We are starting to slip in our folding production and beefy is slipping away also. We aren’t losing by many points to them, a extra few units per day would make up the difference in a week. We were behind by 10K but it has since gone down slightly so there is hope. We have beaten their output 3 of the past 4 updates.
I know everyone is folding hard… but if there is anyone on TPR who is not folding, or has a few extra rigs that they can put towards the project, I really encourage it. Our teams name is on the line, lets not let ourselves down.
Like DT says both teams have had a good responce to the race and the real winner is Stanford, and compared to a few weeks back the folding team is going great guns, but with summer on the go it is enevitable that we would lose a few crunchers/machines due to heat. I hope that the majority will continue to fold once the races are over.
Well unless global warming takes off in a big way, summer temeratures are not a huge problem in Scotland. Finally I’ve found an advantage to our crap weather :rolleyes:
So to make you feel a bit better (not) I’ll switch on a 3.6GHz P4 HT to help make up the difference.
4,000 a day down to about 1400 sure is smarting, I’m trying to avoid looking at the stats page that shows Nightlord as top Folder. Just makes me want to buy air-con units :cuckoo:
I know it hurts, I borrowed a unit last year and I think I’m still paying for it the way my direct debit billing works. Was a massive increase, this year is simple, wireless laptop in the shade bit of the garden
I didn’t even think of that. It’s about… 3C outside at the moment.
As someone also noted on our forums, you guys are outproducing what we had been doing before the challenge. Everyone does seem to have stepped up, and it’s good to see
OK I’m folding about as much as i can atm (i have even managed to convince my mother that this folding lark was worthwhile!) But at what point does it become unviable to install foldibng on a pc. I mean what cpu/memory combo is gonna strugle so hard that any contribution becomes negligible compared to the time taken to produce it.
I’ve got a couple of old 550’s and 700’s lying about and could put them together with a leap into linux to get them up but tbh would it be worth the effort?
Yes Lucky for you in Australia… winter time there now I suppose… how cold does it actually get… Where i’m from its about -20C in the winter and +30C in the summer… right now its not too bad at 23C but its supposed to hit 33C this week. My P4’s may have to take an afternoon off if thats the case… especially with stock Intel cooling units in them all.
