Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 7th April 2006

[rich99million]

Folding@Home Team News - w/e 7th April 2006


Current Team Position: 53rd
Current Team Score: 13,363,390
Crunched This Week: 178,609
Change from Last Week: -27,164


Next on the stomping horizon

49 Hewlett Packard - 99 days (+36)
47 AOA Forums - 71 days (+8)
50 Free-DC - 59 days (+12)
52 Team MacNN - 21 days (-1)

Teams stomped this week

none

Ones to keep an eye on

73 TSC! Russia - 92 days (-23)
57 Overclock.net - 141 days
55 ADSLgr - Greek aDSL Users - 158 days


This Week's Top Dumpers

DarkendViper - 22098
Bigstan - 7285
Walter_Anderson - 7041
hornytoe - 6793
polandro - 6428
DreederOcUK - 6318
BigDom - 5528
_Berserker_ - 5202
Prescott28 - 4719
vent - 4569
MajorPart - 4562
Steevo38_(OcUK) - 4303
lightning512 - 3997
Whitestar (LigerZero) - 3952
dr.who - 3928
kinnison - 3845
duggyruss - 3574
A_N_Other - 3461
Concorde_Rules - 3281
Trick - 3122
rich99million - 2725
froggy - 2608
ShaunBrewer - 2153
piggott - 2150
aXeR - 2132
Hominid - 2005
Ken - 1871
diogenese - 1817
Corran - 1607
Huddy - 1528
Mattus - 1503
Staffy - 1475
Joe42 - 1383
aceface57 - 1378
Kyzia - 1338
The_Alabama_Slamma - 1278
GT3 - 1266
lee87 - 1250
BlackAndWhite - 1247
Sammael(OcUK) - 1226
beatvar - 1207
MrWhippy - 1149
the_running_man21 - 1092
Plasmoid - 1082
pmbuzz - 1034
spacelobsters - 1010
BigChris - 996
Pilgrim57 - 966


This Week's Top Stompers

hindu - 94
lightning512 - 67
GT3 - 62
nellystew - 52
Administrator - 44
Jordan - 41
BigDom - 39
Bennah - 35
lee87 - 32
Twem - 29
Chippie - 22
wdhudson - 22
SquAmy - 20
Corran - 19
MrWhippy - 16
DreederOcUK - 15
A_N_Other - 14
LordShadow - 12
martin7330 - 11
SB - 9
MajorPart - 8
Tumbler^ - 8
xyphic - 8
F10yd - 7
piggott - 7
aceface57 - 6
jidh007 - 6
leezer3 - 6
Huddy - 5
MaTt - 5
spacelobsters - 5
Andy_113 - 4
MartinH - 4
Pilgrim57 - 4
Plasmoid - 4
The_Alabama_Slamma - 4
the_running_man21 - 4
BeaumonT - 3
cococlownboy - 3
Joe42 - 3
Prescott28 - 3
cheets64 - 2
Dunky - 2
Fatiain - 2
Hominid - 2
vent - 2


This Week's Tiffy-Kat Winners

DarkendViper - 1,450,000
hornytoe - 350,000
duggyruss - 225,000
diogenese - 180,000
polandro - 140,000
vent - 80,000
Prescott28 - 50,000
beatvar - 50,000
DreederOcUK - 25,000
A_N_Other - 20,000
aceface57 - 20,000
Plasmoid - 20,000
Fatiain - 20,000
BigDom - 10,000
Pilgrim57 - 10,000
TinkerBell - 7,500
lightning512 - 5,000
lee87 - 2,500
MrWhippy - 2,500
SB - 2,500
BeaumonT - 2,500
GT3 - 1,000
Administrator - 1,000
nellystew - 1,000
wdhudson - 1,000
martin7330 - 1,000
jidh007 - 1,000


This Week's New Members

hindu

Just the one? Oh well all the more welcome-cake for you then!
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

Oh dear - lots of red - I knew I shouldn't have played that ga*e the other night!
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 17:40 March 31st and 18:30 April 7th

Previous Weeks' News:
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:
Concorde_Rules, divine_madness, GT3, Napalm, nellystew, OcUKIsotope, pmbuzz, Rincin, RobOC, slamma06, sr4470, TinkerBell ...

 

[rich99million]

congrats on the tiffies guys


A.N.Other - sorry to hear that, how bad is it? Don't suppose it's anything a couple of spares will fix?

 

[rich99million]

There is some pretty hefty work available for beta testing at the moment, probably better suited to A64 and above as my XP is choking on them a little.

Please don't join the beta group just for the extra points though - they need people who will be able to report back with any problems as soon as possible and who know enough about computers to be able to rule out any effects from anything else running on their systems.

If you wish to join you'll need to have an account for the folding forums and post in this thread and...

Please include a short statement of your qualifications and why you would like to be added. If you fail to do this, you will not be eligible to join the beta team.

Once again - please do not join just for the chance of extra points, you must be willing and able to contribute to the testing of new work - also the points are not always good for beta work, sometimes for instance work is released with much lower points than it should really have - these are not always fully re-credited, you are also more likely to get EUEs which can result in partial credit worth much less than the share of the WU that was completed


Anyway just thought it was worth making you aware that there is more to folding than a repetitive stream af dull 56 pointers
Who's up for some?

 

[rich99million]

Yes very true Billy - I only have beta work on my main machine for that very reason

You really do need to at least have direct access to any machines that are running beta - it would probably be alright to run beta work on a few machines as long as you monitor them quite closely

 

[rich99million]

I bring an X2 and some junky rigs

that'll do nicely


welcome back!

 

[rich99million]

There are some mighty high averages there, it would be interesting to have a breakdown of the WUs done to achieve these high averages.

you can see exactly what Ken has had if you look on his Personal Page then clicking on the "Detailed listing for projects xxx-xxx" - at a glance it looks like there were quite a few 600 pointers in that lot which would make sense as they aren't exclusively -advmethods

it would be nice if they could put the points for each project on the same page - don't think that'll happen anytime soon though

 

[rich99million]

I used to get ~200 a day with my old A64 3000...

yup - the difference is the availability of large WUs with bonus points

140ppd without bonus points is very good going
once the QMDs return there should be less problem getting decent WUs - until then it's just treacle time

 

[rich99million]

So what you're saying is that beta testers get the secret decoder ring via carrier pidgeon that they then use to decode Vijay Pande's brainwaves that then gives them an uber-secret command-line flag that asks for beta WUs? I get it now.

who's been leaking the secret of the uber-secret command-line flag?

yes it's just a flag - no magic or server witchcraft I'm afraid, thus you have total control over which of your machines get beta WUs and which don't - you could even decide which core of your X2 gets beta and which doesn't

as Mattus said we won't be giving it away - it's easy enough to register for the beta team, it's not a closed secret club, they just want people who are capable of helping report problems if/when they arise

so if you want beta work go register for the forums and post in that thread with a little bit about how you can help

 

[rich99million]

On a different note looks like we have a good folding day yesterday

ahh yes indeed - hope we can keep that up for the rest of the week, putting lots of red in the news makes mrs99million sad

my monster 1112-pointer will be finishing tomorrow morning too - hope that'll chuck me back up in the top 20 again or I'll have to do something drastic and quite costly

 

[rich99million]

"I want to buy these new computers," said Rich as his plastic credit card quivers between his ruddy hands.

lol - i was on the verge of it a little while ago Master O'Billy-Wan
Trouble is I just spent £50 on a 9800Pro which kinda sealed the decision to stick with Skt-A a while longer

of course I could always go for a Skt939 board with AGP, or even one of the Asrock's which sport both


noooooo - the power of the credit side is stroooong!!!

 

[rich99million]

no probs mister buzz - will add you now


lol Billy - i don't need any encouragement
If i did go for a new machine that's not a problem - though I definately would have to lose at least one older cruncher for the sake of the leccy bills

 

[rich99million]

nice work stan!!!