Higher and Higher!!

[Dyyryath]

Well, I'm not sure exactly what started it, but we seem to have had real surge of interest after what seemed like a pretty long quiet spell...

Check this out:

http://stats.zerothelement.com/cgi-bin/distributed-folding/cd-graph-team-daily.pl?Id=5&entries=25&type=BAR

Just a week or two ago, we were about 4th or 5th in the 'daily production' race. Yesterday we were firmly in second place with about 8 million more structures than the next team (AnandTech).

THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO SEE!!!

Add to that the fact that several of us are still continuing to ramp up (I'll be adding another 10 or 12 ghz this week), and we should be looking really good by the end of the week! :thumbs: :thumbs:

[pointwood]

That's just *great* :thumbs: :thumbs:

Keep it up! :smoking:

[IronBits]

:cheers: Free-DC :cheers: :|party|:
I wonder how much heartburn we could give Ars if FoBoT and xj10bt were to come back for a visit? :jester:
Anyone want to start a pool on how many days it would take xj10bt to catch our leader Condor?
If Dyyryath can find our ole buddy in hiding that is. :p
Did anyone notice Condor's ONE MILLION update on 1-27th at 1300? :shocked: :smoking:
Don't let Dyyryath catch you Condor! :|party|: :cheers: :thumbs:

[Dyyryath]

Originally posted by IronBits
Did anyone notice Condor's ONE MILLION update on 1-27th at 1300? :shocked: :smoking:
Don't let Dyyryath catch you Condor! :|party|: :cheers: :thumbs:

Yeah, Condor's obviously decided to make this as difficult as possible. :swear: :D

We'll see what we see...I added another XP1600 last night and I just got shipping confirmation on three dual MP2200s. I've got another XP2400 that should ship tomorrow. Hopefully by Friday night or Saturday morning I'll be looking a little better. :thumbs:

[Condor]

Please forgive me Dyy if I somehow gave you the impression that I would allow myself to be steamrolled so easily.

Ironbits - I have you to thank for getting me hooked on Prime95, more machines that I cannot take off just yet.

I would love to have FoBoT and xj back. The more the merrier.
I really don't consider myself number 1 on the team - maybe number 1 with a big " * ".
I surely would not have passed FoBoT.

And a big :thumbs: to those who have returned or increased production > Angus, Chinasaur, Darkness Productions and JustinFields.
And how could I forget Anarchy99, I guess I will be seeing you shortly.
Apoligies in advance to anyone that I forgot.

[Dyyryath]

LOL! :D

I'm glad to see you back in the fight, Condor! :thumbs:

We'll see where we both sit once the weekend rolls around. If I'm still get trounced I may even be forced to load up some work machines...

[Scoofy12]

if only i still had my vast farms... or work boxes even.. hmmm... anyone know how to make a router crunch DF, i have a few of those in my office :)

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Dyyryath
If I'm still get trounced I may even be forced to load up some work machines...
:scared: :shocked: :scared: :shocked:
:notworthy :notworthy :notworthy
:crazy::jester:

[cygnussphere]

Food for thought FreeDC.

Go to the all teams page and and sort by weekly production.

Things will get interesting if the stats are zeroed.

[Angus]

Yikes! Who said the stats are getting zeroed???

[cygnussphere]

http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2344

check out this thread

[IronBits]

:cheers: Best RMS: 8.592566 :cheers:
/me toots own horn :D

[Anarchy99]

I am helping a friend with his SOB production but will be back in a week to annihilate the complacent competition :|punch|:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

congrats IronBits:thumbs:

[cygnussphere]

Originally posted by IronBits
:cheers: Best RMS: 8.592566 :cheers:
/me toots own horn :D

right behind ya
8.830194

[Darkness Productions]

I'll be waiting :haddock:



Originally posted by Anarchy99
I am helping a friend with his SOB production but will be back in a week to annihilate the complacent competition :|punch|:

congrats IronBits:thumbs:

[magnav0x]

I too returned my home boxes to DF a few days ago. I'll look into adding more machines next week if possible. Decided to return to the most satisfactory project out there :cheers:

[cygnussphere]

Originally posted by magnav0x
I too returned my home boxes to DF a few days ago. I'll look into adding more machines next week if possible. Decided to return to the most satisfactory project out there :cheers:

:cheers:

[IronBits]

Originally posted by magnav0x
I too returned my home boxes to DF a few days ago. I'll look into adding more machines next week if possible. Decided to return to the most satisfactory project out there :cheers: Welcome *home* :D

[Angus]

WELCOME BACK to the party!:|party|: :jester: :|party|: :jester: :|party|:

:cheers: :rotfl: :cheers: :rotfl: :cheers: :rotfl: :cheers:

[Moogie]

Wow...get busy for a few days and when I come back to visit, look what happens!

Great job!!

[pointwood]

/me checks team stats :scared:

You guys are really doing great! :thumbs: :smoking:

(/me does a quick calculation...)
Howard may feel free to reset the stats in about 3 days :D

[IronBits]

I finally passed xj10bt :D
:notworthy
Let's not make too much racket tho, I wouldn't want to stir the beast!
:|party|: :moon: :jester: :haddock: :)

[IronBits]

Another XP2100 tossed into the fray...
Be afraid :p :jester:

[Moogie]

Goooooooooo!!!!! Great job guys!!!! Keep up the great work!!!!

:cheers: :thumbs:

[Angus]

Another XP2100 tossed into the fray...

Is it on ? <tap tap>

[Angus]

BTW, where was my 100,000,00 mark party?

We little crunchers waaaay down here need our encouragement :)


/me pouts in corner

[Scoofy12]

i'll keep my eyes open for more willing crunchers or available computers...

the problem with friends crunching for you is that sooner or later they turn it off for one reason or another and forget to turn it back on. so i hit up some of them for more time a bit ago, but I was told by two separate friends on the same day that I seem to have an "unhealthy obsession" (exact words from both of them!) with this DC thing. I told them if they thought i was bad, they should come read this forum! :D

"No thanks" was the unanimous response.

:rolleyes: normal people....

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Angus
BTW, where was my 100,000,00 mark party?
We little crunchers waaaay down here need our encouragement :)
/me pouts in corner 3 days ago!!! :scared:
:cheers: :|party|: :cheers: :|party|: :cheers: :|party|:
/me breaks out the special batch
Nice work Angus :thumbs:

[IronBits]

<LOL> Scoofy12, all ya can do is lead them to the water... ;)
Remote pharming can be tough, especially during a heated gauntlet :bang:
Doing DC is "unhealthy" for whom, us, or those afflicted... ? :rolleyes:
Don't let it get you down... it's kinda like being a 'door-to-door' salesman...
lots of NOs and a rare YES now and again.
Never give up! :D

[Moogie]

Originally posted by Angus
BTW, where was my 100,000,00 mark party?

We little crunchers waaaay down here need our encouragement :)

Grats Angus!!!!!!!!!!! Great job!




/me pouts in corner :thumbs:

[Paratima]

Way to go, Angus! :cheers:

Just keep on and on and on and on. As ZaphodB sez...

"Half a billion here, half a billion there, pretty soon you're talking serious folding." ...or words to that effect.

SCOOFY12: I just call up TaskManager or TaskInfo or the like and say, "See that 98% in System Idle Process? That could be 98% of YOUR CPU answering some of the BIG questions! Just like the idle task, it only runs when nothing else wants to, gets right out of the way for ANY other process, but in between, maybe solving the riddle of cancer or Alzheimer's or diabetes or AIDS. Costs you nuthin'! Maybe solves a big problem. Pumps the hell out of my score! So howzabout it?"

Ya gotta sell the sizzle! ;)

[IronBits]

OK, new modifications...
Took the ASUS A7N8X nforce2 board, replaced XP2100 with an XP2600/333 with a stick of 512mb DDR Crucial XMS 2/2/2 and shoved it to 166(333) and it came right up! :smoking:
Took my ASUS A7V333, XP1800 and upgraded it to AMD XP2100+ with two sticks of 256mb Kingston Value Ram (333), set it up for 2/2/2 also running at 166. :D
:moon: :p Angus :p :moon: ;)

[Angus]

AHHHHHHH

Nothing like the smell of hot silicon in the morning..:D


Unless it's the sound of BROWN delivering more mysterious boxes.:crazy:


:cry: Poor IB - having to work sooo hard :bang:

[IronBits]

Potential Threats
No one currently threatens IronBits
ahhhhhh :D More goodness coming today :p

[TheOtherZaphod]

No one currently threatens IronBits

To my way of thinking that just means that all of your competition is already in front of you.

Now Get Moving! :haddock:



(jk)

[IronBits]

hehehehe -- Now we just need to get Dave to finish moving his boxen off of SETI and get them over here :spray: :)

[Davdog]

If I'm the Dave in question, they are all folding now.. looks like 1.2 million per day for now

Dave

[IronBits]

Excellent! :smoking:

[Moogie]

Originally posted by Davdog
If I'm the Dave in question, they are all folding now.. looks like 1.2 million per day for now

Dave

Holy structures Batman!!!!!! :)

Great job. Hmmmm...me thinks you might be one that can make IronBits and Angus both do some serious sweating!!

Keep up the good work!!! You'll be doing alot of :spank: I'm sure.

:cheers:

[Angus]

you might be one that can make IronBits and Angus both do some serious sweating!!

OHHHH I think not :bs:


IB- better check your threat sensors :D

[IronBits]

:swear: :bang: :bang: :swear:
If the box is running Windows 98, you get almost nothing for your crunching :(
------------------------------------------------------------
Distributed Folding Windows dfGUI v2.1 Benchmark

Sample Size : 1545 structures over 1831 seconds.
Protein Size: 96AA

Structures Per Second: 0.85
Structures Per Minute: 51.0
Structures Per Hour : 3063
Structures Per Day : 73507

OS : Windows 98 MHz: ???
CPU: AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+
Client Switches: -df -rt -g 15
------------------------------------------------------------

[IronBits]

Doing about 2.73 per second now with w2k and some BIOS tweakage! :)
Angus, you bastard! :D :bang:
Just for that, I fixed the above SLOW box, and slapped 3 more XP2100s online :D :cheers:
Now if NewEgg.com would only ship both XP2800 Bartons :scared:

[TheOtherZaphod]

Het IB, run that by me again. Did you see an almost 3x increase by doing no more than changing OS? You think that '98 runs significantly slower than 2k in an essentially dedicated environment? I have a handful of '98 machines that might benefit from that knowledge.

Last time I bothered to check, I didn't notice much difference though. I run all Windows boxes; '98, NT4, 2k, and XP. When I have somewhat equal machines that aren't performing equally, I usually either find that some spyware, or other background nonsense has crept in, or I chalk it up to differences in memory bandwidth....

I'm interested in just what your before/after envs. looked like.

[IronBits]

I broke 3 mil per day, 3 updates in a row :scared: :D

TheOtherZaphod,
fresh install of win98 -- updates from M$, less than 1 per second
fresh install of w2k 2.73 -- no other changes.
This morning I am going to apply SP3 to see if there is any differences...
update: no differences that I can see... :(

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Angus
OHHHH I think not :bs:
IB- better check your threat sensors :D
/me runs over and looks :jester:
:moon: wiggle wiggle :moon: :D :haddock:

[IronBits]

My ramp up, started on Jan 24th. More to follow this coming week-end :D
http://www.dbestern.com/files/rampup.png

[TheOtherZaphod]

A very nice bump in output!

[IronBits]

24ish, with another 5 or 6 to go, plus two duals if I get them back. :)

[xj10bt]

Originally posted by IronBits
I finally passed xj10bt :D
:notworthy
Let's not make too much racket tho, I wouldn't want to stir the beast!
:|party|: :moon: :jester: :haddock: :)
Huh? Wha?

[IronBits]

:scared: um, oh nothing, just Angus making too much noise again. :rolleyes:
You can go back to :sleepy:
Good to see you are alive tho! :D

[Dyyryath]

That's right, xj10bt old buddy...IB's been running around talking smack about you all over town! :shocked: :shocked:

I'm honestly surprised you've let it go on this long. :D

[xj10bt]

:mad: :mad:
:swear: :swear: :swear: :swear:
:spank: :spank:

[IronBits]

It wasn't me :cry: It was Angus I tell ya! :bang:
xj10bt is my hero! :notworthy :help:
:moon: whoops! How did that get in there?
I didn't do it!!! Must be that pesky Dyyryath, he's up to no good I tell ya! :crazy: :spray:

BTW, for the rest of ya up there in the lead and actually doing something... /ducking :D
Don't get to comfy, but do enjoy the view... while you can :jester:
http://www.dbestern.com/files/catchup02242003.png

[IronBits]

The baseline is purely coincidental :rolleyes:
/me gets milk ready for 'humble pie' that is sure to be delivered shortly ;) :o
http://www.dbestern.com/files/catchup02242003a.png

[magnav0x]

IronBits is a handfull. Glad I dont' have a posistion to defend from him :cheers:

[cygnussphere]

Originally posted by IronBits
The baseline is purely coincidental :rolleyes:
/me gets milk ready for 'humble pie' that is sure to be delivered shortly ;) :o
[/IMG]

Im convinced that his inactivity is just a sick and twist ploy by xj10bt to keep my hopes up until 2003-07-07 02:00:00 then the switch get thrown:bang:

[Dyyryath]

I'm not really too worried just yet....when his overtake date for me is sometime *this year* I'll start to look over my shoulder just a bit...probably as I start introducing a small group of fast work machines to the DF client. :D

It's good to see that slackard actually doing something for a change, though. :thumbs:

[IronBits]

Slacktard? Slacktard?! U talkin to me?! ;)
Gonna force you to finally break out the BIG IRON, albeit rusty!!! :D
:thumbs:
Yo Condor, keep an eye on him... he's sneaky I tell ya!

[Condor]

Fortunately for me, Dyy has some first rate stats that should provide me with ample warning.

I am starting to wonder about these "work machines " that everyone lives in fear of.
Are these for real <nudge nudge> or is he just <nudge nudge> blowing smoke.:smoking:

I see xj10bt is crunching the DF beta !:)

[freeiso]

should have my beastie back in tonight
as well as the " True First " hydra system online and crunching tonight some time

:crazy:

[IronBits]

It's the beginning of a great party! :D :|party|:

[freeiso]

Originally posted by freeiso
should have my beastie back in tonight
as well as the " True First " hydra system online and crunching tonight some time

:crazy:


or not, cant find the damn hsf retainer and the local puter store sold his last 2 hsf as i walked in the door

well, least my beastie be crunching tonight