Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 15th June 2006

[rich99million]

Folding@Home Team News 8th-15th June 2006

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Current Team Position: 48th
Current Team Score: 15,847,769
Crunched This Week: 261,821
Change from Last Week: -2,202
Based on last week's predicted 7-day output

Next on the stomping horizon

43 MacAddict4Life - 170 days (+3)
47 Linux - 11 days (-5)

Teams stomped this week

none

Ones to keep an eye on

53 TSC! Russia - 5 days (-8)
56 Overclock.net - 268 days (-20)


This Week's Top Dumpers

1 . LigerZero - 35,816
2 . DarkendViper - 20,724
3 . sculptor(OcUK) - 11,880
4 . Huddy - 8,898
5 . Ricko - 8,535
6 . hornytoe - 8,262
7 . Bigstan - 7,892
8 . Steevo38_(OcUK) - 6,633
9 . Walter_Anderson - 6,573
10 . verbal - 6,391
11 . BigDom - 6,341
12 . polandro - 6,262
13 . Prescott28 - 5,556
14 . br - 5,057
15 . vent - 5,023
16 . lightning512 - 4,884
17 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 4,825
18 . kinnison - 4,717
19 . Dunc - 4,494
20 . Appleby - 4,106
21 . duggyruss - 3,887
22 . aXeR - 3,823
23 . Concorde_Rules - 3,746
24 . rich99million - 3,514
25 . froggy - 3,281
26 . piggott - 3,175
27 . A_N_Other - 3,018
28 . MajorPart - 2,997
29 . _Berserker_ - 2,632
30 . oceaness - 2,574
31 . Trick - 2,452
32 . MrWhippy - 1,741
33 . diogenese - 1,686
34 . The_Ohio_Psycho - 1,683
35 . penfold - 1,634
36 . Mattus - 1,627
37 . Joe42 - 1,606
38 . Sammael(OcUK) - 1,540
39 . RobOC - 1,511
40 . sr4470 - 1,458
41 . the_running_man21 - 1,448
42 . dr.who - 1,358
43 . Corran - 1,312
44 . Elston - 1,274
45 . Rincin - 1,263
46 . FatRakoon - 1,209
47 . GT3 - 1,208
48 . Neil - 1,177
49 . Pilgrim57 - 1,079
50 . Haly - 1,066
51 . BlackAndWhite - 1,019
52 . pmbuzz - 1,015
53 . Plasmoid - 978
54 . SB - 976
55 . 2bullish - 964
56 . NeedleGunner - 964


Single Machine Crunchers League

Colour Key: MultiCore/MultiCPU, SingleCore, Unclarified

1 . Dunc - 4,494
2 . Concorde_Rules - 3,746
3 . MrWhippy - 1,741
4 . The_Ohio_Psycho - 1,683
5 . RobOC - 1,511
6 . sr4470 - 1,458
7 . Corran - 1,312
8 . Rincin - 1,263
9 . Pilgrim57 - 1,079
10 . pmbuzz - 1,015
11 . SB - 976
12 . lee87 - 916
13 . Bennah - 889
14 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 749
15 . slamma06 - 666
16 . BlackAqua - 661
17 . Matblack - 625
18 . Raikiri - 507
19 . JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 479
20 . Zip - 389
21 . slamma07 - 241
22 . lucifersam - 226
23 . Zirax - 195
24 . Putty - 172
25 . jonnyc90 - 159
26 . nellystew - 153
27 . TinkerBell - 153
28 . divinemadness - 130
29 . MattBrown - 101
30 . ToLearn - 99
31 . Xfi - 88


This Week's Top Stompers

SiriusB_[OcUK] - 280
Matblack - 269
Raikiri - 251
DarylHill - 230
BigDave90 - 229
Mejinks - 206
lucifersam - 187
deej - 179
Putty - 170
jonnyc90 - 166
ToLearn - 140
XFi - 135
iBot - 100
Unforgiven - 93
stex - 59
Zip - 47
br - 27
R0551 - 26
Bunjiquo - 21
verbal - 20
jidh007 - 16
Bungle_Bear - 11
oceaness - 11
The_Ohio_Psycho - 9
JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 8
slamma06 - 8
slamma07 - 8
Appleby - 7
benjo1989 - 7
SB - 7
Elston - 6
Neil - 6
penfold - 6
RobOC - 6
2bullish - 5
Bennah - 5
FatRakoon - 5
GT3 - 5
MrWhippy - 5
divinemadness - 4
Pedrinho - 4
Rincin - 4
Tumbler^ - 4
White_Fang - 4
Corran - 3
lee87 - 3
lightning512 - 3
MattBrown - 3
A_N_Other - 2
DiG - 2
Fatiain - 2
piggott - 2
Pilgrim57 - 2
Ricko - 2
the_running_man21 - 2
vent - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

LigerZero - 950,000
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 375,000
Walter_Anderson - 300,000
polandro - 200,000
Ricko - 140,000
Concorde_Rules - 120,000
Prescott28 - 100,000
BigDom - 70,000
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 70,000
sr4470 - 60,000
piggott - 50,000
the_running_man21 - 40,000
cheets64 - 40,000
Appleby - 30,000
Pixel - 30,000
Fatiain - 25,000
verbal - 20,000
MrWhippy - 20,000
oceaness - 15,000
penfold - 15,000
Corran - 15,000
br - 10,000
The_Ohio_Psycho - 10,000
Elston - 10,000
FatRakoon - 10,000
SB - 7,500
2bullish - 7,500
Tumbler^ - 5,000
jidh007 - 2,500
MattBrown - 2,500


This Week's New Members

BigDave90
DarylHill
deej
iBot
jonnyc90
lucifersam
Mat"WUpenis"black
Mejinks
Putty
Raikiri
SiriusB_[OcUK]
stex - you need to check the stability of your machine
ToLearn
XFi

A very warm foldy welcome to the nuthouse... lets show those russians

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
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A huge welcome to all the new members/contributors/recruits - lets keep spreading the good word and keep them rigs 'a' crunching!!!
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 17:40 June 8th and 17:45 June 15th

Previous Weeks' News:
June 8th, June 2nd, May 26th, May 19th, May 12th, May 5th, April 28th, April 21st, April 14th, April 7th, March 31st, March 24th, March 17th, March 10th, March 3rd, February 24th, February 17th, February 10th, 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

Single Machine Crunchers:
Bennah, BlackAqua, Concorde_Rules, divine_madness, Dunc, Euphoriabuzz, iBot, JoeyJoJo(OcUK), jonnyc90, killer_uk, lee87, lucifersam, m4cc45, Matblack, MattBrown, Mikebert4, MrWhippy, Napalm, nellystew, NightmareXX, OcUKIsotope, Pilgrim57, pmbuzz, Putty, Raikiri, Rincin, RobOC, SB, shadowscotland, SiriusB_[OcUK], slamma06, slamma07, sr4470, Stelly, Stormrider(OcUK), The_Ohio_Psycho, TinkerBell, ToLearn, XFi, Zip, Zirax ...

 

[rich99million]

Nice one rich, even with the footie and tesco to contend with

Also, what the hell is a "Tiffy-Kat", and how do I win one?

Sir Tiffy Kat?

LOL

MB

indeed the man speaketh the truth!!!

Folding@Home is very generaous with certificates - infact you will have a couple already as soon as your first WU has been credited - find yourself in the Team Stats once you're on there and then click your name to take you to your personal stats page - there you will see a tiffy for your points score and a tiffy for your number of WUs so far

in the news i recognise the following points score tiffy's - though if you have a tiffy you want to show off there's no need to wait for the news post

Tiffys:
1k, 2.5k, 5k, 7.5k, 10k, 15k, 20k, 25k...
30k, 40k, 50k, 60k, 70k, 80k, 90k...
100k, 120k, 140k, 160k, 180k...
200k, 225k, 250k, 275k...etc...975k...
1mil, 1.05mil, 1.1mil, 1.15mil...and so it goes on

stanford will only recognise the two most significant figures so for example you can't actually get an official tiffy for 275k as it'll just come out as 270,000 - the values I use in the news have just been chosen to suit what people wanted, 375k sounds so much nicer than 370k or 380k.

Hope that's cleared up your question - as for when you will win one, it'll be 1,000 points as far as the news is concerned but feel free to post one as soon as you like

 

[rich99million]

Sacre bleu!

I'm getting a lot of mileage out of that one today, aren't I?

rofl

highly relevant both times I've seen it so far too


Freefaller eh? That SE must have quite a foldy presence now - how long till you can turn Gilly?

 

[rich99million]

I had a quick chat with rich99million about it before I went ahead. I'm sure if anyone disapproves you can remove it, there'll be no hard feelings

yeah sorry my bad - I didn't think anyone would mind too much
maybe if it would fit better in with one of the other posts it can be included in with one of those, depending on available picture slots of course

edit: just seen it's 3 posts long in itself - that's not gonna fit in anywhere else
well it's fine at the bottom anyway - if it could have a link or two from the above posts where relevant that would be nice, I will link it from the news later on when I'm not 15 minutes late for work already

 

[rich99million]

I fold 24/7 and only get just over 350 a week

with what machine?


few too much gaming maybe?

 

[rich99million]

I use Verdana for the news - I think it's friendly yet easy on the eyes

 

[rich99million]

Err, I thought I'd mentioned it, got me wondering now

Anyways, here's me: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&teamnum=10&username=Oli

welcome to the team


the reason you didn't get a mention in the news as a new user is that at 17:45 on Thursday when I saved the stats page you hadn't had a WU credited yet - there are 5 others who just missed out too but at least you'll have a good run at making a record number of stomps before next week's news

oh and it's not necessary to tell anyone you've joined - when I write the news I have to find all the new members before I can calculate what everyone else has done during the week, unless I find you but forget to add you to the news post of course

 

[rich99million]

check at the start of the log for each client and just check for something like the following...

Project: 2504 (Run 3, Clone 11, Gen 14)

as long as at least one of those numbers is different between the two clients then it's a different (but similar) WU

 

[rich99million]

Thought you were meant to have got that last weekend!

no don't start him off again - we know it won't fit in the back of the RS6 sallooooon

think it was meant to be delivered but they messed that up - shops eh? what are they good for?

 

[rich99million]

start him off again?

i never rammed it down your throat.

The delivery van couldnt find our house, infact, most companys cant, royal mail and citylink are the 2 that only rarely get lost.

Besides its here now and its goooooood.

lol sorry I was just messing

glad you finally got it anyway - I used to have the same problem getting stuff delivered to my parent's house, also the same problem with the salloooon (though not the RS6 variety)

edit: the best place for carrying something large in my car is on the passenger seat - usually making it impossible to get the gear stick far enough over to engage reverse

 

[rich99million]

Whitestar is LigerZero on the team and he's got his school computers on it - helps that he's the IT guy there though

With an active CPU count of 107 in the last 7 days he's the man!


I think DarkendViper also works at a school - hmmm maybe it's time I got a change of career

 

[rich99million]

can't you just set a maximum temperature in the bios????

i'm pretty sure most motherboards will let you set temperatures beyond which the system will shut down - otherwise I'm sure you can find a software solution based on temperature monitoring

 

[rich99million]

Are they?
Cheapest i can find is £40

OcUK were doing them very cheap a while ago - not sure if they still are though

edit: nope they are back to full price now - it was quite some time ago
if my memory is correct then it was the 500VA one and was only around £20 - definately a bargain

 

[rich99million]

indeed - i think you're allowed to mention them as "those purple-shirted computer cowboys" if you really must

 

[rich99million]

Another 56 pointer... that must be about the 7th one in a row now. Why on earth are we getting so many of these?

it will be due to the number of servers currently gone down, at least these small WUs will be in almost limitless quantities until the nicer work comes back since as soon as each one is returned a whole load more can be produced if required

PPD-wise they don't seem too bad on my GF's machine (XP1700@2100MHz) getting between 100-110 PPD

If you're really sick of them reconfigure to allow deadlineless work and see if you can get some 240ish point Tinkers as they usually go down pretty well

 

[rich99million]

you need to get yourself on the beta team - tasty WUs a plenty


application is via the folding forums which seem to have gone down a few minutes ago
seems to be back up for now - fingers crossed

read this thread and ask yourself if you can contribute and understand you'll get rubbish work sometimes - then write something good without mentioning the lust for points and wait'n'see

It's not a closed group - just kept out of the way of general public to keep the place a bit more tidy


edit: hmm I've just realised that there are quite a few applications seemingly not dealt with for the last month or so - some mention of systems testing and involvement with other beta testing might not go amiss - if you've done them of course

 

[rich99million]

excellent work!


not a bad entry to the team at all

 

[rich99million]

I just read on the extreme overclocking site that the russians are a total of about 7 hours from overtaking us which will demote us into 51st place! that 2 places lost in a week!

what are you going on about?

we are currently in 48th and have been for quite some time (since we stomped the last lot of slackers), when the russians catch up with us sometime in the next 2-3hrs we will then be 49th

the confusion comes if you include the two "aggregate teams" of google and team 0 (no team allocation) which puts us in 50th now and 51st in a few hours - since these two "teams" aren't made up of people choosing to compete in groups as such they are not counted in most of the stats


shame the ruskies have almost got us
though we definately did put up a decent last-minute fight

edit: stats as of last update at Stanford

48th  	 10   	  OcUK   	  16,059,255   	  147,454
49th 	47191 	TSC! Russia 	16,054,198 	109,602

we might just survive the next hourly update but it'll be very close if so

 

[rich99million]

that's the only problem with Large WUs - currently one of my X2 cores is munching a rather large Beta WU and is exactly 50% done with another 2days 10hours to go


how's the Blacktop getting on?

 

[rich99million]

Well were still hanging on.

48  10  OcUK  16060280  147460  
49  TSC! Russia  16056637  109617

Lets see if we can hold on for another hour.

We held it for another hour

48  	  10   	  OcUK   	  16062331   	  147473
49 	47191 	TSC! Russia 	16061306 	109639

but looks like 2 was just too many

48   	47191 	  TSC! Russia  	  16065371   	  109653
49      10          OcUK 	   16063355 	147478

looking at last week's EOC team overtake page we managed to hold them off for an extra day - maybe that doesn't seem much but I think it's very good for just one week - it translates to weeks on the medium range and months/years on the long range targets

sucks to lose a position but that should be rectified soon enough