[Scotttheking]

It's time to pass them.
We have two ways to do this.
1) Outside recruiting

2) Internal powerup

Our goal is to pass them and then stay ahead. We need to do a light recruiting run to do this.

Ideas on how to go about it are welcome.

Post away.

[gumby5647]

Im back. I have my mom's 350MHz iMac and my new 800MHz iBook running F@H. I know it's not much but.... *shrug*

[Shaktai]

Originally posted by gumby5647:
Im back. I have my mom's 350MHz iMac and my new 800MHz iBook running F@H. I know it's not much but.... *shrug*

No such thing as not much.... Every little bit helps. 10 more "not much" like you would be a huge gain for the team.

As to recruiting? I really don't have any ideas right now. Macrumors is outcrunching us by about 400 a day. In fact they are even outcrunching LWD by a little, so passing them would also take us past LWD. What we need is more consistency in our crunching. We need to be focused on the project and willing to make the long term all out committement to boost production and keep it up. Our weakness has been the tendency to boost it for the short term, and then to slide back down.

[reader50]

Originally posted by Scotttheking:
... We need to do a light recruiting run to do this.

Ideas on how to go about it are welcome.

Post away.

Perhaps we could start with what worked already. For myself, I was on MacAddict SETI - because I was a MacAddict magazine subscriber when I first hit the internet.

They had no stats. A dead team site. Dead DC forum. And everyone I knew was over here. Took over six months, but I presently moved the account over, and didn't look back.

Oh ... uh, about the dead website ... I, uh need to get the milestones and news up to date. Sorry guys & gals, real world took over for a little while, but has cleared again.

For those wondering, krove's geeklog upgrade to the team site is basically waiting on me to finish the stats converstions to teamstats for SETI and Ubero.

[Scotttheking]

Ideas that I've come up with so far

1. When the new stats are done for all projects, post a macnn front page new post saying that they are done, and inviting people to join the team.

2. This weekend, I'm going to put a recruiting thread in the server forum to see if I get lucky and get an admin to join.

3. Ask friends if they'll join, or let you run on their computer.

4. Teamware. Stuff that gets people interested, helps retain members.

5. Make it easier for people who don't want to farm to increase production. This is a little different. I for one have some space here. I have some technical knowledge. I can build dedicated crunch boxes for pretty cheap. So what if I had a box or two, more if interested, that could be rented on say a weekly basis? At $2-$3 per day it would cost no more then it would to build (including hardware costs), and the end user would have to do very little work. This could buy and athlon xp 1800 or higher. I am not talking about people having a box here running under their name, if you wanted to rent for that long I'd say just buy/build a machine. But say someone wants to get some more production for a few weeks, then they could just pay a little, instead of having to save up for a farm box. What say ye all?

6. Prizes. Others can elaborate on this.

7. More aggressive recruiting. Maybe we could get a banner ad in the rotation?

8. Processor swapping. We've got people with G4s running f@h. We've got people with x86 procs running RC5. Each proc is better at the other project. So why not have people trade? This maximizes production for both projects. This is directed at people with relatively stable levels of production.
I for one would love to trade my g4s for x86 to run f@h, or some other projects for that matter. If we could shunt all x86 procs from rc5 to other projects, and move and equivalent amount of g4s, we'd see a massive boost in those projects, with no overall increase in processing power.


Keep kicking out ideas and making suggestions on ones out there already.

[jarling]

I think a variety of challenges that involve a broad range of users and power levels would be good.
Its difficult for many to join a competition of sheer numbers against Scott and Co, but a challenge that might actually favor individuals with single computers would be a percentage increase challenge. Scott would have to find 50 more computers to double his production while I would only have to find 2.
This would be a good way to encourage small gardens (or orchards, since we're running Apples, rather than farms)

[Toast]

Originally posted by Shaktai:
Macrumors is outcrunching us by about 400 a day. In fact they are even outcrunching LWD by a little,

Gulp... they're right on our heels, and inching closer...

WE increased production by internal recruiting, a few new people from outside, but mostly people moving off the SETI team onto Folding...

A couple contests, some challenges... it all makes it fun.

Your stats are a great benefit you offer, you were my inspiration to produce the daily stats that I do, just yours are way better

Keep it up , and oh BTW I love the idea of a Mac orchard instead of a farm.. just makes better sence...

[Shaktai]

Originally posted by jarling:
... but a challenge that might actually favor individuals with single computers would be a percentage increase challenge. Scott would have to find 50 more computers to double his production while I would only have to find 2.
This would be a good way to encourage small gardens (or orchards, since we're running Apples, rather than farms)

I like that idea! A percentage challenge sounds great and it would be within reach of anyone. In order to avoid sandbagging, I think it would require the starting percentage or score to be an average over a week or two.

[DAlex]

Originally posted by jarling:
Its difficult for many to join a competition of sheer numbers against Scott and Co, but a challenge that might actually favor individuals with single computers would be a percentage increase challenge. Scott would have to find 50 more computers to double his production while I would only have to find 2.
This would be a good way to encourage small gardens (or orchards, since we're running Apples, rather than farms)

Briliant idea! Sort of a 'most improved pupil of the week' award Especially if people follow up with how they did it, was it new machines, better configs, or just not using their macs for anything else!

Have to agree with you and Toast, Orchards are the way forward

DAlex

[proux]

All good ideas. Our best chance is to get people from other mac teams to switch, MacRumors in F@H, OGrady/MacAddict in SETI. It will be harder in RC5 as the XLR8 team is really cranking up now (#8 in daily stats), but there is hope from the other teams.

[bousozoku]

Why not get those using Mac OS X for RC5 and SETI to give it up for a while to do folding@home?

It's certainly more worthwhile than looking for intelligent life elsewhere (joke not inserted here) or breaking security keys.

You've probably got one or two people with dual processors not using the extra processor for folding.

There are also the people who have tried it but were so impatient that they either stopped before the first work unit finished or they quit just after that.

If you look down our (I'm on the MacRumors team) list of folders, you'll see several with only 1 WU.

Post it on the front page of the website. Let people know that you exist.

[bousozoku]

I just changed my dual G4/800 to team 16. I hope this helps a bit.

[Shaktai]

Looks like cobramac has moved some power over and his crunching some major numbers.