Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 7th August 2008

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Team OcUK Folding@Home News 31st July - 7th August 2008

Current Team Position: 25th
Current Team Score: 125,059,778
Crunched This Week: 1,032,331 (24hr avg. 147,476)
Change from Last Week: -321,488 :(


Next on the stomping horizon

21. ABXZone.com - 1,391 days (+1,034 days)
24. p2p-community - 68 days (+29 days)

Ones to keep an eye on

27. NCIX.com Forum Folding Team - 83 days (-48 days)
88. whoopass - 188 days (-81 days)
96. folding@evga - 260 days (-185 days)
28. Team 2ch - 291 days (-62 days)
44. xtremesystems.org - 319 days (-221 days)

We are currently 43rd for team production - down ten places from last week - damn pesky pirates! :eek:


This Week's Active Crunchers

1 . Knat - 121,237
2 . magman - 63,697
3 . snapsh0t_too - 45,592
4 . proplus - 43,851
5 . PhillyDee - 41,137
6 . oceaness - 36,275
7 . Bigstan - 35,993
8 . polandro - 31,432
9 . lightning512 - 28,287
10 . Mattus - 27,036
11 . jaric - 26,784
12 . _Viking_ - 25,920
13 . Yeggstry - 25,120
14 . sculptor(OcUK) - 24,223
15 . Leon_Webster - 22,855
16 . ms9cw - 22,438
17 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 21,930
18 . penfold - 21,139
19 . _Berserker_ - 20,830
20 . rich99million - 20,513
21 . GIxerBoy75 - 18,243
22 . KALIBR(OcUK) - 16,242
23 . DjSoulshot - 14,721
24 . 2bullish - 12,870
25 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,358
26 . benjo1989 - 12,157
27 . Rincin - 11,744

28 . verbal - 9,600
29 . bossk128 - 9,136
30 . Bony_Maloney(OcUK) - 9,132
31 . Wipster - 8,324
32 . ChrissyT88 - 8,148
33 . Huddy - 7,521
34 . DreederOcUK - 7,520
35 . Lamo - 6,971
36 . hikaru452 - 6,668
37 . nokinidea - 6,590
38 . Russ - 6,545
39 . j4m35t-PS3 - 6,090
40 . ljt1984 - 5,760
41 . Biffa - 5,451
42 . vent - 5,302
43 . PS3 - 5,295
44 . FatRakoon - 4,981
45 . sdi-dave - 4,888
46 . Chris_Davison - 4,320
47 . jeremysmith123 - 3,847
48 . Nationwide_Access - 3,820
49 . psypher - 3,690
50 . Freefaller - 3,506
51 . iBot - 3,504
52 . ken1307 - 3,402
53 . booyaka - 3,193

54 . AnthonyD1967 - 2,806
55 . Psymonkee - 2,795
56 . theheyes - 2,738
57 . MagicUK(OcUK) - 2,632
58 . orderoftheflame - 2,545
59 . Splicer8 - 2,384
60 . snapsh0t - 2,362
61 . Prescott28 - 2,302
62 . A_N_Other - 2,039
63 . Mart7334 - 1,938
64 . ShaneOsborne - 1,937
65 . GAC - 1,925
66 . casale - 1,858
67 . JamesM - 1,728
68 . deej - 1,694
69 . Zefan - 1,673
70 . Team_Muck_Spreader - 1,622
71 . rockstar_wild - 1,554
72 . Saetia - 1,552
73 . Hai - 1,440
74 . kinnison - 1,399
75 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 1,351
76 . bombay121 - 1,314
77 . Balor - 1,254
78 . craig_kennedy83 - 1,180
79 . thereexistsolutionsanddesigns - 1,150
80 . indigo_prime - 1,044
81 . FTW - 1,005

82 . adamhf - 960
83 . Administrator - 938
84 . Babyface_UK - 936
85 . DooMSireN - 895
86 . Benhb - 861
87 . Joe42 - 847
88 . MartinBen - 811
89 . davejuk - 763
90 . *1NezR0* - 750
91 . Psycho_Sonny - 693
92 . feriso - 683
93 . Thinkharder - 683
94 . Bonjour - 626
95 . Dean_Vile - 616
96 . zenkohdo - 615
97 . Hessian - 582
98 . froggy - 571
99 . MattBrown - 510
100 . Coolybop92 - 500
101 . JoeH - 500
102 . Nasty - 500
103 . Scuba - 500
104 . FOR_EVERY_ONE - 480
105 . gnetx - 480
106 . ThyFlame - 451
107 . BigDannyO - 401
108 . LavaMonkey - 353
109 . V1N(OCUK) - 295
110 . J4m35t - 291
111 . MaTt - 277
112 . Anshar - 250
113 . Mickey - 250
114 . PS3zappatore - 250
115 . X-GAZ - 250
116 . admin - 234
117 . Benjrsmith - 234
118 . dalin80 - 234
119 . fstpino - 234
120 . Montiyouk - 234
121 . Naudiz - 234
122 . O_P_Bircher - 234
123 . Sammael(OcUK) - 234
124 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 234
125 . Tappits - 234
126 . FizzyLogic - 203
127 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 203
128 . loiic_corporation_ - 171
129 . Jagman2k - 166
130 . JurgaN - 165
131 . Moid_UK - 119
132 . Scorchin - 119
133 . xyphic - 119
134 . Diaresi - 84
135 . lemonman - 84
136 . stormduck - 84
137 . Mark_Rapsey - 57


Single Machine Folding League

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

1 . Mattus - 27,036
2 . _Viking_ - 25,920
3 . Yeggstry* - 25,120
4 . Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 21,930
5 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,358
6 . Rincin - 11,744
7 . Bony_Maloney(OcUK)* - 9,132
8 . Wipster* - 8,324
9 . ChrissyT88* - 8,148
10 . nokinidea - 6,590
11 . Chris_Davison* - 4,320
12 . ken1307 - 3,402
13 . booyaka - 3,193
14 . orderoftheflame - 2,545
15 . Prescott28 - 2,302
16 . Hessian - 582
17 . BigDannyO - 401
18 . Benjrsmith - 234
19 . Moid_UK - 119

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

AnthonyD1967 - 839
Coolybop92 - 497
gnetx - 491
Mark_Rapsey - 201
*1NezR0* - 171
MagicUK(OcUK) - 141
Team_Muck_Spreader - 117
Nasty - 103
J4m35t - 100
GIxerBoy75 - 99
Splicer8 - 95
ChrissyT88 - 94
GAC - 91
Knat - 91
thereexistsolutionsanddesigns - 75
admin - 74
Bonjour - 71
j4m35t-PS3 - 67
MartinBen - 44
Balor - 38
benjo1989 - 37
Mickey - 32
Psymonkee - 29
Bony_Maloney(OcUK) - 25
fstpino - 24
Hai - 23
Tappits - 22
X-GAZ - 22
Naudiz - 21
Scorchin - 21
JoeH - 19
Mart7334 - 19
PS3zappatore - 19
LavaMonkey - 13
Chris_Davison - 12
Scuba - 12
Thinkharder - 12
DjSoulshot - 11
ljt1984 - 10
BigDannyO - 8
iBot - 8
DooMSireN - 7
O_P_Bircher - 7
orderoftheflame - 7
Russ - 6
craig_kennedy83 - 5
Hessian - 5
JurgaN - 5
psypher - 5
indigo_prime - 4
Lamo - 4
Zefan - 4
Administrator - 3
FOR_EVERY_ONE - 3
KALIBR(OcUK) - 3
oceaness - 3
proplus - 3
snapsh0t_too - 3
Wipster - 3
_Viking_ - 2
Benhb - 2
bombay121 - 2
jeremysmith123 - 2
ken1307 - 2
Moid_UK - 2
Nationwide_Access - 2
PhillyDee - 2
Prescott28 - 2
zenkohdo - 2
Anshar - 1
bossk128 - 1
Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 1
lightning512 - 1
Mattus - 1
rockstar_wild - 1
ShaneOsborne - 1
Yeggstry - 1


This Week's Milestones

magman - 7,000,000
ms9cw - 4,000,000
polandro - 2,200,000
rich99million - 1,600,000
Emilystoodinsomedogdootoday - 950,000
lightning512 - 950,000
A_N_Other - 800,000
Mattus - 700,000
oceaness - 600,000
PhillyDee - 600,000
proplus - 450,000
snapsh0t_too - 450,000
_Viking_ - 400,000
KALIBR(OcUK) - 275,000
Knat - 150,000
nokinidea - 100,000
DjSoulshot - 80,000
Lamo - 80,000
Russ - 70,000
Wipster - 70,000
ljt1984 - 60,000
orderoftheflame - 60,000
iBot - 50,000
benjo1989 - 40,000
Bony_Maloney(OcUK) - 40,000
GIxerBoy75 - 30,000
Zefan - 30,000
ChrissyT88 - 15,000
j4m35t-PS3 - 15,000
Mart7334 - 12,500
Psymonkee - 12,500
Hai - 7,500
Scuba - 7,500
Balor - 5,000
MagicUK(OcUK) - 5,000
Splicer8 - 5,000
AnthonyD1967 - 2,500
Team_Muck_Spreader - 2,500
*1NezR0* - 1,000
Nasty - 1,000
Scorchin - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners :cool:


This Week's New Members

AnthonyD1967
Coolybop92
gnetx
Mark_Rapsey

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.


RIP our cruncher pals lost in piratey battle :(

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 21:00 July 31st and 20:00 August 7th

Previous Weeks' News:
July 31st, July 24th, July 17th, July 10th, July 4th, June 27th, 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, Bony_Maloney(OcUK), booyaka, Borged_by_MGP, Chris_Davison, ChrissyT88, cokecan72, diogenese, Emily, Frogskin, Hessian, JohnSheridan, justinwilkin, ken1307, LordShadow, Mattus, mogli1990(OcUK), Moid_UK, nokindea, orderoftheflame, Pilgrim57, Prescott28, Rincin, Silent_Bob, somekinidea, Viking, Wipster, WobblerJW, Yeggstry, YoungBlood ...
 
You know what, it pains me a little to see a flagging folding effort. :(

Still, over a million points though. We're still brilliant.

Cheers for the news Rich - hope you keep it up even if some of the big hitters/most active members aren't participating at the moment.
 
theheyes said:
You know what, it pains me a little to see a flagging folding effort. :(

Still, over a million points though. We're still brilliant.

Cheers for the news Rich - hope you keep it up even if some of the big hitters/most active members aren't participating at the moment.
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It is a shame - still we've been a bit spoilt in that it's been the only project many people think was worthy of their cycles up till now. As a team we ought really to shuffle our machines so they are on the right project to make the most of them, my old X2 for instance can't run the SMP as it's no longer 24/7 - would make a good addition to the Rosetta fleet though I'm sure.

Also as a newcomer to folding it must be very confusing with the number of clients and ways to run them - more than ever we need an up to date sticky with better explanation of what is going on and less about the actual setting up (plenty of good guides out there)

In the grand scheme of things we're still doing great - just a bit of a hiccup :o
 
RAAR!! Feel my mighty folding powa!!!

On a more serious note, my level of folding is going to drop a bit as well. I really wanted to see what level of folding I could achieve if I really went at it and I think I've shown I can hit up there with th best of them :)

I'll still be folding the best I can, as its a cause which is really close to me, so my numbers will sill be highish. They will just drop a bit from where they are atm.
 
cheers rich!
slacking a bit this last week what with new smp and my lack of brains/motivation/time/botherness to get it running. who'd have thought - create shortcut, add "-smp"? i'm an idiot lol
back up now though.
Fold on 10!
 
yeah - agreed a quick run at those pirates has dented my folding this week big style. Hoping to get my water cooled build up and running this weekend so will be back to folding a.s.a.p to give it some good testing.

Another 65k or so to see me through the 1 million mark!!!
 
I was on holiday and still got 9600 points somehow. Still that is 200,300 down on two weeks ago
:p

Should be 40k+ from me next week. I don't think it's just the Rossetta that is hitting our folding totals. I think it dropped a few weeks ago but the drop was masked by the extra points from the race to 1 million. Ligerzero disappearing is a big loss.
 
My CPU has been on Rosetta for most of the week - top of the single-cruncher on the GPU alone, so I can't complain so much! :p

On holiday this coming week so will be scoring a fat 0 across all projects, but I have a feeling I'll be back in the Fold before long. I prefer to keep all my eggs in one basket... besides, whilst the pirate pwnage was quite amusing, I'm not getting the same satisfaction out of Rosetta. Seeing my quad running four instances of the same thing when it could be doing some spanky SMP goodness makes me feel a bit unfulfilled - I feel like I'm running the standard client again :p

I agree with Rich about making the most of our hardware, though - my brother's old AthlonXP is useless for F@H but I have the feeling it might be more useful on Rosetta.
 
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Who knows, we might do a better job of fighting a "war" on two fronts better than our elected politicians and their allies. :p:D
 
Current state of play at the moment:

My main PC, running the GPU client and 1 SMP client appears to have died about 2 days after I left for work - nothing new there then :rolleyes: This means that I just have the two quads running SMP clients at the moment.

Since I'm away at work, I haven't switched over to Rosetta - but I will be when I get back. I will be leaving the main rig on Folding as it has the 8800GTX OC2 and it would be silly not to fold with it. I may try a different motherboard as that piece of crap Asus in there can't OC worth a **** :mad: If I can get a decent OC on it, I may be in with a shout in the single crunchers league :D

That's my news for now.

Thanks, as always, to Rich for the news and welcome to the new Folders :)

FOLD ON TEAM 10 :D
 
I think im gonna have to step away from this folding.
Got quite a large electricity bill . . .
Due to the PS3 and a quad +spare cycles on my WHS all folding. Reckon its 400W/hr ish all-in. So at nearly 10kW/hr / day is roughly £1.05 per day folding. That mounts up over the week. And TBH, Id rather keep the £365 per year . . . .

Its a shame, since somehow im 5th in the crunching list. (Dunno how!)
 
PhillyDee said:
I think im gonna have to step away from this folding.
Got quite a large electricity bill . . .
Due to the PS3 and a quad +spare cycles on my WHS all folding. Reckon its 400W/hr ish all-in. So at nearly 10kW/hr / day is roughly £1.05 per day folding. That mounts up over the week. And TBH, Id rather keep the £365 per year . . . .

Its a shame, since somehow im 5th in the crunching list. (Dunno how!)
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A shame it's not tax-deductable a a charitable donation, really...

(Folding ID: AnthonyD1967)
 
Pretty good week for me all in (what with no-one else at home, its a lot easier to justify the use of electricity!) - me and j4m35-ps3 have been pretty close since we started, but i have finally got the edge! I must admit, i would really like to fold 24/7, but like PhillyDee, im not sure i could justify the electricity expense.

I have been wondering whether F@H is at all power efficient. Obviously it is a great project for a good cause, and generates a lot of banter, but is having (bit of guesswork here), say 200,000 active cpus/gpus at any one time a more power efficient method of computation than a bank of super computers? I know that a supercomputer must use a collosal amount of power (roughly 3/4 orders of magnitude higher than a high spec desktop), and compared to buying a bank of super computers, F@H is obviously significantly less expensive. But when a high output machine must be consuming 300 watts, with a fraction of the number of cores, i wonder if the project is power efficient?
 
ChrissyT88 said:
Pretty good week for me all in (what with no-one else at home, its a lot easier to justify the use of electricity!) - me and j4m35-ps3 have been pretty close since we started, but i have finally got the edge! I must admit, i would really like to fold 24/7, but like PhillyDee, im not sure i could justify the electricity expense.

I have been wondering whether F@H is at all power efficient. Obviously it is a great project for a good cause, and generates a lot of banter, but is having (bit of guesswork here), say 200,000 active cpus/gpus at any one time a more power efficient method of computation than a bank of super computers? I know that a supercomputer must use a collosal amount of power (roughly 3/4 orders of magnitude higher than a high spec desktop), and compared to buying a bank of super computers, F@H is obviously significantly less expensive. But when a high output machine must be consuming 300 watts, with a fraction of the number of cores, i wonder if the project is power efficient?
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It is a lot more efficient, and it runs on hardware that most people would have no matter what. The true killer in terms of performance for these projects is that fact that people are running the SMP client on overclocked CPUs, thus beating the often lower clocked server cpus. Add the enormous PS3 and GPU performance to that and i'm absolutely convinced that it's more efficient per watt than a lot of other solutions. I do believe Wikipedia has a small description of F@H power performance but that is before GPUs which have changed a lot of things.

For my own folding i'm really satisfied with my output for the last week, my brother and a good friend has been doing GPU folding on the account and i have added CPU folding to my brother's PC too. I have bought a 4870 that frankly sucks in terms of this, only getting 700ppd but it's better than nothing i suppose.
 
The project is never going to be as power efficient as a built-for-purpose supercomputer, but I only have to walk home from the pub at night and count the number of people who leave their outside light on all night to justify me using < 150w folding box.
 
OK that's it, my poor old PS3 can't crunch any faster and I have stagnated at about position 126.... (lost a place for the first time today)

So I now have both ATI 4870's crunching and the SMP client burning a hole in the Xeon 3350 on my main rig.

I've also built a dedicted box with a E6600 at stock speeds however I used this as a test bed to get used to how crunching worked on a PC based sytem, trouble is I used a "false" username and now I want to crunch for real and can't work out how to change it lol. Can someone help me get the right name sorted.
the PS3 is still running as well...

Don't think I'll need the heating on this Christmas. :D:D:D:D
 
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