MegaMilestones: Maxwell

[Dirk Broer]

Drat! Contracted a Maxwell by accident...
http://stats.free-dc.org/mosttag.php?cpid=76d20230028d9ceee3a1aa52fcf14dd4&theme=26

[Dirk Broer]

Drat! Contracted a Maxwell by accident...
http://stats.free-dc.org/mosttag.php?cpid=76d20230028d9ceee3a1aa52fcf14dd4&theme=26

It's contagious! Now I've have 18 MiRBs as well...
The Maxwell is for my Clanks (number of active projects in the past month), where I have a top-100 ranking (but in the team I am outshone by lazykiller, LeonardoXIV and Vaughan, who all clank even harder than I do)
MiRBs are a sort of mini-Maxwells: you get them for top-1000 mega milestones. It's such a new feature that team and project ranks have still to be calculated.

[AMDave]

Requested here:
http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?40072-Suggeston-for-a-New-MegaMilestone

Overall is here:
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=mmakers&subproj=mirbs

We are rocking it here:
http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=mmakers&subproj=mirbs&team=AMD+Users

Ooh. Nice. I'm close to Vaughan, but B Johansson is right behind me.

[AMDave stokes the fire and throws on more coal ... ]

[AMDave]

It occurs to me that this will need some occasional up-keep to stay in the top 1000s.
A very clever milestone.
Good for the projects.

[Dirk Broer]

It occurs to me that this will need some occasional up-keep to stay in the top 1000s.

http://stats.free-dc.org/mosttag.php?cpid=89e772f65716bba7c962b4a13d14e350&theme=31

Which of your Mega Milestones will have the most trouble staying in the top-1000?:icon_mrgreen:

[AMDave]

sure. I was generalizing. I may be among the exceptions to the rule for the time being.

I just fixed 2 of the high-end MMs over the last 6 months.
But I see 2 more lower down that need some attention.

Yeah. I spent the lasts 3 years bringing my numbers up across all projects, and it shows.
I led the Boks for quite a few months, which similarly is an 'all-projects-spread' mega milestone. Holding equal 2nd at the moment, but JayPi is a tough competitor too.

I'm not comfortable at the moment.
I have been consistently just outside the top 500 overall for about 12 months now.
I was within 20 ranks of it about 3 months ago but have slipped backwards as others have accelerated.
It's taking a lot of effort just to tread water.
Any little slip now equates to a big and fast back-slide these days.

So now I am quite circumspect about some of my stats that you see there.
Aside from the Boks, and now the MiRBS, the one I am most satisfied with is the 10Ks.
That's the end result of 10+ years of DC crunching on trailing-price-point CPUs.
It was VERY hard work getting to 10K back then.

But keep an eye on your stats.
They change much quicker than you think ;)

[Dirk Broer]

I know that my 1K score is far from safe, but generally my Mega Milestones are in the 200-400 ranking range.
My sweet spot is the 250K, where I have a 156th place.

When you want to improve your scores -or at least keep them at a certain level- you can not lay back, you have to improve.

To help things nVidia, of all, have come up with a new version of their Kepler chip, the GK 208. Normally to be found in laptops, but now also spotted in new versions of the GT 630 and GT 640 (http://www.thinkcomputers.org/nvidia-kepler-gk208-core-equipped-on-gt-640-gddr5-and-gt-630-zone-edition-gpus/).
Why do I mention such lower-end cards? It is all about the Wattage. The new GT 630 needs a mere 25 Watt, the new GT 640 will do with 49 Watt. Considering that my old (Fermi) GT 630 is already doing a great job as stand in for my dead GTX 260 -but at 65 Watt- and that they are both brought as as low profile cards, this opens opportunities for iTX and slim-case μATX systems.

The amazing part for these cards is a value found on wikipedia: the GK 208 equipped GT 630 gets a GFLOP/Watt score of 27.68 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeF orce_600_Series), the highest ever (even better than the HD 7790, which is by far the better of the two, but which performs at more than thrice the Wattage needed)

[Dirk Broer]

My first world-wide top-10!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/All_4_One_-_Clank.png/250px-All_4_One_-_Clank.png
It's for my Clanks (48 active projects over the last month).

BTW: If you did not know already it, the robot above is called Clank...

[Dirk Broer]

My new MegaMilestones banner, over two colums (the girl got too long):
https://stats.free-dc.org/mosttag.php?cpid=76d20230028d9ceee3a1aa52fcf14dd4&theme=26&cols=2
You can get yours at stats.free-dc.org/mosttag.php?cpid=[your Cross Project Identifier id here]&theme=26&cols=2
You can of course choose the theme and number of columns yourself...