Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 29th November 2007

Team OcUK Folding@Home News 22nd - 29th November 2007

Current Team Position: 26th
Current Team Score: 73,046,691
Crunched This Week: 1,262,511 (24hr avg. 180,359)
Change from Last Week: -40,839


Next on the stomping horizon

19. ABXZone.com - 585 days (+59 days)
20. p2p-community - 425 days (+27 days)
23. Team AnandTech - 279 days (+49 days)
24. Overclockers Club - 17 days (-5 days)
25. SilentPCReview Folding@Home - 4 days (-7 days)

Teams stomped this week

none - though that should change very soon

Ones to keep an eye on

28. Overclock.net - 59 days (-23 days)
31. 2ch@PS3 - 147 days (-32 days)
278. Fermilab - 436 days
45. PlayStation.com Forums Team - 1,271 days
34. Team 2ch - 7,824 days

We are currently at 22nd in team production, down two positions from last week


This Week's Top Crunchers

1 . magman - 119,256
2 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 107,829
3 . sculptor(OcUK) - 107,601
4 . KE1HA - 71,275
5 . ms9cw - 70,763
6 . Biffa - 62,823
7 . Gazzza - 44,773
8 . 2bullish - 38,677
9 . Neil - 30,932
10 . lemonman - 30,767
11 . Babyface_UK - 29,638
12 . jaric - 28,696
13 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 26,420
14 . hornytoe - 26,400
15 . snapsh0t - 25,531
16 . solarisfireball - 24,275
17 . polandro - 23,959
18 . DreederOcUK - 23,726
19 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 22,468
20 . diogenese - 20,034
21 . wints - 17,960
22 . bossk128 - 15,840
23 . A_N_Other - 15,372
24 . Cob - 14,004
25 . Unforgiven - 13,990
26 . Buxx - 13,821
27 . dan1987 - 12,320
28 . vent - 10,534

29 . Bigstan - 9,772
30 . Huddy - 8,076
31 . totalise3 - 7,847
32 . marktime - 7,040
33 . MattBrown - 6,841
34 . Nationwide_Access - 6,676
35 . rich99million - 6,536
36 . weescott 6,274
37 . Rincin - 5,732
38 . _Viking_ - 5,280
39 . Borged_by_MGP - 5,280
40 . gurusan - 5,280
41 . Pilgrim57 - 5,280
42 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 5,171
43 . [SIR]_Petulant - 5,043
44 . ken1307 - 4,926
45 . lightning512 - 4,379
46 . biteme99 - 4,122
47 . verbal - 3,558
48 . Silent_Bob - 3,520
49 . davejuk - 3,442
50 . cokecan72 - 3,091
51 . growse - 3,003
52 . Trazzall - 3,000

53 . oceaness - 2,948
54 . Gunda - 2,707
55 . lopkinfop(OcUK) - 2,671
56 . 355F1512TR - 2,637
57 . deej - 2,478
58 . DeQuavus - 2,451
59 . mikeymike - 2,376
60 . tajisan - 2,255
61 . casale - 2,253
62 . Poolybit - 2,171
63 . feriso - 2,088
64 . FatRakoon - 2,075
65 . Freefaller - 2,017
66 . br - 2,000
67 . meths - 1,994
68 . pikeypriest - 1,851
69 . niko - 1,846
70 . Saetia - 1,809
71 . Kenstheman - 1,690
72 . froggy - 1,645
73 . Carnage - 1,588
74 . dalin80 - 1,519
75 . KALIBR(OcUK) - 1,450
76 . hikaru452 - 1,405
77 . mish86 - 1,266
78 . sammy7 - 1,256
79 . FTW - 1,181
80 . Zymurgy - 1,155
81 . nikoPS3 - 1,137
82 . Cameron - 1,129
83 . Tumbler^ - 1,107
84 . Gavindo - 1,100
85 . liam8582007 - 1,095
86 . kinnison - 1,088
87 . steve258 - 1,087
88 . Crowze - 1,000
89 . Ever - 1,000
90 . Galifrey - 1,000
91 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 1,000
92 . MajorPart - 1,000

93 . BenjiSayers - 956
94 . Frogskin - 947
95 . MadFruit - 866
96 . jidh007 - 755
97 . Joe42 - 750
98 . PiKe - 703
99 . piggott - 676
100 . theheyes - 676
101 . penfold - 618
102 . joebobslappy - 616
103 . blitz2163 - 580
104 . xyphic - 561
105 . zenkohdo - 558
106 . z0mbi3 - 544
107 . Tuud - 537
108 . PS3 - 527
109 . MaTt - 525
110 . Brown_Sparrow - 523
111 . Garp - 511
112 . takku - 508
113 . Adnams_Drinker - 500
114 . Cathode - 500
115 . Limehaus - 500
116 . Pedro_Legend - 500
117 . Paul_Holliday - 351
118 . Assasin-uk - 343
119 . Leon_Webster - 343
120 . Jagman2k - 339
121 . Psycho_Sonny - 338
122 . johnz0r - 300
123 . NOIR - 300
124 . tony - 300
125 . wweeguy - 300
126 . [madoldtory] - 292
127 . mark001282 - 287
128 . LiquidFox - 267
129 . Nick112 - 250
130 . aceface57 - 220
131 . kevin - 211
132 . Mattus - 206
133 . Snapshot - 206
134 . diebymyswrod - 200
135 . loiic_corporation_ - 186
136 . Northwind - 186
137 . Dean_Vile - 174
138 . ThyFlame - 174
139 . bluesdevil - 165
140 . pacey2g - 165
141 . BigDannyO - 132


Single Machine Folding League

Colour Key: Single Core, Dual Core, Quad Core, PS3, Unclarified

1 . jaric - 28,696
2 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 26,420
3 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 22,468
4 . diogenese - 20,034
5 . Cob - 14,004
6 . Unforgiven - 13,990
7 . dan1987 - 12,320
8 . marktime - 7,040
9 . Rincin - 5,732
10 . _Viking_ - 5,280
11 . Borged_by_MGP - 5,280
12 . Pilgrim57 - 5,280
13 . Silent_Bob - 3,520
14 . cokecan72 - 3,091
15 . Carnage - 1,588
16 . Zymurgy - 1,155
17 . BenjiSayers - 956
18 . Frogskin - 947
19 . Adnams_Drinker - 500
20 . Cathode - 500
21 . Limehaus - 500
22 . Jagman2k - 339
23 . LiquidFox - 267
24 . BigDannyO - 132


This Week's Top Stompers

Crowze - 509
Tuud - 416
Cathode - 408
wweeguy - 339
tony - 338
Nick112 - 299
kevin - 264
niko - 185
Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 165
loiic_corporation_ - 100
weescott - 78
PiKe - 68
Nationwide_Access - 56
gurusan - 44
wints - 33
takku - 32
xyphic - 29
liam8582007 - 28
lopkinfop(OcUK) - 28
meths - 28
Pedro_Legend - 27
bluesdevil - 24
Silent_Bob - 24
tajisan - 19
355F1512TR - 18
Cameron - 18
nikoPS3 - 17
diebymyswrod - 15
KALIBR(OcUK) - 10
MaTt - 10
hikaru452 - 9
steve258 - 9
biteme99 - 8
DeQuavus - 8
Kenstheman - 8
dan1987 - 7
Gavindo - 7
LiquidFox - 7
pacey2g - 7
Tumbler^ - 6
mish86 - 5
sammy7 - 5
solarisfireball - 5
BenjiSayers - 4
pikeypriest - 4
totalise3 - 4
Adnams_Drinker - 3
Brown_Sparrow - 3
Carnage - 3
FatRakoon - 3
marktime - 3
Biffa - 2
dalin80 - 2
Gazzza - 2
MattBrown - 2
Northwind - 2
Pilgrim57 - 2
zenkohdo - 2
[SIR]_Petulant - 1
_Viking_ - 1
A_N_Other - 1
Babyface_UK - 1
bossk128 - 1
Buxx - 1
FTW - 1
Galifrey - 1
Garp - 1
hornytoe - 1
jaric - 1
mikeymike - 1
ms9cw - 1
polandro - 1
Poolybit - 1
Saetia - 1


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

sculptor(OcUK) - 4,950,000
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 4,850,000
magman - 2,150,000
KE1HA - 1,750,000
Gazzza - 1,650,000
ms9cw - 1,450,000
snapsh0t - 1,450,000
DreederOcUK - 1,100,000
Neil - 1,100,000
Cob - 975,000
polandro - 975,000
lemonman - 925,000
jaric - 800,000
vent - 800,000
SiriusB_[OcUK] - 750,000
Biffa - 650,000
Buxx - 250,000
solarisfireball - 100,000
MattBrown - 90,000
aceface57 - 80,000
dan1987 - 80,000
MadFruit - 50,000
wints - 50,000
biteme99 - 30,000
Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 30,000
Gavindo - 20,000
jidh007 - 20,000
KALIBR(OcUK) - 20,000
Limehaus - 20,000
Adnams_Drinker - 15,000
gurusan - 15,000
Nationwide_Access - 15,000
355F1512TR - 12,500
weescott - 12,500
lopkinfop(OcUK) - 10,000
tajisan - 10,000
Cameron - 7,500
meths - 7,500
nikoPS3 - 7,500
liam8582007 - 5,000
niko - 2,500
takku - 2,500
Crowze - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners


This Week's New Members

Cathode
Crowze
jason
JUN
mynsa
Nick112
PS3zappatore
tony
Tuud
wweeguy

A great big warm 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


Ah well not such a good week this week compared to the other teams around us but still some great combined output and we should see another team stomp early next week - top 25 here we come!
Congrats to the tiffy winners and a big welcome to the new and returning members.
If you've not been mentioned either I've made a mistake or your stats haven't changed since last week - give a shout and let us know you're still alive
***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 19:25 November 22nd and 19:50 November 29th

Previous Weeks' News:
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2006 News Archives:
December 28th, December 21st, December 14th, December 7th, November 30th, November 23rd, November 16th, November 9th, November 2nd, October 26th, October 19th, October 12th, October 5th, September 28th, September 21st, September 14th, September 7th, August 31st, August 24th, August 17th, August 10th, 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

Single Machine Crunchers:
Adnams_Drinker, Andrew, BenjiSayers, BigDannyO, booyaka, Borged_by_MGP, Carnage, Cathode, Cob, CocoPops, cokecan72, Concorde_Rules, dan1987, diogenese, Emily, Frogskin, gt_junkie, Jagman2k, jaric, Limehaus, LiquidFox, marktime, Pilgrim57, Rincin, Silent_Bob, SiriusB_[OcUK], Slinwagh, theredguy, Unforgiven, Viking, Zefan, Zymurgy ...

Woops, better go get my news done...

A shameful week from myself

Ta Rich!

33rd this week and a very good week for my output. Shame the team's dropped.

Magman.....what a machine !


I should hit 100,000pts sometime next week tooooo !

Ahh.. back and crusing.. feels right at home

Good week for me. Probably would have hit 28K if I hadn't lost a WU at 80% the other day. Oh well. Welcome to the new users and nice one to Mag "Mad" Man and Biffa for their epic outputs.

I also just posted the second test news. The results look pretty much the same to me.

Have come across some new oddities though so will try to iron them out - hence no tiffy-kats in my test post. It should only be giving me tiffies for active people but it's returning EVERYONE who has ever gotten a tiffy ever!

Aside from that everything seems to be working. I will go through my code and try and solve all the funny business. I'll then let you have a play rich, and see if anything needs sorting.

Thanks for the news, Rich! Some impressive crunching from some (you know who you are ). Welcome to the new folders!

ms9cw

ZERO production from me over last ten days due to 2 dead sticks of ballistix. Currently running with only 512mb of ram!! - it's soooooooooooo slow in windows etc etc!!

Awaiting them being returned from RMA and should be back up and running over the weekend hopefully with a Q6600 instead of an E6600!!!

Welcome to all the new members and i promise to double the E6600 output when i get my ram back!

Woah.

16 . solarisfireball - 24,275

My best week ever

Thanks for the news rich (and SB)

Possably my best week ever with 30K and 10th

With another e6420 on it's way next week things are looking good, but our company has mergered with another architects practice and I'll will be moving to their NE london branch (save me 50mins travel each way )

It will be 1 day a week rising to 5 day by next easter - It will affect the farms output as i can't run smp as a service but means I get more time with the family

Now can any one lend my a quad for a day - I need to see if my passive loop will cool the beast or I just upgrade to one of the newer duel core's (e6850) as I'll never go back to fan assisted cooling (except summer maybe) and like my abit to much to change to a Penryn system

Thanks for the news rich (and SB)

Possably my best week ever with 30K and 10th

With another e6420 on it's way next week things are looking good, but our company has mergered with another architects practice and I'll will be moving to their NE london branch (save me 50mins travel each way )

It will be 1 day a week rising to 5 day by next easter - It will affect the farms output as i can't run smp as a service but means I get more time with the family

Now can any one lend my a quad for a day - I need to see if my passive loop will cool the beast or I just upgrade to one of the newer duel core's (e6850) as I'll never go back to a fan assisted cooling (except summer maybe)

Q6600 @ stock has a TDP of 95W, which is only 30W more than the original Conroe chips (and oc'ing one of those will close/remove that gap). Put it this way - unless I attack it with Orthos, my Q6600 is running the same temps as my slightly oc'd E6600. I'd wager the temp on the E6600 would rise under Orthos too, but I don't have Windows on that box.

Damn. Just had to sell my turon laptop as someone made me a good offer. There goes 700PPD

Might be time to invest in that mac mini i always wanted

Top of the single crunchers for the second week thanks to Cob slacking.

Thanks for the news again Rich.

Thanks for the news Rich, clever disguise of Ems name.

Ive changed Emilys accounts to a different rig, I did it fair and square allowing for the time difference between the finish of WUs, so she will be on 1760s instead of 1440s.
Unfortunately Ill be working in Swindon for the next 3 weeks from Tuesday so Ill have to switch my rigs and Emilys to the "not on" position. Ill be back at Swindon in the New Year for atleast 3 more weeks, so it looks like Whitestar will be back at No 1 for a few months.

A big Welcome to the newbies, keep up the good work everyone.

sculptor.

Ahh unlucky about that - though you have to go where the work is to keep funding your habit I guess


Glad you approve of the name change - I hope all's going well for Emily

Ill post this here to keep it away from prying eyes.

Emilys new rig is a Q6600 @ 3.2GHz (nice simple rock solid overclock) running Ubuntu 7.04. I installed V6 of the Linux client and for some strange reason the client dosent detect the amount of CPU cores or RAM, as the rig has 2GB of RAM I set at 1500MB during config.
The first WU it got was 2605 (1760 pts), frame time: 6.50 min, 3900 ave. ppd.
I have it running 2 clients now, frame time 11.5 min, 4409 ave. ppd.
I have no idea as to why the client isnt detecting the CPU cores, it may be that my Ubuntu disk isnt a full schilling. I will try to repeat this on another quad during the Christmas break, if I can find out why its doing this and how to do this on purpose Im sure there will be lots of peeps interested.

sculptor.

How very strange...

However, my Q6600@3GHz running 4 clients [all 1440 pointer WUs] gets me about 4K PPD, give or take. So there is no real advantage to the odd behaviour of your client

Yes it is odd, not really sure why its doing it. After installing Ubuntu I downloaded the 32bit libraries at the same time as a WU was uploading something I usually try to avoid so Im not sure if that has something to do with it. I know the client isnt recognizing the CPU as a quad and it isnt registering the amount of RAM installed so Im guessing it is probably something to do with the Ubuntu installation.
As far as ppd goes I had a try with 4 clients and it gives an average of 5,000 per day, with a 20 min frame time. Just thought if I can find a way to intentionally set up a rig this way, quite a few of us could be getting up to an extra 7,000 pts per week, per quad machine.
I dont have time to look into it tonight but will over the holidays, I want to rebuild my rigs, tidy everything up and sell off the parts I no longer need. So Ill have 3 quads to try to set up in the same way.

sculptor.

So are the 1760'ers dual-core only or what?