Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 27th March 2008

Team OcUK Folding@Home News 20th - 27th March 2008

Current Team Position: 25th
Current Team Score: 97,298,484
Crunched This Week: 1,393,458 (24hr avg. 199,065)
Change from Last Week: -9,523


Next on the stomping horizon

18. DSL Reports Team Helix - 832 days (+188 days)
19. ABXZone.com - 359 days (+65 days)
22. Dutch Power Cows - 269 days (+5 days)
20. p2p-community - 177 days (-37 days)

Teams stomped this week

none

Ones to keep an eye on

26. 2ch@PS3 - 100 days (-36 days)
35. PlayStation.com Forums Team - 311 days (-103 days)

We dropped to 21st for team production - down two places since last week


This Week's Top Crunchers

1 . magman - 156,545
2 . Bigstan - 133,492
3 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 84,378
4 . _Berserker_ - 70,324
5 . ms9cw - 69,148
6 . snapsh0t - 67,383
7 . sculptor(OcUK) - 67,066
8 . Buxx - 49,848
9 . jaric - 43,520
10 . DreederOcUK - 41,316
11 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 31,680
12 . Neil - 30,692
13 . Babyface_UK - 28,240
14 . polandro - 27,209
15 . Sadgeek - 26,400
16 . 2bullish - 26,035
17 . rich99million - 24,273
18 . Pneumonic - 23,600
19 . lemonman - 22,949
20 . Mattus - 19,603
21 . penfold - 18,002
22 . wints - 17,586
23 . verbal - 17,477
24 . Rincin - 16,974
25 . bossk128 - 15,840
26 . booyaka - 15,520
27 . Labatyd - 13,134
28 . A_N_Other - 12,320
29 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,320
30 . lightning512 - 10,853
31 . steve258 - 10,560

32 . Unforgiven - 8,800
33 . theheyes - 6,981
34 . Stu4691 - 6,461
35 . adamsalem2k - 6,211
36 . vent - 5,838
37 . Huddy - 5,371
38 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 5,321
39 . Pilgrim57 - 5,280
40 . marktime - 5,252
41 . _Viking_ - 5,245
42 . FatRakoon - 4,797
43 . KillBoY_UK - 4,321
44 . Sammael(OcUK) - 4,299
45 . Anshar - 4,131
46 . KE1HA - 4,125
47 . Leon_Webster - 4,014
48 . ShaneOsborne - 3,939
49 . sdi-dave - 3,837
50 . Cob - 3,763
51 . oceaness - 3,739
52 . Nationwide_Access - 3,733
53 . Russ - 3,625
54 . Freefaller - 3,473

55 . KALIBR(OcUK) - 2,922
56 . snoop - 2,875
57 . feriso - 2,744
58 . froggy - 2,523
59 . davejuk - 2,434
60 . PS3 - 2,375
61 . Saetia - 2,153
62 . mikeymike - 2,136
63 . OcUK_Inoshishi - 2,125
64 . johnz0r - 1,875
65 . Gunda - 1,839
66 . growse - 1,741
67 . Poolybit - 1,687
68 . ken1307 - 1,658
69 . Joe42 - 1,586
70 . casale - 1,514
71 . dalin80 - 1,460
72 . MadFruit - 1,372
73 . Frogskin - 1,315
74 . ShaunBrewer - 1,313
75 . jeremysmith123 - 1,310
76 . deej - 1,290
77 . r0undb0y - 1,279
78 . Biffa - 1,263
79 . sammy7 - 1,089
80 . br - 1,021
81 . Fraggles - 1,000

82 . hikaru452 - 993
83 . 355F1512TR - 972
84 . Jagman2k - 944
85 . z0mbi3 - 925
86 . ronin4740 - 896
87 . Trazzall - 856
88 . MaTt - 826
89 . rwxsm - 795
90 . rockstar_wild - 778
91 . FTW - 776
92 . nikoPS3 - 750
93 . Danny_Holly-X2 - 731
94 . Brown_Sparrow - 729
95 . Tumbler^ - 729
96 . daniel - 686
97 . aceface57 - 682
98 . BenjiSayers - 650
99 . mark001282 - 625
100 . Psycho_Sonny - 535
101 . Yoraishin - 530
102 . PhillyDee - 500
103 . Donna_Marie - 492
104 . xyphic - 486
105 . Yeggstry - 486
106 . Ash - 427
107 . SuperNerd - 424
108 . Fisher - 375
109 . NOIR - 375
110 . Yhack - 375
111 . mB0rg - 358
112 . Assasin-uk - 343
113 . loiic_corporation_ - 343
114 . lukevivian - 343
115 . MattBrown - 343
116 . zenkohdo - 343
117 . [OcUK]_Chadd - 338
118 . littlebloke - 325
119 . Snapshot - 293
120 . Hessian - 292
121 . Andrew - 287
122 . Appleby - 250
123 . der_Lawyer - 250
124 . EVH - 250
125 . GaryM0510 - 250
126 . joebobslappy - 250
127 . jp - 250
128 . shalaku - 250
129 . Tulare1 - 250
130 . Dean_Vile - 243
131 . diogenese - 243
132 . dr.who - 243
133 . Galifrey - 243
134 . MartinDRZ - 243
135 . MBK_OcUK - 243
136 . mynsa - 243
137 . Zefan - 243
138 . sr4470 - 215
139 . FizzyLogic - 206
140 . BigDannyO - 165
141 . ThyFlame - 165
142 . guilbert - 125
143 . hinako - 125
144 . JoeH - 125
145 . PeaceGiver - 125
146 . SHADDY - 125
147 . shadow - 125
148 . V1N(OCUK) - 125
149 . Viktor - 125
150 . ac90 - 50
151 . JurgaN - 15


Single Machine Folding League

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

1 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 31,680
2 . Sadgeek - 26,400
3 . Rincin - 16,974
4 . booyaka - 15,520
5 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,320
6 . Unforgiven - 8,800
7 . Pilgrim57 - 5,280
8 . marktime - 5,252
9 . _Viking_ - 5,245
10 . Cob - 3,763
11 . ken1307 - 1,658
12 . Frogskin - 1,315
13 . BenjiSayers - 650
14 . [OcUK]_Chadd - 338
15 . Hessian - 292
16 . Andrew - 287
17 EVH - 250
18 . diogenese - 243
18 . MBK_OcUK - 243
20 . BigDannyO - 165


This Week's Top Climbers

Fisher - 407
[OcUK]_Chadd - 386
snoop - 369
jp - 308
EVH - 307
Anshar - 295
Fraggles - 295
shalaku - 290
shadow - 226
SHADDY - 225
hinako - 224
guilbert - 223
SuperNerd - 158
JurgaN - 130
der_Lawyer - 127
mynsa - 99
daniel - 87
Stu4691 - 61
Donna_Marie - 59
GaryM0510 - 43
JoeH - 37
Russ - 34
Danny_Holly-X2 - 33
ronin4740 - 29
rwxsm - 27
loiic_corporation_ - 26
Tulare1 - 26
Hessian - 25
OcUK_Inoshishi - 24
Yhack - 23
KillBoY_UK - 21
Yoraishin - 15
sdi-dave - 12
rockstar_wild - 10
lukevivian - 7
Yeggstry - 6
z0mbi3 - 6
johnz0r - 5
MaTt - 5
PeaceGiver - 5
PS3 - 5
Ash - 4
bossk128 - 4
Buxx - 4
MartinDRZ - 4
Viktor - 4
adamsalem2k - 3
mB0rg - 3
_Viking_ - 2
355F1512TR - 2
Assasin-uk - 2
BigDannyO - 2
Brown_Sparrow - 2
casale - 2
jeremysmith123 - 2
nikoPS3 - 2
theheyes - 2
2bullish - 1
aceface57 - 1
Andrew - 1
BenjiSayers - 1
DreederOcUK - 1
Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 1
FatRakoon - 1
ken1307 - 1
Mattus - 1
mikeymike - 1
Nationwide_Access - 1
NOIR - 1
Pneumonic - 1
Poolybit - 1
r0undb0y - 1
rich99million - 1
Sadgeek - 1
sammy7 - 1
Snapshot - 1
steve258 - 1
wints - 1


This Week's Milestones

Bigstan - 3,250,000
_Berserker_ - 2,500,000
ms9cw - 2,500,000
lemonman - 1,400,000
lightning512 - 650,000
Rincin - 525,000
Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 450,000
Sadgeek - 450,000
Pneumonic - 425,000
Buxx - 375,000
wints - 350,000
bossk128 - 275,000
Labatyd - 250,000
Nationwide_Access - 90,000
MadFruit - 60,000
KillBoY_UK - 25,000
Stu4691 - 15,000
Russ - 12,500
OcUK_Inoshishi - 10,000
rockstar_wild - 7,500
Anshar - 5,000
ronin4740 - 5,000
snoop - 2,500
daniel - 1,000
Fraggles - 1,000
GaryM0510 - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners


This Week's New Members

[OcUK]_Chadd
EVH
Fisher
guilbert
hinako
jp
JurgaN
SHADDY
shadow

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


Looks like we're taking a big hit from these not so nice SMP WUs, just slipping below 200k PPD has dropped us a couple of places in terms of team production though with some uber-crunchers in the works hopefully we can make that back soon enough
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 19:50 March 20th and 19:40 March 27th

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March 20th, March 13th, March 6th, February 28th, February 21st, February 7th, January 31st, January 24th, January 17th, January 10th, January 3rd

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Single Machine Crunchers:
[OcUK]_Chadd, Andrew, BenjiSayers, BigDannyO, booyaka, Borged_by_MGP, Carnage, Cob, cokecan72, diogenese, Emily, EVH, Frogskin, GregI, Hessian, ken1307, Limehaus, LiquidFox, lopkinfop, marktime, MBK_OcUK, Pilgrim57, Rincin, Sadgeek, Silent_Bob, SiriusB_[OcUK], Unforgiven, Viking, Yeggstry ...

thanks for the news rich

will try harder next week but stuck with poor standard wu (ambers) and duff SMP ones too

Hay ho - keep em crunching

It's great to be back.

Will be swapping out my cache-crippled E2140 for an E6600 next week and going back to linuxSMP, so hopefully I'll be upto ~14k a week til I can get my hands on a Q9450.

Cheers Rich

Only had my main rig Folding for a couple of days and then started getting BSODs. Took me a while to suss out what the problem was but running memtest showed this:



I think I may have stumbled on the problem

I've shuffled RAM about and everything is still working but I decided not to resume Folding on the main rig until the new RAM arrives. It'll be here tomorrow but I probably won't start Folding straight away as I'm doing other stuff on here just now so I'll leave it until I go away on Tuesday. I've ordered a set of this as I've been meaning to stick 4GB on here for a while and the old RAM crapping out gave me the incentive to do it now. This stuff seemed to much of a good deal to pass up the opportunity.

Apart from that, everything else has been running as it should be.

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

FOLD ON TEAM 10

aye - thanks as ever for the news- getting back to full pelt after my holiday shutdown so should be back towards 20k next week - 500k tiffy in the offing this week and need to keep some of the rampaging pack behind me!!

Welcome to the new members.

Nice memtest Stan!!!

Thanks for the news rich

I've now got my quad core rig built, I just need to connect everything and I'll be sorted I'm gonna try the nofred diskless folding thingie on VM that Cob suggested and see how well that goes

Thanks for the news Rich.

All was going fine this week until one of my virtual machines had a fit after picking up a couple of the new a2 core P2619 WUs. I also seem to be missing credit for 2 or 3 P2605 WUs, so I'm probably 6-7k pts down this week

At least it looks like the work borgs have just dumped a couple of WUs, so it seems they are still crunching away in my absence (so far)

Hey gents, it seems like ages since we've had a proper chat.

I just upgraded my MythTV frontend machine from Ubuntu Server 6.06.1 to Mythbuntu 7.10. I went to reinstall FAH on it and realized that finstall was now using the 2nd SMP beta. Nice stuff methinks. Anyway, I told it to ask for big work units. The one it downloaded use a monstrous quantity of RAM. Each of the four processes was camped out in 150+ MiB RAM.

Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but the machine only has 1 GiB RAM; way more than Myth alone needs, but not enough to run Myth, the various servers, and 600+ MiB worth of FAH. It began swapping like mad, totaling about 250 MiB in swap. This is not workable for me since the machine boots from a CompactFlash card and writing that much is going to wear it excessively.

Long story short, if I ask for normal-sized WUs how will that effect my points? Are there normal-sized SMP WUs?

Thanks Rich

jaric said:

I also seem to be missing credit for 2 or 3 P2605 WUs, so I'm probably 6-7k pts down this week

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This has hit me too. The Stanford guys updated the server that deals with them, and now all the WUs submitted in the meantime are being credited manually, which means we might get points for them in a year or so

BillytheImpaler said:

I just upgraded my MythTV frontend machine from Ubuntu Server 6.06.1 to Mythbuntu 7.10. I went to reinstall FAH on it and realized that finstall was now using the 2nd SMP beta. Nice stuff methinks. Anyway, I told it to ask for big work units. The one it downloaded use a monstrous quantity of RAM. Each of the four processes was camped out in 150+ MiB RAM.

Long story short, if I ask for normal-sized WUs how will that effect my points? Are there normal-sized SMP WUs?

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Hey BTI - at the moment, turning -advmethods off should keep you away from them. These new WUs have been moved back to advanced testing because they kept killing themselves on systems with low RAM, so at least we can avoid 'em for now! I'm not sure what asking for normal WUs would do.

Good, I'll try that and see how it goes.

Now, what to do with this WU that I already have. Perhaps I'll steal some RAM from another machine until they finish.

EDIT: Forgive my laziness for not researching this myself, but how does the point output from these new big SMP WUs compare with the normal SMP WUs?

The new build is online now and being put through it's paces. Unfortunately I'm just in time for those horrendous work units killing fah on my 512mb VMs. I also dropped a clanger by not including the -smp flag for the first day or so which BTI helped bring to my attention.

I've just ordered another 2GB of RAM so hopefully that will give me some space to up the VMs to around 1GB each.

Good work everyone and lets claw back some of that dropped production.

Cheers for the news Rich.

BillytheImpaler said:

EDIT: Forgive my laziness for not researching this myself, but how does the point output from these new big SMP WUs compare with the normal SMP WUs?

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Horribly, in my limited experience. I was getting 18-minute frames... they're 1620pts so that's about 1300ppd compared to around 2100 for the normal WUs (half a Q6600 at 3.25).

Well, im back to some folding following around 6 months in hibernation. I will try to keep my PS3 on folding when im finished gaming, and my server will be on 24/7 anyway. Think ill start some part time folding on my main rig too.

Welcome back to team 10 Just ask if you need any advice on anything.

Thanks for the news again, Rich! Welcome to the new Folders. The Battle Of Cell 6 is over. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Next stop: Cell 5 - Snapsh0t, you might want to start packing!

ms9cw

Tomorrow i will be taking possesion of cell 149. Wozzer, please remove all furniture and vacuum the carpets for me. I will not be staying long. you can have it back later. Thankyou.

PhillyDee said:

Tomorrow i will be taking possesion of cell 149. Wozzer, please remove all furniture and vacuum the carpets for me. I will not be staying long. you can have it back later. Thankyou.

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Errr.....

There are no carpets in those cells, only cells 1-10 have carpets. If Wozzer vacuums in there your floor covering will be all gone (you don't want it sucking up all the sawdust as it's the closest thing to a bed)

Up here we still only have cedar chips. I smell like a hamster!

are ps3's any good at folding?

does anyone know the average ppd if it's constantly left on?

800ish, IIRC. Maybe more with the new firmwares.