Team Catching up Update

[Beerknurd]

Thanks BW!!!!

[Nflight]

Ok people we finished 1018 points behind BB Pi yesterday and that's 20 cores we need just to finish even. I have a 3800+ with 2 cores coming up Thursday but that will still leave us 18 short. Any ideas?

Well, I have been doing some talking to the elite squad of Covert fighters, and I hear they are away on a mission this week. Seems they will only be able to join us by this weekend. Since I am only talking to the "General", I am not sure how many will actually be joining us for the long haul. You know the man in charge never really tells you when your surrounded, he just reminds you that your not alone, and that help is on the way!

Keep your chin up Gatekeeper53

[gatekeeper53]

At this point I don't care if it's 11 dogs a cat and 9 hampsters, if they have computers they are more then welcome lol

[Beerknurd]

I am going to go look at the local Puter Store in about 30 minutes.. I am a processor short of a new system. The CompUSA right by my house is closing and everything is 30% off. I'll see what I can do....

Depends on the sale going but I may have 2.... Crosses fingers...

[NVM]

For now



6 cores added
2 X2 4200+
1 A64 3200+
1 XP 2800+

My farm has been down for a week now after brownout I had here
it was awfully quiet around here
and rather cool too

I going to rearrange the farm so things will be going up and down, thats why I left it down.

now that I have had a chance to boot them one at a time all I can say is
NO MORE 80mm FANS
even with speed controllers they're bloody noisy

anyways, onwards and upwards

Cheers
Big Whiskey

i knew that would get you...

[mitchellds]

I just bought a pair of Opteron 2216 cpus to build a four core system. Now I'm in search of a decent socket F motherboard and memory. Hopefully within a week, I'll have this up and running.

[Beerknurd]

Well i'm off to the store... Wish me luck!!!!

[gatekeeper53]

http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=163

This one looks real good to me and PCNation has it in stock.


http://www.pcnation.com/web/details....04&item=L73156

[jmblazek]

Here are some stats:

30% of the total workspace has been completed.

TBP is only 12,000 uploads behind us. Thank goodness we have the beta points.

In the last 28 days they have almost doubled our output (100,530 to 51,515).
In the last 28 days, both teams have crunched 65% of the WU's. Overall, both teams have crunched 45%.

Using the new updated 65% of total WU's, we need to garner 50.1% of 1,040,287.3 WU's which is ~521,183. We currently have 112,787 so that leaves ~408,396 to go. At 5,000/day that leaves ~82 days (EDIT: with yesterday's overall rate, there's only ~79 days left for the entire project). TBP is currently 18.35 days behind us.

At 10,000/day we are ~41 days away from guaranteeing first place.
15,000/day is ~27 days
20,000/day is ~21 days

Holding on to first has just become much more difficult. Instead of backing down, TBP continues to push on and increase their output. Fortunately for us, most of our original PI members remain committed. Also, a few more of our top 50 are participating. Many thanks to EVERYONE!!!

Good News...this is still a defensive effort on our part. We have yet to go on the offensive. In reserve we still have over 1000+ cores just in our top 50 that we can pull from. That's 50,000/day additional WU's we can do. So, should the time come when we "really" need to go on the offensive, we'll be ready.

What would be nice is to have that additional 20 cores so we can just stay even with TBP. That way it won't be necessary to go on the offensive and we can keep the bulk of our power elsewhere.

Keep up the good work everyone!

[Ototero]

I'd like to see the 1000 cores come on stream now.
After that maybe Blueberry will back off. But then again, they might ramp it up some more.
Oh well. This is all good fun.