Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:50:21 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/ Team Egg Roll en-us http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/images/logo.gif http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/ marcc@manwe.no-ip.org http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=623 The Folding@home Support Forum has recently added 4 new forum moderators to fill some big shoes. Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:27:27 +0100 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=622 Here are some of the notable topics of interest from the last few months in the F@H Project, News, Client Developments (version 6, GPU, ClearSpeed), etc... Mon, 22 May 2006 21:14:13 +0100 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=617 We missed a couple notable Folding@Home news items in the last few months while I was taking a hiatus.9/20/2005 FAH passes the 200,000 active CPU count FAH's power continues to grow, now pushing beyond the 200,000 active CPU count.10/1/2005 Happy Fifth Birthday FAH!FAH just passed its fifth anniversary. Thanks to all who have made the project such a success.1/1/2006 Maximum PC Magazine Passes TER!We held on to 8th place through the end of 2005, but the new year starts with Team EggRoll in 9th.  We're well ahead of the 10th placed SAGOONS (boo, hiss) but they are currently outproducing us.  We also lost our top Folder (Trogs) in 2005, but several smaller pharmers are helping to pick up the slack (Thanks, and you know who you are).  And we would welcome any new additions to help us move back up the ranks in 2006! Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:43:37 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=608 Client v5.04 Public Beta ReleasedClient v5.04 is in public beta for Linux and Windows (console). It allows configuration of the amount of memory reported and the setting of advmethods through the [client]Configuration so that it persists [outside of the command line]. This is a maintenance release, with more signficant improvements coming in v.6. See http://folding.stanford.edu/beta for more details.Also o­n the Stanford News page today...New Assignment Server (AS) fallback scheme.We've implemented a new AS fallback scheme for how WUs are assigned. We will talk more about about how this works o­nce we see if it works well. It's now being tested o­n both ASes. QMD re-release complete QMD's are now going to machines reporting 504MB or more and with the appropriate flags (BigWU + advmethods). We're now back to the previous value. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:01:01 +0100 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=590 Earlier this month, Professor Vijay S. Pande, PhD, the Director of the Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project, and Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University, formally announced the project would be developing a Folding client based o­n Berkeley's Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). The article notes the Pande Group has been working with David Anderson's group at Berkeley for more than a year, presumably (IMO) while the BOINC DC platform continued to evolve and mature to a point where it would support the unique needs of the Folding project. A closed beta is currently collecting data from core members of the BOINC and Folding projects, with an open beta test of the client to be announced in the coming weeks. Please note the BOINC client WILL NOT be replacing the current Folding client, but will continue to be developed in parallel. Posted o­n the Folding-Community.org forums here, with an o­n going discussion here.Team EggRoll would certainly appreciate any input from the members of Team Lamb Chop and Team Baked Alaska who are running o­n the BOINC DC platform, especially during the beta testing phase. Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:15:29 +0100 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=586 It's that time again. Time for that old woman from West Texas to produce the TER Milestone Report. So lets get with it. Oh and don't forget when you add any new production to TER visit this thread and let us know how much are adding right here. http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/122097561/m/511007612731 And if you haven't joined yet then visit here and get the client . We are Team #14 http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html Now before we go on I want to introduce a group of people who are making their first appearance in the Milstone report. These fine people have completed their first 1,000 points in F@H for TER. A hearty congrats to all of you. Now here they are: Jarrod, end, dpr, NSDAC, MontyApollo, kwikit, wallace_kz, MaterialScientist, SkiingOnMars, elgorado, brenda, Keats, digraph, Cataclysm, bookem1, kerrhyphen, erben22, Oerlikon, Kerry56, srakoczy, aharden, albrnick, vicente,_tx, Hades_au, johnf, psoulocybe, salamiObelisk, SuperNerd, Ahheck01, supershua, logan-5, bosko,raptor154, russm, CrimsonHarvest, baitzj, KanyonKris, Alex182, Greybeard49, Gopherhog, John_Roche,_Q_ , sibladeko, jason732, pablo44, Sagan, starkravenmad, road, brool, Bob_Herman, iPalindrome, 4TheGood, cheesetape,dseidl,palinski, EGPoulin, kalila, jonclegg, Syonyk, Voodoo_Child, Doogie, cosmicspanner, pachinko, PanchoVia, Dr_Strangelove, Petergee, EEJuggler11, retard,i_am_syrinx, MauriceVineyard, temochin2, dsteven3, BugZilla,AirOgre, Falcon164016, hooverzilla, AUXSTUD, escotte, Flatiron, bmthedarknexus, AugustusGloop, kb9skw, CuriouslySane, Mike_Bulinski, pin, FordTheGoose, exitstageleft, goingonit, SpaceHerpe, and Jorje Now the rest of the Story: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:19:38 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=583 Good Morning TER This is your West Texas Granny with the Weekly TER MIlestone Report. As you all know last week Sopok joined the Million Point Club in F@H and we kicked off a recruiting drive. That resulted in a few people joining TER in the last week. Say, 280 people give or take a few. Not bad. Well this week, today in fact should see DoThe Ju join the 1.5 Million Point club In F@H. So lets get this party going and and boost our active users to no less than 1,000. What do you say? To join http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html Team # is 14 Now for part 1 of the rest of the story: As usual we give a hearty congrats to those who complete their first 1,000 points in F@H for TER. This week has been special as TER had our first 200,000+ point day. To be exact it was 215,984 points on 28 Feb 2005. The following new members and the many others who have joined were responsible for this achievement. Here is the first group of the new members to reach 1,000 points. More will follow later. Drum Roll please. Members of Ars DC and TER Team Members I present to you our newest members to reach 1,000 points in F@H. Herrre they are: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:35:48 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=579 First a little news. Rage3D passed The TechReport on thursday to move into 7th place. TER will also fall to Rage3D unless we moblize to fend of these people. At current levels Rage3D will pass TER in October 2005. Now to the report. First off a hearty congrats to these mighty fine poeple who have completed their first 1,000 pointsin F@H. These special people are: mcbrown, pvphoenix, bluepresto, GAx, mwz, dddexter and chrsjav. Great job guys and thanks for your support. Now for the rest of the story: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:50:07 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=578 Good morning all. West Texas Granny here with your weekly TER milestone report. But before we get started I want to point out that Rage3D has TER targeted and will overtake TER in 235 days. Their daily ouput continues to grow and as of today they are outproducing TER by 41,000+ points per Day and that's more than twice what it was only a week ago. Now for the Report. First off I would like to give a hearty congrats to those who have completed their first 1,000 points for TER. These mighty fine peope are: drpino, AbstractGladiator, Viking_Ant, jarrodb, mewkuss, Logain842, potatobreath, KroNos, Thundar, DMikeC, Grafux and Spungy. Now for the rest of the story: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:49:48 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=576 As most of you all know the great one Troglodytes has been our leading point producer in F@H for some time now. Well he just blew thru the 4 million point level prior to having to shutdown his machines down because of construction at his place. He will be back and stronger so don't fret. I just wanted to point out this acheivement of his. To date he has produced 4,016,487 points and has folded 77,972 work units. Great job Trogs and Thanks for your support. dg Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:33:29 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=575 Well its that time again folks. Time for West Texas Granny's TER Milestone Report. As always I like to give a hearty congrats to those who have finished their first 1,000 points for TER. Who are they? Well here is the honored list. Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:25:40 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=573 West Texas Granny here with your weekly Milestone Report. As usual I like to point out those who have completed their first 1,000 points in F@H with TER. Here's hoping that I'm posting your name at the 500,000 point level too. Well enough of my constant babble. Let me introduce all to those great people who have blown thru their first 1,000 points in F@H for TER: Drum Roll please: They are: Oogs, aspersion , adam.kirkton , david , destrier , wuzian , fresno_smooth, xed , Thors_Hammer_Homebrew , DigitalPimp1, wesman790 , Daneel , Vandy2 , PlaZ9 and doublegap. Great job guys and Thanks for your contribution. As Paul Harvey likes to say: Now for the rest of the Story: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:01:22 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=572 Well here are TER's Top 20 producers for 21 Jan 2005 Troglodytes CecilStrange kranki2 TeamUxbridge phasm42 DoTheJu Sopok kaadray seth Ashen SiliconMage ravemonger suicidebiker Zippy101 actong SpaceBug jpeters2 MarcC pizzaking RoscoP Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:51:44 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=570 Guess who's back. Yes, it's your favorite DC'ing grandmother from West Texas. So guess I'll start with something light like a Milestone Report. So, here goes. Hey,Hey Hey. West Texas Granny is back in her rocking chair and sitting at her computer. Got to remember not to rock to fast after having Bubbly to drink. One tends to fall out of the chair. Strange. Never happened before, that I know of. Must be getting older than old. Hummpf. Well Lets first give our congrats to those who have completed their first 1,000 points for TER. These great people are: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:19:55 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=559 "We have modified the stats architecture to allow the Collection Server (CS) to credit points. From now o­n, o­ne does not need to wait for the data server (DS) to come back up before crediting. This makes the CS much more powerful and our reliance o­n DS's much less."--Professor Vijay S. Pande, PhD--Director, Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project--Folding-community.org announcementIn the past, points for completed work units were o­nly credited after the work unit was returned to the specific data server from which the WU was downloaded. This kept security tight and prevented cheating. However, if a particular data server went offline for maintenance, the work unit would be cached o­n your computer until the data server was back o­nline. This was not a problem for fast client machines because WUs were completed many days before the WU deadline expired, allowing time for the server to be repaired and to upload the WU. But o­n slower machines, the deadline may have expired in the few days following a server upgrade or repair. Or in the case of a rare and total failure of a data server, the work units in the field from that server do not have to be discarded. In the last few months, the F@H project added collection servers to collect work units while a data server was offline.  However, points were not credited until the assignment server could upload the work units to the original data server.  This announcement shows F@H has upgraded the collection server functionality so WUs are now routed back through an alternate collection server and credited immediately, even if the data server is offline.  Additional benefits include easing the work load o­n the data servers, redundancy for uploading completed work units, and providing a continued growth path as the project expands. Pande Group is also considering splitting their servers between the Stanford network and the Stanford Medical network, so server uptime continues to edge a few points closer to 100%, possibly giving F@H the highest server availability of any DC Project. Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:54:11 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=558 Good Morning TER!! West Texas Granny here with the TER update. Well OC-AMD has returned to 2CPU from his sabbatical with Descent Bulletin Board. We can expect to see his usual 35,000+ points reflected in 2CPU's daily totals as early as today. So what do you say about a recruiting effort to recruit at least 250 new members to TER within the next 3 months and 500 new members by June 2005. Methods to accomplish this. Ars Front Page articles Articles in the Lounge and other forums A short video presentation for distribution Adding additionl machines or upgrades to your systems. Getting your friends to run it. Other Ideas? Server update as of 11:11 hours MST Server143 full, Down Server 144 Fail, Reject Server 150 Fail, Not Accepting Well on to some numbers. Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:15:23 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=557 Good Morning TER!! West Texas Granny here with your morning TER update. Time:0748 hours MST Well lets see what the F@H server status is. Seems that server 113 and 116 are experiencing High CPU loads in the moderate range. Server 143 's status is "fail" and servers 153 and 157 are Down. The status of the servers posted are likely to change later in the day. Time for some numbers. Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:10:50 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=556 Good Morning TER!! WesT Texas Granny here with the morning TER update. Seems we have some competition in The TechReport and the SAGoons. These 2 teams are now out producing us. The TechReport though is the real threat. Check out the daily production levels. Daily production for 6 Nov. 2004. TechReport_____114,428 points SAGoons________113,792 points TER____________109,605 points 2CPU___________103,551 points Daily production for 7 Nov. 2004. TechReport_____116,861 points SAGoons________109,340 points 2CPU___________102,499 points TER____________100,319 points Projected production for November. TechReport_____3,361,937 points SAGoons________3,273,651 points TER____________3,259,710 points 2CPU___________2,999,357 points Previous Topic | Next Topic i n f o Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:11:45 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=555 Good Afternoon TER!! West Texas Granny here with your TER update. Well folks things are starting to get interesting. There are 2 Teams that are hot on our heels. It seems that the SAGoons and the TechReport are ramping and will soon have TER on their overtake list. In fact the TechReport's projected production for the month of November will exceede TER by nearly 14,000 points. Also OC-AMD will be returning to 2CPU next week so you can expect them to be outproducing TER by 25,000 to 30,000 points per day. On to the numbers. Sat, 06 Nov 2004 17:10:44 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=554 Good morning TER!! West Texas Granny here with your TER update. Sorry about not posting on a regular basis lately. So many real life intrusions. F@H Server Status Server 110 is in Reject mode and server 116 is experiencing a High CPU Load. So lets see those numbers. Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:27:49 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=553 Good Morning TER!! West Texas Granny here with your daily and weekly update. Well folks hope this has been a good weekend for you. We exceeded last weeks production by some 39,000 points. A little more good news is we have already surpasssed last months production. Next thing we should shoot for is the 1,000,000 point a week level. Its a doable goal as we are running nearly 800,000 points a week now. Well enough babbling from me. On to those numbers. Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:20:42 +0000 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=552 Good Morning TER!! West Texas Granny here with your weekly Milestone report plus a little extra. As always a special congrats for those completing their first 1,000 points with TER. These fine people are:bduluth, NovaCane and ejo10. Good Job guys! BTW server 112 is back up and running and OC- AMD will be returning to 2CPU in a little over a week from now. Now lets see who is on the list. Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:22:45 +0100 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=551 Good Morning TER!! West Texas Granny here with the TER update. Well server 112 is still down and server 108 has been seeing a high CPU load. So, with the weekend approaching there are a few things to pass along. For those who have not noticed Sopok, 7im and SiliconMage are knocking on 600,000 points and should blow thru that level very soon. RoscoP should break 100,000 points today and hobold a new member is kicking out 1,000 points per day. Hobold already has me on his overtake list. Dang it! Keeping that overtake list in mind I counted 17 of you who have me in your sights. Three of you plan on steamrolling me in the next 7 to 10 days. Be gentle, please. Looks like I'm going on an eggroll diet for awhile. Seventeen? Better check and see if I have a bullseye on any of my clothes. BTW we should surpass last weeks production and may even break 800,000 points for the week. Well enough of my babbling. On to those numbers. Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:03:48 +0100 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=549 Good Mornng TER!! West Texas Granny here with the morning report. Last I checked Server 112 was still down and server 143 is now in reject mode, an upgrade from yesterdays status of down. I have started to track Team MacOS X because its been ramping and at times has out produced us on a daily basis. Of the Teams behind us they seem to be the biggest threat at the moment. Please note that Team MacOS X has out produced TER for the past 2 days. Now on to those numbers. Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:59:15 +0100 http://ter.arsfoodcourt.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=548 Our Milestone Makers presented for your pleasure. gentlegenius__________160,000 TeamUxbridge__________120,000 mdporter______________120,000 Stepenpit_____________120,000 Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:38:48 +0100