Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 27th January 2006

[rich99million]

Folding@Home Team News - w/e 27th January 2006

Current Team Position - 54th
Current Team Score - 11,071,540
Crunched This Week - 307,170


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


Next on the stomping horizon

49 Slo-Tech - 35 days
52 Team Lithuania - 27 days
53 PC Club Folding@Home Team - 5 days

Teams stomped this week

Us - by Team Hack-a-Day, nicely done but watch your backs

Ones to keep an eye on

59 Team Engadget - 28 days


This Week's Top Dumpers

Sammael(OcUK) - 61046
DarkendViper - 39876
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 23868
Walter_Anderson - 16272
KE1HA - 13632
_Berserker_ - 12384
hornytoe - 10000
Bigstan - 6573
sculptor(OcUK) - 6154
vent - 5720
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 5642
froggy - 5557
polandro - 5200
KillBait - 4989
rich99million - 4766
duggyruss - 4506
kinnison - 3761
Trick - 3496
BlackAndWhite - 3395
ShaunBrewer - 2991
Mattus - 2739
Concorde_Rules - 2662
dr.who - 2477
Haly - 2410
Ken - 2263
Kieran_Hirpara - 2189
Staffy - 2134
Plasmoid - 1920
aXeR - 1892
Napalm - 1850
AcidHell2 - 1821
cheets64 - 1768
Hominid - 1752
Quacky - 1626
Prescott28 - 1533
Huddy - 1524
Kyzia - 1437
BigChris - 1350
casale - 1338
pmbuzz - 1291
sagaboy2 - 1254
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 1165
beatvar - 1148
the_running_man21 - 1080
Sgoaty - 1065
Gunda - 999


This Week's Top Stompers

GaryT - 175
Hazeyb - 95
SaBBz - 73
divine_madness - 66
Hominid - 61
i_know_nothing - 61
Oxygene - 53
Andy_113 - 50
hooneeawr - 49
MajorPart - 49
helpinghand - 36
Huddy - 34
Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 28
jidh007 - 25
Spikes - 24
00bob00 - 23
Kieran_Hirpara - 22
the_running_man21 - 19
A_N_Other - 17
DiG - 15
Xavien - 13
BlackAqua - 11
Plasmoid - 11
BlackAndWhite - 9
Napalm - 9
Quacky - 9
cheets64 - 8
stuartbut - 8
vent - 8
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 7
Joe42 - 7
spring85195 - 7
AcidHell2 - 6
MartinH - 6
VictorianStar - 5
aceface57 - 4
alxxx - 4
geiger - 4
mhalsall - 4
pmbuzz - 4
BigChris - 3
blitz2163 - 3
Pilgrim57 - 3
custard - 2
Mattus - 2
Paul_Holliday - 2
sagaboy2 - 2
Staffy - 2
Walter_Anderson - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

DarkendViper - 1,100,000
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 450,000
froggy - 350,000
_Berserker_ - 275,000
Walter_Anderson - 180,000
Concorde_Rules - 50,000
Sgoaty - 40,000
Paul_Holliday - 25,000
david - 25,000
BlackAndWhite - 15,000
BigChris - 15,000
Rincin - 15,000
Jagman2k - 15,000
Plasmoid - 7,500
Kieran_Hirpara - 5,000
Hominid - 2,500
Huddy - 2,500
the_running_man21 - 2,500
VictorianStar - 2,500
MartinH - 2,500
hooneeawr - 1,000
Andy_113 - 1,000
A_N_Other - 1,000
spring85195 - 1,000


This Week's New Members

GaryT
Hazeyb
Oxygene

A very warm foldy welcome to you all

Way to go everybody - up to 101 active crunchers this week and still climbing
Congratulations to Billy and his Hack-a-Day counterparts, get softening up those slackers for us!!!
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 17:55 January 20th and 18:20 January 27th
Previous Week's News: 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.

 

[rich99million]

also if you can find the start of the WU then make a note of the Run/Clone/Gen numbers as you can get the admin of the folding forums to check the status of that particular WU for you - if it's been returned and just not credited they can usually get it sorted out pretty quick

though as Mattus said they do run a script every now and then to credit lost WUs

 

[rich99million]

Berserker has all the nice WUs - bleedin' stasher that he is

if all you can get is 30-50 pointers then you may even be better off selecting deadlineless WUs since those are mostly 240ish points these days (there's even rumours of some Gromacs cored deadlineless WUs)

may be worth a try if you're on a really unlucky streak

 

[rich99million]

Isn't the stanford points system supposed to ensure that we get the same ppd regardless of the size or nature of the wu?
Perhaps they should have points for cpu time rather than wu time.

yes it is meant to balance out since the points are based on how quickly a benchmark machine completes the WU - however quite often the later generations of a WU get faster or slower than the generations that were used for the benchmark so it all gets a bit confused

plus of course you have the bonus points for the larger WUs - that's when it all gets really complicated and people getting the wrong sort of work start to get angry


even with a system based on CPU-time such as many Boinc projects use you will still get peculiar results between varying systems and someone will end up losing out

it's just a fundemental problem with most DC projects i'm afraid - you can't please all of the people all of the time

 

[rich99million]

ahh that'd explain it then - at least we know it's nothing to do with the Stanford servers and you've ended up with the credit

when i've transferred work before i've always moved the whole folder so that would have included the queue.dat file too


well no harm done - good thing you were watching your credit