Folding@Home Weekly-ish Team News - 27th June 2008

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Team OcUK Folding@Home News 19th - 27th June 2008 (8 days)

Current Team Position: 25th
Current Team Score: 116,994,368
Crunched This Week: 1,628,246 (24hr avg. 203,531)
Change from Last Week: +20,265 :)


Next on the stomping horizon

14. 2CPU.com Folding@Home - 4,860 days
18. DSL Reports Team Helix - 3,063 days
17. Team Icrontic.com - 1,782 days (+423 days)
21. ABXZone.com - 236 days (+26 days)
24. p2p-community - 76 days (-9 days)

Teams stomped this week

none

Ones to keep an eye on

224. whoopass - 349 days (-13 days)
202. folding@evga - 469 days (-984 days)
65. Team XPS - Folding@Home - 571 days (-2,315 days)
29. NCIX.com Forum Folding Team - 695 days
28. Team 2ch - 709 days

We are now 27th for team production - down another four places from last week :eek:


This Week's Active Crunchers

1 . magman - 155,718
2 . _Berserker_ - 79,939
3 . ms9cw - 71,876
4 . DreederOcUK - 67,729
5 . Leon_Webster - 61,984
6 . KE1HA - 61,846
7 . Cob - 61,600
8 . proplus - 54,201
9 . jaric - 53,820
10 . Mattus - 50,710
11 . snapsh0t_too - 50,269
12 . Yeggstry - 49,567
13 . sculptor(OcUK) - 44,788
14 . PhillyDee - 44,390
15 . theheyes - 39,962
16 . booyaka - 39,066
17 . MJS-PC - 37,410
18 . polandro - 36,953
19 . Bigstan - 31,904
20 . lightning512 - 30,755
21 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 25,130
22 . rich99million - 22,672
23 . KALIBR(OcUK) - 20,964
24 . 2bullish - 20,818
25 . DjSoulshot - 18,858
26 . LordShadow - 18,474
27 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 18,226
28 . lemonman - 17,553
29 . penfold - 14,058
30 . Wipster - 13,842
31 . Jtee - 13,818
32 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,793
33 . oceaness - 12,351
34 . vent - 12,245
35 . bombay121 - 10,780
36 . Huddy - 10,388
37 . Buxx - 10,133

38 . hikaru452 - 9,364
39 . Lamo - 8,267
40 . JamesM - 7,903
41 . Nationwide_Access - 7,902
42 . breman1972 - 7,850
43 . snapsh0t - 7,708
44 . A_N_Other - 7,520
45 . verbal - 7,343
46 . nokinidea - 7,294
47 . Babyface_UK - 6,574
48 . Plasmoid - 6,542
49 . Silent_Bob - 6,082
50 . _Viking_ - 5,600
51 . adamhf - 4,660
52 . jeremysmith123 - 4,393
53 . sdi-dave - 4,038
54 . orderoftheflame - 4,020
55 . Russ - 3,994
56 . Freefaller - 3,954
57 . rah^ - 3,840
58 . Brian.Gator - 3,787
59 . Pneumonic - 3,680
60 . steve258 - 3,549
61 . Thinkharder - 3,029

62 . indigo_prime - 2,994
63 . br - 2,963
64 . PS3 - 2,902
65 . Cardy165 - 2,849
66 . FatRakoon - 2,819
67 . ShaneOsborne - 2,773
68 . tajisan - 2,702
69 . ghost101 - 2,699
70 . Saetia - 2,557
71 . casale - 2,527
72 . Benhb - 2,441
73 . Hessian - 2,251
74 . ljt1984 - 2,203
75 . davejuk - 2,110
76 . dufus123 - 1,920
77 . rockstar_wild - 1,800
78 . Pilgrim57 - 1,760
79 . kinnison - 1,757
80 . PS3zappatore - 1,635
81 . Mart7334 - 1,542
82 . Saftlad - 1,515
83 . Mad_Pierre[OcUk] - 1,513
84 . cokecan72 - 1,501
85 . deej - 1,492
86 . Frogskin - 1,329
87 . benjo1989 - 1,275
88 . lukevivian - 1,221
89 . Biffa - 1,213
90 . mikeymike - 1,206
91 . Jagman2k - 1,010
92 . divine..the_memoris - 1,006
93 . snoop - 1,000

94 . froggy - 985
95 . Administrator - 980
96 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 941
97 . xZIBIT - 845
98 . Joe42 - 844
99 . Hai - 829
100 . psypherPS3 - 761
101 . JoeH - 756
102 . feriso - 702
103 . JurgaN - 699
104 . MattBrown - 694
105 . aceface57 - 693
106 . Balor - 692
107 . lucifersam - 686
108 . Snapshot - 682
109 . FTW - 673
110 . dalin80 - 652
111 . sammy7 - 650
112 . Andy_113 - 646
113 . WobblerJW - 633
114 . KillBoY_UK - 577
115 . Chris_Davison - 572
116 . MadFruit - 566
117 . adamsalem2k - 545
118 . Warden - 500
119 . Yhack - 500
120 . Benjrsmith - 468
121 . xyphic - 453
122 . sp217147 - 436
123 . Donna_Marie - 433
124 . omne - 405
125 . Psycho_Sonny - 404
126 . Brown_Sparrow - 381
127 . psypher - 371
128 . ShaunBrewer - 357
129 . Moid_UK - 322
130 . Dave10uk - 295
131 . divine - 295
132 . Whappers - 295
133 . Anonymous - 294
134 . Montiyouk - 292
135 . O_P_Bircher - 292
136 . Tapeloop - 292
137 . Yoraishin - 292
138 . zenkohdo - 291
139 . Limehaus - 287
140 . WoZZeR - 287
141 . Billy - 250
142 . Gino - 250
143 . Hobdenfamily - 250
144 . moutch - 250
145 . nikoPS3 - 250
146 . OcUK_Inoshishi - 250
147 . PeaceGiver - 250
148 . MaTt - 249
149 . Naudiz - 240
150 . admin - 234
151 . Bonjour - 225
152 . Tumbler^ - 215
153 . Prescott28 - 213
154 . Dargish - 165
155 . James_from_CIPS - 165
156 . FizzyLogic - 119
157 . Strife212 - 98
158 . justinwilkin - 60


Single Machine Folding League

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

1 . Yeggstry - 49,567
2 . booyaka - 39,066
3 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 25,130
4 . LordShadow - 18,474
5 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,793
6 . breman1972 - 7,850
7 . nokinidea - 7,294
8 . Silent_Bob - 6,082
9 . _Viking_ - 5,600
10 . Strife212 - 3,549
11 . dufus123 - 1,920
12 . Pilgrim57 - 1,760
13 . cokecan72 - 1,501
14 . Frogskin - 1,329
15 . Chris_Davison - 572
16 . Benjrsmith - 468
17 . Moid_UK - 322
18 . justinwilkin - 60


This Week's Top Climbers

indigo_prime - 828
Mart7334 - 693
Brian.Gator - 642
divine..the_memoris - 618
psypherPS3 - 567
Balor - 551
ljt1984 - 549
Warden - 484
omne - 454
psypher - 430
Tapeloop - 372
Naudiz - 307
admin - 304
Bonjour - 295
Hobdenfamily - 187
DjSoulshot - 176
PS3zappatore - 170
Hessian - 167
Gino - 152
ghost101 - 134
Wipster - 131
Hai - 109
Administrator - 87
Thinkharder - 79
MJS-PC - 70
Jtee - 66
bombay121 - 63
rah^ - 59
Strife212 - 56
JoeH - 53
Anonymous - 52
Whappers - 52
moutch - 47
adamhf - 43
Mad_Pierre[OcUk] - 29
James_from_CIPS - 28
O_P_Bircher - 25
Lamo - 23
JurgaN - 22
Benhb - 15
proplus - 15
Moid_UK - 14
divine - 13
snapsh0t_too - 13
Billy - 12
PeaceGiver - 12
orderoftheflame - 10
Dargish - 9
hikaru452 - 9
Cardy165 - 7
JamesM - 7
lukevivian - 7
Donna_Marie - 6
rockstar_wild - 6
snoop - 6
sp217147 - 6
Yeggstry - 6
Chris_Davison - 5
KALIBR(OcUK) - 5
Russ - 5
WobblerJW - 5
Yoraishin - 5
LordShadow - 4
PhillyDee - 4
tajisan - 4
benjo1989 - 3
Mattus - 3
nokinidea - 3
Plasmoid - 3
booyaka - 2
Leon_Webster - 2
xyphic - 2
Borged_by_MGP - 1
breman1972 - 1
casale - 1
DreederOcUK - 1
lemonman - 1
Nationwide_Access - 1
PS3 - 1
sdi-dave - 1
Snapshot - 1
WoZZeR - 1


This Week's Milestones

DreederOcUK - 2,300,000
polandro - 2,000,000
Cob - 1,900,000
Leon_Webster - 1,500,000
Borged_by_MGP - 1,200,000
lightning512 - 800,000
booyaka - 775,000
A_N_Other - 750,000
verbal - 700,000
theheyes - 550,000
Mattus - 500,000
oceaness - 475,000
PhillyDee - 375,000
Yeggstry - 375,000
Freefaller - 350,000
LordShadow - 250,000
proplus - 200,000
ShaneOsborne - 200,000
KALIBR(OcUK) - 150,000
Saetia - 150,000
snapsh0t_too - 150,000
hikaru452 - 80,000
JamesM - 80,000
Saftlad - 80,000
dufus123 - 70,000
MJS-PC - 70,000
nokinidea - 70,000
Brown_Sparrow - 60,000
Andy_113 - 50,000
orderoftheflame - 40,000
tajisan - 40,000
Jtee - 30,000
Lamo - 30,000
DjSoulshot - 25,000
rockstar_wild - 25,000
Benhb - 20,000
bombay121 - 20,000
Wipster - 20,000
adamhf - 15,000
rah^ - 7,500
ghost101 - 5,000
Thinkharder - 5,000
Administrator - 2,500
Billy - 2,500
Brian.Gator - 2,500
divine - 2,500
Hessian - 2,500
indigo_prime - 2,500
JoeH - 2,500
PS3zappatore - 2,500
Anonymous - 1,000
divine..the_memoris - 1,000
Hai - 1,000
ljt1984 - 1,000
Mart7334 - 1,000
moutch - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners :cool:


This Week's New Members

admin
Balor
Bonjour
divine..the_memoris_of_his_mother_pauline_of_his_husband.yanic
indigo_prime
Kuzja
Mart7334
Naudiz
omne
psypher
psypherPS3
Tapeloop
Warden

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.
Got a Dual/Quad and not scared of getting stuck in to some SMP goodness? Check out SiriusB's excellent SMP Client Setup Guide and see if you have what it takes.


Hope the 8-days isn't too confusing for anyone, 24hr average has been worked out for 8 days rather than 7 as has the change from last week so production is genuinely up from last week. Just a shame that so many teams seem to have got a massive boost, presumably from NVidia GPU folding, and dropped us a few places in production - great news for the project overall though :)

Fold on Team 10!!!

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 :o
***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 20:30 June 19th and 18:30 June 27th

Previous Weeks' News:
June 19th, June 12th, June 5th, May 29th, May 22nd, May 15th, May 8th, May 1st, April 24th, April 17th, April 10th, April 3rd, March 27th, March 20th, March 13th, March 6th, February 28th, February 21st, February 7th, January 31st, January 24th, January 17th, January 10th, January 3rd

2007 News Archives:
December 27th, December 20th, December 13th, December 6th, November 29th, November 22nd, November 15th, November 8th, November 1st, October 25th, October 19th, October 11th, October 4th, September 27th, September 20th, September 14th, September 7th, August 31st, August 24th, August 17th, August 10th, August 3rd, July 26th, July 19th, July 12th, July 5th, June 28th, June 21st, June 14th, June 7th, May 31st, May 24th, May 17th, May 10th, May 3rd, April 26th, April 19th, April 12th, April 5th, March 29th, March 15th, March 8th, March 1st, February 22nd, February 15th, February 8th, February 1st, January 25th, January 18th, January 11th, January 4th

Single Machine Crunchers:
Andrew, Benjrsmith, BigDannyO, booyaka, Borged_by_MGP, breman1972, bumhucker_ocuk, Chris_Davison, cokecan72, diogenese, dufus123, Emily, Frogskin, iviv, justinwilkin, ken1307, LordShadow, marktime, Moid_UK, nokindea, Pilgrim57, Pixel, Rincin, Silent_Bob, Strife212, Viking, Yeggstry ...
 
1 . Yeggstry - 49,567 :cool:

Thanks for the news rich. Great week for me with the GPU client, bit disappointed I didn't get in the top 10 with that :p

I'm also surprised that we didn't achieve higher, since there have been large gains with the GPU client. Unfortunately that's the problem with low numbers :(
 
Thanks Rich!

I should have entered for single-machine cruncher :p My second rig dumped one unit this week for 338pts, leaving me with 50,372 points from my main rig. Never thought I'd see that many points from one system in one week, even an 8-day one :D

Sadly it's not gonna continue...

Me said:
Sadly, my dad has figured out that I leave my computer running 24/7 and is going berserk about the electricity bills.

I'm under strict instructions to turn it "not on" at night, and "when I'm not using it" (although I'm sure that's open to interpretation :p) So it looks like I'll be Folding something like 16/7 and dropping to something like 4kppd.
Click to expand...

But on the positive side...

500k.jpg


Been folding for three years and got 10% of my total points this week :p

Over and out!
 
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booyaka - 39,066

happy with that from a single machine - just about double my best ever week.

Fold on team 10 and welcome to the new members
 
Cheers for the news. :)

Not a bad week. I thought we'd have a bigger jump in production but maybe we don't have as many GPU folders as I thought. The nVidia client has changed the landscape a lot as people are pulling an extra few thousand ppd from nowhere. We're going to have to get more folding just to stay in the game. :(

Team whoopass are nVidia so we've no chance holding them off. But as for the rest... fold on! :D
 
Nice work you two - ~50k from one cruncher even cob's deep thought didn't get thoses numbers :eek::D:cool:

Considering yesterday was the second Friday in a row I've not been in the office I'm amazed it's got 17k!

Been a good week of the home rig droped the multi and running at 8*400 (3.2, 1.35v)
and am getting more ppd with less electric and heat that at 9*366 (3.3, 1.375)
Now if only the hybrid DD2/DD3 controler could see fit to run my Geil at correct timeing i'll be sorted :p

Thanks for the news rich.

And a warm welcome to all you new folders - especially them with overly long names.

P.s. and how anoying is the new 'overtype' default
 
Crap we're being over-run by the green monsters :/

Pretty decent week from myself considering I could count on one hand the number of units dumped by my main rig before Thursday. Now that I'm happy with my new set-up I'll be back on full throttle from now on.

Cheers Rich :) And welcome to the many many new faces.
 
Quite happy with the almost 20K points i got this week. Have 2 friends on GPU client now, and my own on 2 cores, just sold my GTS so will have to wait for my next GPU to fold on that. Going for top 1000 spot worldwide so this is gonna be fun :D
 
theheyes said:
FYI guys there's a new GPU2 core out (1.06)

I think the client forces core upgrades so just check your logs.
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Thanks for the heads up, you do need to stop the GPU client, delete the FahCore_11.exe and restart. I do get a 10% reduction in CPU usage, and about 200 PPD reduction, which does mean I could start another SMP client back up. Make sure you have the beta 8 client as well.

As people have said in the official forums, don't worry about the PPD for the time being, the stability is the main thing :) I did have major slowdown problems previously but now its working pretty well :) I'll try playing a game later (TF2) without switching it off and will let you know how it goes.
 
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lopkinfop said:
which is the best GPUs for folding? the 8800, 9800, 3870 or 4870 (forget about the 280s as they are too expensive)
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At the moment, 8800/9800 GT/GTS/GTX are the best ppd folders in what I call the "reasonable" price bracket. I would encourage a watchful waiting approach for now though because at the same pricepoint is the AMD 4850 which is potentially going to be a folding monster (800 processing units vs 120ish in the nvidias) if they can sort the core out, which they are working on. The comparison isn't quite apples to apples but it is certainly worth waiting to see what optimized code on the 4xxx series cards can do.

That's what I'm waiting for anyway.
 
i would prefere an ati over an nvidia. i have a 1950 pro at the moment so i think i will uprade in october when i get my new house (dont have to worry about cutting down on electricity then)
 
Currently the AMDs draw a little less power than the nVidias, but on the flip side the AMDs use more CPU cycles, so it's a little swings and roundabouts at the moment. The only way we're going to know is:

1) When AMD release code optimized for the 4xxx series cards.
2) When enough people have tested it in the wild.
3) See how nVidia react.

We might be on the verge of a tit-for-tat between AMD and nVidia, with the pendulum swinging between the two as they each release new cards. So, in that respect, there might be no correct answer - it will just be a case of "buy what's best now". This is in contrast to the CPU side of things, where it's been simple for long time: buy a quad and overclock the nuts off it.

It's certainly interesting. I don't know how many cards they stand to sell off the back of folding@home. It's a cynical point but they must deem it worthy enough to release some staff to work on it. Maybe they have half an eye on Apple's OpenCL API which is going to tap into GPU power to offload tasks traditionally handled by the CPU. I don't know.

Short version: wait for the client to mature a little.
 
Indeed. Nice to see the potential unlocked though :)

By the way, for those of you that are running SMP and the GPU client at the same time on a quad, the new 1.06 core has significantly reduced the amount of CPU being used. I've not double checked it, but its now using about half of one core rather than a whole core which it was using before.

Consequently you can now run 3 Linux SMP clients and one GPU client with them not interfering with each other.

The result? Only a mere 8600 PPD with a Q6600 and 8800GT - potentially 60k a week :D
 
For some reason I've been lucky with the CPU usage on the GPU client. Mine constantly uses about 4% of my quad, so about 16% of one core. At points last week I was hitting 9100PPD! As far as the ATis go, I gather that the 4850s aren't really any faster than the 3850s at the moment, which would indicate that lots of those shaders are going unused and we could see some serious points once the client is optimised.
 
Cheers for the news Rich.
Yeggsty said:
The result? Only a mere 8600 PPD with a Q6600 and 8800GT - potentially 60k a week
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I nearly bought an 8800GT, but as I don't game as much as I used to I decided to go for the HD3850 instead, as it used less power and was a bit cheaper :(
Hopefully the ATI client will improve enough to make it worth swapping a Linux SMP client for.

I'll probably be down on production this week as I'm changing ISP so will be without net access for a few days. If I can be bothered, I might dig out the old 56k modem and use dial-up to upload the odd WU or 2 :eek:
 
Just thought I'd drop by and say hello now that my name has appeared in the stats this week :)

SOme of you may already know I run a few machines for BOINC SETI, so I thought the least I could do for FAH is run my home XP4800 and 8800GTX :)

Its not a 24/7 machine, but every little counts right :)
 
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