SPEAKING of rearview mirrors...
These guys are really ramping production. At their current pace, they'll catch us in 2 years, but looking at the numbers they're posting, I don't expect that they'll be content to maintain their current pace.
http://www.outcastfolding.com/
Here are their recent numbers (while you're perusing this data, try to keep in mind that there are only 60 members on their team):
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=40530
Looking closer at the numbers, they seem to have 18 regular folders. Yep, just 18 that contribute regularly.
They have two folders that contribute more points than Klutz - one has over 400 systems. Another gets 25,000 ppd from 27 systems.
Another guy, ChelseaOilman, is one of the main contributors to the F@H Forums. He gets 4,000 ppd from 6 computers. Think Egons' SMP Macs for that kind of throughput. And he recently joined their team.
What makes little sense is why they collapse, dropping ppd for a month, and then shoot up again. They are on a pace to hit 2,000,000 points for January alone.
Hey, if they got the horsepower, let them use it. We will just need to hold bake sales to buy all Folding FReepers new SMP systems with X1900 video cards.
There are other teams??