The 12th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race

[petrusbroder]

Here are the stats for the 54th day of the race in Folding@Home with Brony@Home
Stats are as of January 24, 2018, 20.20 UTC (approx).
The inter-team race stats are from the Folding@Home stats page and from EOC.com.

Seven days of the race to go. It seems highly improbable that Brony@Home would catch up ... They would have to produce 27 M points more than us for all seven days to catch up ... Both their and our production is dropping ... understandably. But we need to go on: it would be great if the race would produce more than 6.5 billion points in this race ...

 

[crashtech]

I still have my fastest two cards on F@H.

 

[StefanR5R]

Eight weeks behind us, just one more week to go. Do we have the stamina to keep our PPD above Brony@Home's for this last week, or don't we?

Can't do much about this myself though; I just keep doing what I have been doing, which is having all my GPUs at Folding@Home, and this little guy humming and spinning madly.

 

[Orange Kid]

I'm in till I hit a 100m. Feb some time.

 

[Markfw]

Well, you know all 15 of my cards are at full speed, 13 million ppd !

 

[TennesseeTony]

Stefan....do you have to feed that thing coins? Seriously, I know that some from OcUK have to feed their meters before leaving the house in the morning, so I'm just curious.

 

[StefanR5R]

If I had to feed it coins, I'd have to feed it multiple times per day currently... No, I don't have the precise type of power meter that I linked to. They never made one which would accept bank notes , so I am paying by bank transfer.

 

[biodoc]

Hmm, if I switched teams it might make the race a little closer.

 

[ao_ika_red]

this little guy humming and spinning madly

I remember watching a comedy sketch around the coinmeter when I was a kid.

Hmm, if I switched teams it might make the race a little closer.

Hold up doc. Tony just sold his nvidia fleet, our PPD will dwindle in the next 24h.

 

[biodoc]

I remember watching a comedy sketch around the coinmeter when I was a kid.

Hold up doc. Tony just sold his nvidia fleet, our PPD will dwindle in the next 24h.

I'm sticking with the TeAm!

 

[TennesseeTony]

But, if anyone DOES switch....they get entered in the drawing for the Vid Card!

 

[TennesseeTony]

Ugh. Being down to 'only' 2.5M ppd hurts. A necessary evil of the upgrade cycle, sadly.

 

[Markfw]

I just snagged one EVGA 1080TI FTW3 6696 for $820, and $20 shipping from EVGA !!!! I tried for number 2, but they said my limit was reached, so at least its good they are checking.

And I just snagged a EVGA 1080TI SC2 card for $30 less, but I was so excited, I accidentally clicked the next day air for $30 more. Oh well, I will switch out my FTW3 in the computer I am typing on, so mu new threadripper system will have a matched pair.

I just found out how I got this. they are only offering cards to Elite members ! I guess I am one he said.

Hey, Tony, I am selling my 980TI cards.... $500 each... Need a holdover ?

 

[petrusbroder]

Just some quick stats and one graph:

Tomorrow the difference between the teams may reach 198M points, and the day after 200 M points ... or may not ...

 

[LANMAN]

"I"m given her all she got captain... "

 

[UsandThem]

I'll be folding for one more night, and then I will be bowing out of the rest of the race. I should end up around 97th or 98th in points total on our team when I stop.

Once I take care of some stuff, I will likely help out by folding at night during the winter time a little bit in the future.

 

[Jupiter88]

As long as the loser doesnt have to pay the winners credit card statement im all in for Brony@home.

 

[Ken g6]

I actually wish that DC operations, would make a coin-mining platform, with their PoW being their DC project. That would, possibly, get more people involved, get more science done, and simultaneously create a virtual currency out of it.

PrimeGridCoin, anyone? Just some random thoughts.

There are a few DC coins out there, including GridCoin and CureCoin, but those require you to change your team. I just found FoldingCoin, which requires you to change your username, and presumably do 10 WUs to get bonuses again, but doesn't require you to join their team. I may try it out soon.

 

[Assimilator1]

Tony
Lol, yea a good estimate

ao_ika_red
Interesting & useful table , who set that up?
Good to see my old HD 7970 isn't doing too badly!

 

[StefanR5R]

OCN set it up:
http://www.overclock.net/forum/55-o...me-team/475163-gpu-projects-ppd-database.html

Note, this database errs more or less on the optimistic side, because contributors tend to cherry-pick. Because of this and because of the wide variability of PPD between WUs, disregard all entries with small sample size. (Example: GTX Titan X(P) and GTX Titan Xp realistically have nearly the same PPD as GTX 1080 Ti, but are a lot better than the Ti according to the data base.) Furthermore, the database does not differentiate between Windows and Linux, although we now know that at least bigger cards are a lot more effective on Linux than on Windows.

 

[petrusbroder]

There is a big dump by the Brony@Home team ... our lead dwindles ... we need more power!
Working on the stats ... see one of the next posts.

Edit: False alarm: the stats were done during an update.

 

[petrusbroder]

Here are the stats for the 56th day of the race in Folding@Home with Brony@Home
Stats are as of January 26, 2018, 21.05 UTC (approx).
The inter-team race stats are from the Folding@Home stats page and from EOC.com.

The difference between the teams approaches 200 M points, and will probably pass this milestone within the next 24 hours.
The total points for the race is 6.116 B points - which is quite a lot of WUs ...

 

[StefanR5R]

I like a lot how the green line is staying above zero.

 

[ao_ika_red]

I like a lot how the green line is staying above zero.

Just flirting with the zero.

 

[Orange Kid]

Blue > Red = Green > 0
Thanks for the stats.