Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 31st July 2008

rich99million · 31 Jul 2008 at 22:20

Team OcUK Folding@Home News 24th - 31st July 2008

Current Team Position: 25th
Current Team Score: 124,027,447
Crunched This Week: 1,353,819 (24hr avg. 193,403)
Change from Last Week: -326,541

Next on the stomping horizon

14. 2CPU.com Folding@Home - 2571 days (+831 days)
19. DSL Reports Team Helix - 1033 days (+351 days)
23. Dutch Power Cows - 363 days (+131 days)
21. ABXZone.com - 357 days (+117 days)
24. p2p-community - 39 days (+6 days)

Teams stomped this week

none

Ones to keep an eye on

27. NCIX.com Forum Folding Team - 131 days (-81 days)
100. whoopass - 269 days (-48 days)
28. Team 2ch - 353 days
110. folding@evga - 445 days (-37 days)
45. xtremesystems.org - 540 days (-1,075 days)

We are currently 33rd for team production - down two places from last week

This Week's Active Crunchers

1 . magman - 126,329
2 . ms9cw - 67,930
3 . verbal - 59,000
4 . Yeggstry - 51,040
5 . oceaness - 50,983
6 . Mattus - 48,640
7 . jaric - 47,680
8 . _Berserker_ - 45,288
9 . Knat - 44,924
10 . snapsh0t_too - 44,118
11 . DreederOcUK - 43,424
12 . Bigstan - 40,765
13 . PhillyDee - 37,138
14 . proplus - 34,022
15 . polandro - 33,462
16 . booyaka - 33,440
17 . theheyes - 29,408
18 . penfold - 28,690
19 . psypher - 26,355
20 . Leon_Webster - 25,088
21 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 23,010
22 . _Viking_ - 22,560
23 . sculptor(OcUK) - 20,957
24 . rich99million - 20,744
25 . lightning512 - 20,410
26 . Borged_by_MGP - 18,874
27 . lemonman - 18,232
28 . KALIBR(OcUK) - 16,573
29 . GIxerBoy75 - 13,486
30 . Rincin - 13,280
31 . Bony_Maloney(OcUK) - 12,214

32 . 2bullish - 9,762
33 . FOR_EVERY_ONE - 9,600
34 . Cob - 8,960
35 . craig_kennedy83 - 8,824
36 . A_N_Other - 7,680
37 . vent - 7,468
38 . DjSoulshot - 7,325
39 . Lamo - 6,990
40 . Huddy - 6,823
41 . nokinidea - 6,385
42 . benjo1989 - 5,988
43 . adamhf - 5,917
44 . PS3 - 5,795
45 . j4m35t-PS3 - 5,635
46 . sdi-dave - 5,349
47 . Nationwide_Access - 4,806
48 . Chris_Davison - 4,800
49 . indigo_prime - 4,365
50 . Hai - 4,320
51 . ljt1984 - 4,320
52 . Wipster - 4,287
53 . hikaru452 - 4,094
54 . Pilgrim57 - 3,520
55 . FatRakoon - 3,423
56 . bossk128 - 3,299
57 . GAC - 3,013

58 . Freefaller - 2,985
59 . bombay121 - 2,853
60 . Russ - 2,795
61 . iBot - 2,521
62 . Buxx - 2,450
63 . MagicUK(OcUK) - 2,406
64 . HakeemGB - 2,400
65 . Splicer8 - 2,342
66 . ChrissyT88 - 2,258
67 . ac90 - 1,977
68 . JamesM - 1,920
69 . Prescott28 - 1,920
70 . casale - 1,895
71 . Babyface_UK - 1,865
72 . Saetia - 1,852
73 . jeremysmith123 - 1,839
74 . Mart7334 - 1,837
75 . ShaneOsborne - 1,748
76 . rockstar_wild - 1,526
77 . PeaceGiver - 1,500
78 . breman1972 - 1,477
79 . deej - 1,470
80 . Team_Muck_Spreader - 1,470
81 . divine.the_memory - 1,340
82 . snapsh0t - 1,337
83 . Tappits - 1,334
84 . Saftlad - 1,170
85 . MartinBen - 1,115
86 . FTW - 1,105
87 . Psycho_Sonny - 1,027
88 . kinnison - 1,015
89 . orderoftheflame - 1,000

90 . LordShadow - 960
91 . YoungBlood - 960
92 . ken1307 - 931
93 . Thinkharder - 916
94 . DooMSireN - 895
95 . Benhb - 861
96 . thereexistsolutionsanddesigns - 828
97 . davejuk - 822
98 . dalin80 - 758
99 . Nasty - 750
100 . psymon0528 - 750
101 . Administrator - 738
102 . Balor - 684
103 . ThyFlame - 621
104 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 556
105 . *1NezR0* - 545
106 . Psymonkee - 500
107 . stone-cold-1 - 500
108 . toka - 480
109 . feriso - 468
110 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 455
111 . BigDannyO - 450
112 . Nick_Bell - 427
113 . Hessian - 418
114 . Joe42 - 406
115 . MattBrown - 406
116 . Benjrsmith - 405
117 . J4m35t - 399
118 . JurgaN - 399
119 . xZIBIT - 371
120 . Frogskin - 353
121 . Dargish - 338
122 . Sammael(OcUK) - 338
123 . Brown_Sparrow - 287
124 . Jagman2k - 287
125 . $teph - 250
126 . adamsalem2k - 250
127 . Anshar - 250
128 . DARKNESS - 250
129 . Gino - 250
130 . JoeH - 250
131 . krystroy - 250
132 . Mohsen - 250
133 . X-GAZ - 250
134 . FizzyLogic - 243
135 . [madoldtory] - 238
136 . Scorchin - 238
137 . Dean_Vile - 234
138 . froggy - 234
139 . lukevivian - 234
140 . Montiyouk - 234
141 . Yoraishin - 234
142 . loiic_corporation_ - 217
143 . Moid_UK - 168
144 . Bonjour - 165
145 . WoZZeR - 119
146 . Diaresi - 84
147 . zenkohdo - 40
148 . blitz2163 - 34
149 . diogenese - 15
150 . LavaMonkey - 15

Single Machine Folding League

Colour Key: Single Core, Dual Core, Quad Core, PS3/*=GPU only, Unclarified

1 . Yeggstry* - 51,040
2 . Mattus - 48,640
3 . booyaka - 33,440
4 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 23,010
5 . _Viking_ - 22,560
6 . Borged_by_MGP - 18,874
7 . Rincin - 13,280
8 . nokinidea - 6,385
9 . Chris_Davison* - 4,800
10 . Wipster - 4,287
11 . Pilgrim57 - 3,520
12 . ChrissyT88* - 2,258
13 . Prescott28 - 1,920
14 . orderoftheflame - 1,000
15 . LordShadow - 960
16 . YoungBlood - 960
17 . ken1307 - 931
18 . BigDannyO - 450
19 . Hessian - 418
20 . Benjrsmith - 405
21 . Frogskin - 353
22 . Moid_UK - 168
23 . diogenese - 15

I've started adding stars to those I know are GPU assisted in preparation to adding some more colours - if those of you using GPUs in addition to CPU clients could post in the single crunchers thread that'd be handy

This Week's Top Climbers

Knat - 1266
GAC - 856
MagicUK(OcUK) - 808
HakeemGB - 793
psymon0528 - 577
Nasty - 576
Tappits - 524
*1NezR0* - 518
stone-cold-1 - 497
Nick_Bell - 474
J4m35t - 461
Mohsen - 329
DARKNESS - 328
krystroy - 327
$teph - 326
craig_kennedy83 - 306
GIxerBoy75 - 251
Splicer8 - 239
Team_Muck_Spreader - 219
psypher - 200
Hai - 184
divine.the_memory - 128
FOR_EVERY_ONE - 104
j4m35t-PS3 - 87
MartinBen - 84
Gino - 72
thereexistsolutionsanddesigns - 66
Bony_Maloney(OcUK) - 54
X-GAZ - 42
PeaceGiver - 40
Scorchin - 40
Balor - 31
ChrissyT88 - 28
Dargish - 24
Chris_Davison - 20
benjo1989 - 18
indigo_prime - 18
adamhf - 15
JoeH - 15
Mart7334 - 15
ac90 - 14
ljt1984 - 12
Lamo - 8
bombay121 - 7
DjSoulshot - 7
YoungBlood - 7
_Viking_ - 6
Bonjour - 6
JurgaN - 6
DooMSireN - 5
iBot - 4
proplus - 4
snapsh0t_too - 4
Thinkharder - 4
Wipster - 4
Yeggstry - 4
jeremysmith123 - 3
KALIBR(OcUK) - 3
nokinidea - 3
verbal - 3
booyaka - 2
Hessian - 2
hikaru452 - 2
JamesM - 2
Leon_Webster - 2
Moid_UK - 2
Nationwide_Access - 2
PhillyDee - 2
PS3 - 2
Psycho_Sonny - 2
Saftlad - 2
theheyes - 2
Yoraishin - 2
loiic_corporation_ - 1
oceaness - 1
rich99million - 1
rockstar_wild - 1
WoZZeR - 1

This Week's Milestones

Cob - 2,300,000
jaric - 2,200,000
2bullish - 2,100,000
booyaka - 950,000
penfold - 750,000
Mattus - 650,000
Yeggstry - 600,000
oceaness - 550,000
proplus - 425,000
snapsh0t_too - 400,000
_Viking_ - 375,000
Pilgrim57 - 375,000
PS3 - 125,000
JamesM - 90,000
dalin80 - 80,000
Lamo - 70,000
DjSoulshot - 60,000
ThyFlame - 50,000
adamhf - 40,000
Knat - 40,000
benjo1989 - 30,000
Bony_Maloney(OcUK) - 30,000
Chris_Davison - 30,000
psypher - 30,000
indigo_prime - 25,000
ac90 - 20,000
BigDannyO - 15,000
FOR_EVERY_ONE - 15,000
GIxerBoy75 - 15,000
craig_kennedy83 - 10,000
j4m35t-PS3 - 10,000
Mart7334 - 10,000
ChrissyT88 - 7,500
Hai - 5,000
PeaceGiver - 5,000
divine.the_memory - 2,500
GAC - 2,500
MartinBen - 2,500
Splicer8 - 2,500
thereexistsolutionsanddesigns - 2,500
HakeemGB - 1,000
MagicUK(OcUK) - 1,000
Tappits - 1,000
Team_Muck_Spreader - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners

This Week's New Members

$teph
*1NezR0*
DARKNESS
GAC
J4m35t
Knat
krystroy
MagicUK(OcUK)
Mohsen
Nasty
Nick_Bell
psymon0528
stone-cold-1

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.

Ouch!!!
Not such a good week - I blame those pesky pirates personally

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
***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 20:00 July 24th and 21:00 July 31st

Previous Weeks' News:
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Single Machine Crunchers:
Andrew, Benjrsmith, BigDannyO, booyaka, Borged_by_MGP, Chris_Davison, ChrissyT88, cokecan72, diogenese, dufus123, Emily, Frogskin, Hessian, JohnSheridan, justinwilkin, ken1307, LordShadow, Mattus, mogli1990(OcUK), Moid_UK, nokindea, orderoftheflame, Pilgrim57, Prescott28, Rincin, Silent_Bob, Strife212, Viking, Wipster, WobblerJW, Yeggstry, YoungBlood ...

booyaka · 31 Jul 2008 at 22:27

cheers for the news - indeed will be even worse next week with people heading to the BOINC project for a quick blast!!

Welcome to the new members - FOLD ON TEAM 10

TheKnat · 31 Jul 2008 at 22:29

Damn it I should have started earlier to get further up that chart!

You all better look out next week

shadowscotland · 31 Jul 2008 at 22:30

Blame HMS Spanky - she's a good ship but had a good few cobwebs on she.

Thanks for the news rich and hope you don't mine me and a few other wiping this lot into shape for a bonic unstomp - if you haven't already noticed, come and join the 'have a pop at a pirate party' here

That said the pirate folks are well up for some sillyness while doing some serious science at the same time (good on you boys)

Nice one knat - you broke the 1000 stomp mark - I think that a first!

Cob · 31 Jul 2008 at 22:34

Cheers Rich

Mattus · 31 Jul 2008 at 22:46

rich99million said:
1 . Yeggstry* - 51,040
2 . Mattus - 48,640

Gaargh, pipped at the post! My last two SMP WUs didn't get in in time

Still, pretty pleased with 6th place with one rig.

Like the others, I'm going off to battle the sea-dogs for a week or so - but my GPU will still be folding, so there's no excuse for any reciprocal slacking

And I think TheKnat will probably make up half of the output we lose on his own!

Snapshot · 31 Jul 2008 at 23:12

shadowscotland said:
Nice one knat - you broke the 1000 stomp mark - I think that a first!

No, it's not. My first stomp with snapsh0t_too was 1190. Knat has bettered that and in less time but I got there first (AFAIK).

Mattus · 31 Jul 2008 at 23:14

Your first stomp is a proud moment, to be sure. But I still miss the times of SETI Classic, where you'd stash up a billion completed WUs in SETIQueue and dump them one after the other when your complacent opponents least expected it. Them were the days.

MGP · 31 Jul 2008 at 23:36

I'm so dissapointed. My Q6600, plus 4780 GPU really should be giving me a better performance than this. After all it's running 24/7. I'm only using Win XP (SP2), and it is currently at stock.

I've tried the vmware stuff for linux. Couldn't get my head round it. It wouldn't restart if it got shut down, and I had no idea how to tell if it was doing anything when it was runnnig.

If I run 2 win SMP clients they just seem to take as long for 2 WUs as one individually. That may be because the GPU using one core exclusively. Seems like I wasted my dosh on the upgrade.

Never mind let's see if I can thrash a pirate.

Pilgrim57 · 31 Jul 2008 at 23:42

Mattus said:
Like the others, I'm going off to battle the sea-dogs for a week or so - - And I think TheKnat will probably make up half of the output we lose on his own!

Thanks for the news Mr Millions - I'll be slacking for a while as it's all hands to the pumps. I'm crunching Rosetta WU's in the battle with those pesky pirates

. Waiting to see the Aug price drops on Intel to pick myself a quad core

Then I'll be back to the fold.

benjo · 31 Jul 2008 at 23:43

Got my rig folding again. Averaging 7500ppd with one machine since i started folding with my GTS!

Thanks for the news, and thanks to Mattus for helping me get the clients running again

Pumpkinstew · 1 Aug 2008 at 00:21

booyaka said:
cheers for the news - indeed will be even worse next week with people heading to the BOINC project for a quick blast!!

We're only borrowing a few. You'll get them back soon enough.

Unless a one or two somehow end up locked in the brig and forgotten about.

TheKnat · 1 Aug 2008 at 00:31

benjo said:
Got my rig folding again. Averaging 7500ppd with one machine since i started folding with my GTS!

Whats your secret for getting that PPD with one machine ?

I'm getting 10063.48 out of my main one, but only 1511.56 of that is down to the CPU. Does moving to VMWare linux SMP folding make that much difference ?

Mattus · 1 Aug 2008 at 00:34

TheKnat said:
Does moving to VMWare linux SMP folding make that much difference ?

It makes quite a difference. This week I was getting about 10,000ppd from my machine when it was on, which was split almost exactly - 4,800 from the CPU and 5,200 from the GPU. The great thing about it is that you always get good WUs

benjo · 1 Aug 2008 at 00:41

TheKnat said:
Whats your secret for getting that PPD with one machine ?

Not really a secret

I'm using Vista Ultimate, running the latest SMP client on my quad, which is getting around 2300ppd, and the latest GPU client on my GTS, which is seeing 5200ppd.

Edit: My quad is down to 3.3 at the moment, heat was getting to it

PhillyDee · 1 Aug 2008 at 00:41

TheKnat said:
Damn it I should have started earlier to get further up that chart!

You all better look out next week

I know, You just popped into MY rear view mirror . . . .

Snapshot · 1 Aug 2008 at 06:33

MGP said:
I'm so dissapointed. My Q6600, plus 4780 GPU really should be giving me a better performance than this. After all it's running 24/7. I'm only using Win XP (SP2), and it is currently at stock.

I've tried the vmware stuff for linux. Couldn't get my head round it. It wouldn't restart if it got shut down, and I had no idea how to tell if it was doing anything when it was runnnig.

You install Samba on it then share the appropriate folder so Fahmon can monitor it from Windows.

MGP said:
If I run 2 win SMP clients they just seem to take as long for 2 WUs as one individually. That may be because the GPU using one core exclusively. Seems like I wasted my dosh on the upgrade.

You need the FAH affinity changer to get the best out of two WinSMP clients on a quad. I don't know if this is still true when the GPU client takes one core though.

TheKnat · 1 Aug 2008 at 07:49

Snapshot said:
You need the FAH affinity changer to get the best out of two WinSMP clients on a quad. I don't know if this is still true when the GPU client takes one core though.

The latest client has an option to unlock the affinity on the cores naturally, witout using that other program.

I think I'm going to have to stick to one SMP client, because with the 2 GPU clients going for it as well, theres not enough power left for it to run 2 successfully.

Yeggstry · 1 Aug 2008 at 08:04

Mattus said:
It makes quite a difference. This week I was getting about 10,000ppd from my machine when it was on, which was split almost exactly - 4,800 from the CPU and 5,200 from the GPU. The great thing about it is that you always get good WUs

Sometimes you get 1960 pointers which are slower than the 1760s - the WUs you really want.

From the sounds of it you have a similar setup to me Mattus, the thing that's going to determine the #1 position in the single crunchers when we get back is luck, if one of us manages to crunch one extra WU before the news that may be enough.

However, this week you didn't stand a chance, I had 2k points that came in just after the news

Nice try

Its nice to see we have quite a few people crunching 10k a day with one machine

EDIT: Oh, and I also moved my voltage back down a bit to 1.45v in BIOS. The temps are now down to a manageable level (mid 70s)

prescott28 · 1 Aug 2008 at 08:09

I;ve found the SMP client to reliably get me 1920 point units and it certainly gets the procesor working,

Production down this week as the hard disk the folding was running on died. Everything had to be moved about and a unit was lost. back going now though.