Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 10th August 2007

[rich99million]

Folding@Home Team News 3rd - 10th August 2007

Current Team Position: 27th
Current Team Score: 55,081,119
Crunched This Week: 829,378 (24hr avg. 118,483)
Change from Last Week: -11,719


Next on the stomping horizon

21. Team AnandTech - 340 days (+40 days)
23. SilentPCReview Folding@Home - 208 days (+13 days)
24. Overclockers Club - 205 days (+20 days)
26. Team Hack-a-Day - 152 days (-1 days)
25. Macrumors.com - Team Folding - 96 days (-3 days)

Teams stomped this week

None this week

Ones to keep an eye on

31. DL.TV - 13 days (-8 days)
30. Overclock.net - 212 days (-69 days)
39. 2ch@PS3 - 326 days (+154 days)
66. PlayStation.com Forums Team - 880 days (-16 days)
59. PS3Forums.com - 1,010 days (-294 days)

We are currently at 21st in team production, up one position from last week


This Week's Top Crunchers

1 . ms9cw - 50,835
2 . Gazzza - 47,169
3 . Babyface_UK - 35,320
4 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 34,493
5 . _Berserker_ - 33,555
6 . Walter_Anderson - 31,705
7 . Lowe - 30,547
8 . snapsh0t - 30,513
9 . sculptor(OcUK) - 28,704
10 . magman - 28,259
11 . 2bullish - 27,289
12 . Cob - 25,674
13 . Biffa - 23,712
14 . DreederOcUK - 18,145
15 . lemonman - 16,416
16 . Unforgiven - 16,119
17 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 15,095
18 . Steevo38_(OcUK) - 14,303
19 . diogenese - 13,805
20 . Dunc - 13,606
21 . jaric - 13,119
22 . Mattus - 12,526
23 . penfold 12,251
24 . polandro - 10,561
25 . booyaka - 10,086
26 . vent - 8,595
27 . PhillyDee - 7,673
28 . mikeymike - 7,576
29 . [SIR]_Petulant - 6,803
30 . Rincin - 6,651
31 . MajorPart - 6,616
32 . blitz2163 - 6,566
33 . Neil - 6,294
34 . verbal - 6,191
35 . feriso - 6,114
36 . jklc(PSTriples!) - 6,027
37 . cokecan72 - 5,717
38 . MattBrown - 5,605
39 . theheyes - 5,465
40 . Pilgrim57 - 5,111
41 . _Viking_ - 5,043
42 . lightning512 - 4,693
43 . br - 4,496
44 . conanius - 4,237
45 . davejuk - 3,568
46 . Huddy - 3,563
47 . froggy - 3,334
48 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 3,327
49 . casale - 3,091
50 . Borged_by_MGP - 3,046
51 . bossk128 - 3,020
52 . BigDom - 3,000

53 . Gavindo - 2,974
54 . oceaness - 2,969
55 . solarisfireball - 2,790
56 . joebobslappy - 2,352
57 . Trazzall - 2,302
58 . johnz0r - 2,296
59 . sr4470 - 2,165
60 . Poolybit - 1,825
61 . FatRakoon - 1,785
62 . A_N_Other - 1,746
63 . Saetia - 1,740
64 . BLACK - 1,722
65 . marktime - 1,693
66 . dan1987 - 1,686
67 . growse - 1,660
68 . Ever - 1,574
69 . duggyruss - 1,500
70 . rich99million - 1,329
71 . Sammael(OcUK) - 1,279
72 . RobOC - 1,230
73 . sammy7 - 1,170
74 . Snapshot - 1,158
75 . orderoftheflame - 1,156
76 . Qua - 1,148
77 . RD - 1,148
78 . YOUS83QTR - 1,148
79 . pikeypriest - 1,100
80 . Robert - 1,074
81 . Zymurgy - 1,074
82 . deej - 1,030
83 . Galifrey - 1,000

84 . mish86 - 964
85 . L33 - 955
86 . happytechie - 923
87 . gt_junkie - 832
88 . Freefaller - 824
89 . BenjiSayers - 755
90 . Dean_Vile - 706
91 . WoZZeR - 660
92 . piggott - 651
93 . Carnage - 642
94 . Frogskin - 637
95 . LigerZer - 637
96 . bailystevens - 619
97 . Elston - 618
98 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 618
99 . biteme99 - 579
100 . FTW - 574
101 . Hudzy - 574
102 . jidh007 - 574
103 . saiyajinali - 574
104 . zenkohdo - 517
105 . Paul_Holliday - 516
106 . Buxx - 500
107 . Limehaus - 500
108 . Shanko - 500
109 . DooMSireN - 436
110 . Moonpie2 - 426
111 . Buzwad - 412
112 . Craig321 - 412
113 . eLbot - 412
114 . Kenstheman - 412
115 . kinnison - 412
116 . LJ - 412
117 . pmbuzz - 412
118 . Psycho_Sonny - 412
119 . z0mbi3 - 412
120 . maroonedsorrow - 405
121 . MightyMatt - 379
122 . Thomas_Haywood - 330
123 . dr.who - 293
124 . totalise3 - 292
125 . Alimohammed - 287
126 . b - 287
127 . Chamale - 287
128 . KonaStar - 287
129 . N.Falkner - 287
130 . omereddu - 287
131 . PS3 - 287
132 . Roger - 287
133 . tajisan - 287
134 . Joe42 - 266
135 . Prescott28 - 254
136 . JackWolk - 226
137 . SquAmy - 226
138 . KALIBR(OcUK) - 220
139 . mB0rg - 218
140 . Neeeeil - 218
141 . Brown_Sparrow - 206
142 . Knotty4String_Si - 206
143 . knowlesy - 206
144 . Zefan - 206
145 . ac90 - 186
146 . Assasin-uk - 186
147 . BigDannyO - 186
148 . neil3k - 186


Single Machine Folding League

Colour Key: MultiCore/MultiCPU, SingleCore, PS3, Deep Thought, Unclarified

1 . Cob - 25,674
2 . Unforgiven - 16,119
3 . booyaka - 10,086
4 . [SIR]_Petulant - 6,803
5 . Rincin - 6,651
6 . jklc(PSTriples!) - 6,027
7 . cokecan72 - 5,717
8 . Pilgrim57 - 5,111
9 . _Viking_ - 5,043
10 . Trazzall - 2,302
11 . marktime - 1,693
12 . dan1987 - 1,686
13 . Zymurgy - 1,074
14 . BenjiSayers - 755
15 . WoZZeR - 660
16 . Carnage - 642
17 . Frogskin - 637
18 . LigerZer - 637
19 . Limehaus - 500
20 . pmbuzz - 412
21 . Zefan - 206
22 . BigDannyO - 186


This Week's Top Stompers

BLACK - 504
saiyajinali - 360
totalise3 - 283
b - 263
KonaStar - 262
Chamale - 261
YOUS83QTR - 142
conanius - 133
dan1987 - 121
ac90 - 96
Robert - 78
maroonedsorrow - 55
Gavindo - 53
knowlesy - 52
jklc(PSTriples!) - 51
gt_junkie - 49
Alimohammed - 47
mish86 - 45
LJ - 33
Thomas_Haywood - 32
bailystevens - 28
Qua - 28
biteme99 - 26
neil3k - 25
N.Falkner - 22
MightyMatt - 18
Knotty4String_Si - 17
mB0rg - 15
Moonpie2 - 15
sammy7 - 14
PhillyDee - 13
eLbot - 11
Neeeeil - 11
BenjiSayers - 9
johnz0r - 9
BigDannyO - 8
Roger - 8
solarisfireball - 8
SquAmy - 8
davejuk - 7
Ever - 7
L33 - 7
MattBrown - 7
Trazzall - 7
Biffa - 6
booyaka - 6
Lowe - 6
Hudzy - 5
jidh007 - 5
Snapshot - 5
_Viking_ - 4
Galifrey - 4
ms9cw - 4
Shanko - 4
blitz2163 - 3
Limehaus - 3
orderoftheflame - 3
RD - 3
Rincin - 3
zenkohdo - 3
Zymurgy - 3
Assasin-uk - 2
Brown_Sparrow - 2
Frogskin - 2
JackWolk - 2
omereddu - 2
pikeypriest - 2
snapsh0t - 2
tajisan - 2
2bullish - 1
A_N_Other - 1
bossk128 - 1
diogenese - 1
DooMSireN - 1
joebobslappy - 1
KALIBR(OcUK) - 1
MajorPart - 1
Mattus - 1
mikeymike - 1
penfold - 1
Poolybit - 1
Saetia - 1
SiriusB_[OcUK] - 1
z0mbi3 - 1
Zefan - 1


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

Whitestar (LigerZero) - 3,900,000
_Berserker_ - 1,250,000
magman - 1,050,000
Gazzza - 975,000
Dunc - 925,000
snapsh0t - 800,000
2bullish - 625,000
lemonman - 600,000
ms9cw - 575,000
Cob - 550,000
Walter_Anderson - 550,000
oceaness - 250,000
penfold - 225,000
Lowe - 200,000
MajorPart - 140,000
Biffa - 120,000
RobOC - 120,000
[SIR]_Petulant - 100,000
blitz2163 - 80,000
booyaka - 80,000
joebobslappy - 60,000
bossk128 - 50,000
davejuk - 40,000
pikeypriest - 30,000
solarisfireball - 30,000
Trazzall - 30,000
orderoftheflame - 20,000
jklc(PSTriples!) - 15,000
BenjiSayers - 12,500
conanius - 5,000
eLbot - 5,000
Gavindo - 5,000
dan1987 - 2,500
gt_junkie - 2,500
MightyMatt - 2,500
Robert - 2,500
BLACK - 1,000
neil3k - 1,000
YOUS83QTR - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners


This Week's New Members

b
BLACK
Chamale
KonaStar
saiyajinali
totalise3

A great big warm welcome to the team!

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Well there's still an awful lot of red up the top there but in terms of weekly production we're virtually the same as we were last week.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to try and hold off our impending team stompage for two more news posts
Sorry anyone who's not been mentioned - you know what to do now
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Stats compiled from Stanford official stats page and EOC stats page
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 19:30 August 3rd and 19:45 August 10th

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[rich99million]

70 . rich99million - 1,329

Might have something to do with getting saddled with two 1161 point standard WUs which I lost after a few days work thanks to a power cut

That morning I saw Biffa's post about the low PPD he was getting with his X2 chip and thought "well that's a lot better than I've been getting recently" so have turned my WinSMP back on and the first WU will be rolling off the line tomorrow morning

The reformat is waiting for an RMA of a spare dead hard-drive - after that it'll be VMWare or hopefully dual-boot Ubuntu

 

[rich99million]

The 3059's have vanquished the advantage of running native linux for me atm.

Is that a quad-core only WU?

 

[rich99million]

hah! I've totally disappeared!

Oh well

who said that?


don't be a stranger - hope you'll be back with a monster beast of a rig at some point to show us how it's done again

 

[rich99million]

Full House! How much do I win?

you win a fine pair of lollerskates



Well my first welcome back horrid SMP unit just uploaded and I got a far nicer one in it's place, around about 900PPD so hopefully I'll at least be in the top 50 crunchers next week

Time to chase me down a KE1HA!

 

[rich99million]

using linux in VMWARE gives better PPD?

Generally better than the WinSMP client due to the fact that a lot of the WinSMP WUs are benchmarked a bit lower (if you have loads of cache they're not as bad). Linux in VMWare is obviously not as good as native linux but it depends if you still really need Windows for some things (or you're just a bit scared )

edit: Reading again I think the comment was more about the linux SMP client behaving itself a bit better than the Win SMP client. The WinSMP client shouldn't be possible but they use magical localhost gnomes to feed the flux capacitors
If less WUs end up EUEing then you'll effectively get a higher PPD

 

[rich99million]

A stock X2 3800+ should be able to reach the SMP deadlines. When my X2 4400+ was crunching two SMP WUs at a time it managed to reach them.

I haven't run the Linux client for quite some time but I'm sure that my X2 overclocked to 2.4GHz was managing them in about half the final deadline time - at stock that shouldn't be a problem. Also the fact it's native linux should help as mine was via VMware.


My worst WU with WinSMP is p2610 which takes 2.8 days with a deadline of only 4 days - if those types of WU are around in linux (which I don't think there are unless you have a quad-core) then they could be a bit tight at stock and fairly heavy use of the machine for other tasks.

 

[rich99million]

I've got them in Linux on dual-core, p2609 IIRC. They're a bit of a pain on C2D with 2MB cache and I imagine X2s could find them difficult.

ahh so they've got to linux

I'd be pretty miffed if I sorted out dual boot and still got saddled with one of those

 

[rich99million]

lol - I think I posted that the morning of the day you announced your return

I need over 500k points for my next stomp so I think I'm stuck for a while
Just gonna see how long I can keep the rampaging hordes from my back

 

[rich99million]

And if you get people turning ten single-core rigs off to run one SMP system, that can't be beneficial for anything.

Except maybe our pockets and the planet


I agree though - even with the frequent lost WUs some people suffer with the SMP clients they have skewed the points system rediculously. This may be addressed when v6 arrives (if ever) I guess - if anyone still owns a single-core PC by then