# 1 in DC

[carlos]

Free-DC is not the all-mighty Free-DC it was a couple of years ago. And we're not the small team we used to be either. :)

I think you're wrong. The heavy crunchers only run medical projects. Just look at maefly, by himself he took Free-DC to first place at Riesel LLR. Imagine what guys like Lauren, beth133, condor, PCZ, PY 222, ronbo54 could do if they decide to run small projects!!!! They just need to run them by one week or so to help Free-DC climb a lot of places.

Anyway, I totally disagree with DC-vault. In terms of work done I don't think Free-DC is the number 1 team.

Carlos

[mitro]

We just need to continually gain valuable members the way we have been.

[drezha]

I'm sort of a "dual" member. I've been with FDC for a fairly long time, and only crunch on stuff here that doesn't conflict with FDC's goals. Bok of FDC is a good friend and has been for a long time. We were together way back with US-Distributed before we moved to FDC. So to be blunt about it, I couldn't crunch against him/FDC. That's why I only do very limited projects here. Myself, I won't get involved in a contest against FDC. Sorry,

Kinda like me.

I could never really leave my team, Team Phoenix Rising. We may not be a huge group but we have some hardware.. We're in the top 20 for some of the main DC projects (and currently flying up Rosetta's ranks!)

Thats why all I've crunched here is some maths projects, which we dont do over at TPR...We're a BOINC only team pretty much...though we did come first in Lifemapper and did well in D2OL before it bork and we're in the top 100 for Folding@home

[Brucifer]

Free-DC is not the all-mighty Free-DC it was a couple of years ago. And we're not the small team we used to be either.

I think you're wrong. The heavy crunchers only run medical projects. Just look at maefly, by himself he took Free-DC to first place at Riesel LLR. Imagine what guys like Lauren, beth133, condor, PCZ, PY 222, ronbo54 could do if they decide to run small projects!!!! They just need to run them by one week or so to help Free-DC climb a lot of places.

Anyway, I totally disagree with DC-vault. In terms of work done I don't think Free-DC is the number 1 team.

Carlos

@neogen -- I think you would be amazed what FDC has available, specially if a race comes along. While AMD_Users has been picking up members after the termination of seti@home classic, so has every other main team out there in DC land. I also notice that some heavy hitters that were here aren't around anymore either.

@carlos -- I agree with your point on DC-Vault. It really isn't a truely comprehensive listing/gathering of the DC world and all the effort going into it by all the teams.

@no one in particular -- wasn't that long ago there was a listing called the DCR. People/teams were mashing their heads agains walls and wailing, trying to get everyone playing the "team total points game as determined by DCR." In reality it created some serious animosity as in practice it was pushing people to go for the #1 overall rather than allowing them to crunch what they wanted. The result was that a lot of people got tired of it and just quit or quietly faded into the background and started crunching annonymously (or however you spell it) so they weren't hounded by everyone with their own personal agenda trying to get everyone on "their" bandwagon.

[ahab3333]

i realize that we probably cant beat FDC in an all out race but if we might be able to sneak by them by beating them where we can. and as for why we should try what good is having a harpoon if your never going to aim at the white whale. (hense the name: ahab)

I also agree that we should not press people to run projects they dont want to but if you have a championship why not use it to take aim at fdc and hit them where it hurts.

[NeoGen]

Well... I got quoted and requoted, so I might as well explain what I meant up there. :roll:
I meant it as a perspective point of view. Some years ago we would look at Free-DC in the stats and think "they're so far away", now we look at Free-DC on the rankings and they're much closer. Free-DC is still the greatest DC team out there, but it doesn't look so "big" to us nowadays because we grew up too and got closer.

And I do have a small idea of the crunching power that Free-DC has in store. But the more projects come around, the more fragmented it gets, and the harder it is to keep those top ranks... like it is happening at Rosetta. :P

[Bok]

Hey guys. first of all, I'm very impressed with what you guys have done over here. Excellent work and it all goes to the overall science of DC.

A lot of people have Free-DC wrong. The goal (before I joined them) was always to be of service to the DC community. We host forums for any project that would like them, I provide stats (though selfishly, to be honest, I wrote them for me more than anything).

Bruce has been a friend for a long time for me. We will hookup sometime as well once my kids are a little older!!! (I have 500,000 airmiles to cash in after all!) -- that's a promise!

You guys may well pass us in the DC-Vault. To be honest, I, personally, don't care. It's not really been discussed much either on the Free-DC boards or elsewhere that I know. I was asked many times to provide the same kind of stats after the original DCR died. I didn't do it, mainly for the same reasons Bruce mentions. I think, though it's fun in a way, it detracts from the overall project goals in some ways.

All my opinion only, not Free-DC's...

Bok

[Ototero]

If a competition causes more people to crunch a project, that can only be good for DC.

Any inter-team rivalry is also good because it generates more DC.

If we ever get to number 1 in the Vault, then we'll be the ones everybody guns for. Naturally.

Our growth has slowed this month, hopefully that is temporary.

And, like Bok, I do the stats because of the technical challenge. Although his challenge must be much greater because he processes ALL teams. I only concentrate on AMD Users. My little DOS database has creaked and groaned many times, but it soldiers on.

[Strongbow]

=D< =D< =D<

More systems for all DC'ers that's what I say!

If anyone wants a challenge on their hands then unplug your Wife's hair dryer and try plugging in a PC in it's place!

[Brucifer]

That's not a challenge..... that's "sudden death."