Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 5th May 2006

rich99million · 5 May 2006 at 18:55

Folding@Home Team News - w/e 5th May 2006

Current Team Position: 52nd
Current Team Score: 14,345,995
Crunched This Week: 268,298
Change from Last Week: +13,184

Next on the stomping horizon

46 Linux - 47 days (-17)
48 Team 2ch - 19 days (-12)
49 AOA Forums - 13 days (-10)
50 Hewlett Packard - 11 days (-8)
51 Free-DC - 3 days (-8)

Teams stomped this week

none

Ones to keep an eye on

63 TSC! Russia - 58 days (-6)
57 Overclock.net - 358 days (+143)

This Week's Top Dumpers

sculptor(OcUK) - 33,545
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 21,297
Ricko - 15,915
DarkendViper - 14,746
hornytoe - 8,737
_Berserker_ - 7,218
Bigstan - 6,194
BigDom - 5,805
Prescott28 - 5,548
DreederOcUK - 5,457
polandro - 5,423
MajorPart - 5,359
Walter_Anderson - 5,187
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 5,174
vent - 5,005
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 4,841
lightning512 - 4,481
Huddy - 4,271
piggott - 4,193
kinnison - 4,104
Ken - 4,001
froggy - 3,916
dr.who - 3,890
duggyruss - 3,568
aXeR - 3,560
BlackAndWhite - 3,514
rich99million - 3,499
Concorde_Rules - 3,278
Hominid - 2,795
A_N_Other - 2,571
Dunc - 2,417
sr4470 - 2,406
Mattus - 2,110
aceface57 - 2,067
MrWhippy - 2,006
Appleby - 1,980
diogenese - 1,912
the_running_man21 - 1,847
RobOC - 1,738
ShaunBrewer - 1,721
beatvar - 1,703
Joe42 - 1,676
lee87 - 1,584
penfold - 1,577
Elston - 1,572
TheTross - 1,300
nicholas_yiu - 1,280
Sammael(OcUK) - 1,210
2bullish - 1,190
AcidHell2 - 1,146
pmbuzz - 1,109
Rincin - 1,051
oceaness - 980

Single Machine Crunchers League

1 . Concorde_Rules - 3,278
2 . Dunc - 2,417
3 . MrWhippy - 2,006
4 . RobOC - 1,738
5 . TheTross - 1,300
6 . pmbuzz - 1,109
7 . Rincin - 1,051
8 . Napalm - 827
9 . Corran - 812
10 . Zirax - 778
11 . divine_madness - 751
12 . nellystew - 566
13 . Euphoriabuzz - 428
14 . slamma06 - 427
15 . Bennah - 364
16 . killer_uk - 0
16 . OcUKIsotope - 0
16 . TinkerBell - 0

This Week's Top Stompers

Steven_Bremner - 216
White_Fang - 153
Appleby - 83
2bullish - 63
Elston - 47
Euphoriabuzz - 42
DooMSireN - 39
RobOC - 23
Combat_Squirrel - 19
lightning512 - 16
penfold - 15
Neil - 14
oceaness - 14
JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 13
BigDom - 12
Creature - 12
uber_m0j0 - 12
lee87 - 11
jidh007 - 10
MrWhippy - 10
Huddy - 8
slamma06 - 8
Tumbler^ - 8
Jordan - 7
Xavien - 7
Joe42 - 6
SquAmy - 6
FatRakoon - 5
GT3 - 5
piggott - 5
the_running_man21 - 5
A_N_Other - 4
Bennah - 4
DreederOcUK - 4
MajorPart - 4
MaTt - 4
BlackAndWhite - 3
Corran - 3
divine_madness - 3
leezer3 - 3
Pedrinho - 3
TheTross - 3
[madoldtory] - 2
aceface57 - 2
Andy_113 - 2
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 2
blitz2163 - 2
Hominid - 2
nellystew - 2
sr4470 - 2
wdhudson - 2
Zirax - 2

This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

sculptor(OcUK) - 925,000
froggy - 400,000
polandro - 160,000
Dunc - 120,000
vent - 100,000
Ricko - 80,000
Prescott28 - 70,000
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 40,000
the_running_man21 - 25,000
TheTross - 25,000
lightning512 - 20,000
Joe42 - 20,000
[madoldtory] - 15,000
MrWhippy - 10,000
lee87 - 7,500
divine_madness - 7,500
Xavien - 5,000
Appleby - 2,500
Elston - 2,500
Bennah - 2,500
2bullish - 1,000
DooMSireN - 1,000
Jordan - 1,000
SquAmy - 1,000

This Week's New Members

Steven_Bremner
White_Fang

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

Another week of increased output - way to go everyone!!
Sorry anyone who's not been mentioned - you know what to do now
***Only got one machine crunching? - Have a looky here***

Stats compiled from Stanford official stats page and EOC stats page
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 17:27 April 28th and 17:50 May 5th

Previous Weeks' News:
April 28th, April 21st, April 14th, April 7th, March 31st, 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

Single Machine Crunchers:
Bennah, Concorde_Rules, Corran, divine_madness, Dunc, Euphoriabuzz, killer_uk, MrWhippy, Napalm, nellystew, OcUKIsotope, pmbuzz, Rincin, RobOC, SB, slamma06, Stelly, TheTross, TinkerBell, Zirax ...

Admiral Huddy · 5 May 2006 at 19:11

Better week for me, hopefully some of my machines will start showing through now..

Looks like we might jump to 51st place in the forthcoming week

kinnison · 5 May 2006 at 21:01

3,200 is impressive for a single machine! I have 4 going, and am lucky to get 4000 in a week these days!

All hail Concorde

rich99million · 5 May 2006 at 21:20

kinnison said:
3,200 is impressive for a single machine! I have 4 going, and am lucky to get 4000 in a week these days!

All hail Concorde

and for the first time since the competition started there's actually no doubt that it is just his X2 this week

Active processors (within 7 days) 2

no little donations from part time old slow macs this week - he truly has got a very crunchy single machine :cool:

MrWhippy · 5 May 2006 at 21:30

hey concorde

what spec/speed X2 you running?
my X2 3800 is at stock and i could have sworn it was down for only something like 24 hours total this week (might have been a bit more but didn't think so), but your score's over 50% more than mine.

well done anyhow.

mrwhippy...

rich99million · 5 May 2006 at 21:36

MrWhippy said:
hey concorde

what spec/speed X2 you running?

it's an X2 3800 (cut-down Toledo core) at 2.5GHz, also the speed he has his RAM at and the tight timings will make a big difference

also no doubt he's got it doing beta work which is mainly Double-Gromacs WUs at the moment which the X2s and A64s love

my X2 3800 is at stock with RAM at PC3200 and 2.5 3 3 8 timings and i need another couple of old XP rigs to get about even with conc's weekly output

dunc · 5 May 2006 at 21:52

I have been running my machine with HT turned off for 2 weeks. I think that I was getting much better weekly scores with HT turned on (see The_Alabam_Slamma) weekly production. Therefore I am going to enable HT. So watch my active processors jump by 2

I may have to join the Beta too if the points are much better. I spent half the week crunching a couple of 400ish point wus that took forever

Watch out for next week Mr Concorde Sah

Dunc

Mikey1280 · 5 May 2006 at 22:02

Sorry guys I am a bit of a Folding noob, how do you get beta work? Is the beta work better for a64 then? I seem to have a rather nasty 266 pointer, gromacs 2052 which is just taking absolutely ages on my opty, 127ppd!!!

rich99million · 5 May 2006 at 22:25

borrowed from last week's news post...

diogenese said:
diogenese said:

What sort of input is expected from a beta tester?

Click to expand...

just reporting any problems you've experienced really with enough detail to give them a fighting chance to try and work out what is wrong

personally I've not had to report anything for a good few months - the last thing was a WU which seemed to have extremely low points for how long it was taking so several people along with me posted details of the machines and what ppd they were getting and the points got increased to bring it in line with similar projects

application is made by posting in this thread which also includes a lot more information about what to expect and what is expected of you - they also ask that you write a short statement of what you can bring to the beta team (basically to weed out the people who don't have the attention to actually read the whole of the thread )

Please only join if you have regular access to any machines you will be running beta work on - don't worry you can specify which machines get which work so it's not an "all or nothing" kinda deal

dunc said:
I may have to join the Beta too if the points are much better. I spent half the week crunching a couple of 400ish point wus that took forever

yeah i think I had a couple of those as the first WUs that the X2 picked up - both were normal Gromacs WUs and just seemed to take forever for not really enough points

ah well at times like that you just have to think of the science and hope for something good next

you can still pick up some good Double Gromacs work without joining the beta team though - I seem to be having a run of these 99 pointers on my X2 now which give me about 500PPD across the two cores (so those alone would give 3,500 for the week :cool:

)

Mikey1280 · 5 May 2006 at 22:31

Ok thanks for that info, may give it a go another time.

lay-z-boy · 5 May 2006 at 23:16

cunch on team!!

my x2 seems to have started the process of pwnage, hope to add more and more b0rgz0rs when i can get my hands on them.

rich99million · 5 May 2006 at 23:48

lay-z-boy said:
my x2 seems to have started the process of pwnage, hope to add more and more b0rgz0rs when i can get my hands on them.

what name are you crunching under?
I'm sure you've said before but my memory is all frazzled out

Joe42 · 5 May 2006 at 23:48

Still crawling up the ranks... i shall have a nice new Seasonic S12-500 soon.

OT, how did BTI get suspended?

rich99million · 5 May 2006 at 23:53

Joe42 said:
OT, how did BTI get suspended?

shush - we're not supposed to talk about it

we've been assured he'll be back monday so nothing to worry about

Joe42 · 5 May 2006 at 23:56

rich99million said:
shush - we're not supposed to talk about it

we've been assured he'll be back monday so nothing to worry about

I know asking about suspensions is usually a bad idea, its just i didn't think he was the sort of person to get suspended, and he does make about half the posts in this forum so he's conspiciously(sp) absent...

As long as he keeps folding...

rich99million · 6 May 2006 at 00:07

Joe42 said:
As long as he keeps folding...

well in the last 24 hours he's dumped double his normal average - think we can assume that he's still happy crunching with us even if he can't post here for whatever reason for a few days

the man's a folding legend i tell thee :cool:

TheTross · 6 May 2006 at 00:19

Eee by gum, look what I got:

Thanks always for the news rich

RobOC · 6 May 2006 at 01:01

TheTross said:
Thanks always for the news rich

2nd'ed.

sculptor · 6 May 2006 at 12:23

Thanks for the news Rich, great job as usual.
I noticed Berserker is hot on your tail :eek:

Another good week for Team 10 well done peeps.

Ive had four weeks off work unexpectedly as my Daughter is very poorly, so my output has remained high but I wish this had not been the case.

You guys are doing a great job.
Tom

Mattus · 6 May 2006 at 13:05

Great news as always, Rich.

Sorry to hear about your daughter, Sculptor. We all like high output but at the end of the day we just do this for a bit of light amusement, in the grand scheme of things it's totally unimportant. Give her our best wishes