Posted on 01/08/2006 7:41:43 AM PST by texas booster
For example go to:
Review the second graph. Similar for some others.
Interesting. Some drop off to zero. I wonder why?
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.
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.
Seems like for every 600 pointer, one has to do penance with some 41, 44, 48 & 51 pointers.
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.
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...and now another 48 pointer...
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PS. Thanks for posting the pics of your "trailing edge" hardware collection. Helped partly convince someone that I'm not necessarily the "only one".
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I'll bet that's what I find tomorrow when I check my laptop. At least they're processed quickly!
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.
click here to see how many points you will get
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html
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).
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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.
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.
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