"Our growth rate has turned negative".
I’ve noticed that it seems to drop during weekends. Also possibly coming into play are the large number of Double Gromacs Cores being distributed for those of us running Big WU’s. I currently have 4 nodes all crunching Double-G’s. Two are P4 3.0Ghz and two P4 2.2Ghz. The 2.2Ghz are diskless nodes I just brought online Saturday. Each Double-G is 650-730 pts! I just had a big jump in points when 2 double-g’s finished along with 2 smaller WU’s within the last 6 hrs. I won’t have any WU’s completing for…oh …perhaps another 24-30 hours. Then I’ll have a big jump of over 2500 points in short order!
BTW, for any geeks (yes, you would have to be one to do this kind of thing :) ) with an extra Motherboard or two laying around capable of booting from Lan, here is a super easy way to set up diskless folding nodes using XP. I picked up two used MB on eBay along w/ CPU and 1Meg DIMM for each for about $200 total. All you need is a MB, Power supply, Switch/Hub, and CAT cable. Then follow these simple and short directions. No linux experience needed. I recently stumbled across this googling for help while trying to do the same thing with linux to no avail. But I had this method up and running within an hour.
http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/diskless.html
Do not panic! ;-) My first WU should finish in a few hours.
My putt putt puter' will carry the hour. We will step from the battle field...victorious. ;-)
Most of the slump can be explained by those newly borged IRS computers taking the weekend off.