Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 10th February 2006

[rich99million]

Folding@Home Team News - w/e 10th February 2006

Current Team Position - 53rd
Current Team Score - 11,505,214
Crunched This Week - 224,242


Next on the stomping horizon

47 Team MacNN - 83 days
51 Slo-Tech - 40 days

Teams stomped this week

54 PC Club Folding@Home Team

Ones to keep an eye on

56 Team Engadget - 15 days
133 TSC! Russia - 178 days
58 ADSLgr - Greek aDSL Users - 233 days


This Week's Top Dumpers

DarkendViper - 35408
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 21278
sculptor(OcUK) - 18788
KE1HA - 11826
hornytoe - 9395
_Berserker_ - 7178
Bigstan - 5726
polandro - 5346
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 5122
froggy - 5087
vent - 4170
rich99million - 3955
duggyruss - 3758
Concorde_Rules - 3698
Hominid - 3443
KillBait - 3393
Ken - 3355
kinnison - 3285
Trick - 3280
Sammael(OcUK) - 3234
ShaunBrewer - 3011
aXeR - 2950
AcidHell2 - 2447
Mattus - 2392
dr.who - 2159
A_N_Other - 2116
BlackAndWhite - 2024
Rincin - 1886
OcUKWildweasel - 1843
sagaboy2 - 1780
casale - 1694
Napalm - 1681
Haly - 1642
Staffy - 1575
diogenese - 1526
MajorPart - 1464
the_running_man21 - 1334
Walter_Anderson - 1268
BigChris - 1190
sr4470 - 1117
Plasmoid - 1093
Huddy - 1069
pmbuzz - 1036
Quacky - 1023
Gunda - 1008
beatvar - 992


This Week's Top Stompers

iraiguana - 212
J - 198
Dunky - 155
MaTt - 154
OcUKWildweasel - 133
zhx - 85
leezer3 - 69
johannes001 - 62
MajorPart - 55
A_N_Other - 53
i_know_nothing - 49
Yhack - 28
divine_madness - 27
DiG - 19
00bob00 - 17
hooneeawr - 16
Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 16
Hominid - 14
blitz2163 - 10
custard - 10
AcidHell2 - 9
BlackAndWhite - 9
the_running_man21 - 9
Andy_113 - 8
Pilgrim57 - 7
sagaboy2 - 7
spacelobsters - 7
VictorianStar - 7
BlackAqua - 6
Huddy - 6
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 5
MartinH - 5
Plasmoid - 5
pmbuzz - 5
Rincin - 5
vent - 4
Vish - 4
Joe42 - 3
Napalm - 3
aceface57 - 2
BigChris - 2
cheets64 - 2
Prescott28 - 2
spring85195 - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

sculptor(OcUK) - 625,000
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 500,000
KE1HA - 425,000
Bigstan - 120,000
dr.who - 100,000
Ken - 80,000
KillBait - 60,000
Staffy - 40,000
beatvar - 40,000
Prescott28 - 30,000
BlackAndWhite - 20,000
cheets64 - 20,000
Plasmoid - 10,000
Huddy - 5,000
A_N_Other - 2,500
DiG - 2,500
OcUKWildweasel - 1,000
MajorPart - 1,000
00bob00 - 1,000


This Week's New Members

Dunky
iraiguana
J
MaTt
zhx

Welcome to the team!!!


Sorry anyone who's not been mentioned - you know what to do now

***Please take some time to check out the new How To which BillytheImpaler is working on***


Stats compiled from Stanford official stats page and EOC stats page
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 17:30 February 3rd and 17:45 February 10th
Previous Week's News: February 3rd, January 27th, January 20th, January 13th, January 6th, December 30th, December 23rd, December 16th, December 9th, November 25th, November 18th, November 11th, November 4th, October 28th, October 21st, October 14th, October 7th, September 23rd, September 9th, September 2nd, August 26th.

 

[KillBait]

Not a bad week, but back to full speed now..Stroll on next week with all these nice high point Double Gromacs

Thanks for the news Rich

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Been working on the guide all afternoon. It should be up by Sunday.

(crosses fingers)

 

[Steevo38]

Got a nice load of BIG pointers at the moment.

Been swapping cells with Mr Berserker today. Think he may well move in properly tomorrow.

Nice stats as usual Rich, thanks.

Fold on team............

 

[FreeStream]

Ooooo, not a bad score - should be higher with the juicy work units I recived,

too much gaming!

Conc

 

[pmbuzz]

Not a bad week for me, over a 1000
Nice stats as always Rich.

Well done to everyone.

 

[sagaboy2]

Bad week for me PC broke couple days back so no more folding from me for a while.

Sorry guys.

 

[Joe42]

My folding status

The opteron 175 is folding approx 6hrs/day
A64 3200+ @ 2.2 folding approx 6hrs/day
Sempron 3000+ @ 3300+ speeds folding approx 6hrs/day
P3 733 folding approx 6hrs/day

Hoping to modify the opteron machine so its quiet enough to do 12 or 24/7.
Currently both cores are half way through 188 pointers.

After quite some time neck and neck, i'm pleased to announce impending stompage of Victorian Star and Martin H. Its been nice folding with you, but i've bigger fish to fry!

I think theres a bit of a team revival going on, our production is starting to rise again.

 

[Mattus]

Someone donate Joe42 a nice heatsink, that Opty's worth 800ppd with the right WUs

 

[Whitestar]

Production down again. I just hope the machines at work can get some of these nice double gromacs woos. Production will be down significantly next week as its half term and im going to be messing around with web filtering software.

Welcome to all the new members and thanks again rich for the news.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Hey fellas, I'm doing a bit on small tweaks applicable to all operating systems.

Can you guys please read that over and tell me if anything there is patently false?

Also, have you any additions for that area? I know some of the tweaks sound like voodoo magic but some people swear by them. Have any of you your own voodoo magic suggestions?

You BOINC fellows can get in on this as well becasue I'm sure there are some tricks that are applicable to all DC projects.

 

[Joe42]

Someone donate Joe42 a nice heatsink, that Opty's worth 800ppd with the right WUs

Someone explain to Joe42 why his Scythe ninja, arguably the words best aircooling heatsink, clamped firmly to his cpu with arctic silver 5, it not allowing him to get a decent overclock and a decent nights sleep, or indeed either of those things.

You didn't think i'd have any old lump of metal sitting on that thing did you?

To solve the noise issue i shall ne suspending my harddisks and replacing the fan in my psu.
To solve the cooling issue i shall be re-applying thermal paste and getting extremely annoyed if the thing gets above 45. This is no ordinary heatsink ya know...

 

[Mattus]

Hmm.. what is your full load temp?

(edit) Ah, 45 - ish. 45c at full load is not bad at all bearing in mind you have two 1MB cores folding away under there Although it is an impressive-looking HS!

 

[Joe42]

47 with the fans turned down and only the raptors and *** realpower making a noise.
While that isn't extremely hot, i think its hotter than it should be at only 2.5 with 1.42v.

Edit: yeah, its 45 with some noise, 47 without.

Exactly what is expletive about the word 'the'? How i love the automatic censoring.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

For reasons unknown to me they censor the word "the" when one transposes the order of the "h' and "e."

***!

 

[Joe42]

For reasons unknown to me they censor the word "the" when one transposes the order of the "h' and "e."

***!

Wierd!

I think i must have applied my arctic silver 5 incorrectly. It says on the website that it should not be spread over the heatspreader, which seems ridiculous to me as the entire heatspreader gets hot and should make contact with the heatsink. Instead you apply a small blob, whack the heatsink on it and hope it spreads itself around.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I always drop a wee dollop onto the IHS then spread it down to about ten thousandths thick using a rasor blade. I dunno. Seems to work very well.

 

[Mattus]

It actually does spread itself around very well. I guess the pressure of the heatsink forces it to spread out.

For reasons unknown to me they censor the word "the" when one transposes the order of the "h' and "e."

Aye, that was to stop the spammers in GD who enjoyed using 't e h' as a replacement for the real word, as in 'OMG OcUK are t3h best!'

 

[Joe42]

I always drop a wee dollop onto the IHS then spread it down to about ten thousandths thick using a rasor blade. I dunno. Seems to work very well.

Well thats exactly what i did and i don't think its worked very well at all. Although i didn't get the heatsink on in one go, had to rock it around a bit before i got the clips in. 2nd time lucky perhaps...

 

[diogenese]

He he, I'm back in the top dumpers list, I don't know if it's due to major slacking on the part of many members or my abandonment of Muon, could be both I suppose.