(Vanity) Folding@Home FReepers - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

self ^ | 01/08/2005 | self

[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

[Paladin2]

A quick review of the highest point contributors shows a declining output - this is the most likely cause of the recent minor decline.

For example go to:

K-Z extra info

Review the second graph. Similar for some others.

[Clara Lou]

Interesting. Some drop off to zero. I wonder why?

[ken in texas]

I have noticed that I'm not getting 600 point units any more... they're all in the 40 - 150 range. Perhaps Stanford only had a specific number of high-point work units available -- now we're down to running the 'normal' stuff. I don't know.

[Paladin2]

There's likely all sorts of factors.

If you look at the active vs. total members of teams in the 600 to 700s rankings, many have but a few die-hards that are still active. The teams are like a super-NOVA where after the initial burst, there is a low residual level of output.

In our case [~200 active members], if all team members were to keep going with one computer each putting out 50 points a week, we'd have 10,000 points per week, which would put us at a sustainable ranking of under a hundred [if we amassed 5 million points initially].

In my case, I am currently running all the hardware I can assemble here in my personal, at home, "computer lab" [my name] [Mrs. P2's name = "this room looks like a junkyard"]. This results in approximately 100x my "normal" CPU cycles worth of points a day. At some point in the next few weeks I will begin to throttle back [~$30 extra/mo in electricity] in the "lab" and see if I can convince the IT folks at work to let us run FAH on the computers at work which do have plenty of truly "unused" CPU cycles.

'Till then it's great fun to watch the team smoke up the rankings.

[Paladin2]

Seems like for every 600 pointer, one has to do penance with some 41, 44, 48 & 51 pointers.

[papasmurf]

I believe they send the wu's they need to have done sooner-to the machines that a history of consistent completion.

My lappy #1 has been folding 3 times faster than any of my other 7 machines I have on, yet I have rec'd a 41, 46, 41, 41 in the last 4 draws.

I'm hopin' for another 600 pointer...but I understand that that the research is what guides them.


:O)

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[papasmurf]

...and now another 48 pointer...

:O)

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[Paladin2]

I received my most recent 600 pointer Thursday night. Since then, they've all been below 200.

PS. Thanks for posting the pics of your "trailing edge" hardware collection. Helped partly convince someone that I'm not necessarily the "only one".

[DocRock]

Bookmark

[Clara Lou]

I'll bet that's what I find tomorrow when I check my laptop. At least they're processed quickly!

[BreitbartSentMe]

So, how do you find out how many points the job you're working on is worth? I can see in th display how many frames it is, but nothing about the points.

[Drango]

click here to see how many points you will get
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html

[papasmurf]

I think my 8th cpu will finally show up now. I just went into the garage and checked the 3 boxes I have running there. 1 of them, was stuck on finished and attempting to connect...which is where it was last night when I last checked. ( it's on a separate subnet, so I can't monitor it from here)The NIC indicator lights showed power, no connection. Rebooted it and it connected again. I think I'll shut it down and put a new nic in it. (it had a built in nic).


:O)

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[Paladin2]

A quick review of the project summary page at Stanford shows that there are only three projects left in the 1140 -1150 range (all of the 600 pointers). Seems like it could be that there are fewer left to hand out.

Remember that those projects were awarded ~2x the normal # of points to get people to take them (long time to complete and relatively large HD and RAM requirements).

Fat times in the laundry room are coming to an end.

[kingu]

Here at work, there's one 741 pointer that will take six days, a 241 pointer that is taking 4 days, a 270 pointer that is taking 4 days, and a 55 pointer that is taking a day.

So over time, it's working out to be 50 points or so a day per machine (4 of them.) They won't all show up at the same time, but that's 200 points of my production a day.

The other three machines, a laptop, and a couple desktops, crunch when idle - the two desktops pop out about a hundred points a day, and the laptop can do about the same. So my average should show up at about 500 points a day in a week or so.

[kingu]

I use FAHMon to keep track of how many points a work unit is worth. Sometimes on the beta test units or on units just added to the queue, the point value doesn't show up for a day or so, but it has been generally accurate. And it gives an idea how long the work unit will take to finish.

I love it here at work - since three of the computers I'm using don't have traditional displays, I shared the folding folders over the local network and have one machine check the status on four computers. At a glance, I know how most of them are doing.

[ChadGore]

[Drango]

Humbled by the power users here, and deep in shame about my lack of CPU vitality I have found an old, semi-dead, '98 box that was hidden in my garage. Yes, it was hidden under old laundry. I'm busy configuring it as we speak and with luck I will be able to resurrect it. I will NOT be out folded!

[Drango]

What my garage (and office) sorta looks like...

[Clara Lou]

LOL!! Are those running? I have one or two of those around--my son's leftovers. I think I'm going to make myself be satisfied with just two processors, though.