Over? It ain't over till we SAY it's over.... Top 10 comeback thread
primesuspect
Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
We're mere days away from being bumped out of the top 10 folding teams in the world 
Congrats to the SA Goons and their mighty folding team
One day, maybe we'll be able to get our production back up to epic levels
Congrats to the SA Goons and their mighty folding team
One day, maybe we'll be able to get our production back up to epic levels
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I took a look at the team summary provided by E.O's stats page, and I noticed Team SM's points dropped quite a bit some time ago. Was this due to a general drought of points, or did somebody crucial drop out of the game? If it's the latter, don't worry about mentioning any names.
Still, I'm quite impressed by 93's score. I noticed the # of members vs the # of points, and the productivity ratio is pretty sweet. Kudos to everyone that made that possible.
We all fight for the cure
"g"
:smokin:
Who knows, things could change
w00t for team #93
Fold on.
hehehehe
O.k I have 44 Machines now in the farm - "fly my pretties, fly ....."
Friday I am going to finally get a chance to install FAH on the UVJVS_Lab computers again. Asked for Friday off, didnt get it but I am still not going. I worked over tonight to get my hours in tho. That should add several thousand points/week I hope.
http://www.short-media.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=14
[Today's History Lesson] 3.some years ago when we were the Icrontic Folding Team we held a spot in the Top 10. As the project gained popularity with lots of Teams entering the fray, our Team slid steadily back to #19. As we fell back, we got mad, literally, we were a Team of rabid folders who recruited people every chance we got and we grew by leaps and bounds. We turned things around and started climbing our way back to our rightful place. I do believe it only took 3 or 4 months to recrack the illustrious Top 10, where by we climbed as high as #5. We have, very, very slowly slipped back down to where we are now but for over 3 years we held Top 10.[/History Lesson]
The morale of this story....it sucks being taken out, but believe me, it's more than satisfying to reclaim glory by taking back our rightful spot on the Folding@Home Top 10. These are the moments when the Team gets stronger and pushes forward, this setback gives us a chance to focus on a specific goal, recruiting wherever possible and coming back bigger and stronger. We know what we need to do, so let's do it.
I don't have much time to comment but let me just say this.
I've been in the top 20 of the stanford stats myself. Over time I've trickled down to the 30 spot and now I'm somwhere around 32. Over the past few weeks I've lost a few spots ...not because of slacking stats (which I have been) but because of the overall popularity of folding as a whole lately.
Since we our team is small size that we are with the huge production that we put out we can all but realize that more and more ppl are folding on more and more machines. In some instances whole teams are centered around one name and in many cases there are large labs that fold (larger than mine).
So ...think keep on folding and realize that more and more is going to the cause ...and that the end result should come sooner that if we remained within the top 10.
csimon
This shall be my rallying cry!
Also, at the top of the list fo threads in the folding team area here, there is a thread called "all about folding" that will explain a whole heck of a lot, and General Keebler's posts have links to info in his signature also.
To the team as a whole: Trick with long term things like folding is long term commitment, not nessecarily ALL your resources, but at least some all the time for a long time. BTW, our average daily team points as of today (this morning) is around 66K, and every six hours our team cranks out about 17-17.5 K worth of work if last 24 hours shown on Statsman and EOC are accurate. We are exceeding Team Rage3D's WEEKLY production by a littel over 28,000 points (I rounded to thousands) and are behind Maxiumum PC by 32,000 (rounded to thousands) for the week. By no means is all lost, and the new folders ARE helping. Look, for instance, at Deicist, who has not been folding more than year for Team 93 right now and is a smoking-grade producer right now.
One more thing-- have you noticed that this site, and points, pick up when schooltime comes, almost every year??? That is not a coincidence, we are gaming less and working more with our boxes, and working at school boxes for more time than in summer.
We do need to press more, but in my case the team is getting about 266 points a day (overall week-to-week daily average, stripped of daily and hourly floats) that it was NOT getting until October 15 because I was doing some stats and other things for Folding @ Home as Team Johndanielsonii.com and now the boxes are sticking up points about right for Team 93 again.
So, my prod is a drop in the bucket compared to the team total. If we had 31.8 percent of the nominal members showing ACTIVE like the tech report, let's just say our points prod would be one heck of a lot closer to The Tech Report's figures and over other team's prod that are now above us-- I calc it this way:
Current active % of total team members is 19.7, and we are doing about 66K a day.
31.8/19.7 calcs to a factor of 1.614:1, so 66KX1.614 = 106,524 points DAILY. We need more of the nominal members folding, as an overall percentage of the whole bunch of IDs, or we need more members, or some of each, or we need a few more very large farms or a dozen more decent sized farms of 4-6 high-powered computers.
I know, for instance, that Thrax can do more points also, he did while resisting the jihad I called on him, with an ace up my sleeve when I did so (second box, not then folding)-- but I'm gonna have to push a tib more, Thrax. Mid to late January, I pass you. Period. Unless you get your average to 217 PPD again, then it will be 6-7 months. Take your prod, day-in, day-out, to over 270 PPD forever, I will not be passing you for a year or so, but then I will be massively upgrading things here. Now's a good time for the Team to have more points, so what say you, Thrax???
Let's get the Jihad's and team prod up while some of us are in school and the machines can fold without being loaded with gaming during the day while that is going on. I think it is blitz time, team style.... As ONLY Short-Medians TOGETHER HAVE and CAN do this blitzing with MANY more points per active ID than almost all the other teams that Fold.
Worst case, we should be able to hold onto Team Position 10 or regain it in next two-three months, of over 36,000 teams-- if we hang in there and all pitch in as we CAN and have proven we can because WE DID.
while i have been non-existent here for a while (i'm in grad school now) I thought i'd let you know that i've resumed folding on my main rig and hopefully i will be able to secure some machines at UCSB in the near future to build a new farm. Unfortunatly all my old machines are gonners or not under my control anymore so I'll have to start from scratch... but don't worry I'm back, doing my part even in a limited capacity.
Fold on Team 93
//edit: i resumed folding about a week ago, before i knew that we were to be passed, just fyi
I'll get back in. Again x 2. Last time my initiative disappeared with the sunset. I'll try adding more machines. Maybe get a few at my mom's work to fold... we'll see. Mine will fold during the day, only no RAM-heavy ones. I hate those more than you know. And I'll get my parents' computer to fold, too.
Guilt-trip? Being knocked out of the top 10 is big news man. A call to arms is what it is, not a pity party. Nice to see you intend on setting up for the cause Entropy.