FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're in the Top 120 teams with 5 Million points

Due to Stanford using an Intel compiler, these problems will run faster (2x reportedly) on Intel hardware with SSE2. Some AMD cpus have SSE2, but the Intel compiler doesn't take advantage of it.

Interesting, since GCC 4.x generally produces code that is competitive with the Intel compiler speed-wise, without the Intel bias. The Pathscale AMD64 compilers (popular with high-performance apps) can suck an amazing amount of floating point performance out of AMD hardware, but you have to pay for the privilege. Most of these problems appear to be better suited to AMD than Intel, based on a loose survey of typical parameterization. Same ISA, significantly different design choices.

You obviously no a lot more about compilers than I do, but there has been a good bit of discussion about this on the Folding forums which might interest you. Unfortunately I have not kept links to the discussions.

Stanford has a rational for using the Intel compiler. I seem to recall they claimed it produces faster code than the AMD compiler, which was the only other candidate even close in terms of speed.

They say that are working to resolve the problem.

More AMD & SSE2 Info (with links)

This states: "...for the time being the AMD CPUs will not get any QMD WUs"

EEKS! 90% of Klutz's machines are in the red. Are you ok out there Klutz?

Klutz's machines got together and formed a Union. The first thing they demanded was weekends off. There was nothing he could do....

Interesting snippet from DUmmieLand:

BTW: I'm not very competitive and I consider the F@H stats to be good for a chuckle (I suspect that you feel the same way). I really don't care much about who is higher than who, so long as all are contributing to the F@H cause. The jockeying in the middle tier is fun to be a part of. I find it amusing to wave (all fingers) at the faster-scoring people as they go rocketing by. Don't tell the Freepers this, but I'm also glad that they are contributing MFLOPS to the F@H cause, despite their retarded political stance, averagely lower IQ, surfeit of port-a-potties and distasteful reverence to the corpse of Ronald Reagan.

Great catch from DU. It is such a shame that those enlightened elites-who-should-rule-the-world can't make more of their own team join the F@H research.

This would make a great speech for all the athletes who trained for years to come in second ... "Hey, at least you tried, somebody has to come in second"!

We have 100 team members over 10K points.

despite their retarded political stance,...

It sounds like he doesn't like us. It probably really torques him off that we make more money and get more p**** as well.

ROFLMAO !!!!!!

We have 100 team members over 10K points.

We have an awesome team indeed! FR Top 110 listed below!

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

Date of last work unit	2006-05-08 06:18:15
Active CPUs within 50 days	1004
Team Id	36120
Grand Score	5636800 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	32188 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	115 of 43970
Home Page	http://www.freerepublic.com
Fast Teampage URL	http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Klutz_dohanger	1514475	8688
2	lrenh	369500	1992
3	Malsua	349341	1864
4	Texas_Booster	130102	736
5	davemaher	110427	530
6	LSimpson	81738	434
7	andyk	76947	354
8	Andrewksu	75194	497
9	VeniVidiVici	67546	364
10	Craigon69	64834	345
11	walkerk	64629	317
12	Advil000	58468	292
13	Kingu	58151	282
14	dfwddr	55167	349
15	Ken_in_Texas	51355	306
16	Egon	48543	428
17	Chris_Primavera	48335	238
18	farsighted	43525	184
19	rach_FR	41081	261
20	Derllak	39805	202
21	zeugma	38977	202
22	FRpapasmurf	38607	251
23	Uriah	37744	233
24	Senator_Bedfellow	37694	162
25	greenbo	36516	191
26	ValorDaus	35657	260
27	smith288	35136	195
28	stylin19a	34837	176
29	FreeAtlanta	34694	177
30	TheMightyQuinn	33160	144
31	HangThemHigh	31833	162
32	Drango1	31586	183
33	DocRock	30097	167
34	mouser	29012	168
35	Bush_Democrat	28027	175
36	TChad	27215	177
37	Chesterbelloc	26438	178
38	FrogMom	26415	158
39	Bobibutu	25419	147
40	Linda_Geiger	24352	116
41	mediamole	24068	197
42	houeto	23912	124
43	abner	23196	107
44	colinhester	22885	116
45	ezsmoke	22840	105
46	Compaq_Owner	22136	172
47	arderenne	19554	79
48	Thom_Pain	19536	116
49	JohninWAGL	19487	101
50	InfraRed	19290	123
51	Dads_AMD3000	18445	64
52	MathyKathy	18155	84
53	MarkeyD	18143	108
54	Swordmaker	17710	84
55	HangnJudge	17597	84
56	RedWing9	17293	108
57	fostendug	16562	99
58	A.Hun	16142	115
59	sshultz460	16061	86
60	SilentServiceCPO	15979	81
61	Brian_Allen	15936	88
62	sirtaurus	15833	137
63	Treb	15800	118
64	oblomov_1	15372	61
65	doc11355	15264	91
66	Mount_Athos	15151	68
67	Petronski	15117	95
68	Route66_FreeRepublic	15091	93
69	FReeper_Dundee	15076	99
70	hessian	14983	84
71	ahayes	14914	74
72	RebelTex	14791	123
73	Happy_Babymoon	14250	78
74	ewg	13554	82
75	j_tull	13456	72
76	Foldspace	13227	69
77	PCBMan	13117	69
78	Tonystransportation	13076	74
79	Freeper_KOZ.	12939	63
80	Hawkeyes_Girl	12718	85
81	patricia_bell	12680	74
82	LynnHam	12670	86
83	holly_go_rightly	12642	66
84	Compaq_Owner3	12490	105
85	bbarr	12482	66
86	_MontanaDal	12467	69
87	Professional_Engineer	12409	75
88	Jacy	12140	65
89	Ladypixel	12123	58
90	paengineer	12105	76
91	KJC1	11976	68
92	1066AD	11939	67
93	mombrown1	11885	63
94	evilC	11631	60
95	FRstentor	11144	62
96	Flyer_FR	11032	65
97	FourtySeven	10587	70
98	Tatze	10392	57
99	MnJohnnie	10263	53
100	Mike_Medved	10026	51
101	Jim	9929	69
102	spunkets	9621	58
103	BoT	9611	162
104	idiots_will_catch	9578	61
105	SC_Swamp_Fox	9542	64
106	Steve_Wilson_1	9468	62
107	Slothful1	9428	57
108	Mississippi_Freeper	9391	54
109	Rate_Determining_Step	9236	122
110	nsa2318	9213	48

...despite their retarded political stance, averagely lower IQ, surfeit of port-a-potties and distasteful reverence to the corpse of Ronald Reagan.

Heh heh. The monkey is having delusions of grandieur. Ahhhh, isn't that precious! Someone pat him on the head and give him a banana.

Sure wish I could figure out how y'all cut-n-paste those top 20 stat graphs!

Looking at those stats again, all I can say is "WOW"

1.) 10,000 points doesn't get you into the Top 100 on the FR team.

2.) We have 5 members over 100,000 points

3.) 50,000 points will not get you into the Top 15

4.) We have 33 members over 30,000 points

5.) We have 46 members over 20,000 points

6.) 10 additional members should reach 10,000 points within the next week or so

7.) Klutz is over 1.5 million points

Yeah, we have an awesome team!

Let's look at the DUmmie version of your post:

1.) 10,000 points doesn't get you into the Top 100 on the FR team.

10,000 points puts you in the top 50.

2.) We have 5 members over 100,000 points

Well, no one close, but give it a month or so...

3.) 50,000 points will not get you into the Top 15

50,000 points puts you in the TOP 5 !!!

4.) We have 33 members over 30,000 points

All of our top 10 is over 30,000 points

5.) We have 46 members over 20,000 points

We've got 16.

6.) 10 additional members should reach 10,000 points within the next week or so

So ??? We have 1 that will be there, hopefully...

7.) Klutz is over 1.5 million points

If you put all 224 of us together, WE BEAT KLUTZ !!!!!

(Apologies to PJ....)

The graphs in reply #112 have been updated. You may have to refresh the page to view the update.

We are now 4M points ahead of the DU team.

Thanks for extending your list down to 110, I was trying to be in the top 100 to reach 10K. I'll crack that milestone on Thursday, assuming I don't lose any of my current projects.

60,608 points! Wow. Just wow. (The point swings are driving me crazy.)

Yup, yesterday was one of the best days we've had in a long time!

60,608!!!