Posted on 03/20/2006 8:50:19 PM PST by texas booster
Way to go!
Weird, but it kind of makes me sad.
I think we've settled down to a daily average of 45,000-50,000. I'm not sure what caused the 25th and 28th anomaly, though, or the lows of the 18th and 19th. Thank goodness the 2107's seem to have stopped being handed out. My main computer has been churning out small Gromacs in the past few days, although this Mac is still stuck on 2107 and 2108. That will be >800 points when it wraps up, though.
I wish.
Now that I think about it, this could be DU's 2107 slump, although their active members are down as well. I expected when all teams' production was down at the beginning of the month that DU would slump a few days later than us because they would wrap up WU's slower and then be assigned 2107 and work on it for 1-2 weeks. If a number of them came in at the tail end of the first week of March they might have picked up 2107. I see in one of their threads someone is complaining about a huge WU that certainly sounds like that project (too bad they didn't say which one it was--maybe they don't care so much what the proteins actually are). If so they should pick up a bit in the beginning of April unless they have more than a couple members who are so discouraged they quit--or unless something even worse comes down the pipeline!
Oh no, you got 2107 in the past few days? I finished it on my main PC and then got a Tinker, and Amber, and a few small Gromacs. I know 2107 is useful, but it feels so much more productive to wrap up a WU every couple days.
Yeah. Definately weird ;).
DUmmies alarmed by their drop in production.
See their new thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=705247&mesg_id=705247
I've developed an alternative method to track progress on multiple machines with the following features:
This is really strange. Go to the Overclockers site and look at the top half dozen or so teams. All of them are in a dramatic decline. Even the default team is declining. FreeRepublic seems to be bucking the trend by staying more level, probably because we've added over a hundred computers in the last few weeks. :-D My theory is that Stanford isn't offering enough points for the massive jobs they've been handing out lately to give the same number of points per day as everyone was getting before.
I've basically decided not to worry about slumps in production unless the default team is going up.
I've got one you can have if you'd like...
Woo Hoo... Magic million sometime early tommorrow !!!!
Thanks all, for the congrats.
As for the weird spikes, and slumps, and all, I'm afraid that I've got to take some responsibility. With 350 CPU's, and some evil energy managers, I can tell you when we're going to spike, and when we're going to slump. No matter how hard I try, I can't convince them to let me run 24x7x365.
If I can leave all 350 on, 24x7, for about 7 days, my daily production is going to be around 25,000. Turning them off every night, and then being used during the day, gives me an average of around 13,000. Weekends, only my hard core, those directly under my control, continue to fold, and give me about 7K per day.
The heavy melts being handed out has seemed to exacerbate this situation, with some machines now taking up to 3 weeks to get through one, with the on/off+being used for real work cycle.
But, on the bright side, microsoft continues to screw up, so every other week, I get to turn them on, and leave them on, so my patch management software can catch up.
My production is going to start really sucking about mid-may, and won't come back until mid-august. But, in that 3 month hiatus, I hope to have several thousand machines infected with the "Folding virus"... ( just kidding, it really isn't, but you know what I mean --- it's infected me, not the cpu's )
In the meantime, despite my weird mood swings, the team continues to post impressive numbers, and is still gaining steadily on the top teams. There are only a few, that still outfold us, but we'll eventually get within range of them too.
Well, what I'd like to know, looking at the overclocking stats, is why our daily point totals are bouncing up and down alot more than other teams, especially this one:
TITS ----> ( . Y . ) <---- TITS
BTTT!
We were just the ones gawking..
I've got a 2107 and a 2108. The 2108 looks like it may be worse (449 pts for 2108 vs 404 for the 2107) but just got it and I don't have a time estimate yet.
I'm running 2107 and 2108 on the Mac right now and I think 2108 actually comes up a day shorter than the 2107's. It certainly feels like it's going faster. The 2107 will be done in about a day and a half while 2108 still has four days. I hope I get some small Gromacs next.
Hope the 2108 goes quick, it's lots of points. The 2106's seem the worst to me, they take nearly as long as the 2107's for half the points.
How do your determine the points that your current WU will yield?
You know, if you look long enough, you can find something good about anything.
And Congrats for the score.
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