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HowardDrake · Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:19 pm

After 5 weeks of intensive work and upgrading I've made it to the Top 10 of the TR Folding Gerbils. Vanity post required

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Of course, I saw what JrdBeau is running for his farm and I'm finding myself destined never to hit #1 :cry:

, but I'll settle for #2

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Fri Aug 09, 2002 5:30 pm

The next challenge will be to make it to #5 before JrdBeau runs us all over.

HowardDrake · Fri Aug 09, 2002 11:14 pm

You are soooooo right :lol:

Anyone want to give me 1% of a winning lottery ticket so I can fill a rack with Dual 1U Athlon servers. I promise to fold on all of them

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Coldfirex · Fri Aug 09, 2002 11:44 pm

ya, thanks for kicking me out of the top 10

HowardDrake · Sat Aug 10, 2002 2:04 am

Coldfirex wrote:
ya, thanks for kicking me out of the top 10

Don't feel too bad, JrdBeau will probably knock me back out of the Top 10 by then end of the weekend

. But I should be back soon enough

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JrdBeau · Sat Aug 10, 2002 12:02 pm

Hey guys,

I don't know how high I am going to get on the TR list. I am running the client on 50 machines right now but I don't know how long I can keep the farm up. This project that I am working on is very flaky. Some days we use 85-90% of our machines and other days we use 0%. All the software for the project is coded in-house so the amount of bugs is staggering. This usually ends up causing the project to come to a screeching halt for up to a month while they go back to the drawing board. This is my folding period. I should be good to go for at least another 2 weeks but then I might have to shutdown for a while (at least until the next round of bugs hit!)

Didn't mean to step on anyones toes by racing to the top. I know you guys worked hard to get where you are, mostly with your own $$$. I tip my hat to that. I am just lucky enough to work for a project with a blank check when it comes to hardware.

Let's just say that Google is a direct competitor of our project I would love to race right past them in this thing!

-Jared

yarbo · Sat Aug 10, 2002 2:16 pm

well, just remember folding only takes unused computing cycles and a few megs of ram, you might be able to just leave it on. won't do much good, but you won't have to go through any effort to start or stop it

PRIME1 · Sat Aug 10, 2002 2:42 pm

Didn't mean to step on anyones toes by racing to the top. I know you guys worked hard to get where you are, mostly with your own $$$

Well for me top 10 is now just "been there, done that". I am more interested in seeing the whole team break into the top 10 (teams). Besides competition seems to get more Work Units completed.

HowardDrake · Sat Aug 10, 2002 6:16 pm

JrdBeau wrote:
Didn't mean to step on anyones toes by racing to the top. I know you guys worked hard to get where you are, mostly with your own $$$

Don't worry you won't knock me out the Top 10 for long and besides this is about making the whole team better, not individual competition. I think I speak for all when I say, we may have pissing contests about processors and such, but it's all with a

and a

. Besides, I only own about 8 of my 20+ processors anyway

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Let's break into the Top 10 by the end of the year and see where it goes from there.

yarbo · Sat Aug 10, 2002 7:08 pm

about 8? you've lost track already!

i've got 4 online in my room, and 1 more as soon as i get around to finding a power cable and i feel like installing win 2k on it (if it works). it's only a p2 233, so it's good for about 4 points a week

HowardDrake · Sun Aug 11, 2002 1:06 am

Yarbo, I buy and sell computers on a weekly basis. I get leftovers from clients, combine the bits into a new box, throw the folding client on it until I sell it, and lather, rinse, repeat. :lol:

Right now I have 3 boxes that are in this state, a Duron 700, a K6-2/400, and a P2/233. Next week, who knows?

Princess Die · Thu Aug 15, 2002 12:39 pm

Don't worry Jrdbeau! It's all in good fun, and it's certainly all for a good cause! :lol:

HowardDrake · Fri Aug 16, 2002 3:07 am

Back on-topic

Just hit #8 keeping pace with you JrdBeau, or at least trying to

HowardDrake · Mon Aug 26, 2002 1:43 am

And miracle of miracles, I passed JrdBeau and am now sitting in the #6 spot. Need more processors to begin the assault on the Top 5, must work harder.

yarbo · Mon Aug 26, 2002 5:38 pm

Howard: congrats on besting jrd (for now, we still don't know if he'll ever bring in the full farm)

mstrmold · Mon Aug 26, 2002 7:39 pm

Yup. looks as if Howard's gonna pass me in no time :oops:

Princess Die · Mon Aug 26, 2002 8:21 pm

Welcome to the club, Mrmold!

It is good for the team, though!

yarbo · Mon Aug 26, 2002 9:26 pm

you still have a good month in there before howard passes you

HowardDrake · Tue Aug 27, 2002 12:12 am

Yeah well, Howard is doing his darndest to hold up the team and personally get them up over at least 400 again :wink:

. Hard work trying to recruit others and I'm trying to get an XBox working. I'm officially nuts.

mstrmold · Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:54 pm

It is with great sadness that I must shutdown my Dual Athlon 1600MP and my two Dual XEON P4 systems for Network maintenance over the holiday :cry:

It just means I will have to work harder to re-capture the number 5 spot when you pass me Howard.

Kuhtarl · Fri Aug 30, 2002 1:33 pm

#1 and #2 are going to be difficult spots to take from Steel and I.
We don't plan on giving them up without a huge fight.

I'm adding 4 high end machines next week. I think I can start to whittle away on Steel's 500+ point lead over me.

For those of you who have me in your sights;

Wasn't it The Rock who said "Just Bring It"?

HowardDrake · Fri Aug 30, 2002 6:46 pm

You in my sights? Not quite yet, but Dr. Evil? :evil:

Definitely.....

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