Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 31st March 2006

Folding@Home Team News - w/e 31st March 2006


Current Team Position: 53rd
Current Team Score: 13,184,781
Crunched This Week: 205,773
Change from Last Week: -22,726


Next on the stomping horizon

47 AOA Forums - 63 days (+10)
50 Hewlett Packard - 63 days (+13)
49 Free-DC - 47 days (+6)
51 Team MacNN - 22 days (-3)

Teams stomped this week

none

Ones to keep an eye on

77 TSC! Russia - 115 days (-38)


This Week's Top Dumpers

DarkendViper - 32448
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 19992
sculptor(OcUK) - 11102
hornytoe - 7560
Walter_Anderson - 6215
DreederOcUK - 5990
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 4975
rich99million - 4680
_Berserker_ - 4555
The_Alabama_Slamma - 4346
Prescott28 - 4341
MajorPart - 4199
vent - 4058
polandro - 3940
BigDom - 3447
A_N_Other - 3406
duggyruss - 3036
Concorde_Rules - 2683
ShaunBrewer - 2609
dr.who - 2579
kinnison - 2551
aXeR - 2515
Corran - 2514
Trick - 2446
froggy - 2353
Hominid - 2219
aceface57 - 2031
BlackAndWhite - 1883
piggott - 1810
Sammael(OcUK) - 1719
the_running_man21 - 1702
Bigstan - 1684
diogenese - 1683
Huddy - 1612
Ken - 1605
Staffy - 1451
Joe42 - 1400
Mattus - 1332
MrWhippy - 1325
cheets64 - 1292
Saberu - 1258
The_Ohio_Psycho - 1232
Pilgrim57 - 1121
Plasmoid - 1115
beatvar - 1103
lightning512 - 1075
casale - 1055
Kyzia - 1022
Haly - 944


This Week's Top Stompers

GT3 - 258
nellystew - 246
Twem - 216
Teferet - 170
Bunjiquo - 153
Corran - 128
Bennah - 119
SquAmy - 90
JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 72
wdhudson - 68
Administrator - 65
BigDom - 63
lightning512 - 56
MrWhippy - 54
lee87 - 31
F10yd - 30
Tumbler^ - 28
The_Alabama_Slamma - 27
DreederOcUK - 26
LordShadow - 21
leezer3 - 18
The_Ohio_Psycho - 18
SB - 17
BeaumonT - 14
piggott - 13
A_N_Other - 12
martin7330 - 12
xyphic - 10
MajorPart - 8
Saberu - 8
VictorianStar - 7
aceface57 - 6
Hominid - 6
Prescott28 - 6
Andy_113 - 4
BlackAndWhite - 4
DiG - 4
Dunky - 4
J - 4
Joe42 - 4
OcUKWildweasel - 4
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 3
Huddy - 3
Pilgrim57 - 3
BigChris - 2
blitz2163 - 2
Concorde_Rules - 2
Fatiain - 2
mhalsall - 2
Plasmoid - 2
Ricko - 2
sagaboy2 - 2
the_running_man21 - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

DarkendViper - 1,400,000
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 725,000
rich99million - 350,000
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 325,000
Walter_Anderson - 225,000
Concorde_Rules - 80,000
Kyzia - 80,000
Staffy - 50,000
MajorPart - 30,000
Hominid - 30,000
Ricko - 20,000
DreederOcUK - 15,000
A_N_Other - 15,000
The_Alabama_Slamma - 10,000
piggott - 10,000
Saberu - 7,500
OcUKWildweasel - 7,500
BigDom - 2,500
Corran - 2,500
lightning512 - 1,000
Tumbler^ - 1,000
F10yd - 1,000
leezer3 - 1,000


This Week's New Members

Bunjiquo
GT3
nellystew
Teferet
Twem

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

Not such a good week - hence all the nasty red numbers, however that's bound to happen after a good week last week. Overall we're still doing alright, going in the right direction and most importantly still spreading the good word.
Great work everyone, congrats to all the tiffy winners and a big warm welcome to the new recruits!
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 17:45 GMT March 24th and 17:40 BST March 31st
Previous Weeks' News: March 24th, March 17th, 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.

Not doing too bad considering im a computer down, i did in the end decide to switch it off as im not in the country at the moment. Still thinking of borging my parents machine but think it's too hot out here to have it running really.

Oh and welcome to the fold new people

Disastrous week for me

Somebody has been staying at the flat whilst I've been away and unplugged the 3 machines in the sitting room

In doing so they also switched off the router so that the 2 machines upstairs couldn't connect.

I had 1 56 pointer returned from my solitary borg (big bro's lappy) this week.

I uploaded the stash of deadlineless WUs my lappy had been folding whilst it was offshore with me earlier today.

Never mind, everything is back up and running now.
I may have to consider moving everything up to the bedroom whilst I'm away from now on to avoid a repeat performance - I wouldn't mind so much but they left the flat looking like a pigsty as well

Stan

Woohoo new member and top stomper

Only an old Athlon XP but hey every little helps

Bigstan said:

Somebody has been staying at the flat whilst I've been away and unplugged the 3 machines in the sitting room

In doing so they also switched off the router so that the 2 machines upstairs couldn't connect.

I wouldn't mind so much but they left the flat looking like a pigsty as well

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i just need an address and a couple of photos - such treachory warrants being hung by the doobries in the town square at noon

i've got wound up enough by my brother turning off folding on the internet sharer in the past - i can't imagine how you must be feeling, i guess at least some of the machines weren't wasting electricity


here's to a great weekend and an even better week next week
i'm popping home this weekend and taking a router with me - will be bringing back the sharer machine which will go into the loft and will be clocked a lot higher than it is currently

rich99million said:

here's to a great weekend and an even better week next week

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I'll drink to that......

rich99million said:

i'm popping home this weekend and taking a router with me - will be bringing back the sharer machine which will go into the loft and will be clocked a lot higher than it is currently

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.....and that

Stan

GT3 said:

Woohoo new member and top stomper

Only an old Athlon XP but hey every little helps

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congrats on making top stomper this week, welcome to the madhouse
there's nothing wrong with old Athlon XPs - given the right work they can churn out some pretty good points

I await the day I can I can get something dual-core and insanely powerful but until then a handful of XPs around the house and a couple more in the loft will do nicely

gonna be taking the Barton out of the current machine and matching it up with the NF7 from home (best motherboard i've owned - it doesn't turn off! ) to get it up from it's current stock setting up to something a lot nicer

that'll leave me with a K7S5A and either an XP1700 of the silly clocking variety or an unlocked Duron which thinks it's an XP1900 whichever gives the best results - either way i should be able to squeeze enough extra juice out of the pair to make a difference

Bigstan said:

Disastrous week for me

Somebody has been staying at the flat whilst I've been away and unplugged the 3 machines in the sitting room

In doing so they also switched off the router so that the 2 machines upstairs couldn't connect.

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I notice that it doens't bother you that someones been in your flat and plundered and pillaged the place whilst you weren't there, only that they unplugged the pc's >_< ;p

And I must also apologise for I have stopped folding

My machines:
Athlon 64 3200 (2270mhz)
Athlon 64 3000 (1800mhz)
Athlon XP (1900mhz)
Athlon (1200mhz)
Pentium 4 (2500mhz)

are all searching for aliens atm.

This is laregely due to the fact that the P4 and the 3200 can't be left on overnight cause there in bedrooms and the other 3 can't be left on cause they generate so much noise together that there audible through a closed door across the landing.

I'd also pinched a friends Athlon XP 2000 but thats just died, however this does mean it's time for an upgrade and boy is it gonna be one hell of an upgrade

I'm building said friend this system:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2.0GHz 2x512kb
DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR EXPERT
OCZ Platinum GX XTC PC4000 DDR 500MHz 2x512 Matched Pair
XFX GeForce 7300 GS 512MB DDR2

my intent is to overclock the X2's socks off, ppl have hit 2.4/2.5ghz hoping to achieve at least that, I'd like to fit a Zalman CNPS9500
It will be searching for aliens also as it will not be on regularly.

Thanks for the news Rich!

I've made the top 100 on EOC! W00t! Putting out a nice 450+ ppd at the moment.

I would also like to parp Aceface ... 2 days and counting! I think we joined on the same week a while ago, so I hope you won't hold it against me .

EDIT: Congrats to DreederOcUK as well - jeez you're really flying up those tables!

I don't understand why if they are only during the day they have to not be folding.. come on have at least one of thoose machines folding

A bit better week for me.
Nice to be mentioned for the new tiffy.

Off down under tomorrow for a month.

Will have to reduce the clock on the opty rig a little but other than that all foldy rigs will be at full production. Just hope there is no power cut as the house sitter won't have a clue how to start them all up again.

Providing I get some good wu's I could come back to my next tiffy.

Fold on team.

Steevo38

Steevo38 said:

Off down under tomorrow for a month.

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wow have a great time mate - if your suitcase feels a lot heavier then it did when you first packed it just slip some food in there before you check in

Cheers Rich.

tbh my kids would drive you crazy mate............
AND WHO WOULD DO THE WEEKLY NEWS!!!!!

May have to get myself a duty free laptop (if there is such a thing?)

A.N.Other said:

I would also like to parp Aceface ... 2 days and counting! I think we joined on the same week a while ago, so I hope you won't hold it against me tables!

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Don't think i can currently match your output, not much i can do form here anyway. Hopefully when i get back into sunny scotland (haha) i'll get my machines back up and running and give you a bit more of a run for your money

oceaness said:

I notice that it doens't bother you that someones been in your flat and plundered and pillaged the place whilst you weren't there, only that they unplugged the pc's >_< ;p

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It's a company flat so people come and go on a semi-regular basis - I'm the only full-time resident at the moment.

I don't have a problem with people using my PCs but I get a bit miffed when they switch them off without my permission.

If it happens again, they will all go in my room and the door will be locked and no-one will be able to access the internet (my broadband connection).

Never mind the aliens, they won't cure diseases - Folding will Team 10 needs you.

Stan

Bigstan said:

Never mind the aliens, they won't cure diseases - Folding will Team 10 needs you.

Stan

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Echo my thoughts exactly mate................

Is anyone else having trouble sending units?

First i was getting this:

[10:20:25] Preparing to commence simulation
[10:20:25] - Looking at optimizations...
[10:20:25] - Created dyn
[10:20:25] - Files status OK
[10:20:25] Error: Work unit read from disk is invalid

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And now this:

[10:43:23] + Attempting to get work packet
[10:43:23] - Connecting to assignment server
[10:43:23] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[10:43:23] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[10:43:24] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[10:43:24] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[10:43:24] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[10:43:24] - Error: Attempt #9 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

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Is it a problem at my end?

Team has gone green btw, not good.

A.N.Other said:

Thanks for the news Rich!

I've made the top 100 on EOC! W00t! Putting out a nice 450+ ppd at the moment.

I would also like to parp Aceface ... 2 days and counting! I think we joined on the same week a while ago, so I hope you won't hold it against me .

EDIT: Congrats to DreederOcUK as well - jeez you're really flying up those tables!

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Cheers and Congrats yourself, Im hoping to get myself into the Teams top50 within this month and then the top25 before July. Ive currently got a 64bitXP3200 system here "not on" waiting for me to get a PSU and a wireless NIC, and Im hoping top order the remaining parts of my quad-cored setup when my next paycheck arrives. Already got the motherboard, and 1 of the Operton 265s, just need another, the ram, PSU, case of somesort, HD..... arhhhhh.

Bigstan said:

Never mind the aliens, they won't cure diseases - Folding will Team 10 needs you.

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Bang on Stan!

DreederOcUK said:

Im hoping to order the remaining parts of my quad-cored setup when my next paycheck arrives. Already got the motherboard, and 1 of the Operton 265s, just need another, the ram, PSU, case of somesort, HD..... arhhhhh.

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Mmm quad-core! With that doing F@H I'm sure you will be in the top 25 remarkably soon!

@ Joe42 - Yer, I was having the same problems with the F@H servers - see the Distributed Computing main page for a post I did there. Everything seems to be back to normal now though. Wierd!