Folding terminology ??
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Moonpie2 said:Hi dudes.
Being relitively new to this folding stuff can someone enlighten me on some words I've seen banded around ?
PARPS ?
STOMPING ?
DUMPING ?
I only workied out what Tiffy Kats were today
Hahaha
To PARP - means to prewarn another individual of an impending STOMP. Parping is when you are about to overtake another member of the Team
To STOMP - mean when you have issued a PARP, and you then subsequently DUMP a Work Unit (WU) which takes you past the person in points, then you have STOMPED them.
DUMPING - means when you finish a WU and you DUMP the points value back to Stamfords servers.
Hope that helps!
A PARP :-
Not too sure on a STOMP ?
And DUMPING is not good... Its when you delete a certain work unit (either a low point value one, or one that don't fold well on your hardware, to get a better ppd (Points Per Day)... Stanford view this as the lowest form of cheating!
Not too sure on a STOMP ?
And DUMPING is not good... Its when you delete a certain work unit (either a low point value one, or one that don't fold well on your hardware, to get a better ppd (Points Per Day)... Stanford view this as the lowest form of cheating!
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Not at all. Dumping is the process of returning work. It's not as important to FAH since you only have one WU at a time but back in the SETI Classic days folks could use caching software like SetiQueue to amass hundreds or thousands of WUs. You'd cache up the finished work and dump them all at once to surprise and confound your rivals. Great fun!ITR said:
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Yup the terminology used here is just what we used to use with SETI back in the day - WU dumping is of course not good for the project but "dumping/dumpers" as used here refers to how many points the work units that have been finished and returned are worth.BillytheImpaler said:
To be fair submitting a WU has always been known as Dumping on these fine forums. At least the 1+ years I have been coming here.
Dumping as the Stanford Forums define it is just wrong. They need to get their facts straight
To be honest though anyone who deletes WUs must have loads of time on their hands. From my own experience most deleted WUs are just redownloaded
Dumping as the Stanford Forums define it is just wrong. They need to get their facts straight
To be honest though anyone who deletes WUs must have loads of time on their hands. From my own experience most deleted WUs are just redownloaded
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As of this week onwards I've changed it to "Top Crunchers" anyway
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Dumping is the inevitable culmination of stashing.
ie hoarding completed wu's until such time as it is tactically advantageous to connect to a server and dump a pile of crunched results.
The BOINC and F@H clients and always on broadband mean that stashing is rarely practised anymore.
ie hoarding completed wu's until such time as it is tactically advantageous to connect to a server and dump a pile of crunched results.
The BOINC and F@H clients and always on broadband mean that stashing is rarely practised anymore.
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rich99million said:As of this week onwards I've changed it to "Top Crunchers" anyway
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With Boinc you can tell the client how many days you want to cache on the individual machine, you can also tell it how often you want it to connect to the internet or even tell it not to connect automatically, so given those two options you could stash XX days crunch them and then dump them when they are finished.
With enough machines setup like that you could dump a hell of a lot in one go
Only problem is you either have to calculate carefully when to go online to get the maximum effect or monitor the machines carefully to dump when they have finished.
FAH had fairly tight deadlines on the WU's especially with the SMP ones so storing them up to dump in one go becomes pointless (literally)
With enough machines setup like that you could dump a hell of a lot in one go
Only problem is you either have to calculate carefully when to go online to get the maximum effect or monitor the machines carefully to dump when they have finished.
FAH had fairly tight deadlines on the WU's especially with the SMP ones so storing them up to dump in one go becomes pointless (literally)
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I sort of did it with F@H when I knew I was going to be without broadband for a while as we were moving. I created eight instances of the standard client on each PC and downloaded a WU to each of them. I then ran each WU up to 99% before halting it and starting the next. I then had 24 WU to dump once the broadband was re-installed.Skree said: