Posted on 01/15/2006 9:32:31 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 456 processors and 209 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over a dozen folders now from GetLoaded.com all popping onto the hit list this week.
Special mention to Klutz Dohanger, who has quietly volunteered over 100 systems to fold. That is 20% of all of the Free Republic Folders systems actively engaged in research. Klutz is the first to earn 100,000 points.
We now have ten members who have contributed at least 10,000 points each. Malsua, Ken in Texas, Andrewksu, LSimpson and kingu have all reached this milestone, and Uriah will join them next week. Great job!
Even more impressive, our team now boasts 113 members who have folded at least 1,000 points. That is more than the entire number of CPUs folding for our erstwhile left-wing environazi competitors!
Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page
On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 487. We are poised to overtake (today):
MaximumCPU (these guys are serious overclockers)
BadgerBadgerBadger
ECU-SCIS-Cluster (82 CPU cluster in Australia)
BensCustomCases
Greenland HS in Winslow, AR Tech Labs
and the Univ of Stoney Brook Math Club, Stoney Brook NY
As we continue to grow there are a number of milestones coming around the bend:
Top 400 by next Friday
Top 300 by the end of the month
We have 610,000 points so far and have folded over 5,000 WU. We will reach:
750,000 points by Jan 24
1,000,000 points by mid February
Thanks again to all that are helping us advance science and promote the peaceful use of computers.
Extreme Overclockers Stats for Free Republic ^
I took a serious points hit the other day, our internet went down at work for over 9 hrs, and I had a bunch of machines waiting to send completed WU's.
And according to everything that I've read, there's nothing you can do, to "hurry up the process".
C'est la vie.
*sigh*
What is to be said of such people? Not much, maybe a compassionate word or two. Really the worst that can be said is that they are creatures of their age, a crude age that valorizes a few pleasures and nothing else.
One of my favorite passages in all of political philosophy is at the conclusion of Oakeshott's masterful, "On Being Conservative". I can nearly write it from memory:
For most there is what Conrad called the "shadow line" which, when we pass it, discloses a solid world of things, each with its fixed shape, each with its own point of balance, each with its price; a world of fact, not poetic image, in which what we have spent on one thing we cannot spend on another; a world inhabited by others besides ourselves who cannot be reduced to mere reflections of our own emotions. And coming to be at home in this commonplace world qualifies us (as no knowledge of "political science" can ever qualify us), if we are so inclined and have nothing better to think about, to engage in what the man of conservative disposition understands to be political activity.
In other words, there is no need to detest them, for there is always hope that they may grow up to become conservative.
As a old friend has been telling me for 20+ years, "Everybody is born a Democrat, then they grow up." It's always followed by a snort and chuckle, but sadly, some people can't grab the concept of there being a truly free society outside of their beliefs. I am as stubborn in my beliefs as they are, the difference being, I'm not going to shove my beliefs down their throats as they wish to shove their's down mine. I will however, use my Second Amendment rights to protect my beliefs, and my family. FMCDH !!!!!
| Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan |
| Date of last work unit | 2006-01-19 15:23:46 |
| Active CPUs within 50 days | 477 |
| Team Id | 36120 |
| Grand Score | 734608 (certificate) |
| Work Unit Count | 5903 (certificate) |
| Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) | 433 of 42279 |
| Home Page | http://www.freerepublic.com |
| Fast Teampage URL | http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html |
I'd start with a full-fledged virus and spyware scan. If that turns up clean, personal firewalls, antivirus, and antispyware utilities are notorious for being hidden resource hogs - might be a good place to start looking. Check your memory usage and see if you've got unnecessary stuff hanging out in the background. That kind of thing. But you've definitely got something wrong, whatever it is. Heck, you've got clunkers that were top of the line seven or eight years ago running rings around you at this point, and that just ain't right :)
I notice from the Extreme OC site that we appear to have 46 currently inactive users. Does someone want to sort out who all is MIA and figure out if they're having problems, if they've bailed, or otherwise see what the deal is?
Al I know is that the DUmmies have gained 233 teams in the last whatever and 97 teams in the last 24hr. whatever. They are gaining on us fast! We better get movin'. I knew I was right! They have INSIDERS!!
On a separate note, I am crunching my first 20,000 frame WU. Interesting. Thanks for the invite. This is fun.
LOL - they got some work ahead of them ;)
Yeah, I was mostly thinking of the folks who were crunching steadily and then disappeared the last few weeks or so. The "Klutza Dohangers" I can figure out no problem ;)
Eh, live and learn, right? ;)
Anyway, glad you got it nailed down - happy folding! :)
Time for Klutz to fire up a few more CPUs :)
Whoohoo, just got a little 2005 bonus today ! Darn those big nasty corporations who treat their employees bad </sarcasm>. I am going to surf eBay for some used mother boards and put together a little diskless folding farm/rack as I mentioned some past posts. Just 4 or so nodes for a start…I’ll try to keep them all p4’s. The one PIII I’m currently using takes too dang long for my impatient self. I see old ASUS and ABIT P4 MB’s on there going for 10-$30. Some even still have the CPU’s in them at that price. It may be a while, as it will be a learning experience, and I still need to acquire the goods. But I am in the for as long as my interest is peaked…the competition thing helps with that!
I thought about a similar project, let me know how you make out.
10,000 by the end of the weekend!
:O)
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