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Posted on 03/20/2006 8:50:19 PM PST by texas booster
OK, new thread for the next week, celebrating the first of many Million point producers – our very own Klutz_Dohanger!
First, a big shout out to the SETI and BOINC members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0.
Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 1011 processors and 305 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over 50 computers from GetLoaded.com, a trucking support website, all contributing while their owners ply our freeways keeping the nation moving.
We now have 57 members who have contributed at least 10,000 points each. Woo-Hoo!
Even more impressive, our team now boasts 225 members who have folded at least 1,000 points. That is more than the entire number of folders for our erstwhile left-wing environazi competitors!
Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page
On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 157. We will be in the Top 150 on Saturday!
As we continue to grow there are a number of milestones coming around the bend:
Top 150 by March 30
Top 100 by the end of the May
We have 3,350,000 points so far and have folded over 20,000 WU. We now fold over a million points per month, each and every month! Fantastic!
Thanks again to all that are helping us advance science and promote the peaceful use of computers.
Extreme Overclockers Stats for Free Republic
Read on and learn more how you to can be a big star in the Folding@Home sky. You start out small, and becomes amazingly addictive to watch your points grow.
All that and an opportunity to tweak the noses of DU!
Way to go, Klutz!
Woo-Hoo Klutz - Way to stick it to the DUmmies, getting to the 1 million mark first! You Rock - I mean, You Fold!!!
I'm glad to be a part of this. And my PC thanks you, too. She thinks it's more fun folding proteins while I sleep than doting on me surfing FR.
Who'da thunk a klutz could hit a million?
Congrats, Klutz - and thanks, keep on a foldin'.
And I'm just 33 points shy of 8,000 with a current WU worth only 41 - OH THE SHAME! I feel so sssllloooooowwww! LOL
(My folders are like me - ancient, haha. hmmm - maybe I should get one of them electronic gizmos, instead of this abacus.)
Hey, Klutz - people are talking about you, heheh.
;^D
Congrats and thanks to Klutz D.
Congrats!
Congrats!
BTTT
For a hoot, look at the DUmmies trend chart. That's about a Triple Diamond downslope.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=48157
1 Million?
Congrats!!!
Go Klutz! Beat DU!
Congratulations on reaching this milestone and thank you for your spirit of sharing.
w00t!
Congrats!
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Wow! 1 MILLION! Incredible.
Folden 'em over here, boss.
Way to go!
Weird, but it kind of makes me sad.
I think we've settled down to a daily average of 45,000-50,000. I'm not sure what caused the 25th and 28th anomaly, though, or the lows of the 18th and 19th. Thank goodness the 2107's seem to have stopped being handed out. My main computer has been churning out small Gromacs in the past few days, although this Mac is still stuck on 2107 and 2108. That will be >800 points when it wraps up, though.
I wish.
Now that I think about it, this could be DU's 2107 slump, although their active members are down as well. I expected when all teams' production was down at the beginning of the month that DU would slump a few days later than us because they would wrap up WU's slower and then be assigned 2107 and work on it for 1-2 weeks. If a number of them came in at the tail end of the first week of March they might have picked up 2107. I see in one of their threads someone is complaining about a huge WU that certainly sounds like that project (too bad they didn't say which one it was--maybe they don't care so much what the proteins actually are). If so they should pick up a bit in the beginning of April unless they have more than a couple members who are so discouraged they quit--or unless something even worse comes down the pipeline!
Oh no, you got 2107 in the past few days? I finished it on my main PC and then got a Tinker, and Amber, and a few small Gromacs. I know 2107 is useful, but it feels so much more productive to wrap up a WU every couple days.
Yeah. Definately weird ;).
DUmmies alarmed by their drop in production.
See their new thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=705247&mesg_id=705247
I've developed an alternative method to track progress on multiple machines with the following features:
This is really strange. Go to the Overclockers site and look at the top half dozen or so teams. All of them are in a dramatic decline. Even the default team is declining. FreeRepublic seems to be bucking the trend by staying more level, probably because we've added over a hundred computers in the last few weeks. :-D My theory is that Stanford isn't offering enough points for the massive jobs they've been handing out lately to give the same number of points per day as everyone was getting before.
I've basically decided not to worry about slumps in production unless the default team is going up.
I've got one you can have if you'd like...
Woo Hoo... Magic million sometime early tommorrow !!!!
Thanks all, for the congrats.
As for the weird spikes, and slumps, and all, I'm afraid that I've got to take some responsibility. With 350 CPU's, and some evil energy managers, I can tell you when we're going to spike, and when we're going to slump. No matter how hard I try, I can't convince them to let me run 24x7x365.
If I can leave all 350 on, 24x7, for about 7 days, my daily production is going to be around 25,000. Turning them off every night, and then being used during the day, gives me an average of around 13,000. Weekends, only my hard core, those directly under my control, continue to fold, and give me about 7K per day.
The heavy melts being handed out has seemed to exacerbate this situation, with some machines now taking up to 3 weeks to get through one, with the on/off+being used for real work cycle.
But, on the bright side, microsoft continues to screw up, so every other week, I get to turn them on, and leave them on, so my patch management software can catch up.
My production is going to start really sucking about mid-may, and won't come back until mid-august. But, in that 3 month hiatus, I hope to have several thousand machines infected with the "Folding virus"... ( just kidding, it really isn't, but you know what I mean --- it's infected me, not the cpu's )
In the meantime, despite my weird mood swings, the team continues to post impressive numbers, and is still gaining steadily on the top teams. There are only a few, that still outfold us, but we'll eventually get within range of them too.
Well, what I'd like to know, looking at the overclocking stats, is why our daily point totals are bouncing up and down alot more than other teams, especially this one:
TITS ----> ( . Y . ) <---- TITS
BTTT!
We were just the ones gawking..
I've got a 2107 and a 2108. The 2108 looks like it may be worse (449 pts for 2108 vs 404 for the 2107) but just got it and I don't have a time estimate yet.
I'm running 2107 and 2108 on the Mac right now and I think 2108 actually comes up a day shorter than the 2107's. It certainly feels like it's going faster. The 2107 will be done in about a day and a half while 2108 still has four days. I hope I get some small Gromacs next.
Hope the 2108 goes quick, it's lots of points. The 2106's seem the worst to me, they take nearly as long as the 2107's for half the points.
How do your determine the points that your current WU will yield?
You know, if you look long enough, you can find something good about anything.
And Congrats for the score.
I just finished folding a WU and was handed a 2108 as well. Oh well, slooooow and steady. :-)
Donator pbrown
Team Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan (36120)
Score 3785 (certificate)
Donator Rank 121949 of 540501
WU 27 (certificate)
Date of last
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Active processors
(within 50 days) 0
Active processors
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"I just finished folding a WU and was handed a 2108 as well. Oh well, slooooow and steady. :-)"
I feel your pain - just fininhed a 404 pointer and got a Tinker 241 that will take me 12 days! Sometimes this seem brutal - but as you say - slooow and steady.
Congrats Klutz. You da man and the Big Dog.
Being inspired by all of you I approached an aquaintance of mine who uses 7 computers in his biz. A couple new - most old. Short of the long - finally got them assimilated this evening. ( I learned a lot )
His only gripe - "OK now go talk to your team mates and find out how to get this stuff off of my desktop!"
So what is the cleanest way to gather up all the files and work folder and hide them without a problem for FAH? XP on the systems in question.
Anxiously waiting for the afterburners to kick in -
FreeAtlanta - we have been leap frogging each other while you are blowing everyones doors off - congrats to us for passing the 10K milestone - now I think we will rise together - gotta find more CPU's.
Too much fun - hey DU - what's your problem?
B
"Well, what I'd like to know, looking at the overclocking stats, is why our daily point totals are bouncing up and down alot more than other teams, especially this one:
TITS ----> ( . Y . ) <---- TITS"
Because - they bounce up and down - Mmmmm - gotta love 'em - took a girlfrend to a shooting range to pop one of my 45s - she opted for a 22 after 10 or so rounds - everyone was watching her body jiggle with the recoil and she got embaressed.
Ya know - we do have a fixation on those things - and why not? First nurturiting thing on the planet!
Currently, my well is dry and Chris_Primavera is breathing down our backs. Fortunately, I made top 50 before he passes me!
there goes Tokyo.
Log in as Admin. Download and run console. Run as service.
Log off. Let user log on.
Go to task mgr. - FAH should be using 99%CPU time. No need to have tray icon or console window open.
I finally got my first WU completed since January. I have been going over my computer again and again to try to figure out why I would get one 60-70% complete and then it would go back to 0%.
It seems my youngest son has a game called "Lego Rock Raiders" which was wiping out all of my work for some reason.
I should have another small wu done by midday.
Today I see one picks up p2108_dk_villin_ddsa_aybabtu_run0
See that? _aybabtu_ As in, All your base are belong to us.
Seems like someone at Stanford has a sense of Humor :)
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