Rally The Front!
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P-Town, Texas Icrontian
There has been something really bothering me about the folding numbers the past couple of weeks. No its not Leo throwing zeros because I know that just means he is out of town.
The average production per member has steadily been going up for the past few months which is usually great. We were at about 3k ppd a user with keeping just under 100 active members. Then this past week something horrible happened. Our active user base is down to 75 from in the high 90s. This signals to me a possibility of two things.
1. Stanford cut support of some older clients that people were still running and they don't know about it or just don't care. This is the good reason
2. We had a massive exodus from the team. Which sucks
Our average is up to 3.4ppd which would be nice with 90+ people. With the active users so low is the real reason why our Team production took such a massive nose dive about 10 days ago right after it looked like we were going to be able to push the daily production far enough past 300k that we could keep it there for a few months.
So if you know of anyone that has stopped or has been folding and their user stats that they stopped recently yell at them. If I knew who these people were I would try and get hold of them to start a dialog to see what is going on. Input and information is requested. Work for the team show us why you deserve the
next to your name and get these people back in the game.
The average production per member has steadily been going up for the past few months which is usually great. We were at about 3k ppd a user with keeping just under 100 active members. Then this past week something horrible happened. Our active user base is down to 75 from in the high 90s. This signals to me a possibility of two things.
1. Stanford cut support of some older clients that people were still running and they don't know about it or just don't care. This is the good reason
2. We had a massive exodus from the team. Which sucks
Our average is up to 3.4ppd which would be nice with 90+ people. With the active users so low is the real reason why our Team production took such a massive nose dive about 10 days ago right after it looked like we were going to be able to push the daily production far enough past 300k that we could keep it there for a few months.
So if you know of anyone that has stopped or has been folding and their user stats that they stopped recently yell at them. If I knew who these people were I would try and get hold of them to start a dialog to see what is going on. Input and information is requested. Work for the team show us why you deserve the
next to your name and get these people back in the game. 0
Comments
I was surprised to see Leo's zeroes also, but then I remember reading something he wrote about shutting down the PCs if he's going to be gone for more than a day. A lot of points to lose!
We DO need to get more people in here though. I was considering making a F@H episode on my webshow (see signature).
I fold because it may help me (and others, of course) someday, but also to kind of make up for the variety of my own special opinions on a variety of things that I comment on in the Tech section!
Going to keep my gear up until I pass Scott's dead account, might be long if something comes up like it should.
Another plan was to set up enough server racks, K9A2s, and Nvidia 480 GTX video cards to average 1,000,000 PPD or more. And that could be my charitable donation or something.
Now I just have to win tomorrow. No problem!
It is hard to fold much when you are traveling, nights are all that you get.
Since I am a folding addict, even when I am not folding, I have been staring at our stats with a hushed lip and crossed fingers. The most important thing is that as a team we have been extremely consistent from day to do in our production, this sends tingles down my spine actually. This shows that most people on the team are spending the time and effort to make sure their folding clients stay up and running!
The other massive thing that has been happening is that almost all of the active members that dropped for a few weeks have re-engaged........talk to me goose.......talk to me goose...../full throttle.."sir maverick is re-engaging." Currently there are 94 active members which is where we were before the big drop in folders. Also the average ppd is looking good at 3,000. Then to top this all off the top 20 producers are all in the 3k+ppd range which hasn't happened in some time.
There are two newbies to the team that are sitting pretty in the top 20 that I would like to give a shout out too. Tushon, aka Natravis, and clifford_cooley. These two guys have jumped on board the folding train with what looks like plenty of fuel to get us further down the line.
Now the point besides just telling you what you can see for yourselves. This is great and it is making me feel good to be a member of this team while trying to steer it in a direction it feels like it needs to go. All I ask of everyone right now is to keep doing what you are doing.
We have a few guys working on building folding rigs/farms. Keep those logs updated so we know whats going because you just might inspire someone to follow your footsteps, plus I like reading them and seeing the pretty pretty pictures. All of ya'll that are folding keep up the great work it makes me excited about the team and community. Don't forget to look for new opportunities to inform people about folding and possibly borg up a machine
I'm letting you know I heard you shout and shouting back with folding pride.
EDIT: Looks like I spoke to soon.
I will work on the 9800 gx2 this weekend. Need to research how to do 3 cores on smp and then GPU for the 9800 gx2
You should be killing me if you are. I have a Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66 OC'd to 3.2. Using one SMP2 client on this machine gives me a 5K+ PPD at 100% CPU usage. You should be getting 4 times or more PPD than my machine if you are using 5 Quad core machines.