Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 10th August 2006

Folding@Home Team News 3rd - 10th August 2006


Current Team Position: 48th
Current Team Score: 18,258,419
Crunched This Week: 271,014 (24hr avg. 38,487)
Change from Last Week: -36,229


Next on the stomping horizon

42 The motherboards.org Team - 236 days (+65 days)
44 MacAddict4Life - 134 days (+19 days)
46 Hardware.no - 117 days (+38 days)
45 GruntvillE.CoM - 81 days (+19 days)
47 Team Lithuania - 75 days (+37 days)

Teams stomped this week

None

Ones to keep an eye on

51 Overclock.net - 282 days (-1356 days)
73 Free Republic Folders - 366 days (-338 days)


This Week's Top Dumpers

1 . Gazzza - 19,210
2 . Babyface_UK - 14,025
3 . br - 13,559
4 . _Berserker_ - 10,261
5 . magman - 9,987
6 . LigerZero - 9,410
7 . polandro - 7,506
8 . Huddy - 7,099
9 . Bigstan - 6,816
10 . lemonman - 6,683
11 . froggy - 5,674
12 . hornytoe - 5,561
13 . Steevo38_(OcUK) - 5,524
14 . vent - 5,284
15 . Dunc - 5,096
16 . verbal - 5,094
17 . bam0 - 4,891
18 . rich99million - 4,757
19 . BigDom - 4,633
20 . The_Alabama_Slamma - 4,045
21 . Mattus - 4,004
22 . RobOC - 3,975
23 . kinnison - 3,791
24 . lightning512 - 3,646
25 . Trick - 3,628
26 . diogenese - 3,167
27 . sculptor(OcUK) - 3,159
28 . Prescott28 - 3,111
29 . duggyruss - 3,101
30 . Freefaller - 3,022
31 . Ken - 3,012
32 . locrian - 2,998
33 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 2,842
34 . 2bullish - 2,815
35 . piggott - 2,697
36 . aXeR - 2,344
37 . dr.who - 2,271
38 . penfold - 2,077
39 . TheTross - 1,986
40 . deej - 1,951
41 . the_running_man21 - 1,848
42 . StevenG[OCUK] - 1,799
43 . happytechie - 1,691
44 . Broon - 1,658
45 . lee87 - 1,653
46 . Dean_Vile - 1,620
47 . FatRakoon - 1,601
48 . Unforgiven - 1,573
49 . sr4470 - 1,452
50 . Corran - 1,330
51 . xZIBIT - 1,244
52 . Stormrider(OcUK) - 1,224
53 . Walter_Anderson - 1,216
54 . Psycho_Sonny - 1,192
55 . Borged_by_MGP - 1,144
56 . Neil - 1,129
57 . Galifrey - 1,125
58 . MajorPart - 1,092
59 . oceaness - 1,078
60 . Ricko - 1,071
61 . Mejinks - 1,069
62 . casale - 1,050
63 . 8_I3ALL - 1,030
64 . Sammael(OcUK) - 966


Single Machine Folding League

Colour Key: MultiCore/MultiCPU, SingleCore, Unclarified

1 . Dunc - 5,096
2 . The_Alabama_Slamma - 4,045
3 . StevenG[OCUK] - 1,799
4 . happytechie - 1,691
5 . lee87 - 1,653
6 . Unforgiven - 1,573
7 . sr4470 - 1,452
8 . Stormrider(OcUK) - 1,224
9 . Borged_by_MGP - 1,144
10 . 8_I3ALL - 1,030
11 . iBot - 841
12 . br83taylor - 806
13 . JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 735
14 . Rincin - 691
15 . ALD - 688
16 . Pilgrim57 - 667
17 . Zip - 591
18 . lucifersam - 500
19 . Pixel - 401
20 . _Viking_ - 396
21 . orderoftheflame - 389
22 . Leftfieldtilt - 385
23 . Mikebert4 - 359
24 . Plasmoid - 358
25 . BlackAqua - 317
26 . TinkerBell - 306
27 . Pingu - 300
28 . Adnams_Drinker - 283
29 . Zefan - 159
30 . LavaMonkey - 153
31 . pmbuzz - 153
32 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 82


This Week's Top Stompers

Steevo38_OcUK - 263
Borged_by_MGP - 180
ALD - 152
lloydy - 136
Dave5284 - 99
piers225 - 85
Pingu - 46
orderoftheflame - 39
lemonan - 33
xZIBIT - 32
_Viking_ - 31
Adnams_Drinker - 23
Energize - 23
Galifrey - 20
LavaMonkey - 19
Leftfieldtilt - 18
Dead_Martyr - 17
Broon - 15
8_I3ALL - 14
Mikebert4 - 14
The_Alabama_Slamma - 14
Unforgiven - 14
Zip - 14
2bullish - 13
catman05 - 13
Freefaller - 12
iBot - 12
StevenG[OCUK] - 12
Psycho_Sonny - 11
Spud_Gunn - 11
deej - 10
Zefan - 10
locrian - 9
lucifersam - 9
Babyface_UK - 8
magman - 8
Snapshot - 7
Stormrider(OcUK) - 7
br83taylor - 5
Neil - 5
penfold - 5
RobOC - 5
Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 4
lemonman - 4
Twem - 4
Gazzza - 3
Joe42 - 3
TinkerBell - 3
br - 2
Fatiain - 2
lee87 - 2
Mejinks - 2
Pilgrim57 - 2
r0undb0y - 2
the_running_man21 - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

rich99million - 425,000
polandro - 250,000
Trick - 180,000
Huddy - 120,000
Gazzza - 100,000
br - 90,000
lightning512 - 80,000
Babyface_UK - 70,000
verbal - 60,000
bam0 - 60,000
lemonman - 50,000
RobOC - 30,000
penfold - 30,000
Plasmoid - 30,000
The_Alabama_Slamma - 20,000
locrian - 20,000
FatRakoon - 20,000
Elston - 20,000
Freefaller - 15,000
r0undb0y - 15,000
2bullish - 12,500
Unforgiven - 10,000
Stormrider(OcUK) - 10,000
Saberu - 10,000
Broon - 7,500
Tumbler^ - 7,500
Spud_Gunn - 5,000
Zip - 5,000
catman05 - 2,500
Borged_by_MGP - 1,000
lemonan - 1,000
_Viking_ - 1,000
Energize - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners!!!


This Week's New Members

lloydy
Steevo38_OcUK

As Steevo has already sorted his 3rd account I guess it's just lloydy who's new to the fold - welcome to the madhouse
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


Slightly depressing news post this week with all that red on the overview - however with the return of the school borgs just weeks away we should be ok in the long run.
It wouldn't hurt to get the rigs clocked to the max in the meantime though
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 19:45 August 3rd and 20:30 August 10th

Previous Weeks' News:
August 3rd, July 27th, July 20th, July 13th, July 6th, June 29th, June 22nd, June 15th, June 8th, June 2nd, May 26th, May 19th, May 12th, May 5th, 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:
8_I3ALL, Adnams_Drinker, ALD, alonso, astraman, benjo1989, Bennah, BlackAqua, Borged_by_MGP, br83taylor, Concorde_Rules, divine_madness, Dunc, Euphoriabuzz, happytechie, iBot, JoeyJoJo(OcUK), jonnyc90, Kaed, killer_uk, LavaMonkey, lee87, Leftfieldtilt, lucifersam, m4cc45, Mandex001, Matblack, MattBrown, Mikebert4, MrWhippy, ms9cw, Napalm, nellystew, NightmareXX, OcUKIsotope, orderoftheflame, Pilgrim57, Pixel, Plasmoid, pmbuzz, Pumpkinstew, Putty, Rincin, SB, SiriusB_[OcUK], slamma07, sr4470, Stelly, StevenG[OCUK], Stormrider(OcUK), The_Alabama_Slamma, TinkerBell, ToLearn, Unforgiven, Viking, XFi, Zefan, Zip, Zirax ...

And there goes dunc, stealing the top two slots in the SCL.

Thanks for the news, Rich.

Sorry to anyone who's been waiting for the news tonight - been a really harsh week at work and needed to get out of the wrong mood first


Seems we've lost Sculptor again and a few others must be on their hols - wherever you are hope you're all getting rested ready for a mahoosive stomping spree when we're back to full power


Congrats all the fine Tiffy winners, plenty of activity in the team still even though we're a bit thin on the ground this week - get out those tiffy's and wave 'em about


edit: now to have a go with the new-fangled Foldy-sig machine methinks

*does a twirl of lovely new sig, courtesy of null*

An ominous week indeed but as you say we're down on some educational buldings are we not?

Think a fair few are on holiday too (slackers)

I just managed to scrape into top dumpers

Thanks for the news rich

rich99million said:

4 . _Berserker_ - 10,261

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rich99million said:

This Week's Top Dumpers

7 . polandro - 7,506

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So, well I don't usually comment, but I must say I am well pleased with this week's effort from the farm...

...the 3ghz Xeon running a client on both cores probably helped and better quality wu's too.

Best week yet, I think.

Argh what a horrible week for me.
Waited 3 days for all my hardware to arrive which all should have arrived on monday, only to find that my htpc board is doa so the 3200+ will have to sit idle for a while.
And my heatsink bracket is gone so i can't get the opty going until i get a new one.
And the pc which was upgraded to an X2 3800+ is giving me problems too. It switches itself off when i plug a network cable in. Also, folding shows 50% cpu utilisation as it should as there is only one client installed, but the utilisation graphs for both cores are all over the place, normally one would be maxed out with folding and the other mostly idle. Any idea whats going on here?

Haven't got round to getting the fileserver up and running again now that i've added a couple of 250gb disks either, so that leave me with the p3 and perhaps a sempron folding intermittently.

Its so annoying that i spent ages making a prefect job of the htpc, tidying the wires etc only to find the board is dead. Now it all has to come apart again and i have to wait weeks while i send it back and get it tested and replaced.

And to top it all, both my new hanns g monitors have dead pixels. I'm used to cheap lcd monitors from my old one, but i'm certainly not used to dead pixels. Now i have to decide if its worth the cost of sending them back at my own expense with the possibility that the new ones could be even worse.


So basically, 4 pcs down.

Cor I like this project. You get a tiffy cat in your first week, Stomp all sorts, and find yourself in the top 10 single crunchers

I suspect it might not be quite so rosy next week, as I inch my way up the totals.

Yes, you have to keep adding folding power to keep the excitement going. I've been stuck between #70 and 80 for ages. But soon i'll be moving swiftly upwards again... can't wait to start stomping a few slackers.

gah, I may have to get another credit card and buy some big folders to get our RAC up!

Hello again everybody!

Just got back. Good folding everyone. The machine's been off some of the time due to the ridiculous heat - hottest July for many years right? The 24hr average should be back up in no time. Hope everybody enjoyed the weather and it didn't cause any meltdowns.

Had enough time just now to mess with the amazing new sig generator. Incredible work Mr. null, absolutely great Uploaded my own protein background especially.

Nice work Rich! Hoping all the new borgs will kick in when the school merry-go-round starts again.

I also echo Joey's thoughts on the sig builder - superb work sah!

I'm slowly creeping up to page 1

I think Locrian is still out of reach from me though

Thanks for the great news/info as usual.

Thanks for the news rich as as requested here my Tiffy-Kat (with intrest)


And thanks to null for the sig generator - will be frequently used

Poor week for me, down 3k due to my much publicised friday off / weekend shutdown fesasco (but not this week, sorry magman, I'm not letting you stomp me that easily )

Looks as if most of the small pointed WU have gone - getting 2-400 pointers on all my farm now (but still getting just over 110ppd for them ) first batch are finishing today so look out for a leap forward, what I am happy about is that dispite 10 plus cores being tied up with these large WU I'm still getting well over 1k a day (mostly due to home rig clocking 200-400 ppd - or 2 hours uploading per night ). Very little down time this week due to servers/heat/or staff which also helped.

I'd just like to bring people attention to Magman compertition thread - get your thinking hats on fokes. <:O)

Joe42 said:

And the pc which was upgraded to an X2 3800+ is giving me problems too. It switches itself off when i plug a network cable in. Also, folding shows 50% cpu utilisation as it should as there is only one client installed, but the utilisation graphs for both cores are all over the place, normally one would be maxed out with folding and the other mostly idle. Any idea whats going on here?

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I'm not entirely sure, but I think the jumping about is fairly nomal.
If a process isn't assigned a specific affinity it'll use both cores. Unfortunatly you can't assign the fah cores an affinity

Was just having a look at our stats page, and would like to thank and congratulate our top 20 producers. Of particular mention I think are our 1.6k+ producers - Gazzza, Babyface_UK, and br. Since DarkendViper's production has stopped (hopefully temporarily ?) you guys are the big players in the team. Keep it up chaps

oceaness said:

I'm not entirely sure, but I think the jumping about is fairly nomal.
If a process isn't assigned a specific affinity it'll use both cores. Unfortunatly you can't assign the fah cores an affinity

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I think the reason i haven't seen that before is my opty normally has both cores folding. So i'll just get a 2nd cilent installed and that should be fine.
Now i've got to see how it clocks...

In the continuing faulty/dead hardware saga, my router has had it aswell. Dhcp over wireless has never worked as it should, but its got worse and now its not working over wired either.

Oh yeah the SiriusB has returned to stomp you slackers once again!

Probably give it a few days before I am up to full production on the stats pages but I have just started my second set of 153 pointers since coming home Wednesday plus the WUs that were only half-finished when I switched my PC not on.

These 153 pointers are pretty good - I think I got 230PPD on the last lot.

Woah... stop the press... I just updated the project info in FaHMon... turns out only one is a 153 pointer... the other is a 535 pointer!! Project 1862.

No accurate ETA yet but looking at how long 1 frame took I should be dumping it Sunday evening at the earliest.

SiriusB

EDIT: Anyone know why my sig isnt working? It's one of null's so I can only assume something is broken on his end.

SiriusB said:

EDIT: Anyone know why my sig isnt working? It's one of null's so I can only assume something is broken on his end.

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Check the code, probably a space somewhere which shouldn't be there. Mine's nulls and is fine.

Nice wu's there sah .

As above or flag Billy (the all knowing) down if he's passing your cyberstreet - sorted out my Sig out (rule infringement because i had u and r together - still don't know how he 'captured' its url - i only ever get a fragment on the properties dialog box.

If all else failes Null will fix it in a nano-second

edit: - it's working must be a part of the text you entered into the prefix box