Posted on 04/25/2006 6:37:14 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
Our FreeRepublic team of 300+ 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 117th place (with 1,038 active CPUs - 29,000 completed Work Units and more than 5,000,000 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 16 folding threads)
Interesting, since GCC 4.x generally produces code that is competitive with the Intel compiler speed-wise, without the Intel bias. The Pathscale AMD64 compilers (popular with high-performance apps) can suck an amazing amount of floating point performance out of AMD hardware, but you have to pay for the privilege. Most of these problems appear to be better suited to AMD than Intel, based on a loose survey of typical parameterization. Same ISA, significantly different design choices.
This states: "...for the time being the AMD CPUs will not get any QMD WUs"
EEKS! 90% of Klutz's machines are in the red. Are you ok out there Klutz?
Klutz's machines got together and formed a Union. The first thing they demanded was weekends off. There was nothing he could do....
BTW: I'm not very competitive and I consider the F@H stats to be good for a chuckle (I suspect that you feel the same way). I really don't care much about who is higher than who, so long as all are contributing to the F@H cause. The jockeying in the middle tier is fun to be a part of. I find it amusing to wave (all fingers) at the faster-scoring people as they go rocketing by. Don't tell the Freepers this, but I'm also glad that they are contributing MFLOPS to the F@H cause, despite their retarded political stance, averagely lower IQ, surfeit of port-a-potties and distasteful reverence to the corpse of Ronald Reagan.
Great catch from DU. It is such a shame that those enlightened elites-who-should-rule-the-world can't make more of their own team join the F@H research.
This would make a great speech for all the athletes who trained for years to come in second ... "Hey, at least you tried, somebody has to come in second"!
We have 100 team members over 10K points.
It sounds like he doesn't like us. It probably really torques him off that we make more money and get more p**** as well.
ROFLMAO !!!!!!
We have an awesome team indeed! FR Top 110 listed below!
Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan |
Date of last work unit | 2006-05-08 06:18:15 |
Active CPUs within 50 days | 1004 |
Team Id | 36120 |
Grand Score | 5636800 (certificate) |
Work Unit Count | 32188 (certificate) |
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) | 115 of 43970 |
Home Page | http://www.freerepublic.com |
Fast Teampage URL | http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html |
Team members |
Heh heh. The monkey is having delusions of grandieur. Ahhhh, isn't that precious! Someone pat him on the head and give him a banana.
Sure wish I could figure out how y'all cut-n-paste those top 20 stat graphs!
Looking at those stats again, all I can say is "WOW"
1.) 10,000 points doesn't get you into the Top 100 on the FR team.
2.) We have 5 members over 100,000 points
3.) 50,000 points will not get you into the Top 15
4.) We have 33 members over 30,000 points
5.) We have 46 members over 20,000 points
6.) 10 additional members should reach 10,000 points within the next week or so
7.) Klutz is over 1.5 million points
Yeah, we have an awesome team!
1.) 10,000 points doesn't get you into the Top 100 on the FR team.
10,000 points puts you in the top 50.
2.) We have 5 members over 100,000 points
Well, no one close, but give it a month or so...
3.) 50,000 points will not get you into the Top 15
50,000 points puts you in the TOP 5 !!!
4.) We have 33 members over 30,000 points
All of our top 10 is over 30,000 points
5.) We have 46 members over 20,000 points
We've got 16.
6.) 10 additional members should reach 10,000 points within the next week or so
So ??? We have 1 that will be there, hopefully...
7.) Klutz is over 1.5 million points
If you put all 224 of us together, WE BEAT KLUTZ !!!!!
We are now 4M points ahead of the DU team.
Thanks for extending your list down to 110, I was trying to be in the top 100 to reach 10K. I'll crack that milestone on Thursday, assuming I don't lose any of my current projects.
60,608 points! Wow. Just wow. (The point swings are driving me crazy.)
60,608!!!
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