Stats thread for interteam SoB race - Sorry, had concussion so could not post stats.

[PeterN]

In about ten hours from the time of writing our interteam SoB race is going to start.
Then it will be midnight here in The Netherlands and the stats of DukeBox will be giving the accurate count for the subteams.

Thx again for the generous offer of DukeBox for letting us use his stats site with a few extra options so it will be easier to provide you all with accurate and hopefully daily stats. Hoorah for DukeBox.

Now for the few simple rules of this race. Most of you have already read them, but here they are again:

1. Start date = January 15th
2. End date = March 15th
3. All TA SoB crunchers should dump whatever they have in their queues on January 14th.
4. If dumping is not possible, then an average will be calculated on earlier results.
5. If a new member is recruited by either IJump, raysun2be or me, then they will be added to our stats. All other new members will be added to the TA SoB-team stats, whether recruited or on their own.
6. IJump will be adding one computer to the account of AMDBorg for every two computers he adds to his own account.
7. Stats will be taken from the DPC stats site. Reason for this is that there the statistics per day can be generated with fixed time frames. If a day is missed then, it won't be too difficult to get updated stats again.
8. Stats will be posted as soon as possible and when time permits, but at least every other day.

In about ten hours the biggest challenge for the TeAm is going to happen. Will The Significant Others be able to give The Red Rascals a big beating for their megalomania or are The Red Rascals not the highflyers they appear to be and will keep The Significant Others at bay.

As someone said: Time will tell

In my next post I'll give the hints and tips for assimilating and recruiting. I'll have to think of increasing my number of posts. Joined in 1999 and not even 2000 posts looks a kind of silly, might give someone the idea I'm lazy or something.

BTW Has anyone seen or heared anything from NicColt? He hasn't been around for awhile and hasn't dumped in about two weeks in SoB. Am starting to get worried, not for the race, but that something has happened.

Edited by RaySun2Be, only to pin to the top of the forum
Edited by RaySun2Be, only to unstick the thread

 

[IJump]

IJump will be adding one computer to the account of AMDBorg for every two computers he adds to his own account.

That is with work computers only, right? If I get my new computer(s) at home, they are all mine!!! :evil::evil::evil::evil:

 

[IJump]

BTW Has anyone seen or heared anything from NicColt? He hasn't been around for awhile and hasn't dumped in about two weeks in SoB. Am starting to get worried, not for the race, but that something has happened.

He PMed me right before we passed Free-DC, but I haven't heard from him since then...

 

[PeterN]

Originally posted by: IJump

IJump will be adding one computer to the account of AMDBorg for every two computers he adds to his own account.

That is with work computers only, right? If I get my new computer(s) at home, they are all mine!!! :evil::evil::evil::evil:

Yep, your home computers are your own computers. Are you still planning on buying this one? I'm curious on where you will put it and how you are going to come up with the supply of power.

 

[IJump]

Originally posted by: PeterN

Yep, your home computers are your own computers. Are you still planning on buying this one? I'm curious on where you will put it and how you are going to come up with the supply of power.

Shoot, mine will make that look like a child's toy!

 

[petrusbroder]

7 hours and 45 minutes ...

This will be fun ...

 

[NicColt]

Originally posted by: IJump

BTW Has anyone seen or heared anything from NicColt? He hasn't been around for awhile and hasn't dumped in about two weeks in SoB. Am starting to get worried, not for the race, but that something has happened.

He PMed me right before we passed Free-DC, but I haven't heard from him since then...

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated

I've had some issues but my systems are crunching 24/7. I may also add a quad before month end.

right now I have
1 x E6850 at 3.6
2 x 5200 X2
1 x Intel 3.4

I will dump sometime tonight and will be daily until march 15.:beer:

 

[amdxborg]

Cool! I've added a couple of boxes today.. will add more soon..

 

[PeterN]

Originally posted by: NicColt

Originally posted by: IJump

BTW Has anyone seen or heared anything from NicColt? He hasn't been around for awhile and hasn't dumped in about two weeks in SoB. Am starting to get worried, not for the race, but that something has happened.

He PMed me right before we passed Free-DC, but I haven't heard from him since then...

Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated

I've had some issues but my systems are crunching 24/7. I may also add a quad before month end.

right now I have
1 x E6850 at 3.6
2 x 5200 X2
1 x Intel 3.4

I will dump sometime tonight and will be daily until march 15.:beer:

Great to hear from you. Hope all's sorted out for ya.

And that's a nice addition, the quad I mean.

 

[PeterN]

Originally posted by: amdxborg
Cool! I've added a couple of boxes today.. will add more soon..

I thought something like that. Your daily output is rising, I saw. Nice nice.

 

[PeterN]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
7 hours and 45 minutes ...

This will be fun ...

Nah, less than 4 hours.

 

[PeterN]

As promised here are some hints and tips for assimilating or recruiting.

Why should you assimilate or recruite anyway?
Well, the answer to that could be simple.
As an esteemed TA-member (am not mentioned PetrusBroder here ) said on the TAS forum:

Please remember: all and every point counts! Not all crunchers have hundred, dozens or so computers (as e.g. IJump or Petrusbroder). If you have one computer, which goes part time, please know, that your contribution counts towards the production of the TeAm and the project in it self!

The difficult answer is:
By harnassing more power for the SoB project, you're going to help others in making all kinds of electronic data transfer safer. Because of its nature prime numbers are very often used in all kinds of cryptographic methods to secure financial and other legal transactions. In the SoB project we search for the Sierpinski numbers. These are a special kind of primes. I don't know exactly why they are special, but that you can read on the SoB website.
This might be a compelling argument to recruit new members.

Another reason to recruite more members is this. Eventually the SoB project will stop, whether it be because of all the primes being found or because of lack of resources doesn't matter. When SoB stops, you'll have made someone enthusiastic about the whole Distributed computing phenomenon. They will likely stick with DC and help out in other projects, hopefully for TA. But the main thing is they probably stay in the DC arena. More people = more boxes = more problems can be solved.

The last reason why you should recruite is ofcourse that YOU don't want the Red Rascals ride ahead with a big smile on their faces and let them say afterwards: "He, we knew it. They weren't a match forus. The Red Rascals are the greatest (no not butterflies, petrus) ."

Now for the question where to recruite or assimilate.

[/u]The one thing to keep in mind is that before you do the install, be sure you have the permission of the person that runs or owns the machine, just to prevent you from getting into trouble. DC isn't worth loosing a friendship or your job. [/u]

There are a lot of options here.
I'm just going to name a few:

• family (obvious)
• friends (obvious)
• offices (a little less obvious)
• people you meet with in other forums, explain what DC is all about and for a more elaborate explanation just point them here at the TA-forums. There are enough great teachers running around here.
• people you play online games with over a network or the internet
• coworkers that can run boxes at home for themselves or for you
• looking very nice at your partner and try to persuade him/her to buy that beautiful water- and peltier cooled 4 proc quad based motherboard (yes, there is a AMD motherboard that can contain 4 quad-opterons :Q)and do the shores in the house so you can buy all the other stuff you need to build your dream machine.
• if you know of old TA-members that haven't been around for a long time, try to persuade them to take a peak in here and see if they'll get contaminated with the DC-virus again.

If I can make up some more of these, I'll just add them. All suggestions are welcome.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the encouragement, PeterN! Now lets see if there will be any success!

Oh, less than one hour to go ...

 

[RaySun2Be]

The one thing to keep in mind is that before you do the install, be sure you have the permission of the person that runs or owns the machine, just to prevent you from getting into trouble. DC isn't worth loosing a friendship or your job.

This cannot be stressed enough. If in a work environment, get written, signed permission whenever possible. People forget, change jobs, get transferred to other departments, etc. Things change. So written permission may be a job saver.

 

[NicColt]

Originally posted by: PeterN
And that's a nice addition, the quad I mean.

Wife's laptop had a "unable to mount bootable device" or something of the sort, I got it going again but reason enough to get a quad

come to think of it I sould'a sabotaged her laptop long ago

now if you would excuse me "paper under arm" I have to go and take a dump.

 

[biodoc]

Ready...set....GO!!

Has it started yet?

:beer:

 

[VirtualLarry]

Ok, which team am I on now?

 

[biodoc]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Ok, which team am I on now?

Red Rascals: IJump, RaySun2Be, PeterN(crunching in Ray's account)

The Significant Others: All the rest of us!!

I think that's correct!?

:beer:

 

[petrusbroder]

The Race has started some seven hours ago! -
Yes, it is, biodoc and VirtualLarry!

 

[amdxborg]

lol OK I've assliminated a couple more pcs from DPAD to SB for the race...D

Just one thing, my output will be a little less on some days.. due to the fact that this crappy country I live in not having enough electrical power for everybody so they implemented a thing called load sharing where for a couple of hours a week different grids of the country's power is switched off and routed to somewhere else.. as if the crime and everything else wasn't bad enough.. this place is going down the crapper fast!!

Sorry for the vent.. NOW LETS RACE!!! :evil:

 

[Insidious]

I"m peddling... I'm peddling!

Officer: What's the hurry Sir?

Us: Hey, have you seen three geezers in a little red wagon go this way?

Officer: Sir, have you been drinking today?

US; Honest.... you can't miss'em.....

Officer: Breath into the box sir.... don't stop until I say so



Thanks PeterN (and the aide of DukeBox) for setting all this up.

-Sid

 

[IJump]

It's on.... :evil:

 

[NicColt]

Originally posted by: IJump
It's on.... :evil:

we need STATS stat

Originally posted by: amdxborg
Just one thing, I live in not having enough electrical power for everybody

Let me rant with you.

I saw an article in my local paper here the hydro company was complaining that because of the mild weather they were not getting enough revenue because people were not using enough power.

I have a problem when they tell me to conserve energy while the province's Casino's are running full tilt 24/7

They force conservation down our throat and then complain when we don't use it. I could rant for a cpl of pages on hydro but my advice is use as much juice as you can afford and don't worry about it.

What did Tesla say "it will be to cheap to meter" um yea.

/rant

 

[PeterN]

Well, I've finally managed to find some time to post in here.

As most of you have noticed, the interteam SoB race has started. :laugh:

Right now, The Significant Others or all of you are going great. It is also because of the big dump of NicColt, but right now (and we still have 6 hours to go before the day is over) the whole TA SoB team has almost 100T delivered to the SoB keyservers. Well done everybody.

The difference between the two subteams is as of now roughly 60T in favour of TSO. If you subtract the 31T of NicColt then TSO still has an advantage of ~29T. Well done. And that is without shmapty's daily output of ~12-15T. Instead of that he is down to ~400G. Am curious how things will look when he gets back into the high rankings again.

A great result to start a race with.

Tomorrow the first official stats will be in, so keep your fingers crossed and hope everyone can keep his output at the current level (besides any electricity problems ).

Now, just to mention what kind of stats there will be for the next two months:

1. Subteam stats for TSO and RR during the race
2. Member stats for TSO subteam during the race
3. Production figures for the first four highest producing teams overall (meaning TA, DPC, TPR and TeamGoobee)
4. All the milestonemakers during the race (every now and then, the list is already growing )
5. Number of days before IJump and AMDBorg are going to join shmapty in the top 10 overall

Originally posted by: NicColt
we need STATS stat

Ah, another stats junkie.

The stats can be found at DukeBoxes stats site. Here you will see in the first set of statistics, a subteam called Red Rascals, meaning IJump, raysun2be and myself. Around that, you'll see all the other TA-members. Then at the bottom of the first list, you'll see the total amount of the whole team.

Subtract the output of Red Rascals of the whole team output and you'll have the output of TSO.

Peter.

 

[Insidious]

Thanks Peter!

I'm new to this TeAm (kind of a visitor actually), but you are making a believer out of me. :beer:

(F@H won't mind if a little 'sidness' stays here when it's time to go home again )

Go Baby GO!

-Sid