Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 27th December 2007

Team OcUK Folding@Home News 20th - 27th December 2007

Current Team Position: 24th
Current Team Score: 77,752,019
Crunched This Week: 1,156,132 (24hr avg. 165,162)
Change from Last Week: -16,144


Next on the stomping horizon

18. DSL Reports Team Helix - 968 days (+125 days)
21. Dutch Power Cows - 916 days (-48 days)
19. ABXZone.com - 462 days (+238 days)
20. p2p-community - 471 days (+28 days)

Teams stomped this week

25. Overclockers Club

Ones to keep an eye on

26. Overclock.net - 11 days (-3 days)
29. 2ch@PS3 - 70 days (-23 days)
44. PlayStation.com Forums Team - 472 days (+42 days)
34. Team 2ch - 564 days (-1,389 days)

We are currently 23rd in team production, up one place from last week


This Week's Top Crunchers

1 . magman - 127,228
2 . Cob - 72,696
3 . ms9cw - 67,149
4 . Biffa - 65,704
5 . KE1HA - 62,173
6 . sculptor(OcUK) - 60,382
7 . snapsh0t - 58,289
8 . Bigstan - 38,653
9 . Gazzza - 35,871
10 . lemonman - 34,506
11 . jaric - 33,065
12 . Neil - 31,884
13 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 26,400
14 . 2bullish - 24,050
15 . polandro - 22,560
16 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 21,258
17 . DreederOcUK - 21,120
18 . Leon_Webster - 20,717
19 . Silent_Bob - 17,682
20 . booyaka - 17,600
21 . wints - 17,600
22 . Unforgiven - 12,605
23 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,320
24 . Mattus - 11,070
25 . Babyface_UK - 10,926
26 . solarisfireball - 10,810
27 . totalise3 - 10,084

28 . Sadgeek - 9,235
29 . schumi84 - 8,800
30 . lightning512 - 7,812
31 . dan1987 - 7,040
32 . _Berserker_ - 6,803
33 . rich99million - 6,287
34 . Poolybit - 6,011
35 . Huddy - 5,804
36 . _Viking_ - 5,280
37 . marktime - 5,280
38 . Rincin - 4,285
39 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 4,096
40 . Cardy165 - 4,060
41 . davejuk - 3,873
42 . Saftlad - 3,820
43 . vent - 3,795
44 . [madoldtory] - 3,242
45 . KillBoY_UK - 3,235
46 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 3,036
47 . PS3 - 3,016
48 . Frogskin - 3,000

49 . growse - 2,988
50 . FatRakoon - 2,981
51 . nikoPS3 - 2,976
52 . KALIBR(OcUK) - 2,891
53 . pilch - 2,876
54 . oceaness - 2,731
55 . Freefaller - 2,602
56 . MattBrown - 2,570
57 . casale - 2,558
58 . adamsalem2k - 2,520
59 . Pilgrim57 - 2,428
60 . sammy7 - 2,323
61 . Saetia - 2,122
62 . weescott - 2,057
63 . ac90 - 2,017
64 . biteme99 1,873
65 . froggy - 1,840
66 . steve258 - 1,804
67 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 1,793
68 . OcUKWildweasel - 1,792
69 . Tumbler^ - 1,766
70 . bossk128 - 1,760
71 . MadFruit - 1,702
72 . 355F1512TR - 1,691
73 . Brown_Sparrow - 1,579
74 . ken1307 - 1,536
75 . Gunda - 1,535
76 . br - 1,500
77 . Buxx - 1,500
78 . TheCrow - 1,500
79 . penfold - 1,497
80 . Dunc - 1,403
81 . zenkohdo - 1,393
82 . Crowze - 1,292
83 . Trazzall - 1,292
84 . piggott - 1,288
85 . jeremysmith123 - 1,206
86 . Zymurgy - 1,182
87 . hikaru452 - 1,165
88 . Nationwide_Access - 1,157
89 . joebobslappy - 1,025
90 . teo.e - 1,010
91 . MajorPart - 1,000

92 . BenjiSayers - 974
93 . mish86 - 956
94 . verbal - 950
95 . Joe42 - 927
96 . breman1972 - 859
97 . mB0rg - 843
98 . Jagman2k - 726
99 . DeQuavus - 725
100 . theheyes - 706
101 . Dean_Vile - 686
102 . jacob - 685
103 . A_N_Other - 664
104 . Andrew - 664
105 . lopkinfop(OcUK) - 660
106 . Cory - 640
107 . mark001282 - 635
108 . weeedy - 550
109 . Kenstheman - 538
110 . bluesdevil - 529
111 . z0mbi3 - 503
112 . alonso - 500
113 . Ever - 500
114 . LiquidFox - 500
115 . Psycho_Sonny - 500
116 . xyphic - 500
117 . Yeggstry - 500
118 . Slinwagh - 458
119 . Ash87 - 419
120 . tajisan - 401
121 . BigDom - 388
122 . johnz0r - 385
123 . Power.Smash - 385
124 . TeamJoltColaPS3 - 385
125 . EDV - 383
126 . Northwind - 372
127 . Cameron - 343
128 . koenvm - 340
129 . 10,Killer,A,. - 300
130 . dc - 300
131 . mikeymike - 292
132 . MightyMatt - 250
133 . JackWolk - 218
134 . FTW - 186
135 . pacey2g - 186
136 . ThyFlame - 186
137 . Adnams_Drinker - 176
138 . feriso - 174
139 . dalin80 - 165
140 . blitz2163 - 87


Single Machine Folding League

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

1 . jaric - 33,065
2 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 26,400
3 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 21,258
4 . Silent_Bob - 17,682
5 . booyaka - 17,600
6 . Unforgiven - 12,605
7 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,320
8 . Sadgeek - 9,235
9 . schumi84 - 8,800
10 . dan1987 - 7,040
11 . _Berserker_ - 6,803
12 . _Viking_ - 5,280
13 . marktime - 5,280
14 . Rincin - 4,285
15 . Frogskin - 3,000
16 . Pilgrim57 - 2,428
17 . Zymurgy - 1,182
18 . BenjiSayers - 974
19 . breman1972 - 859
20 . Jagman2k - 726
21 . Andrew - 664
22 . LiquidFox - 500
23 . Yeggstry - 500
24 . Slinwagh - 458
25 . Adnams_Drinker - 176


This Week's Top Stompers

adamsalem2k - 663
breman1972 - 498
pilch - 447
EDV - 380
koenvm - 365
dc - 341
10,Killer,A,. - 340
Cardy165 - 214
weeedy - 182
Power.Smash - 127
jacob - 102
Yeggstry - 79
KillBoY_UK - 65
teo.e - 59
Ash87 - 56
schumi84 - 47
bluesdevil - 45
Silent_Bob - 34
Crowze - 27
nikoPS3 - 25
ac90 - 23
Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 23
Saftlad - 16
355F1512TR - 15
Cory - 14
[madoldtory] - 13
alonso - 13
TheCrow - 13
MightyMatt - 12
zenkohdo - 12
pacey2g - 11
KALIBR(OcUK) - 10
LiquidFox - 10
mB0rg - 10
Andrew - 9
jeremysmith123 - 8
weescott - 8
mish86 - 7
sammy7 - 7
Northwind - 5
Tumbler^ - 5
Brown_Sparrow - 4
Leon_Webster - 4
Poolybit - 4
steve258 - 4
Biffa - 3
Cameron - 3
lemonman - 3
lopkinfop(OcUK) - 3
PS3 - 3
wints - 3
Zymurgy - 3
Frogskin - 2
mark001282 - 2
marktime - 2
ms9cw - 2
solarisfireball - 2
tajisan - 2
totalise3 - 2
z0mbi3 - 2
biteme99 - 1
booyaka - 1
Borged_by_MGP - 1
Buxx - 1
FatRakoon - 1
hikaru452 - 1
MadFruit - 1
MajorPart - 1
Sadgeek - 1
Slinwagh - 1
snapsh0t - 1
xyphic - 1


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

KE1HA - 2,100,000
Gazzza - 1,800,000
ms9cw - 1,700,000
snapsh0t - 1,700,000
Neil - 1,200,000
Biffa - 900,000
rich99million - 900,000
SiriusB_[OcUK] - 850,000
lightning512 - 550,000
Mattus - 375,000
Freefaller - 275,000
booyaka - 250,000
solarisfireball - 175,000
Sadgeek - 175,000
_Viking_ - 175,000
Leon_Webster - 150,000
Poolybit - 80,000
Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 70,000
Silent_Bob - 50,000
[madoldtory] - 30,000
sammy7 - 30,000
weescott - 30,000
Tumbler^ - 30,000
johnz0r - 30,000
schumi84 - 25,000
Saftlad - 25,000
mish86 - 20,000
nikoPS3 - 15,000
ac90 - 10,000
KillBoY_UK - 7,500
Cardy165 - 5,000
Crowze - 5,000
xyphic - 5,000
pilch - 2,500
adamsalem2k - 2,500
jacob - 1,000
Yeggstry - 1,000
Ash87 - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners


This Week's New Members

10,Killer,A,.
adamsalem2k - good to see you
breman1972
dc
EDV
koenvm

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


Looking pretty scary up top with only a handful of teams left that we can ever overtake at current production and an equal number of teams hoping to stomp us
I've ordered my own reinforcements though hopefully the team will have some extra schools/office production coming back online over the next week or so - maybe borg your grannys' cats just to be on the safe side
Lovely team Christmas pressie in the shape of Overclockers Club under-foot, that's the way to do it guys and gal(s)!
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 19:30 December 20th and 19:50 December 27th

Previous Weeks' News:
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2006 News Archives:
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Single Machine Crunchers:
Adnams_Drinker, Andrew, BenjiSayers, Berserker, BigDannyO, booyaka, Borged_by_MGP, Carnage, Cathode, Cob, cokecan72, dan1987, diogenese, Emily, Frogskin, gt_junkie, Jagman2k, jaric, Limehaus, LiquidFox, marktime, Pilgrim57, Rincin, Sadgeek, Silent_Bob, SiriusB_[OcUK], Slinwagh, Unforgiven, Viking, Yeggstry, Zefan, Zymurgy ...

Bloody hell. I am right down this week. About 5K shy of my normal output. Only left Linux for maybe 5 hours max this week to go into Windows. Something else is going on. Gonna check my logs later and see if I have lost any WUs.

Still prodding my bro to make him hurry up and get his upgrade

Unfortunately due to xmas I had to shut my machine down, so only got one WU this week :/ I should be in the single machine list though

I've been looking at the VMware guides, are they only worth it with dual/quad cores? Anything to boost my production whilst I save for a quad

Thanks for the news Rich! Welcome to the new peoples!

Really struggling with electricity bills at home at the moment, so my main rig isn't on but I'll be back crunching again when I'm back at uni in a few days now. Also got a new machine in the house that I've put a couple of clients on

Ta Rich

Thanks Rich

Lost a 1760 at 85% this week But otherwise not too bad!

Mattus said:

Thanks Rich

Lost a 1760 at 85% this week But otherwise not too bad!

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I lost one at 93% yesterday. That'll teach me to fiddle with the V6 Linux client....

Position: 10th lemonman - 34,506
Stomps this week: lemonman - 3

Farms down to three machines this week, but they are all running smp 24/7.
belated parps to the dunc and polandro (wakey wakey mr Anderson) sorry for the lateness been having to much fun

Nice work on the tram stomp and many thanks for the news rich.
(good to see your putting that rebate to good use)

Cheers for the update Rich.

Nicely moving up the charts now i can leave the quad running all day. Though i have just bought UT3 so that may hit production a bit :S

Yay steaming! Think I lost a couple of wu's with various outages on my daily user rig.

Really frustrating that Dad's e2160 is running at stock, but overclocking it as well as running FOH without telling him is a bit too cheeky even for me! Won't be able to upgrade any time soon either, funds won't permit

first week running quad and 17k isn't a bad start!! Might try clock it more than it is currently but don't want to tempt fate!

nice 250k tiffy also in the bag.

Good team stomp and lets hope the january sales brings lots more quads to the team totals!!

Fold on team 10 and welcome to the new people!

Aha! Found out why my production is down. Seems I am crunching a load of 3061s and 3062s. They're 1324 points and, unfortunately for me, they are only giving me 3100PPD in total. Down 900 PPD

SiriusB said:

Aha! Found out why my production is down. Seems I am crunching a load of 3061s and 3062s. They're 1324 points and, unfortunately for me, they are only giving me 3100PPD in total. Down 900 PPD

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Looks like I've been getting quite a few of those as well.

8th again, not too bad under the circumstances. My Stanford stats have been showing 4 active processors for a while now so it looks as if the E6600 may have fallen over. I have 2 Q6600s running 2 SMP clients each and the E6600 running 1, so logic would suggest that the single client on the E6600 has failed in some manner. Output seems to have picked up over the last few days since the stats blip over Chrimbo so I should hopefully make a couple of stomps and hopefully hold off team ms9cw before I get back home in 2 weeks. If I can get the E6600 back up as soon as I get home, that should give me enough to hold them off until I get the bits I need to get the E6300 up and running - which should allow me to show them a clean pair of heels

Missed out on a tiffy by a few hours as well - never mind, I'tll be something to look forward to next week.

Thanks as always to Rich for the news and a big warm Foldy type welcome to the new guys

FOLD ON TEAM 10

Looking pretty scary up top with only a handful of teams left that we can ever overtake at current production and an equal number of teams hoping to stomp us

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Does this mean we are going to be pretty much languishing around this position on the leaderboard forever?

Depends on how many people with quad cores we can recruit Perhaps now is a good time to do that as there would be an increase in them out there due to christmas

Hmm, I think there's a lot of untapped potential on ocuk. If you're floating round an overclocking site chances are you have a thoroughly decent PC.

140 active crunchers and there are (looks) 463 members online at the time of this post. There's more milage in there!!

Cheers for the news Rich

theheyes said:

Does this mean we are going to be pretty much languishing around this position on the leaderboard forever?

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Looking at the stats on EOC, at current production we can expect to be stomped twice in the next couple of months, and then it looks like its going to be status quo for around 12 months after that.

I'm sure production will increase with new members and the new quad cores that Santa has delivered, but we will have to wait and see if this is enough to spice up the team competition side of things.

One way to increase output would be to ensure those who are already folding are using the best combination of clients for their hardware. I know not everyone can run Linux natively or virtual machines 24/7 but if dual/quad core crunchers who have yet to try the WinSMP client could give it a go then I'm sure we could get a nice boost to the points (and to the science of course)

The problem with everyone getting Quads for christmas is the fact that all the other computer/overclocking-based teams will also be getting Quads. So the balance remains somewhat the same.

The biggest difference will be sheer numbers. Someone going from a C2Duo to a C2Quad might only see 1-2K PPD increase, if they heavily overclock and run 24/7.

1 new user might bring in 2K all by themselves. Maybe as much as 4K if they are willing to OC/Linux/SMP. Multiply that by x number of new users and we are laughing.

The biggest problem is not many people are interested in running F@H. Most people try it then give up after a while. There are something like 1200 usernames under OcUK. I know some are temporary ones from races but the vast majority aren't.

We can't really recruit people either because you always get a small group of people kicking up a fuss and declaring Distributed Computing is a waste blah blah blah, which really puts people off.

We need a "Folding drug X cures/reverses/treats disease Y" major headline. Problem is, the life cycle of getting a drug to market for example takes years. In medical terms a 10 year old drug is considered relatively new.