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[dnamechanic]

Welcome tyler.

You are the 176th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thanks

[dnamechanic]

Welcome eyu100,

You are the 177th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thanks

[Live Forever]

Looks like the team has been holding steady at the 225 mark for a bit now. Given the current pace, we could pass 3 more teams in the next 4 days, though. It would be nice to add in some more reinforcements and climb up a bit more. (it would be super good to get some PS3s or GPUs in our court since they crank them out so much more efficiently)

[thumb]

[JohnDoe1234]

Wow, great job everyone!

[dnamechanic]

Yes Live Forever,

The TLM team has been holding steady at about rank 225 for months. During this time, for example the Microsoft folding team has produced a constant 5,000 points-per-day (approx) and yet they have regressed from rank 200 to their current position of rank 220.

As you noted earlier, the massive influx of PS3s and their computational power has set back in rankings all but the highest ranked teams, relatively speaking. Fine, this is good for science.

Nevertheless, the TLM team has picked up a lot of processing power over the months.

There are a couple of folders on the Longevity Meme team that I'm fairly sure use PS3s. I think bwille24 was the first contributor with the PS3 and pacini, probably he uses a PS3 also. I may have seen another. Maybe anyone reading this who is using a PS3 can chime in.

It's like an Alice and the Queen conversation in Through the Looking-Glass:

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

[dnamechanic]

Welcome Christian,

You are the 178th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

[dnamechanic]

Welcome EastLondon.E13,

You are the 179th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

[Ghostrider]

Over 2/3 of the current FAH TFLOPs comes from PS3. Impressive.

[dnamechanic]

Yes Ghostrider,

The productivity of the PS3s is impressive. The PS3 is obviously a powerful number cruncher. And, a fairly large number of PS3 owners have chosen to contribute, that also is impressive.

[dnamechanic]

Welcome hmooers,

You are the 180th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

[Live Forever]

Looks like Folding@Home finally crossed the petaflop barrier for real, due mostly to PS3 support:
http://fah-web.stanf...y?qtype=osstats

From the F@H blog:
http://folding.typep...ing-the-pe.html

I submitted the story to digg if anyone is interested.

Edited by Live Forever, 18 September 2007 - 05:02 AM.

[dnamechanic]

Thanks Live Forever, for the Petaflop story.

And, welcome to iLLgiLL1200,

You are the 181st contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

[dnamechanic]

Welcome,

- Maciek_Kolodziejczyk
- Chana_de_Wolf
- dopaminergic

You are contributors number 182, 183, and 184 to The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Not sure about the number order of signing on.

Thank you.

[dnamechanic]

Welcome Jathan462,

You are the 186th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

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The 185th contributor is not listed in this thread. If the contributor is not identified early, it becomes difficult to identify the order of signing on due to progression through the ranks of contributors. I haven't been keeping close track lately, mainly because I have been on travel out of Internet connectivity for a week or so. To the 185th contributor, let us know and add your name to this growing list, Thank you.

[dnamechanic]

Welcome tman,

You are the 187th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

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We currently have 40 active contributors, the most I have seen at any one time.

[dnamechanic]

Welcome DonSpanton,

You are the 188th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

[Live Forever]

Welcome DonSpanton,

You are the 188th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

Don, you joined? Cool! [thumb]

[dnamechanic]

Welcome swink,

You are the 189th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

[dnamechanic]

Professor Pande of Stanford's Folding@Home was interviewed by DL TV.

From the FAH blog:

"The guys from DL TV came by the other day to visit the Folding@home operation and we chatted a bit.  They've made a 3-part interview out of this and the first part is now up on their web site.."

The interview is about seven minutes in length.

To see the interview without watching the whole program:
- click the DL link
- then click to see video,
- then click the smaller window lower in the display labeled Folding@Home

A commercial of about one minute plays, then the interview.

The DL link

It is pretty good. The guys at DL.TV are contributors.

[Live Forever]

Interesting, thanks for the heads up. I usually check the F@H blog once or twice a week, but I hadn't seen that post yet. Looks interesting; I will watch it here in a little bit.

[Shepard]

Broke into the Top 20, baby.

I'm a coming.

[Live Forever]

Looks like they have a new "look" for the front page of their site, starting yesterday:
http://folding.stanford.edu/

Looks a lot better than it did.

[dnamechanic]

Welcome medina8304,

You are the 190th contributor to join The Longevity Meme F@H team.

Thank you.

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Selected Stats at the Extreme OC site:

Current active contributors - 36
Total work Units completed - 21,831
Total Points (accumulated) - 5,406,428
Points per Day (Avg. ppd) - 14,032
Team Rank - 213

[maestro949]

Looks like they have a new "look" for the front page of their site, starting yesterday:
http://folding.stanford.edu/

Looks a lot better than it did.

Indeed - nice face lift.

dl.tv interviewed Prof. Pande in their latest two episodes (200 & 201). Towards the end of the first episode he mentions that they are moving on to bigger proteins, turning the corner from in silico to real world application and might have some exciting news in the next few months. dl.tv's folding team has raced all the way to #20!

Folding is a good way to heat your house in the winter months [lol]

[dnamechanic]

maestro949 -  dl.tv's folding team has raced all the way to #20!

Yes, indeed. The team competition has been a boon for F@H. The score/ranking system appeals to the gamer. And, it encourages participation by friendly competition.

maestro949 -  Folding is a good way to heat your house in the winter months  [lol]

Yep.

Some call their folding machines 'toasters'.

Others renamed certain Intel CPUs such as the Pentium Prescott core, Presc'hott'

The two top ranked F@H teams, [H]ardOCP and Overclockers Australia, are currently ranked #1 and #2 respectively. They used to change positions with the season. During winters in US, [H]ardOCP dominated. Then, in US summers, OCAU dominated. The reason for this was mostly related to temperature. Many of the major contributors to each group overclocked their CPUs. Overclocking increases CPU heat output in a nonlinear manner. CPU heat goes up rapidly with overclocking and must be dissipated quickly for the computer to remain stable. This is much easier to do in a cool or cold climate. So in northern winters [H]OCP took the lead, in southern winters the lead reverted back to OCAU. Tho, currently looks like [H]OCP has prevailed.

In the last couple of years, aftermarket CPU coolers have improved dramatically so CPU cooling is maybe not quite the technical challenge it once was. Of course overclockers always push the limits.

[A941]

How do i join a Team?

[dnamechanic]

A941  - How do i join a Team?

Hi A941,

Reason, publisher of The Longevity Meme has a description of how to join The Longevity Meme folding team.

- Visit the F@H Website
- Download the client

Choose the client based on your OS ( WinXP, Linux, Mac, or PS3)

For most there is also a choice of Graphical or "Text-only" client.
The text-only choice is a command-line interface only.

Also there is a choice for high-performance (GPU, SMP). Choose these only if you have certain kinds of high performance hardware.

Generally, if new to folding, choose the graphical client for your specific OS.
For example: for WinXP at the top of the listing (Version 5.03).

- Install the client
- Choose your Username carefully, it cannot be changed later without starting fresh.
If you want a space in username, put an underscore like this. my_username
- Enter your team number: The Longevity Meme is team # 32461

Post back here if you have questions or concerns.

[Live Forever]

Yeah, really all you have to know is do everything like you normally would, and just type in 32461 as your team number.

32461 is the number to remember.

[s123]

Where do you have to enter your team number?

[dnamechanic]

s123 - Where do you have to enter your team number?

After you click on the downloaded client and install it:

- If it is graphical account it will have a window to enter your Username and team number.

- If it is the Text-only version it will present configuration questions in the command line interface.