Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 13th December 2007

[rich99million]

Team OcUK Folding@Home News 6th - 13th December 2007

Current Team Position: 25th
Current Team Score: 75,423,611
Crunched This Week: 1,168,108 (24hr avg. 166,873)
Change from Last Week: -80,083


Next on the stomping horizon

21. Dutch Power Cows - 1,217 days (+575 days)
18. DSL Reports Team Helix - 1,069 days (+341 days)
19. ABXZone.com - 656 days (-85 days)
20. p2p-community - 493 days (+60 days)
24. Overclockers Club - 10 days (-3 days)

Teams stomped this week

none this week

Ones to keep an eye on

27. Overclock.net - 22 days (-25 days)
30. 2ch@PS3 - 142 days (+116 days)
44. PlayStation.com Forums Team - 761 days (-431 days)

We are currently at 23rd in team production, down one place from last week


This Week's Top Crunchers

1 . magman - 115,443
2 . KE1HA - 82,885
3 . Cob - 72,927
4 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 70,665
5 . snapsh0t - 62,105
6 . Biffa - 59,456
7 . ms9cw - 43,793
8 . lemonman - 39,931
9 . 2bullish - 39,131
10 . Babyface_UK - 34,457
11 . Bigstan - 33,271
12 . Neil - 32,616
13 . jaric - 32,315
14 . Gazzza - 28,960
15 . DreederOcUK - 25,884
16 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 25,013
17 . dan1987 - 19,360
18 . solarisfireball - 17,703
19 . bossk128 - 17,600
20 . wints - 17,600
21 . Unforgiven - 16,830
22 . polandro - 15,439
23 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,320
24 . penfold - 12,292
25 . Mattus - 10,766
26 . hornytoe - 10,560

27 . totalise3 - 8,495
28 . Huddy - 8,228
29 . Rincin - 7,478
30 . MattBrown - 6,638
31 . rich99million - 6,052
32 . Poolybit - 5,660
33 . cokecan72 - 5,622
34 . weescott - 5,557
35 . lightning512 - 5,202
36 . verbal - 4,793
37 . Buxx - 4,502
38 . FatRakoon - 4,304
39 . Nationwide_Access - 4,240
40 . vent - 4,212
41 . ken1307 - 4,043
42 . lopkinfop(OcUK) - 3,630
43 . blitz2163 - 3,539
44 . [SIR]_Petulant - 3,520
45 . _Viking_ - 3,520
46 . marktime - 3,520
47 . sculptor(OcUK) - 3,520
48 . Silent_Bob - 3,520
49 . oceaness - 3,329
50 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 3,029

51 . growse - 2,901
52 . DeQuavus - 2,828
53 . Pilgrim57 - 2,760
54 . Slinwagh - 2,679
55 . biteme99 - 2,570
56 . Trazzall - 2,500
57 . davejuk - 2,478
58 . jeremysmith123 - 2,362
59 . Saetia - 2,350
60 . NOIR - 2,223
61 . steve258 - 2,170
62 . FTW - 2,144
63 . pikeypriest - 2,100
64 . froggy - 2,008
65 . Gunda - 2,006
66 . feriso - 1,900
67 . 355F1512TR - 1,899
68 . br - 1,892
69 . hikaru452 - 1,881
70 . Frogskin - 1,880
71 . nikoPS3 - 1,863
72 . KALIBR(OcUK) - 1,816
73 . schumi84 - 1,760
74 . Steevo38_(OcUK) - 1,760
75 . Freefaller - 1,706
76 . mikeymike - 1,681
77 . _Berserker_ - 1,620
78 . RD - 1,557
79 . diogenese - 1,523
80 . deej - 1,456
81 . casale - 1,393
82 . mish86 - 1,385
83 . Cathode - 1,338
84 . piggott - 1,317
85 . Crowze - 1,292
86 . A_N_Other - 1,255
87 . Ever - 1,217
88 . mark001282 - 1,171
89 . Zymurgy - 1,164
90 . mB0rg - 1,156
91 . Tumbler^ - 1,142
92 . sammy7 - 1,136
93 . JackWolk - 1,129

94 . atsushi - 935
95 . Carnage - 909
96 . ac90 - 845
97 . Pedro_Legend - 838
98 . kinnison - 763
99 . teo.e - 754
100 . ThyFlame - 695
101 . dalin80 - 689
102 . Jagman2k - 686
103 . KillBoY_UK - 686
104 . Montiyouk - 682
105 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 665
106 . Brown_Sparrow - 618
107 . Garp - 584
108 . zenkohdo - 562
109 . niko - 555
110 . SquAmy - 529
111 . MajorPart - 514
112 . Adnams_Drinker - 500
113 . Dean_Vile - 500
114 . eddie - 500
115 . Galifrey - 500
116 . LiquidFox - 500
117 . TheCrow - 500
118 . jidh007 - 424
119 . Joe42 - 412
120 . FEICHAN - 401
121 . BenjiSayers - 394
122 . theheyes - 394
123 . hawk - 383
124 . PiKe - 372
125 . Kenstheman - 370
126 . Assasin-uk - 343
127 . PS3zappatore - 340
128 . tony - 340
129 . ShaunBrewer - 338
130 . MaxenceLurin - 300
131 . moreno10 - 300
132 . [madoldtory] - 292
133 . Leon_Webster - 292
134 . aceface57 - 265
135 . Scratchy - 250
136 . Northwind - 246
137 . Snapshot - 220
138 . fluiduk - 218
139 . MadFruit 218
140 . Psycho_Sonny - 206
141 . WoZZeR - 206
142 . Limehaus - 188
143 . Cameron - 186
144 . Paul_Holliday - 186
145 . takku - 186
146 . xyphic - 186
147 . happytechie - 168
148 . loiic_corporation_ - 132


Single Machine Folding League

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

1 . jaric - 32,315
2 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 25,013
3 . dan1987 - 19,360
4 . Unforgiven - 16,830
5 . Borged_by_MGP - 12,320
6 . Rincin - 7,478
7 . cokecan72 - 5,622
8 . _Viking_ - 3,520
9 . marktime - 3,520
10 . Silent_Bob - 3,520
11 . Pilgrim57 - 2,760
12 . Slinwagh - 2,679
13 . Frogskin - 1,880
14 . schumi84 - 1,760
15 . diogenese - 1,523
16 . Cathode - 1,338
17 . Zymurgy - 1,164
18 . Carnage - 909
19 . Jagman2k - 686
20 . Adnams_Drinker - 500
21 . LiquidFox - 500
22 . BenjiSayers - 394
23 . Limehaus - 188

Cob had just a little help this week.... again

This Week's Top Stompers

atsushi - 508
KillBoY_UK - 468
eddie - 413
hawk - 380
PS3zappatore - 352
MaxenceLurin - 342
Cathode - 129
teo.e - 127
moreno10 - 119
Crowze - 81
Slinwagh - 65
tony - 50
lopkinfop(OcUK) - 35
fluiduk - 31
weescott - 29
loiic_corporation_ - 28
niko - 28
jeremysmith123 - 22
Nationwide_Access - 21
Pedro_Legend - 19
PiKe - 19
nikoPS3 - 17
Silent_Bob - 17
ac90 - 16
mB0rg - 16
schumi84 - 16
JackWolk - 13
steve258 - 13
NOIR - 12
355F1512TR - 11
mish86 - 11
Northwind - 10
takku - 10
wints - 10
zenkohdo - 7
DeQuavus - 6
FEICHAN - 6
Frogskin - 6
LiquidFox - 6
SquAmy - 6
xyphic - 6
hikaru452 - 5
Adnams_Drinker - 4
Cameron - 4
dan1987 - 4
KALIBR(OcUK) - 4
pikeypriest - 4
sammy7 - 4
solarisfireball - 4
biteme99 - 3
Poolybit - 3
bossk128 - 2
Ever - 2
FTW - 2
jidh007 - 2
Montiyouk - 2
ms9cw - 2
TheCrow - 2
Zymurgy - 2
Borged_by_MGP - 1
Brown_Sparrow - 1
Carnage - 1
casale - 1
Garp - 1
ken1307 - 1
Limehaus - 1
mark001282 - 1
MattBrown - 1
penfold - 1
Saetia - 1
Scratchy - 1
SiriusB_[OcUK] - 1
snapsh0t - 1
ThyFlame - 1
totalise3 - 1
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 1
WoZZeR - 1


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

Whitestar (LigerZero) - 5,000,000
magman - 2,400,000
KE1HA - 1,900,000
Bigstan - 1,700,000
ms9cw - 1,600,000
Cob - 1,100,000
lemonman - 1,000,000
jaric - 850,000
SiriusB_[OcUK] - 800,000
Biffa - 750,000
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 425,000
feriso - 375,000
Mattus - 350,000
Rincin - 325,000
marktime - 225,000
mikeymike - 200,000
bossk128 - 175,000
cokecan72 - 175,000
solarisfireball - 150,000
dan1987 - 100,000
wints - 80,000
Poolybit - 70,000
Carnage - 50,000
dalin80 - 50,000
Silent_Bob - 25,000
weescott - 25,000
steve258 - 20,000
JackWolk - 15,000
jeremysmith123 - 15,000
lopkinfop(OcUK) - 15,000
TheCrow - 15,000
mB0rg - 10,000
SquAmy - 10,000
ac90 - 7,500
FEICHAN - 7,500
Slinwagh - 5,000
teo.e - 1,000
tony - 1,000

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners


This Week's New Members

atsushi
budge1972
daniel
eddie
hawk
KillBoY_UK
macayo
MaxenceLurin
weeedy

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


We're missing some big production at the top, still all in all some blinding production as a team - way to go all
Since the main stats page was down for maintenance and EOC had their big hiccup around this time last week I wouldn't worry overly about all the red, not unless we get the same next week anyway
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 - also helped out this week by Kakao Stats
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 19:30 December 6th and 19:40 December 13th

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Single Machine Crunchers:
Adnams_Drinker, Andrew, BenjiSayers, BigDannyO, booyaka, Borged_by_MGP, Carnage, Cathode, Cob, cokecan72, dan1987, diogenese, Emily, Frogskin, gt_junkie, Jagman2k, jaric, Limehaus, LiquidFox, marktime, Pilgrim57, Rincin, Silent_Bob, SiriusB_[OcUK], Slinwagh, Unforgiven, Viking, Yeggstry, Zefan, Zymurgy ...

 

[rich99million]

I've made a few changes to the tiffy bands - hoping to revalue them a bit as they were starting to be as easy to get as an arts degree

The new bands I've decided on are as follows:

My first tiffy = 1k
2,500+ = every 2.5k
15,000+ = every 5k
30,000+ = every 10k
100,000+ = every 25k
500,000+ = every 50k
1,000,000+ = every 100k
2,500,000+ = every 250k
5,000,000+ = every 500k


I think that's a step in the right direction, I was planning on waiting until Stanford did their long awaited points rejig, if it changes things in a big way we can rethink them again then

As always I'm open to ideas if anyone has any views on the tiffy situation or anything else in the news - just give a yell


edit: This is what the tiffy's used to go like:

My first tiffy = 1k
2,500+ = every 2.5k
15,000+ = every 5k
30,000+ = every 10k
100,000+ = every 20k
200,000+ = every 25k
1,000,000+ = every 50k

 

[rich99million]

Points rejig?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

If it ever happens, more credit to the GPU folk would be nice, if there are actually any left

 

[rich99million]

I see what you're saying - but what I meant by 'problems' in this case was that if GPUs got 40x the points of CPUs, every serious folder would run exclusively GPU clients (bearing in mind that each GPU client hogs a CPU as well.) Then Stanford would struggle to do the science which can only be done on a CPU because there'd be no CPU folders left! AFAIK the balance of work available is well in favour of CPUs. Stanford would benefit from you running your GPU, but if everybody ran their GPUs instead of CPUs then a lot of the work wouldn't get done.

I think they'd have enough CPU clients left to get the job done. I don't think the points should be 40x more or whatever the figure is but it should be brought more into line with the SMP output (which shouldn't have been made so high in the first place) to reflect the extra cost of buying and running a GPU crunching system.

 

[rich99million]

Have fun

Wouldn't it be better if SMP/GPU points went down rather than standard points going up? If you could suddenly get 500ppd on anything half-decent then it'd devalue people's previous points, especially if they'd been running the standard client.

Watch you don't do too much impaling, Billy


Whilst it makes more sense to back off the SMP points a little I expect the solution will be to increase the others so they're more in line - after all how many currently active crunchers will they lose from boosting points compared to how many may get upset and leave if their expensive new rig suddenly gets its PPD cut down?

Guess we'll have to wait and see and adjust if we have/want to

 

[rich99million]

well done all - finally back folding after a number of down weeks due to busted ram.

Welcome back

Started yesterday - hoped to dump 3000 odd points last night but my wireless network lost connection and the win SMP client seems to stop when that happens. Should be done today mind you.

That'll be the localhost gnomes - they get confused if you diddle with anything directly connected to your network adapter (or via magic air waves in this case). If I reboot my wired router I get the same thing happen though it seems to be fine if you stop with ctrl+c then restart it again afterwards.
The icicles that start to form after a few minutes of non-crunching are a dead give-away though