DF Daily (01/01/03)

[m0ti]

Hi Everybody,

Well, due to a bit of team-hopping (people transferring from one team to another and bringing their folds along with them), we are very near to 5th. About 3M or 6-8 hours away. Whoever's up at that time is welcome to break out the champagne! 🙂

Here are the ATWE scores:

as of: Wed Jan 1 15:00:30 2003 EST
bfour gets 377,524 ticket 12-31-02 2100

Position * Contestant * Current Folds - Starting Folds - Tickets = ATWE Total

1 * ATWE Terrahawk * 84,378,842 - 465,147 - 0 = 83,913,695
2 * ATWE Robor * 93,002,535 - 38,230,740 - 6,605,000 = 48,166,795
3 * ATWE LastKnight * 40,054,553 - 3,483,399 - 0 = 36,571,154
4 * ATWE Insidious * 95,812,330 - 58,684,902 - 681,901 = 36,445,527
5 * ATWE ReaganCRW * 39,818,371 - 10,501,161 - 0 = 29,317,210
6 * ATWE bfour * 51,436,945 - 22,005,703 - 2,501,710 = 26,929,532
7 * ATWE bob970 * 24,046,147 - 1,243,892 - 0 = 22,802,255
8 * ATWE cbcrus * 45,781,630 - 28,117,719 - 0 = 17,663,911
9 * ATWE FifthFactor * 17,944,625 - 684,121 - 0 = 17,260,504
10 * ATWE bunker * 14,858,079 - 830,790 - 349,889 = 13,677,400
11 * ATWE m0ti * 53,026,952 - 40,222,221 - 0 = 12,804,731
12 * ATWE muttley * 49,611,030 - 38,759,122 - 70,000 = 10,781,908
13 * ATWE CrazySaint * 10,802,790 - 2,857,131 - 88,000 = 7,857,659
14 * ATWE Builderz * 10,106,835 - 2,429,825 - 0 = 7,677,010
15 * ATWE joinT * 7,844,321 - 63,313 - 419,343 = 7,361,665
16 * ATWE GhettoFob * 12,817,477 - 6,169,633 - 135,000 = 6,512,844
17 * ATWE TwilightZone77 * 21,565,478 - 15,566,340 - 0 = 5,999,138
18 * ATWE Mloot * 13,261,802 - 7,389,298 - 0 = 5,872,504
19 * ATWE ken008 * 5,052,375 - 1,898,137 - 412,350 = 2,741,888
20 * ATWE Rebel Alliance * 2,540,000 - 5,000 - 80,000 = 2,455,000

Sorry bout that bfour. But I just post the stats, I don't give out the tickets! 😉

Milestone makers:

ATWE LastKnight hits 40M folds!

ATWE GhettoFob hits 12.5M folds!

😀😀😛
Tr3s Lunas hits 2M folds! 😀😀
Vigilante1 hits 300K folds! 🙂🙂🙂

Congrats to the milestone makers! 🙂😎😀

FoBoT: Not a bad day, 4.1M on very balance output (from 1.003M all the way up to 1.046M per 6 hour period), that's good for 15th! 🙂

non-FoBoT:
Top Folder: Kris with 114M folds! 😀
Best RMS: ATWE Terrahawk with 7.90, now worth 12th! 😎
Best Production: ATWE Terrahawk up there with 3.8M folds, good for 18th! 😉

Producers Of the Day:

FoBoT 4.1M 😛
ATWE Terrahawk 3.8M 😛
ATWE Robor 2.0M 😛
ATWE Insidious 1.5M 😛
ATWE LastKnight 1.2M 😛
ATWE ReaganCRW 1.2M 😛
ATWE bob970 1.0M 😛 (maybe you should change the name to ATWE TallBill 😛)

Congrats to the POD's! 😛😛😛


TeAm Stuff:

Took a nother look at Dyyryath's and seems to have gotten updated. We're less than 1.5M away with a predicted take over within an hour's time! 😀 Though I think that their estimate is based on the weekly production. Based on the daily it's about 2-3 hours away (unless someone's got a dump planned). That's still alright by me. Top 5 here we come! 😀

Daily Production: According to statsman we're in 5th with 21.7M, while according to Dyyryath's (which has been updated more recently) we're in 4th with 23.2M (and just 250K behind 3rd). Not too shabby.

See everybody tomorrow!

Start the Team Congrats on Top 5 thread without me! 🙂

 

[Insidious]

Thanks m0ti!

I'm confused.............. but crunchin' anyway 😀

Great Job MMs! Congrats 😎

I think I'm gonna just have to learn to keep my mouth shut (yeah, I know, fat chance of that 😱 )

I start ribbing LastKnight about taking third and 'Those who are Sid' immediately respond by turning off their computers (again... still.... what---ever! )

Then I congratulate bfour for getting the dumping thingy arranged nicely and he hits me up for another ticket!

my head hurts...............!

Hope everyone had a great NYE!

-Sid

 

[Freewolf]

5th 😀

 

[Vigilante1]

Congratulations to the milestone makers and POD's.
Great job everyone!

 

[FoBoT]

here is an interesting post from the DF forum by Howard, regarding the project and its future :/

Ads I have mentioned previously, this project essentially has zero funding - not even my salary (!) (but don't worry, I still get paid..). It is run entirely on hardware our lab owns that was not specifically purchased for this project. We are not directly supported by the University either - they are not running it on all their spare machines, although it IS running on many machines in our own hospital institute (thanks to 'Larry the Foot'). We hope that with the relative success we have seen so far, both in the growth of the project, and the results so far, that we will be able to get some funding to add a couple people to the project soon, although clearly we are good on the hardware side for now (finally).

We have worked out the details for the next algorithm we want to try and I'll be coding it in the new year now and hopefully have it ready for the next next changeover. We expect it to improve the sampling but won't not until we try of course. The new infrastructure will also allow us to then try a few other related approaches as well. This new client, when ready, will work a little different than the present one - it will make a bunch of structures, then make a bunch of slower, energy minimized ones. It will also do a few extra new steps. Our most important goal, in terms of the users, is that we continue to maintain minimal communication with the server, and continue to award structure credits 'fairly' (so if some are expected to take longer to generate, they will be scaled appropriately). However, in order to improve the algorithm in the direction we wish, be aware that it may become necessary in the future to connect to the internet (and our server) at least once every 24-48 hrs. This may not be feasible for some people and but unfortunately this will become necessary if we wish to perform more intelligent searching of conformational space in a reasonable amount of time. We will keep you posted on when such a change will be occurring, for the present time nothing has changed yet.

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Howard Feldman

take this how you will, but to me, he is saying that the DF client/server model in regards to communication is going to change to be more like F@H
this will present a challenge to those of us that run DF on non-connected boxen and sneakernet the results back to the DF servers

i am sure howard needs to head this direction for the science, which is most important, of course
but this could have an impact on participation in the DF project. i don't mean to sound alarmist, but projects that require frequent direct communications between the clinet and server are poorly suited to being run on non-internet connected boxen :\

link to the thread this quote came from

 

[Robor]

Congrats to the POD's & MM'ers!

Thanks for the info on the project status FoBoT! 😀

Thanks for the stats & race info Sid & m0ti! 🙂

 

[bfour]

well sid, the wife dumped her machine and that really torqued me off, now I had one machine here at work that got shut off! Really going to make it tough to dump consistently today! As far as connecting every 24-48 hours, starting to sound like RC5-64! Also if he starts doing that hopefully we won't run into the same problems as D2OL!

 

[Insidious]

Well, the silver lining is that she is trying to help! 😕

By the way, did AnandTech give us a warning the forum was going down last night, did I miss it.
Glad they're back at any rate.

-Sid

 

[FoBoT]

there is a thread in forum issues that says it was down for maintenance, i don't recall any warnings though

hey, Sid, the new forum that Confused setup allows images
my wife found a couple of pictures of me from when i was on the boat, i will scan them in tonight and post them over there in the DF forum

 

[joinT]

great job guys!

 

[Insidious]

pictures of me from when i was on the boat, i will scan them in tonight and post them over there in the DF forum

I'll see if I can scrounge something up too.....

/me tries to think... where the ferk is that box?