47th on Predictor!

[vaughan]

Nflight, my reply may have sounded harsh but please don't take it that way.

I have put a couple of computers running BOINC with allow Predictor work active. Let's hope if we all add a little to the Predictor push we can catch the "slow pokes" sooner rather than later.

[NeoGen]

Nflight,
Vaughan made a big speech to say a small thing. What he wanted to say was that Jeff (spjeff69) and himself are the Team leaders, but everyone is free to run what they want.
Everyone is free to try to drive the team into a rally at a given project, but you got to supply a good reason or else people won't follow you. So for you to get extra people to help at a project you got to be the project advocate and present strong arguments. (Or else they'll just keep on crunching on their own pet projects)
And lastly, vaughan and AMDave are up to their necks in challenges with other team members already, so those two may not have much to spare... but hey, we got hundreds of other members over here! Let's try to get them running what we need!
(Oh yea, and person-to-person challenges are plenty too around here. If you look at Vaughan, he's on top of our Team on several projects, and in many of them the second ranked member is closing in and pressing him to give his place up. That's one kind of personal challenge, having to defend your position )

And lastly, as I have already written too much (going up fast on WhatPulse too ) I'll leave you a link to an idea that I had some time ago but that didn't pick up much attention.
It was the help needed thread where people would post where our team needed help at and why, and I would copy-paste and keep all help requests on the first post. Check it out:
http://www.amdusers.com/modules.php?...ewtopic&t=1757

[Nflight]

Reasons I work so hard to provide the necessary computing power to succeed with the Project Predictor Scripps and the Simap Projects. Well for starters I live and know some of the wonderful people who are working diligently to surpass there environment expectations with achievements to better our world we live in. These people are of the utmost intelligence bound individuals you would ever want to know. They are thoughtful and helpful at every second of there existence, their searchers for the solution to cure the diseases that plaque all mankind. They can be found at this URL; http://www.hmc.psu.edu/college/ and also they are able to be found here amongst the R&D group! http://www.hmc.psu.edu/researchdevelopment/

Why do I push for these men and women? Well in my lifetime, I have had three very close friends who have lost there struggle for life with the crippling disease of Leukemia. My first loss was at a young age of only 11 but Beaver was his nickname and he would struggle to make the best of everyday. Then as I got older I befriended Eric who at the crisp age of 24 lost his life with Leukemia, he was a great hunter and since his death I have not hunted a living thing. About 6 years ago I was living away from here and befriended another man who just happened to look ill but he did not feel ill, with in a few months he was diagnosed as Type 2 Leukemia and with in 4 months he passed with out being able to find a bone marrow transplantable donation.

Now you see why I am very motivated to find a cure, and within the protein structure of the Blood Cells, lies the answer to the solution to overcome this killer of a disease. If you feel I am pushing to hard to garner support for this project, at least now you know why I am so motivated to do my part with my computing skills in full power all the time. The National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health supports this project and I will give all I have to make everything possible to find a solution. The remarks about the two identities and there support is located at the bottom right of this web link: http://predictor.scripps.edu/

NeoGen Worte

Everyone is free to try to drive the team into a rally at a given project, but you got to supply a good reason or else people won't follow you.

[NeoGen]

You are right Nflight, and your reasons are good and noble, but one thing is missing there so that you can bring people over to "the cause". You have to appeal to their competitive side, rather than reason. I guarantee you, it makes more effect. ;)
Challenge the people in the ranks above you. Let them know you're after their spot. Call out the Team to unite and give them an objective, like for example to reach rank X, or surpass team Y. I tell you, motivation through competition works wonders.

[Nflight]

You have to appeal to their competitive side, rather than reason. I guarantee you, it makes more effect. ;)

So I need to make an effort to challenge those who wish to beat me and probably can. I am at the top speed of my systems, I really can't go any farther, unless I win the lottery I am stuck with these numbers I have been performing. I am still at the bottom of the the heap as per Simap, take a whack at me keep me there. Slowly but surely I will amass a portfolio of WU's and over time and money I will succeed. Why? Because I can. Signed Nflight the machine!

Who wants to put Nflight in the dungeon and keep him there, take a whack at me show me that your better then I am, put points between you and I and leave me in the dust. This is my Challenege! Are you worthy? :!:

[mitro]

Whats important to note is that Predictor is one project where we are making good gains (in team rank) and will continue to do so. We're only 41st in total credits BUT 21st in RAC, so we're moving well and can only get better.

[Steve Lux]

An update: We've improved two places, but are slowing down.

TC RAC
39 29 AMD Users 110 62 2,762 2,669 3,184 3,014 2,265 2,571 2,629 724,728 2,722

Also:

AMD Users will overtake: Days

DPRGI Team - Italy 0.8
Team Starfire 8.0
Overclockers Australia 32.2
Erster Kontakt 36.0
Overclockers.com 44.6
Boinc-IRC 56.9
Team Canada 96.2
Picard 160.9
Poland 163.7
InfoPC.pl 171.8

AMD Users will be overtaken by: Days

ARSTechnica Team Stir Fry 91.4
Meisterkuehler.de Team 102.5
Chicopee 327.8
Portugal@Home 546.5
Protein structural analysis room Japan 765.2
BOINC.SK 1,017.1

10 highest recent contributors from AMD Users' team (9 March 2006):

Rnk/Who/Rec Cred:
1 Mitro 781.2
2 James 346.18
3 Nflight 339.29
4 Reaper13 174.5
5 Dave Lewis 140.35
6 Steve Lux 112.99 (I've only got 25% set up for this project)
7 Dirk Broer 90.94
8 Keyur 80.56
9 AMD-USR JL 77.73
10 Anthony 67.31

So the team has moved from 41st to 39th and is still climbing since the previous post.

[mitro]

I've always said we can make good gains in Predictor. Unfortunately, I'm shifting some resources away from Predictor to work on another project, so we REALLY need some people to pick this project up. There's no real reason we shouldn't be in the top 20.

[Beerknurd]

I just threw all my power on Predictor. All 8.9 GHz of it... It's not much, but it's all I got...

[mitro]

Well thats more than I've had on it! 9GHz is nothing to sneeze at... nice going! :D