mr Impaler Sah.

I've currently got a couple of poo project 2108 Gromacs @ 70ppd for total 449 points

Also got 2 1481 Gromacs @ 208ppd for total 364 points

Dunc

Good point about the fans Mattus yeah, fortunately the fan has a pretty high threshold but it does happen occasionally... particularly in the English room since they always have the heating on, and that's usually quietest.

Thanks for the idea with the batch scripts Billy, I'd thought of that myself but in all honesty, I'm too damn lazy. What I really need is something that will control when FAH runs; at all times, except a) when on battery power, and b) anytime between 7am and 5pm during the week.

Ignoring the complexities and whether it's even possible with Windows scheduled tasks, would it work for FAH to control the client using scheduled tasks (due to the forced shutdown it would have), or does this risk losing work? I may give that a go provided it isn't going to kill the WUs.

Hi

Just joined the team,

set my linux server for folding it only an old 1gig athlon but hope it helps.

Welcome to the folding goodness, any help is always much appreciated . I take it the drop in output is mostly due to the lack of big WUs? (which means all teams are suffering).

Dunky said:

I take it the drop in output is mostly due to the lack of big WUs? (which means all teams are suffering).

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yes I think it's mostly down to bad WUs as we've not really lost any ground to the other teams - a few people have had slightly slack weeks due to hardware issues so that won't have helped
i'm going to add a bit more information from now on so we can see how well we've done compared to the teams immediately around us - should give a better idea of where the problem lies each time


welcome to all the new crunchers - if you have any questions/problems don't hesitate to ask

Dunky said:

I take it the drop in output is mostly due to the lack of big WUs? (which means all teams are suffering).

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That, and Sammael's evil boss costing us 10k+ a day!

When you set the machine ID, does it need to be set for each computer (ie. does each computer sending to your account need a different ID). Or do it just need to be set if you have a dual core processor where you're running two clients on the same computer?