We're about to be passed

[a2jfreak]

Team Ars Technica is about to pass us up. They're gaining 5,000 points a day and are on pace to pass us by on Sunday!

Come on guys! We're losing ground!

Can someone put a HUGE sign on the front page of the forums asking people to start folding? All the machines I can get folding are folding. Maybe in the future I can get some more, but for right now 5 is all I got, and I'm about to lose one of those.

We need to :fold: :fold: :fold: :fold: :fold:

[Slick]

Ever sence the real icrontic went down the drain so has our production. At least in my opinion.

[Leonardo]

On balance, our membership is down from six months ago. The good news is that our membership is rising every week now. We will get back to previous production levels, but it may take a while.

That means - recruit, recruit, recruit!:eek:

[mmonnin]

The current pace looks good from what it was several weeks ago.

[GnomeWizardd]

i am getting as many as i can! i got my pc my lappy my fathers and Cheech from team addaboy and I am trying to get Hawk from team addaboy to switch

[mmonnin]

We don't want to be stealing other team's members. If they want to join then they can.

[t1rhino]

:mad: Damn eggrolls...

:fold:


/me puts a rush order on the new servers...

[primesuspect]

The opteron system that I'm building today will fold for the entire weekend, at least.... :(

[WuGgaRoO]

well..sumtime in decemberish i am going to upgrade and get a killer system...im prolly gonna do dual opterons and watercool it..but thats all subject to change with how much money i get for building comps etc

[TBonZ]

There was a time long ago when we were on a steady decline, we lost about 9 positions and were kicked back to 18th or 19th. We then picked ourselves up and literally thrashed all those Teams who had passed over us and made our way back up to 5th spot. :cool:

And then....

As Leo stated our Team had faced a great challenge in the old IC dissolving and things seemed in much disarray. In large part, we stuck together and kept the Team chugging and are now surging back forward and building momentum as our graph dictates.

We have turned the corner on our latest decline my friends and if we keep it up, great things will happen. :thumbsup:

Also, it's good to be passed once in a while because it's so fun to have an immediate challenge and goal of repassing those teams with whom knocked us back a step. :rarr:

[TBonZ]

Thread cleaned up, please, back to the topic......

...so, we're about to be passed, what in hell are we going to do about it? :rarr:

[GHoosdum]

TBonZ said
...so, we're about to be passed, what in hell are we going to do about it? :rarr:

We're going to recruit and bring more PC's online ourselves... I started my work PC folding now, even though it's against company policy (shh don't tell!) and I convinced CBDroege to fold for Team Short-Media, instead of Team Nexlia that he and I were both folding our main rigs for... I also switched all my rigs to S-M... and I'll be bringing my new primary online soon, and possibly another XP1700 and maybe one more PC soon... I had to stop my notebook from folding though, because it was taking a week of burning myself at the rate I use the thing to turn in a WU... damn shame. :shakehead

[Enverex]

I was going to install folding on our work machines, but I have a feeling they would have just burst into flames :shakehead

NS

[Leonardo]

I was going to install folding on our work machines, but I have a feeling they would have just burst into flames

Right. I wouldn't want to install it on an older computer that I had inspected internally - heatsink, fans, dust....

[GHoosdum]

I wouldn't mind if my work machine DID burst into flames... maybe I'll cram some dust in there... I'd like to get a new machine here at work...

[GnomeWizardd]

BTW Thrax sorry bout getting off topic. anywho Any special settings I should use on a laptop when its folding? its taking forever! like its been foling a 250 work unit for 5 days and its only on 123. and its a 1 ghz amd duron lappy

[a2jfreak]

Do you have all the power save features turned off? Don't want that CPU to be clocked down just because you haven't touched the keyboard/mouse in 30 minutes.

Also, you can try running winFAH.exe -advmethods -forceasm

Don't know if that works on the older Athlons/Durons, but it works on the newer ones.

Gnomewizardd said
BTW Thrax sorry bout getting off topic. anywho Any special settings I should use on a laptop when its folding? its taking forever! like its been foling a 250 work unit for 5 days and its only on 123. and its a 1 ghz amd duron lappy

[GnomeWizardd]

no the power features are turned off

[a2jfreak]

All right guys! You're doing great!
Just checked the stats and we've pushed back the takeover date from Sunday to Monday. I hate that we still have a takeover date, but it's been pushed back a whole day due to increased production!

You guys rock! :thumbsup:
:fold: :fold: :fold: :fold: :fold:

[TBonZ]

How about knocking that date back to Wed. :D Great work everybody, we have been consistently orange for a few days now. :thumbsup: :respect:

[mmonnin]

I really, Really, REALLY like the pattern this team has shown the past 2 weeks. Nothing but UP. I feel a lot better about this teams progress.:)

Fold on everyone, you are kicking ass.

[mmonnin]

I think I know why it went back 3 days. We may just stay ahead of Ars. They lost their #1 folder. Thats ~24k a week they dont have. Weekly shows 18k but he was doing about 3500 a day average.

We have actually pulled away the past few days.

[a2jfreak]

He must work for NASA . . . THAT'S NOT FAIR! hahaha. :D

Actually, I hope he comes back because folding needs his help, but I hope he joins Team 93! not rejoin Ars!

mmonnin said
I think I know why it went back 3 days. We may just stay ahead of Ars. They lost their #1 folder. Thats ~24k a week they dont have. Weekly shows 18k but he was doing about 3500 a day average.

We have actually pulled away the past few days.

[primesuspect]

He posted on Ars Openforums - he said his lab was down for the weekend only. He'll be back on Tuesday full force.

Kiss our repreive goodbye :(

[shwaip]

I dunno about you guys, but that's not how I would like to stay ahead or pass someone. We should have to work for it ;)

[Lincoln]

shwaip said
I dunno about you guys, but that's not how I would like to stay ahead or pass someone. We should have to work for it ;)

Good show, shwaip :)

[TheLostSwede]

/me looks for Internet Cafe´s on his business trip :D

[Norge]

Tis a major bummer that people are starting to catch us but we can catch up again. I'll send an e-mail out to a few friends and see if I can't get them folding as well.

Norge

[Jake]

We're no lame ducks, though, even come Tuesday. t1rhino, MikeP, and myself have all greatly increased our production in the past week or two. And, as I'm sure the observant have already noticed, Jumpin'_Jack seems to be getting rather quickly back into the swing of things. If he ends up coming back full-strength... well, trust me, we ain't looking that bad these days.

[Geeky1]

Well I dunno if it can be credited with any of the recent upswing in production or not, but I did post a thread about F@H on an aquarium forum I'm a member of- linked to stanford's site as well as here, so...

Little OT, but... if you plan on folding on a laptop, do yourself (and it) a favor, and add some external cooling- it's going to need it. Laptop heatsinks are designed with very little headroom for high heat output, and generally have very little tolerance for dust, and the laptop will run very hot if it's running F@H without some kind of external cooling, regardless of how old/slow it is.

[a2jfreak]

Doesn't the GoogleBar fold in the background? Maybe we could do something like that for S-M! :D

[fatcat]

well ive got muh puter folding about 10hrs/day now instead of 3. The weather has cooled down so i dont need the A/C running...wish i could help out more guys

fc

[Enverex]

I think I have gained over 100 places in the last few days, and when I move into the attic I can add another (albiet crappy) machine, and also have my main and most powerful machine folding 24/7.....

I'm not willing to risk Uni by installing it on their machines though, as I am sure they are already aware of it....

NS

[a2jfreak]

NS: Yeah, your production has been pretty decent the last few days. :thumbsup: I've been keeping a close eye on ya.
Watch out though, I'm about to pass ya up like you're standing still! Wave bye-bye. :wave:

[danball1976]

Does anyone know how many points is project 567 (run 10, clone 154, Gen 1) worth?

Electron Microscope doesn't know, and displays "unk"

//EDIT//
downloaded latest protien data file. Its only 33pts. Been getting a lot of 33pt WU lately.

[mmonnin]

http://folding.stanford.edu/psummary.html has each current WU and its points.

[a2jfreak]

Me too. Most of my WUs recently have been 500 frames. Before that they were 2500 frames. I like the 100 frame WUs the most, but the 250 are good on my Athlons too.

danball1976 said

//EDIT//
downloaded latest protien data file. Its only 33pts. Been getting a lot of 33pt WU lately.

[danball1976]

I've always had 100 frame Work Units.

[a2jfreak]

I wonder why.

The computer I'm on was turning in a 500 frame WU as I typed that and guess what it just grabbed? Another 500 frame WU. Not that I'm griping because whatever helps the project is most important, but the 100 frame WUs seem to complete a lot faster than the 500 frame WUs.

danball1976 said
I've always had 100 frame Work Units.

[Al_Capown]

I recently replaced the old thermal grease on my heatsink and oc'ed the hell out of my barton. I'm running stable @ 2.3 and folding 24/7. Lets hope it helps. Also, when my dad finally gets around to building his p4 system. I will definetly be oc'ing that to 3.2-3.4 ghz and adding it to the folding team.

[muddocktor]

I think I found the problem I was having on my Asus dually; I had a stick of Reg. Corsair go south on me and it was giving me BSOD's. I didn't have time to troubleshoot much before going to work last week but I sat down this evening and found the bad stick and pulled it. It's now been back up for around 2 hours with no problems, which is about 1 3/4 hours better than it was running.;) This should get me back to well over 3k points/week again.:)

[GHoosdum]

We've delayed doom a little while longer... and my new rig (the one in my sig) will be up and folding next week!

[primesuspect]

I've added three 24/7s since this thread was started, and I'll be adding a fourth as soon as I get a processor, and a fifth as soon as I pay Gnome the money I owe him and he ships me the parts I'm buying from him :D

[Geeky1]

I'll be resuming folding myself when it gets colder... All my computers are in my room, I can't sleep unless my room's 70*F or less, and dual 2500s, an 1800, a 2.4 P4, and possibly a 1.3 Celeron do a damn good job of heating up that room... When it gets colder I'll be able to drop my room into the mid-60s or lower even with them all on, so...

But right now it's just too hot :banghead:

[GnomeWizardd]

damn i run mine at 76*F

[Film]

i added a 1.4tbird :-)

[FoldingAddict]

All my CC machines have been cycled it seems. I'll go there in a few days and borg some new lappys again. That should be good for another 300 points per day at least.

~FA

[GHoosdum]

FoldingAddict said
All my CC machines have been cycled it seems. I'll go there in a few days and borg some new lappys again. That should be good for another 300 points per day at least.

~FA

Um... "Borg" is a verb now? :hair:

[FoldingAddict]

lol...I mean I'll go to CC and hijack a few idle lap tops. Nothing special, and I have to use the google compute toolbar so tinkers only.:(

But it should be good for a couple of P4s and maybe an AXP-M.

~FA

[GnomeWizardd]

as I see it the folding should really start picking up since college is back in session

[a2jfreak]

http://www.hardfolding.com/index.php?go=11


"What if I want to borg other computers for the [H]orde, can I do this without the average user knowing?"

GHoosdum said
Um... "Borg" is a verb now? :hair: