Stampede!

[the-mk]

Dutch farmers do have a lot of cows on their farm

A lot of firepower! :shocked: More than Ars! Nice recruitment...

I don't want to say that out loud, but within some time we will lose our #1-spot on DF Or did this stampede-thing already begin?

[magicfan241]

I don't want to say that out loud, but within some time we will lose our #1-spot on DF Or did this stampede-thing already begin?

The gauntlet has not officially started yet, but we are in the up of the gauntlet arc (as I see things). This arc goes as follows:

1. A week or so before the guntlet people start switching over when comfortable or they can (i.e. tight race in another project)
2. 12-48 hours beforehand all of the home pharms are switched over to DF, allowing time to fix any errors (firewall issues, RAM, etc.)
3. After the start of the gauntlet, people will borg like crazy for the next few days, slowly bringing the graph to level.
4. when the gauntlet is around 75% done, one of two things happen:
a. The subteam's lead is secure, firepower is slowly brought off of the project
b. The subteam's lead is not secure, or the subteam has a chance to pass causing:
i. Mad overclocks on machines
ii. a number of subteams members for only a week (a prolonged spike)
iii. people borging computers that may not have been worth it before
5. After the conclusion of the gauntlet, during the next week, much of the power is brought off of DF (or whatever project it is on), and returned to its home project. At the same time, some extra power stays (this is more true for larger teams, i.e. Ars, DPC, Anand)

So we are inbetween 1 and 2, moving toward 2 rather quickly.


And, if they threaten us too badly, I have 4-5Ghz I can pull to DF.

magicfan241

Moo who?

[FoBoT]

the protein change tomorrow is likely to knock out some of them, then they'll get pissed off and say the client stinks and go back to XYZ project

no worries :sleepy:

[[DPC] Bud_s]

Originally posted by FoBoT
the protein change tomorrow is likely to knock out some of them, then they'll get pissed off and say the client stinks and go back to XYZ project

no worries :sleepy:

Why do you think the stampede begins at the 14th ??

All crunchers allready know about the change
In a special topic this is dealth with, configure options are discussed, and people have been informed to make sure they check their clients.

[Dyyryath]

Originally posted by [DPC] Bud_s
Why do you think the stampede begins at the 14th ??

All crunchers allready know about the change
In a special topic this is dealth with, configure options are discussed, and people have been informed to make sure they check their clients.

You'd almost think these DPC guys have done this distributed computing thing before, eh?

Fantastic job so far, guys!

[RedVox]

Originally posted by Dyyryath
You'd almost think these DPC guys have done this distributed computing thing before, eh?

Fantastic job so far, guys!

We ?? no.. we don't do anything with DC :P

[ColdFusion]

When do you get them?
3 days ProCooling
14 days Overclockers Australia
27 days OCworkbench
340 days Ars Technica Team Stir Fry
When do they get you?
nobody

That looks quite promicing We are able to catch atleast 3 teams within the timeframe of the Stampede

[[DPC]Mobster]

All those little new Cows here. Stop bothering these nice people...

[Anteraan]

Originally posted by ColdFusion
When do you get them?
3 days ProCooling
14 days Overclockers Australia
27 days OCworkbench
340 days Ars Technica Team Stir Fry

So, my previous prediction that the DPC could end up on the podium looks solid, barring an even slower protein tomorrow. And, for all I care, Mobster, your "calves" are welcome to kick around here all they like, as long as they're well-behaved like the rest of the herd.

[ColdFusion]

Meanwhile the 2nd victim of the Stampede, ProCooling, has fallen

[RedVox]

Originally posted by ColdFusion
Meanwhile the 2nd victim of the Stampede, ProCooling, has fallen

Well... officially the stampede hasn't even begun..
Still 7.30 hours to go before the stampede start's.

[FoBoT]

i have sacrificed 3 goats to the slow protein gods

[pointwood]

NOOOOO!!! What have those poor goats done to you?!

Because of that, I'll make sure you all get a "nice" surprise

[DPC Intelligence]

20 mins and counting

Yes, i do like ur smileys :P

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by DPC Intelligence

Yes, i do like ur smileys :P

[FoBoT]

[Paratima]

[[DPC] Bud_s]

Originally posted by magnav0x
I'll place my bet on our 60 over their 286 any day of the week

Sorry for quotin' you again, but it seems almost like the other way arround

But don't be afraid, we will not have this amount of "cows" for ever

A real challange would be for you guys to find even more powerrr
All offcourse for DF-s benifit

btw: maybe a good idea for the collection of smiley's : a mhooooowwing cow

[Anteraan]

When it was 60 vs 286, we were holding our own, but now that you've increased to 348 (nearly one-fifth of all active users - great job DPC!), and we've dropped to 54 active, that's a pretty overwhelming margin. We'll see you on the podium...soon.

[FoBoT]

we're doomed

they haven't even done any mega dumps

they probably have some number of peoples crunching offline and will at some point crash the upload server

we're doomed

[magicfan241]

Fobot: STFU! WE don't need any depressing talk right now. We have a large lead, and have a number of cruncherswho are off doing off other things, but will come back if needed (like myself).

It is no where near over. The DPC can go mooooooo for all I care, I have yet to see anything that warrants my attention within the timeframe assumed. The DPC can let the milk curdle in their udders for all I care!


magicfan241,
Member of Free-DC,
Leader of Team Crab Cake,
Scared by NO ONE!

[Marcelloz]

LOL@FoBoT

You guys are so far ahead, in this pace we won't catch you until christmas.
So don't worry just enjoy the things we do. After we hit the #3 spot, it's a loooong way up so all we can do it is e.g. try to do 100M a day or so to keep everyone interested.

But, i must agree, we are doing a hell of a lot better than I initially expected. I personally hoped for 20M/day...

[Paratima]

Very impressive performance!

[Grumpy]

I got a white flag around here somewhere, it used to be white but it has cow dung all over it

[MrMr]

No need for a flag, we smell your fear from here

[mr_mann]

ahh shiat... I can't have my fellow FREE-dc'ers having problems...

i can pitch in some help...

56 Mr Mann 9,140,195 103,498,619

someone call for some butchers?

[Fozzie]

DPC shouldn't trouble us though.

[mr_mann]

ok ok carry on then fozzie...

just give me a call if u need some help..

I could rustle up about 20~ machines

[PCZ]

mr_mann
Thanks for the offer
ARS are ramping up and outproducing Free-DC, so if you can help out please do.

[pointwood]

according to the last update, we were 100k behind in the last day, so that's not true

I'll not promise we won't ramp up further though

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by PCZ
mr_mann
Thanks for the offer
ARS are ramping up and outproducing Free-DC, so if you can help out please do.

Ars production is troubling, not the cows. if the cows choose to keep these numbers for the whole year, we can't stop them. if they get tired and move to XYZ project, then we'll start regaining our lead on them

the Ars dudes finally are getting close to our weekly numbers, that is bad

[Anteraan]

Originally posted by pointwood
according to the last update, we were 100k behind in the last day, so that's not true

I'll not promise we won't ramp up further though

As of the noon EST update, you're 650k up on us for the day. Don't you need more people on SETI?

[pointwood]

Wanna help out?

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by pointwood
Wanna help out?

i'll shift all of my boxen currently running SETI for Free-DC to SETI TeamLameChop if you switch all of your boxen currently running DF for TeamSlurpFly to DF Free-DC

[[DPC] zion]

Well, start worying.....

100+ NEW teammembers today!!! (Oke, you're possibly 2 far ahead, but he, we'll do our best )

[[DPC] zion]

Make that 200!!!!

[omixium]

Dutch Power Cows (994 members, 703 producing)

[omixium]

And it isn't milk we're producing

[FoBoT]

must be a lot of offline crunching, the team stats for the past week look about the same

don't break the server when y'all dump

[neographikal]

I'm new here, also @ Folding and helping DPC

1040 users atm, and still rising

Love your smileys btw!