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AMD Users Forum Newsletter - 05-May-05
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Welcome to the second issue of the AMD Users Forum Newsletter.
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CONTENTS:
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- TEAM NOTES
- SPRING CONTEST
- DASHBOARD SNAPSHOT
- PROJECT SUMMARY
- THE FORUM
- THANKS
TEAM NOTES:
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The Forum took another 18 membership registrations in April. To all the new members that have joined recently, welcome to the AMD Users Team. Your contribution to the forums and to the projects is most appreciated.
There were a number of noteable events in March. Here are some Team milestones:
We hit Sub-20 in Grub and have crossed the 100,000,000 URL's milestone.
We passed 700 T cEMs in SoB
We passed 1,000,000 in Einstein@Home
We overtook over 100 teams in RC5-72
and a few individual milestones:
Beerknurd hit 2,700 in D2ol while moving house (Nice trick BTW)
Vaughan and Chaz crossed the 100 T cEM's milestone on SOB
DMMc crossed the 100,000 points in F@H
Beerknurd and ahab crossed the 10,000,000 URL's in GRUB
bwhite passed 1,000,000 measurements in Dimes
72CJ5 crossed 600,000 in eOn
SlackPawn passed 3,000,000,000,000 in Chessbrain
PClop passed 150,000 credits in Einstein@Home
Keithw1975 passed 125,000 credits in ClimatePrediction (BOINC)
Chaz passed 45,000 credits in Predictor
DMMc got past 700,000 in OGR-25
SPRING CONTEST:
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NeoGen's update on the Spring Contest...
"Well, it's been exactly one month since I started the contest. One month ago by this time I had made the first data collections. This has been one fiery month I'll say...
17-or-Bust
In a single month of work in 17-or-Bust we produced 107.8 T cEM's, which is around 16% of our team total value. We took over a year to reach our present 666.07 T cEM's, but at this months rate we'd have achieved this very same value in six and a half months. Keep it up gang! (Especially Chaz and Vaughan who have been on their own private race nearly since the beggining)
DNet OGR25
Again, we produced alot in these mere 31 days of contest. 482,213 GNodes, which is around 18% of our grand total. At this rate we'd have achieved this same position in less than six months, and the Dnet site says we're working on this project for over 4 years? (Is this correct?)
DNet RC5-72
We're getting better and better. In RC5-72 we produced a total of 43,416 Blocks, which is around 30% of our grand total of over 2 years of work on this project. Doing some simple math we can deduce that with 30% in one month, in 3 and a half months at this rate we'd have reached this same stage too.
Find-a-Drug
We got a grand total value of 107,929,656 GFlops which is awesome, and it's smashing compared to the 5,890,344 GFlops that we produced in this month of contest. But I can't tell for how long we've been running it, it doesn't say on the stats page, so maybe the percentage is low (around 5%) because the project is a bit old already? Nevertheless I feel we pushed quite a bit here too this month.
Folding@Home
Another great month for F@H this has been. 57,380 Points gained in a month, and around 15% of our grand total (387,518 Points) is quite a feat. Again I can't tell for how long we've been on it, but I bet it's at least a couple of years already.
Grub
What can I say? I'll let the numbers speak by themselves: 20,246,668 URL's in one month, out of a total of 91,564,802 URL's made in over a year. Need I say more? (Oh yea, it's around 22%)
WhatPulse
And to finish in big style, I'll present WhatPulse! Some people must have their fingertips on fire because we had 11,387,962 Keys submitted in the last 31 days. Come to think that we only have a grand total of 32,052,933 Keys, that means we produced a whooping 35% of the grand total just this month! I just wish I knew for how long are we in this project, but I do know that at this rate we'd have reached this position in about 3 months.
Summing it all, GREAT WORK EVERYONE!!!
Let's make the next month as productive as this first one, shall we?
In the meantime, a reminder to everyone participating. This has been one long contest, although it seems to me as it was just yesterday that I started it. We have entered in the last 30 days of contest, so for those who would like to make a rush or defend their positions, now is the time to plan your final moves.
Have fun everyone!"
NeoGen will make the next updated once we hit two months of contest, that will be on May 20th. Look out for it in the Forum.
DASHBOARD SNAPSHOT:
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Here's the dashboard snapshot:
28 projects
12 rank improved
08 rank slipped
08 rank maintained
PROJECT SUMMARY:
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17 or Bust - Rank 13 - improved by 1
In 17 or Bust we started the month at 595.9 and finished at 717.3.
The change of 121.4 was higher than the 6 month average of 79.9 by 41.4 points.
Burp - Rank 6 - slipped by 1
In Burp we started the month at 140.0 and finished at 364.2.
The change of 224.2 was higher than the 6 month average of 60.7 by 163.5 points.
ChessBrain - Rank 3 - maintained rank
In ChessBrain we started the month at 7,625.7 and finished at 7,642.6.
The change of 16.9 was lower than the 6 month average of 795.0 by -778.1 points.
Climate Prediction - Rank 51 - maintained rank
In Climate Prediction we started the month at 832,529.1 and finished at 945,099.4.
The change of 112,570.3 was lower than the 6 month average of 123,879.4 by -11,309.1 points.
D2OL - Rank 16 - slipped by 1
In D2OL we started the month at 615,251.0 and finished at 629,223.0.
The change of 13,972.0 was lower than the 6 month average of 19,108.0 by -5,136.0 points.
DHEP - Rank 5 - maintained rank
In DHEP we started the month at 18,803.4 and finished at 19,926.1.
The change of 1,122.7 was lower than the 6 month average of 3,321.0 by -2,198.3 points.
Dimes - Rank 3 - slipped by 1
In Dimes we started the month at 1,129,204.0 and finished at 1,685,034.0.
The change of 555,830.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 280,839.0 by 274,991.0 points.
Dnet OGR - Rank 359 - improved by 50
In Dnet OGR we started the month at 2,353,276.0 and finished at 2,814,035.0.
The change of 460,759.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 370,340.5 by 90,418.5 points.
Dnet RC5-72 - Rank 803 - improved by 132
In Dnet RC5-72 we started the month at 115,506.0 and finished at 155,927.0.
The change of 40,421.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 18,954.7 by 21,466.3 points.
DPAD - Rank 19 - maintained rank
In DPAD we started the month at 5,666.0 and finished at 5.9.
The change of -5,660.1 was lower than the 6 month average of -761.4 by -4,898.7 points.
Einstein@Home - Rank 12 - slipped by 1
In Einstein@Home we started the month at 732,700.0 and finished at 1,112,651.0.
The change of 379,951.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 185,441.8 by 194,509.2 points.
EON - Rank 5 - improved by 4
In EON we started the month at 150,132.0 and finished at 939,706.0.
The change of 789,574.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 152,401.8 by 637,172.2 points.
Evolution - Rank 7 - maintained rank
In Evolution we started the month at 15,590.0 and finished at 15,590.0.
The change of 0.0 was lower than the 6 month average of 2,598.3 by -2,598.3 points.
Find-a-Drug - Rank 46 - slipped by 2
In Find-a-Drug we started the month at 103,307,136.0 and finished at 110,706,896.0.
The change of 7,399,760.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 6,776,350.7 by 623,409.3 points.
Folding@Home - Rank 414 - improved by 20
In Folding@Home we started the month at 349,764.0 and finished at 409,358.0.
The change of 59,594.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 46,392.8 by 13,201.2 points.
Grid Org - Rank 3771 - improved by 45
In Grid Org we started the month at 930,178.0 and finished at 961,863.0.
The change of 31,685.0 was lower than the 6 month average of 48,405.0 by -16,720.0 points.
Grub - Rank 17 - improved by 6
In Grub we started the month at 76,904,634.0 and finished at 103,802,646.0.
The change of 26,898,012.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 17,300,441.0 by 9,597,571.0 points.
LHC@Home - Rank 15 - improved by 1
In LHC@Home we started the month at 136,279.0 and finished at 161,963.0.
The change of 25,684.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 11,732.3 by 13,951.7 points.
Pirates@Home - Rank 5 - maintained rank
In Pirates@Home we started the month at 6,957.2 and finished at 7,743.5.
The change of 786.3 was lower than the 6 month average of 1,290.6 by -504.3 points.
Predictor - Rank 43 - slipped by 1
In Predictor we started the month at 113,341.0 and finished at 150,589.0.
The change of 37,248.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 20,353.8 by 16,894.2 points.
Seti (BOINC) - Rank 347 - improved by 79
In Seti (BOINC) we started the month at 250,580.0 and finished at 351,956.0.
The change of 101,376.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 53,575.7 by 47,800.3 points.
Seti (Classic) - Rank 2471 - slipped by 16
In Seti (Classic) we started the month at 51,650.0 and finished at 51,846.0.
The change of 196.0 was lower than the 6 month average of 2,118.7 by -1,922.7 points.
TKC - Rank 40 - improved by 10
In TKC we started the month at 23,737,269.0 and finished at 34,023,715.0.
The change of 10,286,446.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 4,971,521.3 by 5,314,924.7 points.
TSC - Rank 24 - improved by 2
In TSC we started the month at 304,396.0 and finished at 372,218.0.
The change of 67,822.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 16,768.2 by 51,053.8 points.
Ubero - Rank 3 - maintained rank
In Ubero we started the month at 2,259,173.0 and finished at 2,309,243.0.
The change of 50,070.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 27,210.5 by 22,859.5 points.
WhatPulse - Rank 265 - improved by 93
In WhatPulse we started the month at 23,798,062.0 and finished at 36,403,085.0.
The change of 12,605,023.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 6,067,180.8 by 6,537,842.2 points.
World Community Grid - Rank 23 - slipped by 2
In World Community Grid we started the month at 5,347,885.0 and finished at 6,427,377.0.
The change of 1,079,492.0 was higher than the 6 month average of 1,071,229.5 by 8,262.5 points.
Zeta - Rank 31 - maintained rank
In Zeta we started the month at 2,022.9 and finished at 2,027.7.
The change of 4.8 was lower than the 6 month average of 11.6 by -6.8 points.
THE FORUM:
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The forum now has over 318 membership registrations.
121 members have contributed posts.
More than 1,500 page views per day were served this month.
Lagu's word-play update...
"The "New word play" has following statistic:
Gamer007........32 times
Beerknurd........30
72CJ5..............28
AMDave...........11
Lagu.................5
Deviant_Kine.....3
Neogen.............3
Vaughan............3
Carlos...............2
Spjeff69............2
Terry.................2
Meckano...........1
The most worth considering words have been added by these "authors": Gamer007, Neogen, Beerknurd, 75CJ2, Vaughan, Spjeff69 and AMDave. The beginning was good but the end of this meaning was not so good, but perhaps funny to read.
There will be times when I think about the ending of the World but, I pray that the Gods are kind to the planet, so our children have a place to crunch for AMD Users and, bring huge sandwiches from Subway, so that we can share them with all great members here.
"Word associations" have this since last news
Beerknurd...........433 times..(+46)
DMMc..................192............(+4)
Gamer007...........229...........(+53)
AMDave..............179...........(+19)
Andrewdodd13...109...........(+11)
Rrcrain................102.............(+4)
72CJ5...................37...........(+37)
Deviant_Kine.......31.............(+4)
Spjeff69..............13.............(+1)
Lagu.....................9.............(+3)
Terry.....................8.............(+8)
Vaughan...............1.............(+1) "
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THANKS:
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That concludes this month's newsletter. Thanks to the contributing members for their help in putting this newsletter together.
Thanks to our admins, moderators, team founders, statsmen, affiliates and of course all of you, our members, who make this all possible.
Thank you all for another terrific month!
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