Posted on 01/08/2006 7:41:43 AM PST by texas booster
OK, new thread for the next week.
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 384 processors and 192 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with nearly a dozen folders now from GetLoaded.com all popping onto the hit list this week.
Special mention to Klutz Dohanger, who has quietly volunteered 80 systems to fold. That is 20% of all of the Free Republic Folders systems actively engaged in research. He is on a pace to pop 100,000 points personally before the end of January.
Malsua, uriah, Ken in Texas and Andrewksu are solidly in the top 10. Malsua is continuing to add (fast) systems and is now the number two folder on the team. Andrewksu will be the next member to hit 10,000 points. Great job!
Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page
On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 624. We are poised to overtake (today):
Flowers of Happiness (awww, ain’t that sweet)
SpongeZone
Team Redneck Beatdown
Go Navy!
French-Krew
and the Rochester Institute of Technology
As we continue to grow there are a number of milestones coming around the bend:
Top 600 by Monday
Top 500 within eight days
Top 400 within three weeks
We have 430,000 points so far. We will reach:
500,000 points by Thursday
750,000 points by Jan 24
1,000,000 points in early February
Thanks again to all that are helping us advance science and promote the peaceful use of computers.
Extreme Overclockers Stats for Free Republic
Ummmmm, ummmmm, on second thought - I'll stay in the middle of the pack. It's nice and warm in there. If I win the lottery, I'll take you up on the 10 cpu's, it's the only way I could afford the electric bill to run them all. :-)
We'll be in the Top 500 by tomorrow.
Maybe it's time for a new thread :)
We're #36 overall in terms of number of active users
http://fahstats.com/index.php?col=1
We are averaging 28,000 points per day, they are averaging 6,000 points per day.
Our production growth rate is 460 points/day^2, DU's is 150 points/day^2.
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Let's make this even simpler: DUmmies! If the FReeper's Ferrari is going 280 mph and accelerating 46 mph/hr and the DUmmies' Yugo is going 60 mph and accelerating 15 mph/hr, how long will it take the DUmmies to catch the FReepers?
Answer: Never. Just because you are passing other cars that are parked, does not mean you are catching the faster car that is accelerating at a higher rate.
[DUmmies: Now go take a bong hit..you've had a rough day..FReepers mocking you and all.]
We should break into the top 500 in less then 24 hours!
There are 10 kinds of DUers, those that understand binary and those that don't.
Ahh... but the cheerleading and hip hah hooray over there, is very cheery and all. Don't dimish that, by making them look at real numbers. You Cad !!!
How can you stand going there? My browser hits that site and I feel like I need to curl up in the shower and bawl for a few hours to get the filth off.
On some levels, I'm glad they see the value in folding. Since logic and reason are so foreign to them, it's such a departure from the standard howling, screaming, hysteria mode, it's somewhat suprising. After all, these folks start touching themselves when they read the word impeachment
I put saran wrap over my mouse... that way, I don't get any on my hands... :)
As I've pointed out in the past, these people read polls for a living, but ignore the obvious... :)
As SC pointed out earlier, if we shut down EVERY ONE of our CPU's tonight, it would still be about 3 months before they could even think of passing us, and I, for one, have no intention of shutting down any...anytime soon, and if I can ever get off my lazy ass, I'll toss on a few hundred more, for good measure.
I don't know what "general stats" this mscajun is ignoring, but she's obviously not a math major, or even near 6th grade level in reading charts and graphs....
So yeah, a daily visit or two, with proper sanitary safeguards, is good for a laugh...
Me either. Funny thing is, 2/3rds of my machines will probably keep churning out points till they are tossed into a dumpster even if I keel over tomorrow. I was part of the RC5-64 project, I put any number of company machines into the project. I left that company in 99. I was still generating points, a GREAT number of points when they shut down the project in July 2003. Those machines are prolly still trying to call home, hehe.
I can keep adding machines, late models, but I don't see the need just yet. While I couldn't hit your quantity, I would get close. Not going to visit there just yet, primarily because of heat. These are machines in a nasty environment that could thermal themselves to death. That said, if I have to tag the nitrous button, there's plenty of reserve.
Yeah... I've had to shut down 4 from folding, because they're just in extrememly NASTY locations. I mean, you can wipe up handfuls of dust daily, off these things, and come back tommorrow, and there's twice as much. One of them is sitting in a room, that probably never gets below 90 degrees, so you know that poor thing is cooking.
Luckily, I've got it's replacement ready to go, just been procrastinating on moving all the data over, and configuring it... this is sorta like putting a brick on the accelerator pedal, of an old clunker you want to see how long will run without any oil...
But good to know, that if we need to step on the accelerator, there's plenty of juice in reserve...
Top 500---beautiful.
Exactly. Dust in my arena of operation is significant due mostly to the fact we deal alot of cardboard. I've got some really old CPUs like P120s and such that when you open the case, you can literally take out handfulls of dust. Fortunately, those pieces of crap just keep on going. heh. The latest P4 2.5Ghz+ machines exist in the same environment. While they may be new now, they're going to probably be running 24/7 for the next 5+ years and with the CPU running 100%, it's going to cause failures that I'd prefer not to deal with. They're probably going to fail anyway.
We have some Xerox 4635 printers(135PPM) that have Sun Sparc rip stations. Just today, the Xerox tech had to open up the case and replace a card in one. He spent about an hour complaining about the dust inside. hehe. We had even taped furnace filter material on the front of each rip to help. My "floor" is an evil place so I've tried to limit my donating machines to those in offices and such where the dust isn't such an issue. Still though, I've got a whole pile of cycles running spare yet, just prefer not to aggrivate the problem.
Boy I wish I was at my old, old job. I was the IT nerd for 250 desktops. And I was a computer god unto them. If I said we needed to paint all the 'puters orange with blue stripes...everyone nodded their heads and said OK. I coulda been a contender. Sure they were all '98s but what the hey.
Congrats. Here's folding to ya! :-)
"Oh, Charlie, oh, Charlie...you don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody, instead of a bum--which is what I am."
Marlon Brando, "On The Waterfront"
HOLY CRAP! LOL.
i've never seen a WU that busy before, rofl.
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