Posted on 07/07/2006 5:58:24 PM PDT by soccer_maniac
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
Our FreeRepublic team of 351 members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing have banded together to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via distributed computing, millions of computers around the world, contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).
Currently, the team is in 85th place (with 908 active CPUs - 47,400 completed Work Units and nearly 8.5 million points).
This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 19 folding threads)
It was nice to pass by. Hopefully I won't be seeing you again :) (more power failures, systems going down, HDD failures... this has been an expensive computing year and I budgeted less than normal)
I got power back on Monday but there are still nearly 100K without (sort of like California). It was a very powerful storm with Cat 2 Hurricane type winds and tremendous lightning. Having said that though, the main culprit is the power company (Ameren) who is 5 years behind in trimming back trees and branches near power lines. After this storm they are current, but only because all those trees and branches fell on top of power lines bringing them down!
Well the last two days haven't shown many results for me, but between 4pm today and 4pm tomorrow I should turn in over 1200 points (maybe as many as 1700) as everything comes due about the same time.
Good luck in passing others.
This thread is getting long again. Maybe a new one should be started when FR reaches 75th place, but no later than me reaching 50th (that could be another week or so)
On a totally non related matter I had my DNA done ...
http://www.familytreedna.com
Same here - just completed Y-DNA26-37 results. Very impressive. They are the best of those offering the service and many s'ware programs are now integrating DNA results into their geneology search functions.
Congrats on your milestone. Let us all know how your 'throttle' experiment goes. Curious minds and all.
Woohoo! 100,000 points!
aaahhh quitcher whinin!
WOO HOO 10,000 points
I'll start a new thread this weekend
Congrats!!!
Thanks!
First, I'd like to thank all the little people...
Here are some interesting performance metrics and some further analysis:
FR team ranks 31st in number of Active CPUs, and ranks 22nd in Average 24 hour points, with 375.7 Points/Active CPU/24hrs.
DU team ranks 48th in number of Active CPUs, but ranks 87th in Average 24 hour points, with 123.3 Points/Active CPU/24hrs.
Among teams averaging 75K+ points per 24hrs (15 teams), only 4 produce more Points per Active CPU per 24hrs than FR, and only 5 produce more Points per Active CPU per Week than FR.
I'd say we're pretty well up there in the thin atmosphere of high performance.
I take that as a slam....meet at the Waffle House at Midnight!
...on a lesser note, congratulations and thanks for all your hard work making the monitor.
...also, "Thank you, S_C for all you do, making the threads and everything else.
DU is pretty much a wash, as a comparative team for judging our performance.
Me, #1, have been doubling or tripling their daily PPD, for the month of July.
Users #2-10 combined, have been averaging slightly over DU's daily PPD.
Users #11-150 or so combined have been doubling, or tripling DU's daily PPD.
Or, look at it another way, any 30 of our users, chosen at random, = or exceed their daily production.
While I don't want SC_Swamp Fox to give up on updating the FR vs DU graphs, (I still love kicking them when they're down)... our sights need to be set on the 25 or so teams above us in the hunt for the top 50.
There are only 22 teams that produce more points per day than us. We're within 100 or so CPU's, of catching up to about half of them. But some of these teams have been folding since 2001, so they have a trememdous lead in points.
Still tho... What took them 4 years to attain, we've jumped up to in 6 months... some of them have to be a bit nervous...
July is going to be a record month for us.... Look at the points per month total, add our daily average x 4 days, and we're going to post over 1,600,000 points. Me, I'm going to break half a million posted for the month of July.
Go team FR... yea !!!!!!!!!!
LOL... bad news... the energy cops are starting to see through my transparent excuses for keeping cpu's on 24x7. I may be slowing down, just a bit in August... but not too much I hope.
Hey, I had to give DU some honorable mention for continuing to pick away despite having had their doors blown off. They may be DU, but they aren't quitters, and I can find some respect for that.
Since they're not a real good standard for comparison I threw in the numbers at the end using the top 15 point producers. And given the results of my number-crunching, I'm newly impressed with our team performance.
I'm thinking of trying to get my office XP Pro box folding, here, but I'm inside the firewall and may have issues that 'protocol' would prevent IT from helping me overcome. IOW, if I can't pull it off unassisted, I'd be outta luck.
[fingers crossed]
There aren't too many firewall issues with FAH, unless your IT guys have http access to Stanford blocked either at the firewall, or with a proxy. Luckily, I R the IT guy, so I set my proxy server to ignore all traffic to and from Stanford.:)
If nothing else, take a copy of the work unit folder home, rename the one that's on your computer to WU1... stop the service, drop the one you brought home, start the service, wait until it uploads, and receives new workunit... and then reverse the process.
I have considered dropping DU off of my tracking charts. When they faded and became irrelevant I changed their chart color from red to pink. I have been hoping to spark some sense of competition over there, our biggest growth surge occurred when it appeared that the DU team was gaining on us back in late December. We blew their doors off and they have been in decline since February.
Ah, the ol' "sneaker net" method. I think I'll just try a straight-up install, first and go from there.
I have my home box humming along just fine and if I can get my office box to sing harmony, that's another 2.8G P4 in our corner.
Well, I've switched two boxes to the cause, an A64 3400+ and an A64 3300+. Just got two new A64 3200+ PC's at work, and I'll be splitting them between my two teams. I'll have to throttle back the CPU usage a bit though, since my users like to pack boxes, paper, and everything else under the sun around their PC's. They'll still make nice additions.
I did just crack the top 250, even before the new addition. Not bad considering one of the two boxes got slammed with the dreaded 2125_lambda_5way_melt right after I switched it over! Plus, I've been maintaining my top 10 production status on Team Anandtech. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all.
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