FR Folding@Home Project Update - We're in the Top 145 teams (A Tribute to Ronald Reagan)

soccer_maniac ^ | 4-3-06 | soccer_maniac

[soccer_maniac]

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

Our FreeRepublic team of 300+ members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing have banded together to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via distributed computing, millions of computers around the world, contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).

Currently, the team is in 144th place (with 1,045 CPUs - 24,200 completed Work Units and nearly 4,000,000 points)

This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 8 folding threads)

[Bobibutu]

Bump

[Chanticleer]

LOL -- I have one Toshiba laptop and high hopes!

[Straight Vermonter]

We won't pass any teams today but we will pass 3 teams tomorrow. We pass 3 more the next day and then 3 more in the next 2 days. Then 3 more teams the next day.

It's nice when we hit these "clusters".

[soccer_maniac]

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

Rank Overall	Change 24hr	Change 7days	Points 24hr Avg	Points Last 24hr	Points Last 7days	Points Update	Points Today	Points Week	Points Total	WUs Total
142	+2	+9	45,188	49,002	316,319	5,298	10,733	99,360	3,995,712	24,338

Top 5 Conquests and Threats!

Team Name	Rank Diff	Points Diff	Gain Daily	Date Overtake
Vietnam Overclockers Zone Folding Team	1	-47,055	43,849	04.05.06, 8am / 1.1 Days
Team Overclockers Chile	2	-47,615	40,482	04.05.06, 11am / 1.2 Days
MODTHEBOX	4	-69,729	42,815	04.05.06, 10pm / 1.6 Days
AV123	5	-70,361	39,380	04.06.06, 1am / 1.8 Days
AMD Zone	3	-66,813	35,562	04.06.06, 4am / 1.9 Days

Last 7 Months Production
Month	Points	WUs
04.06	138,026	679
03.06	1,421,809	7,469
02.06	1,292,680	7,378
01.06	894,120	6,690
12.05	154,578	1,449
11.05	12,451	128
10.05	0	0
09.05	0	0

Last 7 Weeks Production
Week	Points	WUs
04.02.06	99,360	511
03.26.06	316,786	1,481
03.19.06	319,397	1,940
03.12.06	335,559	1,723
03.05.06	308,210	1,600
02.26.06	359,378	1,691
02.19.06	367,590	1,850
02.12.06	297,280	1,788

Last 7 Days Production
Day	Points	WUs
04.04.06	10,733	46
04.03.06	47,200	285
04.02.06	41,427	180
04.01.06	38,666	168
03.31.06	44,182	191
03.30.06	54,244	224
03.29.06	46,506	200
03.28.06	43,198	212

Last 24 Hours Production
Time	Points	WUs
04.04, 6am	5,298	24
04.04, 3am	5,435	22
04.04, 12am	3,507	17
04.03, 9pm	3,839	28
04.03, 6pm	6,462	26
04.03, 3pm	8,906	44
04.03, 12pm	9,674	45
04.03, 9am	5,881	87

Users are color coded based on 24 hour average production.
Color codes are as follows: 0 / 1+ / 100+ / 200+ / 400+ / 800+ / 1.2k+ / 1.6k+

Top 20 Producers
Rank Team	User Name	Points 24hr Avg	Points Total
	Klutz_dohanger	10,803	1,146,408
	lrenh	4,078	206,464
	Malsua	3,096	239,675
	andyk	1,723	24,906
	davemaher	1,477	62,426
	Texas_Booster	1,293	92,855
	Chris_Primavera	848	18,845
	Advil000	663	38,323
	FreeAtlanta	616	18,149
	dfwddr	600	32,175
	walkerk	544	41,423
	farsighted	512	28,129
	Andrewksu	447	56,725
	zeugma	429	27,939
	Kingu	386	49,155
	Derllak	373	29,489
	LSimpson	370	55,022
	VeniVidiVici	369	62,336
	Uriah	350	27,829
	Egon	346	27,679

Team User Info
New	3 (-7 )
Active
Inactive
Total	315 (+3 )
Avg PPD	270.6
Production Group Totals
1.6k+
1.2k+
800+
400+
200+
100+
1+

Milestone Group	Active Users	New 7days
1,000,000	1

Milestone Group	Active Users	New 7days
200,000	2	+1

Milestone Group	Active Users	New 7days
90,000	1	+1
60,000	2	+2
50,000	2
40,000	4	+2
30,000	6	+1
20,000	15	+4
10,000	31	+6

Milestone Group	Active Users	New 7days
9,000	13	+12
8,000	10	+9
7,000	9	+3
6,000	7	+3
5,000	11	+6
4,000	5	+4
3,000	17	+8
2,000	13	+6
1,000	7	+3

[soccer_maniac]

The fight for second place is becoming interesting.

[Egon]

A little shameless self-promotion here:

If you'd like to be able to track multiple folding PCs via the web, and be able to tell when individual PCs stop folding for one reason or another, I've devised a system to do this.

I won't post the link here for obvious reasons, but Freepmail me if you're interested.

[colinhester]

I'd been holding steady at 40 for a few weeks, but just got passed by 3 power crunchers. Way to go!!!! This has been much more enjoyable than SETI. Thanks to all......Colin

[hiredhand]

I've only got ONE machine here at home worth a hoot. It's reasonably "beefy". The other three are anything from AMD-K6 400MHZ to P-III 800MHZ. It's all in a "heap" on a rollable rack and has been christened the "WSMs"....Wind Sucking Machines.

I'm still thinking about those Sun Enterprise class machines over at work though...heh..heh... talking about an "UNFAIR" advantage! I'll find out tomorrow or Friday if they'll run the client in Linux. :-)

[FourtySeven]

Yay!

[BreitbartSentMe]

OK, soccer_maniac - I'm sitting at 365 points so far for today, and I have a 404 pt WU scheduled to finish real soon, so I should push over 760 points in this 24 hour period and suddenly appear high up on your list you just posted... Be sure to post it here when I do, since I'll drop like a stone and have another day with 0 points tomorrow. (my chart looks like a pogo stick for the last couple of weeks!)

[Malsua]

The fight for second place is becoming interesting.

Oh sure. Make me go add more machines ;)

[dfwddr]

Well, I lost two machines in Sundays storms (middle TN). I've got one almost ready to come back online, but the other one may be toast. It was my slowest machine, so I may not rebuild it right away. The Budget Director in the kitchen is failing to see the logic in building another AMD X2 machine, but I'm going to refine my presentation and keep trying. Meanwhile, alas, my ascent is to be slowed somewhat.

[FreeAtlanta]

bump

[Egon]

The Budget Director in the kitchen is failing to see the logic in building another AMD X2 machine...

That's funny! I refer to mine as the Budget Committee. Great minds and all that...

[RebelTex]

Hi Egon - thanks for the Linux PHP script. Still have'nt figured out how to run it, so I've given up for now - maybe try again when I have more time.

I did find out that I have several different installs of PHP, but I don't have the libcurl installed. I posted some questions to the Mepis (my version of Linux) website & they were pretty helpful in learning more about Mepis and the packages installed. Here's a link, if you're interested:
http://www.mepis.org/node/9511

Anyway, thanks for your efforts. I like seeing how some of our other team members are doing and how many CPUs they have.

RT

[Bobibutu]

Same over here - rain Bay Area CA - lost my buddies systems (he's in Poland) limped back online for a while today - then more rain.

My brave little 667 PowerBook finally completed 11 days of crunching only to get another 11 day assignment.

I actually made the top 20 for a day before everything went south.

Well - back to folding - when things settle down I'm going to do egon's thing!

[Egon]

Hi Egon - thanks for the Linux PHP script. Still have'nt figured out how to run it, so I've given up for now - maybe try again when I have more time.

Sorry I can't be of more help. Still a beginner at this Linux stuff. I'll be watching that thread to see what they come up with, and incorporate it into the help page wherever possible.

I know that the PHP interpreter we're using is able to be invoked just by running the script at the command line. I suspect that the magic is in the first line of the script, which tells the shell where to find the interpreter for the script.

Once you're able to successfully run the script from the command-line, that's where cron comes in. You'll basically create a crontab that will automatically kick off the script on a regular schedule. I've almost got enough information to write that section of the help file now.

As the installation of PHP seems to vary between the flavors of Linux and the installers available (sounds like you're using Synaptec, whereas I use Aptitude) and the availability of different PHP interpreters, I'm not sure I can successfully integrate that into help.

I've figured out that curl and libcurl components are the mechanisms by which the information is actually transmitted via HTTP.

Someone in that thread mentioned the option of creating a shell script to accomplish the same functionality. Not sure that would work. While a shell script could possibly grep the information out of the unitinfo.txt file, I don't think it has the sophistication to wrap the info in XML, let alone send it via HTTP.

[Straight Vermonter]

Fedex just got here with my new PC! With a processor >5x faster than my old one I should finally be able to pull my weight around here.

[abner]

Just a bumping by....

[NY.SS-Bar9]

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