Dpc are powering they're way through gamma flux

[hymy]

They're upto 9th place, probably make 7th tommorrow. They're outproducing processtree on a regular basis.

I fear they're gonna do the same in seti now. But on the upside maybe they will take out processtree.

 

[ZapZilla]

The DPC do seem to be making a good effort to dominate many Distributed projects.

The challenge is before us, how will we respond?

Go Team AnandTech!

 

[murdmath]

Why don't we just concentrate on just one or two projects and dominate those.

Mat

 

[Jarhead]

Looks like we really are spread too thin across the battlefront.

Better to win or hold a portion than to loose the entire
war on all fronts.

Our recruiting efforts, even with the great reports and the
"mass" assimilations seem not to be having much effect on
our team output. Seems we need to get folks and keep them
active, as it is the only way I can explain why our output
is not climbing significantly.

 

[hymy]

Well it looks they're head of steam is depleted. They're only third today. Processtree is spanking them today.

 

[fraek]

Did anybody noticed Arstechnica so far?

- They are second in SETI !!!
- They do about 700K with RC5
- They are one of the best teams with folding@home (or is it genome@home)

Maybee they are bigger then DPC or TA.
I still believe /. is the biggest team at distributed computing. There is still a lot of work to do

 

[blade47]

Hymy, the DPC are very impressive but it would take a massive effort for them to catch TA in seti. I'm not saying they couldn't. Just that it would be a very big undertaking to get that kind of production with the newest client.

BTW I do think it would be nearly impossible for the DPC to catch Ars in the seti race.

Fraek, as for Ars they rock at seti & are good at Rc5 but dominating at folding @ home isn't very impressive right now. I used to think Ars might be the most powerful DC team but that was before the hacked client came to light. I haven't followed their production since then so I don't really have any idea of how strong they really are.

As for /. I thought TA had overtaken them in just about every DC project?

BTW I've not been following the DC projects as closely as I have in the past so everything I said could be hot air anyway.

 

[dennilfloss]

"BTW I do think it would be nearly impossible for the DPC to catch Ars in the seti race."

Why is that? SETI has no expiration date. Even when we find the first signal, that will only entice people to look for more. So all the DPC have to do is to keep growing at a faster rate than the Arses and they will eventually overtake them since there's no deadline.

 

[blade47]

BTW I'd like to say that I'm not trying to bash the DPC. I know they haven't focused on S@H & I'm not trying to take away from their great efforts on the Dnet projects. I'm just trying to show that it would be nearly impossible for any DC team to dominate all the projects.

There was an end date for the seti project that has already passed but it was extended. If I remember correctly they still plan to end the current run eventually. Before they do that I'm sure they'll have another project lined up to take it's place.

The reason I think the DPC would never be able to catch Ars is listed below:

1) Team Ars Technica Lamb Chop
members 3938
completed wu's 3,047,399
computing time 4034.262 years
avg wu time 11 hr 35 min 48.5 sec

1861) Dutch Power Cows - Seti@HOME
members 101
completed wu's 20,365
computing time 34.758 years
avg wu time 14 hr 57 min 04.1 sec

Not to mention Ars still has a very high daily output, they're not one of those dead in the water former power houses, they're still going very strong. It seems Ars does more wu's in a week than the DPC have done total. I'd also like to mention that they're kicking the crap out of TA in Seti in the dalies as well.

BTW I'm assuming these are the corrected #'s after seti took away the bogus wu results that came from the hacked client. It's easy to see that it would take a massive effort for the DPC to catch Ars. It woud be an almost impossible challenge. The only thing that makes it remotely possible is that seti wu's transfer when someone changes teams.

Edit:
<< So all the DPC have to do is to keep growing at a faster rate than the Arses and they will eventually overtake them >>

The DPC are not growing faster than Ars on the seti front.

 

[Poof]

BTW I'm assuming these are the corrected #'s after seti took away the bogus wu results that came from the hacked client

blade_47 - most of the million bogus WUs had already been transferred to KWSN in a team switch, before they were revealed as being bogus...

 

[blade47]

Thanks Poof, I thought the numbers were correct but wasn't 100% sure.

 

[fraek]

I was looking at the total output so far in the distributed computing projects. In this case DPC is smaller than TA and I still think /. is the biggest distributed team so far. At the current rate could be the biggest team overall although Ars technica and DPC are getting close.

 

[hymy]

Yeah about three mos ago. When the DPC first started in gamma flux, I brought up they're participation.


I got reponses like &quot;they'll never overtake processtree&quot; or &quot;they can't possibly catch us they're to far behind&quot;. Well now they are ranked 7th and they are outproducing processtree.


So I'm not so sure they are harmless to us in seti. They could shift a lot of power to seti from RC5 and still kick our ass in RC5 and Gamma Flux. And why shouldn't they, they have a good enough lead in RC5.

 

[fraek]

If you look at the growth rate between TA &amp; DPC you see TA is doing a much better job at recruiting new members causing a higher daily output. It started about 2-3 weeks before the DPC took the 1st place. Not everything is looking so bright from the top spot and I really think TA is still a tread to us. WHen you see in just a few months how TA has doubled their output and knowing they have a much bigger potential you understead DPC's concerns. All those projects at the same time is nice at the moment but if we don't manage to keep up with TA's growth rate we have to put back all our concentration on 1 project. But I really don't hope Ars technica will do some serious cracking on RC5 and leave SETI because in that case both DPC as TA's asses will be kicked big time.

In summary: Future is not so looking bright as it looks right now and just like playing reversi(othello) The begin game is important but your chances on victory can change within 1 move and causing to loose the game.