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ZhengHe
02-12-2008, 12:35 PM
I propose a new Bjorn3D Folding competition with the intention of beating out the Microsoft Folding Team by month's end. Looking at the statistics on both our teams it would certainly be possible and perhaps re-energize this forum along with secure our rank. All that has left to be decided are the details and commitment. Anyway, this is just a thought, but we haven't done much in the Folding Forum for quite awhile so why not? Who is with me?

Some Specifications:

1. You can challenge as many people within the Bjorn3D Folding Team as you like. They don't have to accept.
2. The Competition Will End on February 29th 2008 11:59 PM PST.
3. We are trying to beat out a number of teams above us so every Working Unit Counts toward the total. Don't take that for granted.
4. Folding Advice and Questions can be directed to this forum and will be answers as quickly as they can.
5. All other information can be found at: http://folding.stanford.edu/ or any other Tech website specializing in folding. OCforums has a fairly good section so if you're still unsure feel free to browse through it.

Here (http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=41608) are our Official Team Statistics:

They can also be found here (http://kakaostats.com/t.php?t=41608) and here (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=41608) when F@H is updating.

A trend line of our team compared to other teams can be found at Extreme Overclocking (http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overtake.php?s=&t=41608) so that you can see where we are and where we need to be.

Remember that we want to get the trend line back to going up, not down.

Good luck!

sushrukh
02-12-2008, 01:02 PM
I'm constantly (24x7) folding for team Number 41608 since some months. :) So, yes, i'm on this one with ya. :)

Scott
02-12-2008, 01:23 PM
Somebody tell me how to get a Quad Core to fold in Vista 64 and I would give you all four cores at night and during work hours.

coxmaster
02-12-2008, 01:31 PM
My 2 cores will be folding soon, hopefully tonight. That should help you out atleast a little...

srpeters18
02-12-2008, 01:55 PM
Don't know about 64 bit, but I fold on three cores 24x7 in 32 bit with the console client. Once the watercooling is setup, it'll probably go to 4.

Nocutius
02-12-2008, 02:09 PM
I'm folding all the time anyway, unless i go home for a longer period of time or my pc decides to crash while i sleep.

SonicWRX
02-12-2008, 04:22 PM
Give me a few more days to get my GPUs back online. I am reconfiguring the systems water cooling with a new CPU and a sprung a leek from a bad fitting. It should be back by mid next week. It will crank out 10,000+ point a month.

bobletman
02-12-2008, 04:29 PM
Well i have my quad running at 3ghz folding on all 4 cores using xp. I fold for about 19 hours a day and sometimes 24. I will start to oc higher so i can fold more.

werty316
02-12-2008, 05:14 PM
One thing that ain't good is my workplace had my Folding@Home client blocked but now it can conenct, sort of. If everything goes as planned I'll have a nice MacPro we just got foldin' away, I just gotta figure out this SMP thing on an OSX machine.

Somebody tell me how to get a Quad Core to fold in Vista 64 and I would give you all four cores at night and during work hours.
Does the SMP client work?

ZhengHe
02-12-2008, 07:26 PM
I'm using the SMP client, so it does work. It should work for 4 cores as well, but you'd have to check the F@H website or a tutorial to figure out how to do that.

For the record I think challenging your closest adversary, as far as folding score, might be useful for this competition. It would also help if that person posts in the forum so they know of your challenge. So in the spirit of competition I challenge The Gonz to a folding contest. Whoever has the higher credit score by the end of the month will be declared the champion and winner takes all. Do you accept?

*Just for the record I want to keep this friendly, so try not to antagonize each other if you intend to challenge someone. They also need not accept.

I will try to post more explicit rules later tonight.

werty316
02-12-2008, 07:35 PM
:lol: so you were serious then; having a folding competition amongst members isn't exactly a far competition.

ZhengHe
02-12-2008, 07:45 PM
:lol: so you were serious then; having a folding competition amongst members isn't exactly a far competition.

Ah, but that isn't the point. The point is to increase the rank of our team as a whole. Competition among members should do that.

werty316
02-12-2008, 08:01 PM
Or you can just run F@H on everything you can get your hands on...

ZhengHe
02-12-2008, 08:03 PM
Well that would help too, although I don't think that would go over that well. They don't take too kindly to people installing anything on their hardware.

werty316
02-12-2008, 08:14 PM
If thats what it could come to, it would since it would be a competition.

A user can only fold as much as the systems they have setup for folding. I mean do you expect to produce more WUs and points than someone who has a folding farm?

coxmaster
02-12-2008, 10:19 PM
Alright, im Folding finally.. I think its running, so i guess its doing what it should be.

'Amp!'
02-12-2008, 10:58 PM
I'm using the SMP client, so it does work. It should work for 4 cores as well, but you'd have to check the F@H website or a tutorial to figure out how to do that.

For the record I think challenging your closest adversary, as far as folding score, might be useful for this competition. It would also help if that person posts in the forum so they know of your challenge. So in the spirit of competition I challenge The Gonz to a folding contest. Whoever has the higher credit score by the end of the month will be declared the champion and winner takes all. Do you accept?

*Just for the record I want to keep this friendly, so try not to antagonize each other if you intend to challenge someone. They also need not accept.

I will try to post more explicit rules later tonight.


I ACCEPT!!!

RiverRicer
02-13-2008, 03:18 AM
Perhaps The Gonz will find his butt on the platter I believe ZengHe is going to hand to him! :exactly: Unless The Gonz has a PS3 hidden in said butt! :dielaffin:

werty316
02-13-2008, 04:13 AM
ZhengHe has a PS3? So far his folding stats don't reflect that he is running one.

ZhengHe
02-13-2008, 02:20 PM
Looks can be decieving and your avatar hurts my eyes:ahhhhh:. He was referring to The Gonz though, not me.

'Amp!'
02-13-2008, 02:55 PM
Perhaps The Gonz will find his butt on the platter I believe ZengHe is going to hand to him! :exactly: Unless The Gonz has a PS3 hidden in said butt! :dielaffin:

MUUUUUAHAHAA I have a PS3 and 8 cores at my disposal.

werty316
02-13-2008, 03:11 PM
Based on The Gonz's past folding stats my money is on him unless ZhengHe can pull off something.

Sadasius
02-13-2008, 03:27 PM
Well right now the PS3's are a little screwy as F@H is having problems with uploading the work and getting new work for them. Every once in awhile the work simply will not upload and I get a nice dead spot of inactivity.

ZhengHe
02-14-2008, 04:17 PM
Based on The Gonz's past folding stats my money is on him unless ZhengHe can pull off something.

Well I can't exactly reveal my plans, so don't count me out yet. I have more then one trick up my sleeve, not to mention we still have 15 days left. Anything can happen in 15 days. Anyway I want to see a few more people challenge each other, otherwise we won't have a change at gaining ranks over the teams above us. Come on people. Fold for a Cure! Fold for your Dignity! Fold for Team Bjorn3D!

By the way, watch out Gonz. I'm gaining on you.

coxmaster
02-14-2008, 04:23 PM
I thought i just post to say im folding. My E6550 has been folding for about 12 hours, but i have no points yet?

Does it have to finish a full WU before i earn points? Also, how long does an average WU take?

ZhengHe
02-14-2008, 04:36 PM
You do indeed need to finish a whole working unit to get any points and average unit can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days depending on your processor. It really depends on your computer along with what sort of working units you are completing. How large is your working unit?

coxmaster
02-14-2008, 05:02 PM
The WU is 1500 frames.. Im currently 27% done at 405 frames

ZhengHe
02-14-2008, 06:00 PM
Usually if you're running a lot of processes, working at a high resolution, or doing anything that causes your processor to work harder it will take somewhat longer. I would reduce my resolution to the lowest setting you can stand, shut off any additional unneccesary processes and try and avoid doing anything that will take a lot of power until the working unit is done.

Since you have a dual core processor and are probably running the regular F@H client you are only really using have your available power. Once you are done with this working unit I would switch to either the SMP client or two instances of the regular F@H client, which can be configured for a Dual core processor. All those things should help increase the speed as which you finish each working unit, though some will make a far greater difference then others. Checking the F@H FAQ for other suggestions will help out as well.

PP Mguire
02-15-2008, 04:53 AM
What rank is the M$ team? I seriously doubt we can compete with them unless we all had PS3 folding farms. Could you imagine if we all had like 3 PS3s each and they didnt have a work problem? *drool*

Unless somebody wants to pay for my power bill all ill have is a P3 1gig folding 24/7 at my friends house.

Sadasius
02-15-2008, 05:15 AM
Actually we can take them. They are #230...Only 11 away at the moment. At our current rate we will beat them in 3.6 months.

ZhengHe
02-15-2008, 06:11 AM
Actually we can take them. They are #230...Only 11 away at the moment. At our current rate we will beat them in 3.6 months.

That is absolutely right, not to mention if we speed things up and get some more people folding with us we could really cut down on that time.

srpeters18
02-15-2008, 07:35 AM
ZhengHe: which WU's are you getting to get 1760 points a day with 1 WU? That's pretty awesome. Of course, I'm still ahead of both of you in terms of daily output... hehe... I love my PS3/C2Q/X2/Turion64X2, lol.

Sadasius
02-15-2008, 08:06 AM
ZhengHe: which WU's are you getting to get 1760 points a day with 1 WU? That's pretty awesome. Of course, I'm still ahead of both of you in terms of daily output... hehe... I love my PS3/C2Q/X2/Turion64X2, lol.

Not for long. ;-)

PP Mguire
02-15-2008, 10:16 AM
I just hope my buddy comes through with the school folding farm of P4s. Id prolly out do all of you. Of course this is just hoping. Its hard to get his lazy ass to do anything even if it is plugging a USB flash drive and clicking some things. I thought i was lazy, but he defines lazy.

srpeters18
02-15-2008, 03:20 PM
Lol.

@Sadasius, my current output is without my Q6600 running anything. I've been working on getting it stable. I thought it was stable yesterday woke up and it was frozen. Apparently it froze on restart doing the Windows Update. So, a little more voltage and we'll see what happens. But a Q6600 on 4 cores will get some work done. :wink:

ZhengHe
02-15-2008, 03:41 PM
Apparently there is a Facebook application, which you can use to display your folding stats and information. It might be a good way to attract other members to our folding team. Just came across this, so I thought I ought to mention it.

slugbug
02-15-2008, 04:38 PM
Just set up the SMP client on my C2D machine. I don't see much(if any)improvement though. I may go back to using 2 console versions.

Sadasius
02-15-2008, 06:01 PM
Apparently there is a Facebook application, which you can use to display your folding stats and information. It might be a good way to attract other members to our folding team. Just came across this, so I thought I ought to mention it.

Is there a name for it or a link? I'll add it to mine as well.

ZhengHe
02-15-2008, 06:50 PM
It is called the F@H Protein Researcher and here is a link (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4013739499&ref=s) for it.

werty316
02-15-2008, 06:59 PM
Unless you include it in every post you can't use any sort of visual folding stats in your signature since the IMG tag is disabled.

Sadasius
02-15-2008, 08:50 PM
It is called the F@H Protein Researcher and here is a link (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=4013739499&ref=s) for it.

Cool thanks. I added it!

coxmaster
02-15-2008, 10:49 PM
YAY, i love it when my folding stats just go away. I checked my computer today after school.. it ran all night folding away. It should have finished the WU, but it says 0 WUs complete and the total frames is back at 0.. Awesome

tyle6
02-16-2008, 03:14 PM
Well i finally got my stability issue worked out by stripping 2gb of ram from my server and tossin it in here:) ( thank god my asrock dual vsta-775 can run DDR & DDR2) so I am in back in! fold for a cure baby!!!

ZhengHe
02-16-2008, 03:27 PM
Congratulations tyle6. Glad to see your back to folding. By the way our production has gone up so keep the momentum on this going! Oh, and I'm 3 positions away from you The Gonz, so better watch yourself :twisted:.

Another Update:

I've created an official milestone thread here (http://www.bjorn3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21415), so check it out and let me know what you think.

Sadasius
02-16-2008, 04:35 PM
I like the milestone thread. Good idea. Also good news is that Sony for the PS3 seem to have fixed some issues so I 'Should' be folding better now as I have installed their latest update and it seems to be doing good so far. Will find out when it goes to upload and download the work.

ZhengHe
02-16-2008, 07:37 PM
Nice that should mean my PS3 should work that much better when it arrives.

Update:
We are trailing the Folding Supras by only 9,000 points! Nine Thousand points is nothing. Let's working those CPU's to get over that hump. It shouldn't be long now. Thank you for everyone who has been participating and let's beat these guys at their own game. Forward toward rank 238!

Update 2:
Those 9000 points just dropped to 6000 and the trend line is in our favor. Now we just need to take out those last 600 and rank 238 will be ours. After that it's only 9 more team conquests until we have beaten the Microsoft team. The wind is at our back so get folding!

slugbug
02-18-2008, 04:45 PM
I'm running the SMP client on my C2D rig now and each WU gives you 1760 points. It should help boost my points a bit.

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/4443/fhoe8.jpg

ZhengHe
02-18-2008, 05:02 PM
Nice one slugbug. Keep them coming :). It looks as though we should be overtaking the Folding Supras any day now, and possibly today. After that the Amalgamated Folders, and Bigfoot Computers should be fairly easy conquests. After that the biggest issue should the PS Forum EU, which is currently outstripping us in points production by approximately 50 per day and total points by 28,000. The two greatest threats we have are the Arthritis Warriors and the KonsoliFin team. We need to increase our points production by about 4-5 thousand in order to overtake the PS Forum EU team in under a week and an additional 3-4 thousand in order to avoid being overtaken by Arthritis Warriors and KonsoliFin. So that's the plan for this week unless anyone has a suggestion.

You know it's funny, but this whole things feel a tiny bit like a war....gives me an idea for next month :twisted:.

Sadasius
02-18-2008, 06:02 PM
I am looking into getting a few extra PS3's from pawn shop nearby. They are used but I don't care. If I can get them for a nice price I will take them all. He has 5 of them. That would increase our lead and points per day by at least 6000.

ZhengHe
02-18-2008, 06:08 PM
How much are they selling them at the pawn shop Sadasius. I'm getting mine for about $190. Did they give you a better price if you buy all 5?

Sadasius
02-18-2008, 06:16 PM
How much are they selling them at the pawn shop Sadasius. I'm getting mine for about $190. Did they give you a better price if you buy all 5?

He was selling them for just over $200 plus tax. I made him an offer of $700 for all 5 without tax and to give me a call if he decides to do that. So I sat the money aside and I am just waiting to see if he will call. It equals out to be $140 a piece if he will go for it. He looked pretty hesitant so I am not sure if I will get the call. At least he has my number and knows I am interested in a bunch of them. I even told him that I didn't care if the damn blue ray drives work or not. Just need the processing power.

ZhengHe
02-18-2008, 06:20 PM
He was selling them for just over $200 plus tax. I made him an offer of $700 for all 5 without tax and to give me a call if he decides to do that. So I sat the money aside and I am just waiting to see if he will call. It equals out to be $140 a piece if he will go for it. He looked pretty hesitant so I am not sure if I will get the call. At least he has my number and knows I am interested in a bunch of them. I even told him that I didn't care if the damn blue ray drives work or not. Just need the processing power.

He doesn't by chance have a one more does he. If you could get even a slightly higher price on the five I would be willing to send you the cash at pay for shipping. That way I know who it's coming from and get a slight discount. It's a thought if you're game for it and everything works out, assuming you're game and he might have a 6th one coming in. By the way, is that Canadian or American dollars?

coxmaster
02-18-2008, 06:54 PM
That is an incredible price for a PS3! Even at pawn shops a PS3 would cost me atlesat 350$!

coxmaster
02-18-2008, 07:01 PM
Oh and also, i think i got the stability issues resolved with my CPU. For somereason the CoreV dropped to .95 and caused it to crash. According to FahMon im averaging about 1200 pts per day, and thats when i use my computer all day. When i go back to school and F@H is all thats running it should go up significantly!

Sadasius
02-18-2008, 07:05 PM
He doesn't by chance have a one more does he. If you could get even a slightly higher price on the five I would be willing to send you the cash at pay for shipping. That way I know who it's coming from and get a slight discount. It's a thought if you're game for it and everything works out, assuming you're game and he might have a 6th one coming in. By the way, is that Canadian or American dollars?

Canadian dollars. I am actually thinking of placing an article or ad in the news paper saying I would buy used PS3's for $150 for a limited time only. That may be a quicker way because I don't think this guy is going to budge and the price he is charging I might as well buy them new. But who knows. I will call him back later tomorrow or go and see him (only across the street) and see if he will move on it. Like all Pawn Shop owner's they are a bit shady and unscrupulous.

Andrew1990
02-18-2008, 08:32 PM
Well hopefully I get my X1600XT this week so I can start folding on it. I am also folding on my two cores of my Pentium D.

Is there any problem running a GPU client with two CPU Clients?

coxmaster
02-18-2008, 09:06 PM
I think to use a GPU client you have to run the GPU SMP client. If you do use the SMP you will only need a single client running

ZhengHe
02-19-2008, 12:52 PM
Canadian dollars. I am actually thinking of placing an article or ad in the news paper saying I would buy used PS3's for $150 for a limited time only. That may be a quicker way because I don't think this guy is going to budge and the price he is charging I might as well buy them new. But who knows. I will call him back later tomorrow or go and see him (only across the street) and see if he will move on it. Like all Pawn Shop owner's they are a bit shady and unscrupulous.

That is for sure. Well good luck with get those PS3's. I'll let you know if I come across any good deals on the likely chance that this guy doesn't work out. No pawn shops around here, or at least none I know of so I got to go through the "old fashioned" routes of commerce :). Still $150 isn't bad since American and Canadian currencies are about even now. At least it makes trade a bit easier even if the economy over here is less then perfect. Does anyone remember the least time the American dollar dipped below the Canadian anyway?

Just for an update we beat out the Folding Supras and the Amalgamated Folders Inc. and K-State Folders United. Unfortunately the Arthritis Warriors and KonsoliFIN have had significantly higher 24 hour point averages then we have and both are set to overtake us in a matter of days unless that changes.

SonicWRX
02-19-2008, 05:39 PM
Well hopefully I get my X1600XT this week so I can start folding on it. I am also folding on my two cores of my Pentium D.

Is there any problem running a GPU client with two CPU Clients?

When using a GPU for folding you need to keep one core open on your CPU as a small portion of it needs to be used to make every thing work smooth. When i was running two 1950Pros it used about 35% of my AMDX2 CPU also. The advantage to leaving it open is that the GPU will work way faster than the CPU core that it needs to help it. At max i could run 2 GPUs and 1 CPU cores. That would max out my system.

ZhengHe
02-20-2008, 03:54 PM
Nice bit of advice. Too bad I don't have a GPU to run this off, but perhaps if I take a job at my local computer lab they might have an older computer lying around which could take an X1600 and that I could purchase at or below cost for folding. They might even give it to me? Certainly something to keep in mind.

On a sidenote I was sitting up in bed and thinking about how we could increase our working unit output last night. The only think that came out of that was the idea of recruitment, though it's hard to imagine how well that would work on a large scale. Does anyone have an idea how that could work or is this just one of those offhand ideas that isn't worth pursuing?

SonicWRX
02-21-2008, 02:20 AM
I dont know about recruiting. I kind of like that fact that we are just a bunch of guys on a forum that fold and do well at it. I'd rather know the guys that are folding on the team. Than just have a high score people that come here and stay are all the recruitment that we need.

Just my 2 cents :keepfolding:

Kougar
02-22-2008, 02:06 AM
Well hopefully I get my X1600XT this week so I can start folding on it. I am also folding on my two cores of my Pentium D.

Is there any problem running a GPU client with two CPU Clients?

Hey Andrew, to answer your question yes there would be problems. If you fold on your GPU you must dedicate a full CPU core to running the GPU client. It is needed to handle the GPU drivers and keep the GPU fed with data to crunch.

So in your example, you can run a single CPU client and the GPU client, just be sure to configure the CPU client with a different ID as shown in the Stanford folding FAQ. The GPU client will assume an ID of 1.

Does Folding@home run on dual processor or multi-core machines?


Yes it can, by running one of our high performance SMP clients, Linux-64, OSX/Intel, or Windows. See the client Download page.

For other platforms, additional processors must run more than one console client (with the "-local" command-line argument if run on Windows). First, make additional directories for each processor and copy the FAH Console executable file into each. Then configure them with the -config switch, filling in settings for each. It is very important to make sure that under the "Advanced Settings" option each copy is given a unique machine ID (from 1 to 8, up to 16 on v6 clients). The first copy will default to a machine ID of 1, so additional copies should be given IDs of 2, 3, 4, etc. Each may then be run out of their installed directory, using the -local switch on Windows.



For the record I think challenging your closest adversary, as far as folding score, might be useful for this competition. It would also help if that person posts in the forum so they know of your challenge. So in the spirit of competition I challenge The Gonz to a folding contest. Whoever has the higher credit score by the end of the month will be declared the champion and winner takes all. Do you accept?

Oh, so this explains why The Gonz is now knocking at my door! I just checked the stats and was rather surprised to notice him nipping at my heels on average points per day... :mrgreen:

Somebody tell me how to get a Quad Core to fold in Vista 64 and I would give you all four cores at night and during work hours.

Just to check, did you get this working Scott? As someone already said the SMP client works on Vista 64... here's the FAQ for it: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-SMP (http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-SMP)

RiverRicer
02-23-2008, 10:41 PM
MUUUUUAHAHAA I have a PS3 and 8 cores at my disposal.
I see from the recent folding stats that The Gonz is shoving my post from a couple of weeks ago down my throat!!:ahhhhh:
Way to fold Gonz!! Wish I had a PS3.

ZhengHe
02-24-2008, 03:21 AM
Well with any luck by week's end I will have 2 PS3's to fold with. Watch yourself Gonz! Though it won't make much of a difference for this month it will certainly mean something for next month :twisted:. Then all I need to do is get my new rig up and running in the next 6 months and that will be it. I'm coming for you Gonz so don't think you'll be sitting pretty for long ;).

Sadasius
02-24-2008, 03:03 PM
I'm just wondering how some people are getting the big point WU's of 1760. If there is a secret to it, it would be nice to share that info so the whole group can go up.

ZhengHe
02-24-2008, 03:41 PM
Two words: SMP Client (http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download). Each SMP core as 500,000 steps, which contributes to unusually large Working Units. Of course you need either a dual core or quad core processor to run it so it's not everyone.

coxmaster
02-24-2008, 04:19 PM
Yep yep, im loving the SMP Client. Ive finished 4WU's and im over 7000 points! Its great, and i'll break 10000 in a few days!

'Amp!'
02-29-2008, 07:34 PM
For the record I think challenging your closest adversary, as far as folding score, might be useful for this competition. It would also help if that person posts in the forum so they know of your challenge. So in the spirit of competition I challenge The Gonz to a folding contest. Whoever has the higher credit score by the end of the month will be declared the champion and winner takes all. Do you accept?

ZhengHe you are a worthy adversary and got me a bit nervous there fore a few days. I had to dig extra deep into my reserves and without them it could have been anyone's game.

Well played. :icon_tiphat:

My final tally was 18 Cores plus a PS3

ZhengHe
02-29-2008, 09:02 PM
ZhengHe you are a worthy adversary and got me a bit nervous there fore a few days. I had to dig extra deep into my reserves and without them it could have been anyone's game.

Well played. :icon_tiphat:

My final tally was 18 Cores plus a PS3

Thank you The_Gonz. I was actually surprised how well I did considering that I was running only one dual core 2.0 Ghz processor with the exception of one, old AMD CPU for a day. With any luck I'll be an even better match next month, since you outpaced me almost 2-1 this time.

slugbug
03-01-2008, 04:34 PM
I really wish I had switched to the SMP client earlier. My total for February was 18,189 points with 18 work units. If I had began the month using the SMP client I would have done 31680 points.

From what I've read, your ppd will be even higher if you use the Linux SMP client with a 64bit Linux OS. I'll set it up on my other PC when my basement renovations are done later this month.

Exilon
03-01-2008, 05:09 PM
Hey, can I get added to the team? I'm running SMP right now as well.

werty316
03-01-2008, 05:57 PM
Hey, can I get added to the team? I'm running SMP right now as well.
Go for it, just make sure you ues team "41608".

Sadasius
03-04-2008, 08:41 PM
Holy freakin cow look at the Gonz go. You have some pretty damn big competition coming up the ladder Kougar.

'Amp!'
03-04-2008, 09:17 PM
Must fold for Mugatu. Can not turn left...... Must fold...

Sadasius
03-04-2008, 09:23 PM
Must fold for Mugatu. Can not turn left...... Must fold...

HAHAHA....."Obey my dog!!!"

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d105/ligia55/zoolander.jpg

RiverRicer
03-06-2008, 03:06 AM
You guys are killing me!!:ahhhhh: Must.....fold.....FASTER!
Scored a second x1900, 512mb off fleabay - $62.50!. It'll go in the Opteron box this weekend, so that should give me a 600 ppp boost............not enough, I fear. Them thar Sony things shor kin fold! Can't afford one though.:-(

srpeters18
03-06-2008, 05:15 AM
Man, I hate being offline for so long. Just got the big box back up and running, had to get a USB wifi card tonight for it. Also got the PS3 up and running, kinda. It tests fine everytime, but when I start a game or anything it tells me an error occured and it has signed out of the Playstation Network. Weird. Back to folding just fine, but we'll see if it uploads/downloads new WU's like its supposed to. I don't think I can stop the Gonz from taking me down though.

DemonicDerek
03-06-2008, 07:43 AM
HAHAHA....."Obey my dog!!!"

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d105/ligia55/zoolander.jpg

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So your dog has a laptop and is folding at home with that?!?!? awesome!!!:jawdrop:

ZhengHe
03-06-2008, 11:01 AM
So any chance we could adopt a grizzly bear for our Bjorn3D Folding team mascot? You know, a real grizzly bear, from a zoo or a wildlife preserve. One we could take pictures of periodically. A polar bear would work too or a brown bear, since this website is based out of Sweden. Even a black bear would work if it looked sufficiently strong or vicious. I'm going to shy away from any Panda bears even though some of us do sit around eating bamboo shoots as we fold. Anyway what do you think? I'll start up a new thread if there are enough people interested in this. Just let me know what you think, whether you'd like to see a mascot or think this is just about the worst idea you've ever heard and ought to be crushed into oblivion.

If this really takes off there are some great zoos up near New York city, so I could probably take the train up every now and then to take some pictures. The Bronx zoo is a particular favorite, but there are plenty of other zoos in and around the city. We might even get some recognition from the zoo; who knows. Of course if anyone has a pet bear that would work too, but I don't think that applies to anyone here, otherwise we would have heard about it already.

Just to add in a bit of more relevant information, we are 13,000 points away from surpassing PS Forum EU Folding team. If you compare that to SMP Working units that is just barely over 7 working units. A meager sum compared to what we are obviously capable of. According to Extreme Overclocking at our current output that would put us over the edge in 4 1/2 days. I would suggest that we are perfectly capable of doing it in 3. A cookie to anyone who proves me right.

'Amp!'
03-06-2008, 12:21 PM
I live in Brooklyn, NY and went to the Bronx Zoo recently like last year. When I go back I'll ask the zoo keepers if they can prop up the bears in a cute pose so I can use it for cool website. I wonder if I'll make it home that day. :grin:

ZhengHe
03-10-2008, 11:48 PM
I live in Brooklyn, NY and went to the Bronx Zoo recently like last year. When I go back I'll ask the zoo keepers if they can prop up the bears in a cute pose so I can use it for cool website. I wonder if I'll make it home that day. :grin:

Hmmmm....guess that depends whether you decide to prop up the bear yourself.

By the way. We are now at Folding Rank 233, which is awesome and were just beaten by PS Forum EU again....not so awesome. Anyway, we should be able to push them back over the edge by tomorrow and according to the stats rank 223 should be reached within 30 days. More updates as they become available.