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Scotttheking · May 10, 2002, 04:17 AM

I think it's that time again.
Yep, time to make another run for first.
This time it's in distributed folding.

If we do what we did on ubero, and throw everything toward distfold, I think we can hit 1st in a month, and while we are at it, we can send those pesky pirates to the bottom of the pond

I've already moved my entire deployable force over to distfold, and I suggest others do the same.

If cobramac and mikkyo do the same, we'll be all set.

So what do you all think? Are you ready to take first in a competitive project?
If so, join up.

--Scott

Shaktai · May 10, 2002, 04:31 AM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:
I think it's that time again.
Yep, time to make another run for first.
This time it's in distributed folding.

I've already moved my entire deployable force over to distfold, and I suggest others do the same.

--Scott

Aw oh! Looks like I am going to get knocked down another notch.

What the hey! Let's go for it. 24,000 units per day on line now, and more to follow as current project units are finished up on.

Scotttheking · May 10, 2002, 07:09 AM

From what I can see we need to vastly outpower every other team.
I'd like to see us doing 15million per day in 5 days, 20 in 10 days, and 30 in two weeks

Let's see if we can reach that massive amount of power, and start rocketing thru the ranks.

wangdoodleUBERO · May 10, 2002, 08:48 AM

im game, thinking about building a couple of boxen just for the occassion

cdhostage · May 10, 2002, 09:19 AM

Well here's the thing.
We're OK ion Ubero if only cobramac and Mikkyo crunch for us.
There's no way we can get to #1 in SETI. No way.
We might be able to get a higher number, probably not #1, in RC5, with all our G4s on it. It's going to be solved soon anyway.

So, Folding@Home and distFold are our best bets for getting another #1 spot. We porbably can't do both though.

I would suggest moving users out of SETI and RC5 into the two protein projects.

rkadowns · May 10, 2002, 10:09 AM

I'm game. Like to see OCN talking smack after we power up...

Obviously we will need DAlex and enola back in the game. They powered down considerably after the race. I think DAlex quit completely for a while.

RIP

jbcool · May 10, 2002, 11:12 AM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:
I think it's that time again.
Yep, time to make another run for first.
This time it's in distributed folding.

I've already moved my entire deployable force over to distfold, and I suggest others do the same.

If cobramac and mikkyo do the same, we'll be all set.

So what do you all think? Are you ready to take first in a competitive project?
If so, join up.

--Scott

Puff, Puff. I'm so tired, need rest, feet sore.
Just finished a race here last week and busy catching up with you in
every other DC project. When you catch up with me on Dfold I will move the boys back.

Cobramac and Mikkyo are a must to make this happen. DAlex and Slipjack were putting up some really good numbers at the end of the race.

Skibikeski - You listening? Think you can talk the professor into loaning you the lab machines? Still would love to see you throw some water at me when you go past so I can eat mud pies.

slipjack · May 10, 2002, 12:15 PM

Let's get it going! ;D And we are glad to have you back Scotty

reader50 · May 10, 2002, 12:34 PM

As the longest Inactive member, I have moved my G4 350 Supercomputer over to dFold. That should do the trick.

Oh, and the real install page is up. That should help too.

Grozni Majmun · May 10, 2002, 01:07 PM

Welcome back, Scott. You're back at just the right time to exercise some leadership. The troops were loosing focus after the race. Taking 1st in dFold is a terriffic plan. I'll just finish up the monster protein I have in F@H, then I'll be on it.

Scotttheking · May 10, 2002, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by cdhostage:
Well here's the thing.
We're OK ion Ubero if only cobramac and Mikkyo crunch for us.
There's no way we can get to #1 in SETI. No way.
We might be able to get a higher number, probably not #1, in RC5, with all our G4s on it. It's going to be solved soon anyway.

So, Folding@Home and distFold are our best bets for getting another #1 spot. We porbably can't do both though.

I would suggest moving users out of SETI and RC5 into the two protein projects.

No, we don't abandon projects for others, especially not seti.
Team MacNN was a seti team before we expanded, and seti is still our flagship project. No we can't win it. That's ok. Our current goal is to stay in the top 50 overall, which will actually be a fight.

However, I have no problem with a 1 month deployment

Let's blitz the project, now, fast.
Hopefully I can run it hidden in win98

DAlex · May 11, 2002, 03:10 PM

Count me in. I was having a break from the computers for a while, you know visiting the real world a bit

Thanks RIP for emailing me about the dfold push, I probably would have missed all the fun......time for me to do a spot of recruiting

DAlex

SkiBikeSki · May 11, 2002, 03:23 PM

Glad to hear theres a good reason to go back to dFold. I'd been trying out F@H but I don't like it. I'll now be able to use my friends CPU's better since I can run foldtrajlite as a service. Now you'll see the power I should have had for the comp.

enola · May 11, 2002, 04:16 PM

Originally posted by DAlex:
Count me in. I was having a break from the computers for a while, you know visiting the real world a bit

Welcome back! I see you've started to post some work units again. I was wondering what happened to you and figured you were taking a break. I was going to do the same, and well, obviously that didn't happen.

-e

enola · May 11, 2002, 04:19 PM

Originally posted by SkiBikeSki:
Glad to hear theres a good reason to go back to dFold. I'd been trying out F@H but I don't like it. I'll now be able to use my friends CPU's better since I can run foldtrajlite as a service. Now you'll see the power I should have had for the comp.

Excellent. Any hope of loaners from the professor?

DAlex · May 11, 2002, 04:21 PM

Originally posted by enola:


Welcome back! I see you've started to post some work units again. I was wondering what happened to you and figured you were taking a break. I was going to do the same, and well, obviously that didn't happen.

-e

Yeah, kinda back, my production will be a bit low till Monday but should then start to ramp up again. Good to see you back and thanks to your brother for rejoining the party

SkiBikeSki: Can't wait to see those numbers come on stream.

Anyone able to contact Kevin? I notice he has shut down as well, he was producing some useful numbers.

DAlex

Shaktai · May 11, 2002, 10:56 PM

I haven't gotten all mine switched over yet, but will soon. There were just a couple of other things including some benchmarking that I wanted to get done first, so that I wouldn't get distracted for awhile. I figure to have that all done before the weekend is out.

Folks, it looks like we need to do at least 7 million a day, just to hold our own against MDSP and continue our advance. That means we really need to crank it up. I know I can give at least 100,000+ a day once I get settled. Every little bit helps though. You don't have to be a big time cruncher with a small garden or farm, even the littlest iMac is welcome. I would really like to see some of our smaller crunchers get involved, and join in the forums too. We are up against some serious competition. It looks like we have 44 team members now, but I figure we need at least 100 to make a serious run for first. We can do it though.

(Oh wow! Just noticed I added another star under my name.)

[ 05-11-2002: Message edited by: Shaktai ]

Kevin Moon · May 11, 2002, 11:28 PM

I'm crunching again.

Shaktai · May 11, 2002, 11:39 PM

Welcome back DAlex and Kevin.

slipjack · May 12, 2002, 11:56 AM

Now if we can just catch that wiley Advertico and keep them down.

They got a 5 Million unit jump somehow last week, because we had already passed em up and our crunching numbers haven't changed much. At first, I assumed it was KWSN, but couldn't find any evidence of it.

Anyway, once we get past em, it's #8 until MDSP comes rumbling up from behind. If we can double production one more time by increasing DF members, we'll be able to work our way into the top Ranks!

reader50 · May 12, 2002, 12:10 PM

The answer to Advertico Highteq is in the dFold news, which is unreachable at the moment.

That team is a combined team. The "Advertico" and "Highteq.net" teams are being merged, perhaps their web sites merged or something. Anyway, members are steadily moving from the two original teams to the new combined team. We still track the two original teams, they are running out of active members to move.

SkiBikeSki · May 12, 2002, 03:30 PM

Originally posted by SkiBikeSki:
Now you'll see the power I should have had for the comp.

Wait.... no. You won't be seeing anything incredible. My production might only be slightly better than it was for the comp.

DAlex · May 12, 2002, 03:48 PM

Well I've sent out the carrier pigeons to get my mini farm back again for the dfold challenge, eight machines should be coming onstream tomorrow to boost my two. Hoping to acquire a couple more later in the week, plus a new cruncher for me

(subject to the wife, a) not noticing or b) being to stuffed with chocolate to care

).

All I've got to do now is persuade my mate to stop crunching seti for OCUK and to lend me his mini farm too (hmm Hell and freezing springs to mind

).

oooo this is gonna be fun.

DAlex

Shaktai · May 13, 2002, 03:55 AM

Originally posted by DAlex:
 Hoping to acquire a couple more later in the week, plus a new cruncher for me

(subject to the wife, a) not noticing or b) being to stuffed with chocolate to care

).

DAlex

Which is more expensive, the new cruncher, or that years supply of premium chocolates? I suspect the cheap stuff wouldn't work.

DAlex · May 13, 2002, 04:50 AM

Originally posted by Shaktai:


Which is more expensive, the new cruncher, or that years supply of premium chocolates? I suspect the cheap stuff wouldn't work.

LOL, you haven't met my wife, as long as its called chocolate she doesn't care if its premium or not! Hey, that gives me an idea, cover the new computer in chocolate then she'll let in the house! Brilliant!

DAlex

Scotttheking · May 13, 2002, 06:02 AM

+1 imac G4 800, part time
Soon, +1 athlon xp 1800 and +1 P2 something or other if I can get the damn thing working.

Shaktai · May 14, 2002, 01:50 AM

I don't know who mattbishop is, but he brought us 4,145,965 units that pushed us up the ladder a couple of notches. Thanks Matt and welcome.

(darn, he almost passed me with that bunch)

wangdoodleUBERO · May 14, 2002, 10:19 AM

dont worry shak, i'll pass you in about a month if rates stay the same.

i was knocked down to 10th place by matt though

enola · May 14, 2002, 11:54 AM

Originally posted by Shaktai:
I don't know who mattbishop is, but he brought us 4,145,965 units that pushed us up the ladder a couple of notches. Thanks Matt and welcome.

Looks like we've had a few new joiners. Welcome!! Come by and introduce yourselves.

Shaktai · May 14, 2002, 02:55 PM

Originally posted by wangdoodleUBERO:
dont worry shak, i'll pass you in about a month if rates stay the same.

i was knocked down to 10th place by matt though

Well keep cranking it up. My numbers have gone up quite a bit, and it will take you a bit more than a month.

Watch out for that Scott guy who is on your tail. He is out crunching both of us and Matt is still unkown as to his daily rate.

gumby5647 · May 14, 2002, 03:20 PM

ive got my 433Mhz G4 on dfolding now....

Shaktai · May 14, 2002, 03:23 PM

Originally posted by gumby5647:
ive got my 433Mhz G4 on dfolding now....

Every little bit helps.

Bockie · May 14, 2002, 04:51 PM

Originally posted by Shaktai:


Every little bit helps.

"little bit", huh? That G4 chip is a monster producer...Don't make me dig up stats on that gem.

It is greatly welcomed to the effort.

SkiBikeSki · May 14, 2002, 08:58 PM

You won't have to dig up stats. They're right here.

I pieced together some benchmark pages for other projects too, just look in the topic called "benchmarks".

gumby5647 · May 15, 2002, 05:07 PM

man, i hope dfolding gets coded for AltiVec soon. that would rule goats...

Bockie · May 15, 2002, 05:45 PM

Originally posted by gumby5647:
man, i hope dfolding gets coded for AltiVec soon. that would rule goats...

I'm not even going to ask.

[backs slowly out of this thread]

[edit: formatting]

[ 05-15-2002: Message edited by: Bockie ]

Grozni Majmun · May 18, 2002, 02:54 AM

Hmmm. The push for first place is not going too well. We are stuck at around 4.5M/day. As reader50 wrote on the team page, that doesn't scare anybody.

We need more power!

Shaktai · May 18, 2002, 03:42 AM

Originally posted by Grozni Majmun:
Hmmm. The push for first place is not going too well. We are stuck at around 4.5M/day. As reader50 wrote on the team page, that doesn't scare anybody.

We need more power!

Well trying to help out a friend and testing the waters in a new project has got me spread thinner than a sheet of rice paper, and I won't be able to add any more power before summer, and then only if the pocket book allows. Looks like SkiBikeSki is gonna tone it down for the summer, jbcool is working on taking first place in Folding@Home, but might bring some power back over after he shakes things up a bit over there. If things go well, I will have another machine back on dFold in a day or two. Just too darn many irons in the fire right now.

Guess that means the only way to crank it up is to add more members. We can still move up another notch or two before we stall out, but we really need more people. Too bad they don't have an Altivec enabled client. That would bring a bunch of folks in a heartbeat.

[ 05-18-2002: Message edited by: Shaktai ]

jbcool · May 18, 2002, 09:36 PM

Originally posted by Grozni Majmun:
Hmmm. The push for first place is not going too well. We are stuck at around 4.5M/day. As reader50 wrote on the team page, that doesn't scare anybody.

We need more power!

I say we blame SkiBikeSki for not talking to the professor!
Darn kids. Ski am I going to need to pick up after you again?

jbcool · May 18, 2002, 09:42 PM

Originally posted by Shaktai:


Looks like SkiBikeSki is gonna tone it down for the summer, jbcool is working on taking first place in Folding@Home, but might bring some power back over after he shakes things up a bit over there. If things go well, I will have another machine back on dFold in a day or two. Just too darn many irons in the fire right now.

Guess that means the only way to crank it up is to add more members. We can still move up another notch or two before we stall out, but we really need more people. Too bad they don't have an Altivec enabled client. That would bring a bunch of folks in a heartbeat.

[ 05-18-2002: Message edited by: Shaktai ]

Yea like I said it's Ski that dropped the ball. Guess I am going to have to pick it up. I should be able to move some help over by the end of next week or when RIP get a lock on me. Then I will have to kick the fuel to it and catch back up with slipjack. Just trying to play fair.

Speaking of playing fair I noticed that you are trying to catch back up with me on the Genome project. Don't make me slap you down.

SkiBikeSki · May 19, 2002, 01:41 AM

Since Ubero doesn't yet have unit caching, I will likely have my PC running DFold over the summer, so I'll still be producing 65K units per day. My G4 will still run RC5 since it's so good at it, and I have to stay ahead of DocWest.

Shaktai · May 19, 2002, 03:23 AM

Originally posted by jbcool:


Speaking of playing fair I noticed that you are trying to catch back up with me on the Genome project. Don't make me slap you down.

Heck I haven't crunched for a few days over there and you are just now noticing?. Of course I retain the right to change on impulse.

jbcool · May 19, 2002, 04:07 AM

Originally posted by Shaktai:


Heck I haven't crunched for a few days over there and you are just now noticing?. Of course I retain the right to change on impulse.

Let see worry about DC project or enjoy a few days with the girls.
Sorry, DC lost out. Only check genome about once every two to three days.

Enjoy gang.

DocWest · May 19, 2002, 12:29 PM

Originally posted by SkiBikeSki:
My G4 will still run RC5 since it's so good at it, and I have to stay ahead of DocWest.

Haha, you will not have any problems achieving that.

I only have one G3 400 crunching part time on rc5 now. And I'm doing SETI on my iMac 400 again.
I have a severe lack of crunching power

SkiBikeSki · May 19, 2002, 12:39 PM

Congrats. on passing the 300K mark, DocWest. I didn't see that happen, but I see that you're now at 306K.

PS If you're only crunching RC5 part-time, then maybe you should put something else in your sig..

PSS If you could only get a hold on 1 G4, you could probably pass me, just like old times. Then maybe we could have an official race between our G4's only.

Grozni Majmun · May 19, 2002, 03:25 PM

Sweet, jbcool! Good to see you back in full force on dfold. That's the kind of stuff we need to make it to the top. Now we just need a few more people on board...anyone?

slipjack · May 19, 2002, 04:56 PM

Heh heh, that's more than full force, as far we've seen so far... looks like jb had something up his sleeve.

Shaktai · May 19, 2002, 07:18 PM

jb always has an ace or two up his sleeve. Keep in mind he is producing those distributed folding numbers while dominating production over in Folding@home at the same time.

Pretty amazing!

Grozni Majmun · May 19, 2002, 09:38 PM

Six hours later...

slipjack & shaktai decided not to let jbcool get away with it, and so they powered up too.

Excellent, gentlemen! That's the kind of rivalry we need. Keep it coming!

slipjack · May 19, 2002, 10:06 PM

Huh? Something strange is going on... I've done nothing different I'm sorry to say. I wonder if it's corrections for past errors?? Anyone know?