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6th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race

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Strangely enough, for a long time now I have only been folding on 2 clients - one SMP and one GPU2. Even now, my stats page says I have 3 clients running. Is somebody folding for me? I'm not sure how this is possible especially since I use a passkey like everyone else.
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I have looked at the stats for the past weeks and thought ... and I have restructured the teams one more time.
I am interested in getting the two teams within striking distance from each other, that means for me a difference (in ppd as well as in points) as small as it can be for the final part of the race: the part of the race after the PrimeGrid Challenge Race. After the PrimeGrid race I will do no changes ... Please take a look at the stats, think a little and let me know what you think. Since all stats tables are posted you can see easily what I have done ...
I have removed those folders who have not folded anything at all during the first 16 days. If they produce, i'll add them in again - I have the numbers in my spread sheet.
The difference in points is less than 0,5%, the difference in ppd is less than 5%. The ppd changes much more than the points on a day-to-day basis and threfore what was a huge difference one day may become a tiny one the next day ...

FAH-HSR-Dec16-2011.JPG


Anyhow, the racers have produced more than 78% of the TeAm's total production ... well done!
 
Looks good to me - I wish that we had that outage to use as history. About 2 out of 3 days I have -bigadv hit for ~250k points, so tomorrow will be my off day, I guess...
 
The microcenter near me has the 1055T back in stock. It is very tempting to get a 3rd one to replace the last of my machines still running on ddr2 memory.
I just don't think I could pull this one off.
Hmmmm, maybe I could ask for this as a birthday gift. $129.29 isn't too extravagant.
 
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These are the stats after yesterday's restructuring of the teams:

FAH-HSR-Dec17-2011.JPG


The raceing teams produced 78% of the TeAm's output today ... 😀
 
today was a great day, i outperformed my production from last december!

december 2010: 567,507 points
december 2011 so far: 580,901 points 🙂
 
Peter, as it's coming tomorrow, just to clarify: Will you or won't you be counting work done during the PrimeGrid race? I was planning on leaving my CPUs on Folding, unless you won't count that work.
 
Ken g6 said:
Peter, as it's coming tomorrow, just to clarify: Will you or won't you be counting work done during the PrimeGrid race? I was planning on leaving my CPUs on Folding, unless you won't count that work.
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I have thought about this ...
I will do a stats update today, which is then a potential starting point.
I will follow the stats during the race.
The I will do a stats restart after the PrimGrid race.

If the teams are approx. equal (difference less than 1&#37😉 in their FAH-production during the PrimeGrid Race then I will count the points into the FAH-race.
If the teams differ more than 1% then the post-PG-race stats will start anew from today's stats.

I think this is fair for those who want to defend TeAm AnadTech's position in the PG-Challenge - the TeAm is in 9th position, which is the highest we have ever had.

Any opions are appreciated. 🙂
 
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That's essentially the same as ignoring the FAH stats during the race either way, isn't it? It's your race, but I would appreciate a more overt decision.
 
Ken g6 said:
That's essentially the same as ignoring the FAH stats during the race either way, isn't it? It's your race, but I would appreciate a more overt decision.
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OK. All Folding@Home production during the PrimeGrid Race will not be included in the stats for the FAH-HSR-Race.
This makes it easier for me ...
 
Here are the stats as of 20:00 UTC.

FAH-HSR-Dec18-2011.JPG


Today the racers produced approx 78.5% of the whole TeAm's output. Well done!
The difference between the teams is 39 150 points, that is 0,18%. I think that the break (see below) should be used - by both teams - to increase power, to recruit, to asslaminate (TeAm-speak for assimilate) and borgh more folding power!


Since the PrimeGrid Challenge Series' Winter Solstice Race starts in less than 9 hours, the stats above will be also the final stats for this first part of the race.
After the PrimeGrid race new stats will start.
At the end of the FAH-race the points from the first part (above) and the second part (finished January 1, 2012) will be added for a final score.

Here is an other view of the production until now:
FAH-HSR-Dec18-2011-production.JPG


These are some very nice numbers! BTW: the date in columns D & E should be Dec. 18 ... I forgot to change it! 😉 😱
 
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Very nice numbers indeed. Sadly no spare £££ for upgrades this year for me so I am relying on my TeAm! 16th? Someone knock me into 20th and I'll know you're really trying 😉

Thanks yet again PB! Off to Primegrid we go...
 
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OK. All Folding@Home production during the PrimeGrid Race will not be included in the stats for the FAH-HSR-Race.
This makes it easier for me ...
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I object to this decision as I have been running 1 of my large WU for about 1 1/2 days but will now get no points for that time (for the race I mean). I'm sure some of the other bigadv crunchers may feel the same way.
 
Agreed. By stopping the race we're now saying PG is more important than Folding. I chose the Folding race knowing I wouldn't be able to participate in the PG race.
 
Main theme: Please see the first post in this thread:
Just the bare facts:

1. Start: December 1, 2011, 19:00 UTC
2. End: January 1, 12:00 UTC
3. Short intermission: December 19, 05:30 UTC - December 22, 05:30 UTC (The Winter Solarstice PrimeGrid Challenge)
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I under stand the objections ... and for quite a few the PG challenge, which is going on for a whole year, the PG-race is very important.

Unfortunately, there is no real way to be 100% fair. For those who choose to defend the TeAm's standing in the Primegrid Challenge - we are #9 there and that is the best standing we ever had - having to drop some positions after 10 races ... 🙁

For those who want to fold ... for them the PrimeGrid race is "unfair".

I'll keep the stats running. If the teams are very similar (difference of less than 1% in production) then I may add those stats ...
 
It looks like I may have come in under the wire (uploaded @ 9.45 PM EST), but I'm sure there are those who won't and may thus go unrewarded for several days of folding.

I don't think the PG race is unfair, I just think that those who choose to stop folding do so of their own free will. (And personally I can't fathom the fascination with prime numbers! 🙂 )

Maybe we should move the F@H race to January so there are no distractions.
 
theAnimal said:
It looks like I may have come in under the wire (uploaded @ 9.45 PM EST), but I'm sure there are those who won't and may thus go unrewarded for several days of folding.

I don't think the PG race is unfair, I just think that those who choose to stop folding do so of their own free will. (And personally I can't fathom the fascination with prime numbers! 🙂 )

Maybe we should move the F@H race to January so there are no distractions.
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Maybe it's not true, but it atleast feels like Primegrid has a race every month.
 
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