Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 30th November 2006

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Folding@Home Team News 23rd - 30th November 2006


Current Team Position: 43rd
Current Team Score: 26,186,541
Crunched This Week: 546,645 (24hr avg. 78,092)
Change from Last Week: -10,011


Next on the stomping horizon

37 LITTLEWHITEDOG - 30 days (-7 days)
38 newz.dk - 27 days (-6 days)
40 Gentoo Linux Users Everywhere - 25 days (-14 days)
39 Fórum PCs Brasil - 23 days (-7 days)
41 Vietnam Global Team - 11 days (-7 days)
42 Team PimpRig - 7 days (-7 days)

Teams stomped this week

none this week

Ones to keep an eye on

nope - nothing to see here


This Week's Top Dumpers

1 . Whitestar (LigerZero) - 62,669
2 . sculptor(OcUK) - 36,153
3 . growse - 31,859
4 . magman - 18,723
5 . Babyface_UK - 15,441
6 . Gazzza - 13,999
7 . Neil - 12,429
8 . 2bullish - 11,028
9 . lemonman - 10,404
10 . Dunc - 9,854
11 . vent - 9,732
12 . rich99million - 9,003
13 . Borged_by_MGP - 8,659
14 . KE1HA - 8,636
15 . br - 8,185
16 . Steevo38_(OcUK) - 8,090
17 . polandro - 7,937
18 . hornytoe - 7,923
19 . Huddy - 7,727
20 . deej - 7,639
21 . Freefaller - 7,329
22 . feriso - 7,328
23 . Concorde_Rules - 7,244
24 . Appleby - 7,185
25 . DarkendViper - 7,098
26 . SiriusB_[OcUK] - 6,918
27 . _Berserker_ - 6,829
28 . shady - 5,987
29 . LordShadow - 5,595
30 . BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 5,581
31 . DreederOcUK - 5,547
32 . Unforgiven - 5,250
33 . StevenG[OCUK] - 5,159
34 . Otacon - 5,073
35 . froggy - 4,919
36 . FTW - 4,695
37 . A_N_Other - 4,480
38 . FatRakoon - 4,439
39 . Bigstan - 4,295
40 . duggyruss - 3,750
41 . mikeymike - 3,677
42 . Buxx - 3,620
43 . verbal - 3,447
44 . Cob - 3,386
45 . oceaness - 3,354
46 . Trick - 3,236
47 . dr.who - 3,164
48 . ken1307 - 3,151
49 . Joe42 - 3,038

50 . RobOC - 2,950
51 . BigDom - 2,894
52 . diogenese - 2,842
53 . marktime - 2,818
54 . piggott - 2,803
55 . OcUKWildweasel - 2,581
56 . Beenom - 2,545
57 . Ken - 2,475
58 . blitz2163 - 2,426
59 . JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 2,370
60 . bam0 - 2,348
61 . aXeR - 2,276
62 . penfold - 2,273
63 . Prescott28 - 2,076
64 . MadFruit - 1,971
65 . aceface57 - 1,921
66 . Walter_Anderson - 1,909
67 . Stormrider(OcUK) - 1,874
68 . nikebee - 1,862
69 . uk_viper - 1,735
70 . Brown_Sparrow - 1,698
71 . Elston - 1,666
72 . bossk128 - 1,589
73 . kinnison - 1,541
74 . Dean_Vile - 1,507
75 . Sammael(OcUK) - 1,506
76 . NikolaXS - 1,388
77 . _Viking_ - 1,353
78 . TheTross - 1,343
79 . lightning512 - 1,341
80 . Rincin - 1,247
81 . divinemadness - 1,200
82 . br83taylor - 1,184
83 . casale - 1,161
84 . Broon - 1,149
85 . lee87 - 1,149
86 . sr4470 - 1,145
87 . Galifrey - 1,135
88 . iBot - 1,090
89 . pmbuzz - 1,062
90 . proplus - 1,013

91 . Jonathan_CTI_Amesbury - 992
92 . Steves.pc - 990
93 . Pilgrim57 - 937
94 . borgduncombe - 906
95 . Saetia - 851
96 . Ricko - 818
97 . cokecan72 - 788
98 . Haly - 784
99 . Corran - 766
100 . pikeypriest - 765
101 . lemonan - 760
102 . [OcUK]Cybershot - 679
103 . Ever - 600
104 . -[OcUK]-Xplo - 585
105 . Zip - 558
106 . solarisfireball - 553
107 . Zymurgy - 549
108 . Klo - 545
109 . MetalGuru - 545
110 . FizzyLogic - 513
111 . F4lty - 459
112 . Fatiain - 459
113 . DevilsGT2 - 396
114 . Paul_Holliday - 396
115 . Plasmoid - 396
116 . the_running_man21 - 396
117 . bezuk - 392
118 . Mattus - 392
119 . MaxPower - 392
120 . Nathan_Gaskin - 392
121 . SB - 392
122 . Zefan - 392
123 . Tumbler^ - 381
124 . Gunda - 373
125 . catman05 - 320
126 . Achitophel - 306
127 . fusion99 - 306
128 . Leon_Webster - 306
129 . [madoldtory] - 153
130 . Andy_113 - 153
131 . DiG - 153
132 . hooneeawr - 153
133 . jidh007 - 153
134 . lordganesh - 153
135 . xZIBIT - 153
136 . FISHGUTS - 146
137 . DR_D - 99


Single Machine Folding League

Colour Key: MultiCore/MultiCPU, SingleCore, Unclarified

? . Concorde_Rules - 7,244
8 cores Conc? Even with a reinstall that's pushing it! :p

1 . LordShadow - 5,595
2 . Unforgiven - 5,250
3 . StevenG[OCUK] - 5,159
4 . Cob - 3,386
5 . ken1307 - 3,151
6 . marktime - 2,818
7 . Beenom - 2,545
8 . MadFruit - 1,971
9 . Stormrider(OcUK) - 1,874
10 . nikebee - 1,862
11 . _Viking_ - 1,353
12 . TheTross - 1,343
13 . Rincin - 1,247
14 . divinemadness - 1,200
15 . br83taylor - 1,184
16 . lee87 - 1,149
17 . sr4470 - 1,145
18 . pmbuzz - 1,062
19 . Pilgrim57 - 937
20 . cokecan72 - 788
21 . pikeypriest - 765
22 . lemonan - 760
23 . Zip - 558
24 . Zymurgy - 549
25 . Plasmoid - 396
26 . MaxPower - 392
27 . Zefan - 392


This Week's Top Stompers

[OcUK]Cybershot - 303
bezuk - 251
DR_D - 145
solarisfireball - 94
NikolaXS - 71
Steves.pc - 53
uk_viper - 44
feriso - 30
-[OcUK]-Xplo - 24
Zymurgy - 23
fusion99 - 19
bossk128 - 17
ken1307 - 15
Nathan_Gaskin - 14
Klo - 13
FISHGUTS - 12
Brown_Sparrow - 11
Neil - 11
proplus - 11
Achitophel - 9
FTW - 9
mikeymike - 9
nikebee - 9
LordShadow - 8
borgduncombe - 7
divinemadness - 7
Ever - 7
FizzyLogic - 7
F4lty - 6
StevenG[OCUK] - 6
deej - 5
Galifrey - 5
br83taylor - 4
cokecan72 - 4
jidh007 - 4
MaxPower - 4
2bullish - 3
Broon - 3
DevilsGT2 - 3
DiG - 3
Zip - 3
blitz2163 - 2
Cob - 2
FatRakoon - 2
JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 2
lordganesh - 2
MadFruit - 2
pikeypriest - 2
Pilgrim57 - 2
SiriusB_[OcUK] - 2
_Viking_ - 1
aceface57 - 1
Appleby - 1
Beenom - 1
BigDom - 1
BillytheImpaler(OcUK) - 1
br - 1
Concorde_Rules - 1
Elston - 1
Freefaller - 1
Gazzza - 1
lemonan - 1
marktime - 1
polandro - 1
Unforgiven - 1
verbal - 1


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

Whitestar (LigerZero) - 2,100,000
sculptor(OcUK) - 1,700,000
Bigstan - 600,000
KE1HA - 550,000
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 550,000
rich99million - 525,000
shady - 525,000
polandro - 375,000
duggyruss - 350,000
Dunc - 325,000
magman - 300,000
growse - 275,000
Gazzza - 250,000
Huddy - 250,000
vent - 250,000
lemonman - 225,000
Concorde_Rules - 200,000
Ricko - 200,000
BigDom - 180,000
lightning512 - 180,000
Freefaller - 100,000
2bullish - 90,000
A_N_Other - 90,000
SiriusB_[OcUK] - 90,000
deej - 80,000
oceaness - 70,000
Unforgiven - 70,000
Neil - 60,000
FatRakoon - 50,000
OcUKWildweasel - 50,000
StevenG[OCUK] - 50,000
Beenom - 40,000
JoeyJoJo(OcUK) - 40,000
LordShadow - 40,000
FTW - 30,000
br83taylor - 25,000
feriso - 25,000
MadFruit - 20,000
Galifrey - 15,000
ken1307 - 12,500
SB - 12,500
borgduncombe - 10,000
Brown_Sparrow - 10,000
catman05 - 10,000
cokecan72 - 10,000
Zefan - 10,000
-[OcUK]-Xplo - 2,500
Nathan_Gaskin - 2,500
NikolaXS - 2,500
Steves.pc - 2,500

Congrats to all the Tiffy-Kat winners :cool:


This Week's New Members

[OcUK]Cybershot
bezuk
DR_D

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

Back down to our weekly output of 2 weeks ago - however pretty much all the other teams around us have had identical drops in output :o
Good going everyone, no matter how bad the work gets it's good to see everyone still doing their best - 50 tiffy winners can't be wrong! :cool:
Sorry anyone who's not been mentioned - you know what to do now
***Only got one machine crunching? - Have a looky here***

Stats compiled from Stanford official stats page and EOC stats page
Stomping and Dumping Stats calculated between 19:40 November 23rd and 19:30 November 30th

Previous Weeks' News:
November 23rd, November 16th, November 9th, November 2nd, October 26th, October 19th, October 12th, October 5th, September 28th, September 21st, September 14th, September 7th, August 31st, August 24th, August 17th, August 10th, August 3rd, July 27th, July 20th, July 13th, July 6th, June 29th, June 22nd, June 15th, 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

2005 News Archives:
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:
Adnams_Drinker, Bean0, Beenom, br83taylor, chicogb, Cob, cokecan72, Concorde_Rules, dead_martyr, divinemadness, happytechie, ken1307, lee87, lemonan, LordShadow, MadFruit, marktime, MaxPower, Mikebert4, nikebee, pikeypriest, Pilgrim57, Plasmoid, pmbuzz, Pumpkinstew, Rincin, sr4470, StevenG[OCUK], Stormrider(OcUK), TheTross, ToLearn, Unforgiven, Viking, Zefan, Zip, Zymurgy ...
 
woot - 12th highest producer this week and just broke the 9K barrier :cool:

you lot must be slacking!!! :eek: ;)


for those after better work I took -advmethods off all machines and although some got 600 pointers initially all but one are now back on those horrid almost 400 pointers getting lousy PPD :o
 
nothing seems to stop these horrid WUs, no matter what kind of work you ask for there seems to be a 95% chance of ending up with total pap :o

taking off -advmethods definately improved the chances of getting a 600 pointer or Amber (not good news if you have any Intel rigs) but sooner or later most rigs have ended back up on the horrid stuff again :(

I'm more than a little tempted to sell off my slowest rig and some spare parts to fund an AGP 1950 PRO, still waiting to see some hard evidence first though

edit: It'd also help if the cards were in stock and were a lot further away from the £200 mark that they are set at currently :o
 
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Freefaller said:
Ever so slightly busted :p
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Well there's no proving it either way, I can account for 6 clients as Conc runs 2 CPU and 1 GPU client and knowing how much he likes to fiddle he's no doubt reinstalled windows at some point over the last 7 days - it's the other 2 clients I'm concerned about :p

1 . LordShadow - 5,595 with 2 active clients
2 . Unforgiven - 5,250 with 3 active clients
3 . StevenG[OCUK] - 5,159 with 3 active clients


the judge's decision is final ;) :D
 
A.N.Other said:
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bah see what happens when we let the Dons in? :o :p

If you need to refer to the G i lly at least do so in such a way as to avoid the search function :D ;)
 
Joe42 said:
Ohh the pain... almost 4 days for each 396/392 pointer. Every client has one, with or without -advmethods.

My P3 which downloaded its 381 point wu on September the 16th has only 14 hours to go!
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GO GO GO!!!! :D


I managed almost 1300PPD on average over the last 7 days, 700PPD being due to my GPU, a further 270PPD from the stream of 600 pointers on the other half of my [email protected] - that leaves just over 300PPD from 3 Socket-A systems on 24/7 and a couple of other part-timers :o
If it wasn't for most of the other machines actually having a valid reason to be on I would be tempted to turn them o**, though these horrid WUs are just as important to the science as any other so I guess I'll just carry on regardless :p

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StevenG said:
i was getting my gpu up and running :) thanks! now back down to 2
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Yup you pointed that out in the single machine thread also - I wouldn't worry about seeing 3 active clients but I think that's got to be the allowable maximum to qualify for the time-being
If people start going crazy with quad-core/dual GPU I'm not sure what use that would be for the news post anyway - most likely just alienate those with more typical setups :o
 
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Berserker said:
Oh, and Rich, I was talking about resigning F@h, not the beta stuff.
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That's not good :(
Though I can see why you would what with the GPU and, to a lesser extent, the SMP clients effectively de-valuing the traditional CPU effort.

Perhaps Stanford should have stuck with their initial scoring for the GPU client, it's only really the combination of Core2Duo and extremely nice 364 pointers which made the 440PPD GPU benchmark look like a slap in the face :o With the current work I'm sure the offer of 440PPD (or more like 500PPD with some overclocking) would have looked quite good.

However from Stanford's point of view the GPU is doing work in 1/20th to 1/40th of the time and the SMP clients can complete work in 1/2 or 1/4 of the time which makes a huge difference to the science when the creation of new WUs depends on the results of the previous generation.

I guess only time will tell if Stanford's points policy with the new clients does more harm than good in terms of keeping enough of the right kind of clients, they've lost me as a CPU client beta tester for now but since there seems to be no CPU client beta work out there for testing I don't suppose that matters much.


edit: Anything on the BURP front at the moment? - That's a project I actually found pretty interesting, probably due to actually being able to see a finished result :D

edit2: Mr B I noticed earlier in the week you had 3 consecutive days of production in the range of 1600-1700 points - I take it this was just a build up of horrid ~390 pointers and not related to loverly SMP client production then? :(
 
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Concorde Rules said:
*ahem*

Concorde regains his number 1 spot above the slackers. Shameful tbh, because the GPU hasn't been folding for 40-48 hours this week :D
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*ahem-aherrrr*

rich99million said:
the judge's decision is final ;) :D
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so nerrrrrr :p

We all know you have a mighty machine, how hard is it to manage one week with a maximum of 3 active clients being displayed? :D
 
Joe42 said:
Didn't you get an x1950 pro? How does it fold, is it almost as fast as the xts and xtxs?
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no not yet - if I do it would have to be an AGP version and they are still on pre-order, plus the price is a bit silly at the moment but I'm sure that will come down once the initial rush is over

Since GPU folding performance is mainly down to how many pixel shaders the card has the 1950 Pro with 36 shaders shouldn't be too far behind the XT/XTX's with their 48 shaders. Of course GPU clock speed also has quite an effect so they may lose a bit there too - hopefully there'll be enough power left to make it pretty good crunchy value for money :)
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Overclock! Overclock for medical science! :D

I too reckon that the 36-pipe model should do fairly well especially considering its reduced price when compared to its 48-shader big brothers.
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Well I have heard results for the AGP X1650 Pro which has only 12 pixel shaders and takes about 36 hours per WU - that's not bad seeing as the X1900XT has 4 times as many shaders and is only 3 times as fast.

KE1HA's got his hands on a new card too ;) :D
 
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