DF Daily (02/19/03)

[m0ti]

Hello Everyone,

Well I did the BootLoader for dfQ last night, and have started debugging it. Hopefully, I can have it available for more general beta-testing after the weekend.

The beta-test is now on for the new algorithm. Anybody who can donate a box or two should, in my opinion. Mind you, I don't think the beta stats (which are separate from the true stats) will be counted later on (though they may be), but I think the science is a little bit more important than the stats. At least play around with it if you have the time!

We've already hits 9.2 billion folds for the current protein so the switch will be on Tuesday.

ATWE

as of: Wed Feb 19 18:50:36 2003 EST

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

1 * ATWE Terrahawk * 243,304,861 - 465,147 - 0 = 242,839,714
2 * ATWE Robor * 271,940,059 - 38,230,740 - 22,042,650 = 211,666,669
3 * ATWE LastKnight * 121,388,040 - 3,483,399 - 0 = 117,904,641
4 * ATWE Insidious * 169,239,251 - 58,684,902 - 2,694,125 = 107,860,224
5 * ATWE ReaganCRW * 95,557,843 - 10,501,161 - 0 = 85,056,682
6 * ATWE bfour * 108,432,563 - 22,005,703 - 3,497,417 = 82,929,443
7 * ATWE cbcrus * 89,562,393 - 28,117,719 - 1,844,002 = 59,600,672
8 * ATWE bunker * 36,537,258 - 830,790 - 958,530 = 34,747,938
9 * ATWE m0ti * 73,567,404 - 40,222,221 - 0 = 33,345,183
10 * ATWE FifthFactor * 33,324,714 - 684,121 - 235,000 = 32,405,593
11 * ATWE bob970 * 32,548,435 - 1,243,892 - 94,396 = 31,210,147
12 * ATWE muttley * 68,032,320 - 38,759,122 - 650,880 = 28,622,318
13 * ATWE GhettoFob * 30,714,219 - 6,169,633 - 804,898 = 23,739,688
14 * ATWE CrazySaint * 23,509,183 - 2,857,131 - 724,626 = 19,927,426
15 * ATWE Builderz * 22,140,272 - 2,429,825 - 200,000 = 19,510,447
16 * ATWE joinT * 16,691,753 - 63,313 - 1,103,251 = 15,525,189
17 * ATWE TwilightZone77 * 30,839,666 - 15,566,340 - 0 = 15,273,326
18 * ATWE Rebel Alliance * 5,822,500 - 5,000 - 80,000 = 5,737,500

Milestone Makers

Tr3S Lunas hits 17.5M folds!

gistech1978 hits 8M folds!
StaTik hits 3M folds!
Ogasaki hits 200K folds!

Congrats to the milestone makers!

FoBoT: Keeping your numbers high, though I guess you've got a machine or two on the beta. 5.4M folds and 6th. Nice stuff!

non-FoBoT:
Top Folder: ATWE Robor with 273.1M folds and 42nd!
Best RMS: JetBlack69 still with a commanding lead on the rest of us, in 24th!
Best Production: ATWE Robor with 3.4M folds and 15th!

Producers Of the Day

FoBoT 5.4M
ATWE Robor 3.4M
ATWE Terrahawk 2.5M
ATWE LastKnight 1.6M
ATWE Insidious 1.3M
ATWE ReaganCRW 988K
ATWE bfour 949K

Congrats to the POD's!

TeAm Stuff

Steady at the 49% activity level. I guess I'll have to downgrade the goal from 60% to 55%. Relative production continues to improve, however, putting us now at the 5.51% mark.

Daily Production: 24.0M folds and another 4th place finish. Rechenkraft.net put out another 3M folds on top of that, and have moved into 3rd on the weekly production.

In any case, nice to see a new algorithm coming out, hopefully we'll be able to produce better (if, perhaps, slower) science with it.

See everybody, tomorrow!

 

[gistech1978]

thanks for the stats

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: m0ti
Mind you, I don't think the beta stats (which are separate from the true stats) will be counted later on (though they may be), but I think the science is a little bit more important than the stats. At least play around with it if you have the time!

howard has already said that the beta stats are null and void once the beta testing is done, they will go away when he takes the beta server down

if you haven't played with it yet, the beta client uses some different files than just the 3 we are used to (.val.bz2 , .log.bz2 , filelist.txt ) , i am wondering if this will affect you dfQ work m0ti ?

 

[JetBlack69]

Thanks for the update m0ti!

 

[joinT]

thx for the stats m0ti, congrats to the POD's & MM's

 

[Insidious]

Thanks m0ti!

Congrats to all those crunchin' fools on the MM and POD lists today

-Sid

(edit) Forgot to mention, I have one machine (XP) running the Beta, so my numbers will slip slightly.....

 

[JetBlack69]

I got one rig on the beta too. I might put my other one on the beta as well. So far it is cool to see the text display.

One thing I noticed with the beta, I'm on generation 39 (I think, it says XXXXXXX_protein_39.trj) and it is only taking about 30 MB of memory. When I started it, it was using about 80-100MB. Does it use less the father you go in generations?

Thanks for the update m0ti!

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69
I got one rig on the beta too. I might put my other one on the beta as well. So far it is cool to see the text display.

One thing I noticed with the beta, I'm on generation 39 (I think, it says XXXXXXX_protein_39.trj) and it is only taking about 30 MB of memory. When I started it, it was using about 80-100MB. Does it use less the father you go in generations?

Thanks for the update m0ti!

I noticed the same thing. When I re-boot, my memory usage is at the 'usual' 88MB or so... then when I look at it later it is down. Woops! just looked at it and watched it jump from 25MB back to 88MB...

I'm guessing that it uses less memory while it is "stuck", which seems to be on most of the structures. Howard has noted he will be issueing an update in the next few days with changed requirements that will "un-stick" it sooner or less.... (didn't study his post)

(I switched over to a service install so I am a little blind to progress )

 

[Robor]

Just walked in and saw the DF thread is way too low so this is a quick bump. Will post again tomorrow.

 

[m0ti]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: m0ti
Mind you, I don't think the beta stats (which are separate from the true stats) will be counted later on (though they may be), but I think the science is a little bit more important than the stats. At least play around with it if you have the time!

howard has already said that the beta stats are null and void once the beta testing is done, they will go away when he takes the beta server down

if you haven't played with it yet, the beta client uses some different files than just the 3 we are used to (.val.bz2 , .log.bz2 , filelist.txt ) , i am wondering if this will affect you dfQ work m0ti ?

Yes it will affect it, but it will be a very very small change (~5 minutes including testing) to make.

BTW, I've been using dfQ on my home machine for the last 15 hours or so. I've still got some minor functional enhancements to make to the uploader but other than that it's looking good. I haven't tested the file aggregation feature yet (i.e. collect all the results into one file) but the code is very simple and utilizes functionalities used in other places where they definitely work, so there should be zero problems there.

A beta release should be available by tomorrow.

If I have the time, I'll put one out for the beta algorithm too (beta-beta? or beta-squared?)

 

[Insidious]

Well, I've broken the Beta client several times and it looks like none of the ways
I would normally run it work over time.... So, I put the Beta machine back on regular
DF until the next Beta release (in a few days, according to Howard)

(Yep, I have posted in the FreeDC forum and saved the directory for them)

An interesting exercise so far.... Lookin' forward to round 2

-Sid

 

[FoBoT]

howard has released a new beta client, those running the original should update ASAP

thank you

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
howard has released a new beta client, those running the original should update ASAP

thank you

got it!

This one seems to recover from disconnects just fine here.

 

[JaneJane]

i inderstood every word of that!

amazing???????????????



Newbie
Janejane

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: JaneJane
i inderstood every word of that!

amazing???????????????



Newbie
Janejane

I just pretend to and no one seems to know the difference

You gonna crunch with us Janejane?

-Sid