News July 2003
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Monday 07/07/03 |
| Special mention: |
| Let her rip plext, you little
beauty.
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| BEAT the BOX Giveaway: |
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BEAT the BOX nomination page has
been updated with week one's final numbers. I have added the amount
of BtB points and the first 2 numbers in the draw to the pages.
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Wednesday 09/07/03 |
| FBOX Foundation Fund: |
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The FBOX Foundation Fund has
reached a total of $500.69 you can check out the donation page
here. Thanks once again to all that
have donated.
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| BEAT the BOX Giveaway: |
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The
BEAT the BOX nomination page has
been updated with this weeks data. A BtB Giveaway draw numbers page
will follow soon.
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Thursday 10/07/03 |
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| Tinker Time: Interesting results found. | ||||||
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Stanford have found something interesting in the returned work for projects p638_L939_K12M_ext and p639_L939_K12M_nat. Which is good news and sounds promising, we are slowing chipping away and getting some good results for our hard work.
We found an
interesting result on the Tinker side of FAH and we'll be running
some more Tinkers to double check/investigate further/get more
statistics.
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| ChangeThis: Whoops I should have changed the username | ||||||
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If you are using DG's script to rollout a the FAH
client to multiple machines you may want to check your configs.
Because the default username
ChangeThis has managed to break into the 375 Club this week.
Forum thread is
here.
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| BEAT the BOX Giveaway: FBOX on fire. | ||||||
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The BEAT the BOX nomination page has been updated with the Giveaway draw numbers. FBOX1 has had 2 of the super fast 910 wu's and right now it has a new quicky a p911_vill_0 at 60 points. So far this week it has pumped out 301 points that means you lot will have to work harder to beat it.
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| Statometer : Its a matter of scale | ||||||
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I had to adjust the scales on quite a few bars on both sides of the Flogometer® section because of our unprecedented production surge. Who would have thought that we would be outscoring the [H]orde by over 25,000 points a day. We are knocking big chunks off their lead everyday and the days to No1 are reducing rapidly, as of this morning we had 135 days to go which makes it the 22nd of November. So all that remains is for the one remaining red bar to shrink bit by bit until finally it turns green to match the rest of them. This recent increase in output is not all attributed to the two big guys upfront, it is everyone that is contributing to the teams performance and the "engine room" is responsible for the majority of the points done each day. Below is a list of all the OCAU team members that have ramped up their production in the past week and managed to reach a new club level. Even if you haven't made it to the next level its your continued support and effort that has got us to where we are today. Its a team effort and the team shares the glory.
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| Attack of the killer Grannys: Stats are back | ||||||
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After almost a day without a stats fix they are back and ready for your perusing pleasure. Apparently a granny (NaN actually: Not a Number) wandered into a few teams pages and caused havoc with the stats database. Vijay and co went granny hunting and found them hiding in quite a few teams stats pages, some were a bit stubborn and needed coaxing out with a cup of hot Milo and the promise of a game of bingo. Anyway the geriatric points corruptors has been put to bed and all is well.
ok, this should be fixed. It turns out that getting NaNs out of mysql isn't that easy, but it's done. Good thing we have multiple ways of backing up the stats data ...
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| OCAU F@H channel: Fold and chat | ||||||
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l00b3r would like everyone to
know that there is a FAH mIRC channel for you to hang out in and
have a chat with your folding buddies.
Server: waix.oz.org
Chan: #FAH., the link is
here.
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Friday 11/07/03 |
| New Folding Page: Quicker Better |
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At last a new Folding page that doesn't take forever to load up.
It has a new Statsbar with the Statometer built in, it even has an
off button to, it is off by default to speed up the load time. All
the other features of the previous Statsbar are included in the
new one.
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Sunday 13/07/03 |
| Top 500: |
| This weeks xylus 500 is here |
| BEAT the BOX: Time running out. |
| Just 12 hrs left to get those points in to BEAT the BOX. The draw will be held tomorrow morning after 07:00 WST. |
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Monday 14/07/03 |
| Statometer: New Chart |
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There is a new chart that has been added to
the Statometer, this shows the daily gain/loss to the [H]orde over
the past 30 days.
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| BEAT the BOX: The winner is |
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The winner of the very first FBOX is
BEAT the BOX 2 starts next Monday the 21st of July. This time it will be a bit easier to beat...
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Wednesday 16/07/03 |
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| FBOX Donation: Out of the blue | ||||||||||
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We had a surprise visit from acr yesterday in the forums. If you
remember back to Giveaway3 acr (Paul) had promised a XP2100+ CPU
has a prize for the giveaway but when the time came to finalise
the prize list acr could not be contacted and so no prize. This
brought about the creation of the FBOX collection. Anyway acr
dropped in yesterday and here is what he had to say...
just to get myself in a little bit of trouble.... We now have a XP2100B CPU for the next FBOX which will go nicely with the motherboard that deranged128 is going to send our way. Thanks Paul its good to see things have worked out ok for you. FBOX update: F6, F7 and F8 are complete and folding away nicely.
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| BEAT the BOX: Looney by name... | ||||||||||
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The winner of the inaugural BEAT the BOX giveaway, Looney has
kindly covered the cost of postage and has also made a generous
donation to the FBOX Foundation Fund as well. Now that is a great
gesture and shows the type of team spirit and generosity that
lives under the Overclockers Australia Folding@home Team banner.
Well done mate and you definitely aren't Looney by nature. FBOX1
will be in the post by lunch time today and on its way to
Victoria.
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Sunday 20/07/03 |
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This weeks xylus 500 is here.
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| The Folding Week that was. | ||||||||||||||||||
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A collection of Folding highlights for the past 7 days. Forum threads....
Stats
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| BEAT the BOX: Round 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tomorrow at 7am WST Round 2 of BEAT the BOX begins. FBOX2 will be
an easy beat for most people, it produces around the 200 PPW mark.
The first photo below shows FBOX2 with FBOX3,7 and 8, the cases
are what DG brought over last weekend. I have updated the
BEAT the BOX page for Round 2.
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Monday 21/07/03 |
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| New Folding Clubs: | ||||
The dynamic duo (DG and plext) have set new records for PPW and
required a new group of Clubs being made up. Finally I have caught
up with them and the Folding Club
page has been updated accordingly. Well done guys, its hard work
keeping up will both of you. But I don't mind one bit.
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| 75K race: New combatants. | ||||
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A new gauntlet is under way this morning between
ArmidaleLAN.com,
BallBag and
Silicon Wars - a New Hope to see who can reach 75,000
points first.
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| BEAT the BOX: Round 2 | ||||
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Away we go.
Just a reminder that the winner of the FBOX must agree to this pledge... The winner must pledge to run the FBOX 24/7. The reason being that the donations were made so that the Folding cause and the Overclockers Australia Folding team would benefit from everyone pooling there unused parts to make up these FBOX's. Therefore we need a commitment from the winner that this will happen... Some of the members (about 14) that have signed up for the BEAT the BOX giveaway actually stopped folding in the past week or produced less than 50 points. As stated on the BEAT the BOX page this giveaway is for the "dedicated" folder and doesn't suit everyone. I have removed a few names by request from those that will not be able to honour the pledge or haven't produced any points since nominating.
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Wednesday 23/07/03 |
| Electron Microscope III v2.4.1:(Update) |
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Updated Genome
Calc If you do Genome only and have a Genome team number, i.e. a team number greater than 100000, the formula to calculate your points has been changed. EM should now display a point value close to what Stanford calculates. Because the points are calculated by different systems with different OS's, the points EM displays may not be exactly what you get, but it should be close. Bar Graph Display As you scroll through the different windows in the options menu, if you have data saved, EM can display a bar graph of your data. EM was trying to display the data when the window was displayed and this works fine as long as the data file isn't too large. Once the file gets large, it takes more time for EM to display the data and you can't just move on to the next page without waiting. Now you have to push a button to display the bar graph. This allows you to move instantly from one page to the next without a delay. Generate Stats according to IP When generating HTML stats, you can now choose Server IP instead of All Proteins or a particular protein. This will allow you to track what proteins you have done by any IP number used by Stanford. The default IP is 000 and you need to enter a number when you want to use this feature. Once you enter the IP number, you can then choose the box or all the boxes. Then, choose Server IP from the Protein / Item list. Press Make HTML and the HTML page will be generated with only the IP number you entered. The last 3 numbers in the Server IP address are the only numbers you need to enter. Enjoy! Get it here: http://www.em-dc.com
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| EM-DC.COM |
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Larry the author of our favourite FAH monitoring software
EM3 has decided to set up his own
Folding team. This was done to remove the possibility of a
conflict of interest by being on the [H]ardOCP team. Good luck
Larry we all wish you well. I decided that the EM-DC.COM web site needed a F@H team named for it. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join. Points are fun, but science is the reason. For me, being a member of any F@H team causes a mild conflict of interest. This way, I have no real conflicts and I can still contribute to my favorite project, F@H, and I can remain neutral.
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| Movie trivia: |
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Can you guess what movie this quote comes from... "Tell them, that FBox 1 has arrived safely in the new land, and it's CPU welled with tears" If you can then Looney will donated another $50 to the FBOX Foundation fund to add to the $100 he has already donated. If you know the answer then post in this thread with the original words from the movie. FBOX1 landed at Looney's place on Monday and is now crunching away for its new owner.
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Thursday 24/07/03 |
| New Members: Welcome to the team. |
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Thanks to the News post by Agg last week we have had a large influx of new members. We have had 65 new recruits join the team to help us beat the enemy, no not [H]. The enemy is the dreadful diseases we are all helping to try find a cure for. Welcome everyone we hope you settle in for the long haul because we are going to need your cycles for a long time to come.
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| Statometer: A flogging on the left and a flogging on the right. |
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We are now giving both teams a good old flogging like never
before. We have hit the 100k mark once again for our daily output.
Which has resulted in the [H] losing ground at 30k a day and we
have just about doubled oc.com daily score as well. The thin
orange bars on the charts represent the peak score for each
section and as you can see they are all peaked. Except for the red
bar which is shrinking every day, we have just 56 more days to go
now till the #1 Folding team title comes home to roost once more.
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| Movie trivia: Tougher than we first thought. |
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A little clue from Looney to
help us out a bit. The thread is
here. "It is from a huge movie that was main stream but is considered both a chick flick and a medieval film......."
"If no one can come up with it by
Saturday I will give a new clue as to the origins." |
| New Folding Affiliate: Helping badg3er climb up the ladder. |
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A big thanks to
LADaMAX
for letting badg3er install folding on the office computers and
for letting him print out the FBOX labels.
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| News Flash: Upright religious types join Folding Team |
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The bizarre story of how a group of frustrated DFers banded
together to form a subteam for one of the worlds leading Folding
teams has just come to light. The ringleader of the is group goes
by the name of
cenuijmu and he is out to impress the
Folding world with his unorthodox methods, hence the name
Team_DF_Erect_Vicar. Quoted as saying
"I
know it is painful hallmar but it'd be fun to have a busmans
holiday and have another rude name, along with bollocks, on F@H."
and "We'll be the talk of the
town." goes to
shows that he will stoop to never before seen tactics in an effort
to further the folding cause. This Folding cult group with their tenuous religious links have already started to spread their influence on unsuspecting individuals and if allowed to spread there influential diatribe freely without check who knows where they will end up. A quote from one of cenuijmu's henchmen, hallmar. says "Better have the caps .. makes us seem more .. well .. sophisticated" goes to show that they are just out to hoodwink the general FAH community into believing that they are a high class operation hoping to fool unsuspecting souls looking to turn there idle time into something more productive. After further
investigation by our undercover reporter Teddy. It has be revealed
that cenuijmu's has a dark side that many
don't know about and the details have only just surfaced about his
secret life away from the Folding spot light
"...
that crazy POM Andy who sits there with a coat on windows & doors
fully open" , "he also runs around naked in the snow too ..."
. These quotes only go to show that the Folding community
has much to fear from this group and the world will not be the
same. |
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Sunday 27/07/03 |
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This weeks xylus 500 is here.
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Monday 28/07/03 |
| Credits for "EARLY_UNIT_END " errors. |
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News from the
Folding-Community about credit for partially completed WU's
which was implemented with the release of the new Gromac core
1.49.
I
wanted to comment
on the current state of GROMACS partial credit and F@H stats. To
our knowledge, the F@H stats system is back in tip-top shape and
operating properly. In the latest GROMACS core release (1.49) we
have enabled partial crediting for WU's that do not go to
completion (this is not an issue for the more-stable Tinker WU's,
which do not suffer from unexpected EARLY_UNIT_END errors).
Partial credit awarded is based on the number of calculations that
were successfully completed (ie. if you finish 25% of the WU, you
get 25% of the points). If you are not currently using the 1.49
core you can delete your current core and allow the client to
auto-download version 1.49.
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| The Folding Week that was. |
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A collection of Folding highlights for the past 7 days. Forum threads....
Stats
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| BEAT the BOX: Round 2 |
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Week 1 for BtB2
has finished and 181 members BEAT the BOX, with 12 members
managing to get between 50% and 99% of the boxes score. But
unfortunately 12 members failed to return any score, these
nominations if still at "0" by the end of this week they will be
evicted from the giveaway.
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Friday 01/08/03 |
| BYO FBOXen update. |
The cases and motherboards have been ordered from
MAT. But we will need a few more donations before we can get
the processors and RAM, many thanks to those members who are on
their second round of donations. The specs of the BYO FBOXes
are below
These machines will be given away to those that have donated money to the FFF. The winners will be selected by a random draw by the usual method after being assigned a number. If you want to be included or excluded from the draw for a BYO FBOX let me know in this thread. We are just waiting on these FFF donators below to respond. Smash3D, Invictus.
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| FBOX page updated. |
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The FBOX page has been updated with the
addition of FBOX9. This is the fastest FBOX so far and is powered
by a Teddy donated XP2400 and ASUS A7V8X and 256 MB of PC2700 from
mike_wp. Add in a GF2 MX400 from Pyro and a 1.6G HDD donated from
afrank and you have a mean folding machine capable of hitting a
century every time. Hence the name Bradman, all that is missing is
a case and Bradman can come to the crease and start belting sixes
for the team. We also have 3 orphaned CPU's waiting for a home. We need a motherboard and accessories for a XP1800+ and 2 Duron 1300's. If you can help drop into the FBOX thread and let us know. |
| New stats page. |
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Dyyryath from the
Free-DC team has started doing Folding@home
stats for our stats perusing pleasure. The forum thread is
here and the links to the
teams page and
OCAU page have been added to the Stats links on this page.
With these stats you can even make custom graphs with the
Multi Team Graphs generator page, like this
one. Nice one
Dyyryath.
I've been doing
stats for
Distributed Folding for some time. Over the last several
months, I've gotten a TON of requests for Folding@Home support.
It's taken me awhile, but I finally got the free time to add F@H,
so I thought now that it was live I'd let anyone here who might be
interested know they were available.
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| anonymous and "_" ejected from the stats. |
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A request by
OC_AMD to remove the two default usernames from the
Top 100 donator list was acted upon the guys at Stanford. This
means that the top 2 listings are occupied by Overclockers
Australia team members, DGROMS.com and plext.
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| New Gromacs core 1.49 works a treat. |
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I was doing a little bit of overclocking today on a client with
the new 1.49 core and it didn't like the speed that I had set it
to. Bugger I thought there is 52 frames down the drain on a 29.4
pointer. It turned out ok because at the next Stanford update
there was an extra 15 points added to my total. Not sure if the
same thing happens when the check sums don't match but I will find
out in due course no doubt.
[06:59:59] (Starting from
checkpoint)
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