Folding@Home - Milestones & Recognition

[Stryker]

Thanks everyone who has been contributing their CPU power to F@H...

We (the pcmech.com team) just passed The University of Alabama to take position # 64.
MOVIN' ON UP!!

[Mystery_Folder]

"There's a man in the funny papers we all know.
He lives way back a long time ago.
...Cats don't bug em cuz they know betta
...Look at that caveman go!
...He sure is hip, ain't he?
...Hi-yo dinosawruh"

Look at that Caveman go! Over 50K!

[Mystery_Folder]

"Movin' on up.....Trying to get a piece of the pie!" - The Jefferson's theme

Iniamyen & Fairy Dimple -1000 points
Darkside & Wind 3043 -5000
Cameroth -20,000
Ghost2003 -40,000
mbossman2 -50,000
Mystery_Folder -60,000
timbit -80,000
flanzig -100,000

Congrats everyone! Faulkner has taken over the number one producer spot. Our team trend line is rising now! Good job fellow folders.

[mysterio2099]

I live in Alabama, and I am an Auburn fan. Glad we moved over University of Alabama, lol.

By the way, I just finished my first 2 WUs the other day! whoo!!!!

[David M]

WOW...look at Faulkner go! You look a little nervous there Mystery

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...php?s=&t=13761

[David M]

Faulkner breaks into the red zone! Now has a daily average of over 1.6k! Nice going man!

[skipper]

Well... I think I can dig enough parts out of the closet to put another box together..... but it still won't reach the kind of numbers some of you are puttin' up. Way to go. I'm just happy to be in the top 10!

[Mystery_Folder]

More Milestones worth noting:

zelira - 1000 pts (almost 2K now!)
David M - 5000 pts (awesome!)
Nocturnx...\
JonDee.......\ 10,000 pts (excellent work!)
Gimpy........./
foolishone../
Alienware Dude 20,000 pts (keep em comin'!)
StrykerPCMECH 50,000 pts (wow! nice goin!)
Mystery_Folder 70,000 pts (toot! toot! Just blowin' my own horn.)
Kov Ice 200,000 pts (Major milestone, KI! U da man!)

Now the bad news. We've been passed by the Tasmanian Department of Education and relegated to #65 again. Even worse is the number of teams bearing down on us and set to pass us in the next 70 days - 5 to be exact! C'mon enhanced, get them school boxes rockin' again!

One last little bit of news. Some of you have already guessed the identity of the Mystery_Folder. Jag in particular has me figured out. Others I told in the IRC and on AIM and it was easy for mods to check IP's. Hopefully this little charade has added some interest to the Folding@Home project and to PCMech's folding team. What started out as a an experiment to see what effect Folding would have on one of my computers has turned into a dedicated project. A friend noticed the extra computers I had setting around and asked "What are you going to do with all of those?" I didn't have a good answer so I decided to put them to use. Right now there are 4 machines in my basement storage room running with a kvm switch; a Dell 1.4 P4, a Gateway PIII 850 (thanx icallmedan!), a Gateway PII 266 and my overclocking toy running an AMD Mobile at 2.35GHz. My computer repair room has 4 more running; my 2.4 P4, an old Compaq Athlon 900, my 2.6 Cely Toshiba laptop and a new build I keep in stock, a 2600 Sempron. Additonally, my daughter's AMD XP 2500+, my wife's AMD XP 3000+ 400 fsb, and my Home Theater/Jukebox AMD XP 2800+ are all folding. That's 11 machines in my house! Tuesday I added one at my employer's office (an eMachines 2.7GHz Celeron) which just completed it's first WU. This weekend I plan to add my son's machine (that I built), an AMD XP 2200+. Now if any one is interested in my real identity (you should have me figured out by now!), just see who started this thread.

This will be my last post as the Mystery_Folder. Time to put away the eye patch and the mustache.

[Stryker]

Well, I'm ashamed to say that I didn't figure it out. Mind you, I didn't really put a lot of effort into it.

Should I kick you out of the Photo Gallery for all your lies and deceit?

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by Stryker Should I kick you out of the Photo Gallery for all your lies and deceit?

Entirely up to you.

[zelira]

Originally Posted by Mystery_Folder More Milestones worth noting: zelira - 1000 pts (almost 2K now!)

Shhhh!

They might hear you.

[Stryker]

Originally Posted by Panama Red Entirely up to you.

I just can't bring myself to remove the photo of one of the biggest contributors on our F@H team... so I just made a little change to the picture.

[Panama Red]

That's too , Stryker. Ya even got the ribbon placement on the correct side (if I was in uniform that is!)

[digitalfreedom64]

Well i'm back up and folding again. Hurricane Katrina put us out of power for the past week.

[Panama Red]

Good to hear, crash. Welcome back. Everything else ok down your way?

[digitalfreedom64]

Well i'm up in central Mississippi there were a lot of trees down and they're slowly gettingthe power back on. From what i've seen on tv so far it's not looking so good on the coast though. They're saying it'll be at least a month before they can even get the power back on down there.

[Panama Red]

Yea, kinda hard to turn on the power when all the lines are on the ground.

[Panama Red]

Hmmm, just about a week since the Mystery_Folders last milestone update. Time for another me thinks.

Marke - 1000
fedz - 10,000
csp -20,000
DarkHorse & greg20 - 70,000
Mystery_Folder - 80,000

Congrats to all!

[digitalfreedom64]

wow, Mystery_folder is moving on up. Way to go. Maybe I need to put on a few more rigs and try o play catch up.

[enhanced08]

Originally Posted by crashoverride wow, Mystery_folder is moving on up. Way to go. Maybe I need to put on a few more rigs and try o play catch up.

yeah, he is moving up nicely and with 11 machines, its all good!

if you have more rigs to add, go for it! and remember, borgs rule!!!

[digitalfreedom64]

Well i'm gonna be putting together a sempron 64 next week. I'm waiting on a new power cord for my laptop. A few parts and I could have 2 AXP rigs up and running. I don't think I can conjure up 11 though, lol. That would make 6 though.

[bigandy]

I'll be adding my laptop next week (Pentium M 1.73GHz). And to toot my own horn a bit, I reached 1,000 WUs today .

[Panama Red]

Time for some more back-patting and cheers! Nice to see enhanced has his pc army all marching in step again! He's moved up near the top of the chart to challenge faulkner for the #1 spot. And faulkner must be feeling the heat cuz he's pushed his ppd into the red zone again! Way to go guys! Then we have some other notable levels reached.

smn - 5000
fudtone - 10,000
nubbler - 40,000
ZeratulsAvenger - 50,000

and my alter-ego, the Mystery_Folder, has reached the 90,000 plateau!

Now some team observations. We've been passed by the KCGeek team and dropped another slot to 66. However, the Tazmanian Dept of Ed that recently passed us has fallen off on their ppd totals and looks like that decline coupled with our recent increases have PC Mech set to pass them back in 5 days! (Take that you Tazmanian devils!) More bad news though when we look over our shoulders - the OCUk bunch has us in their sites and will blow on by us in 11 days. (boo!)

I seem to be posting these little moments of recognition weekly because my bud, the Mystery_Folder, is cranking out about 10,000 points per week. That may fall off a little cuz I have a buyer for my in-stock machine. I'll build another to replace it but I just haven't decided what I want to put in stock this time.

That's it for this week. Hope I didn't miss anyone. Keep Folding folks. Every wu makes a contribution to science and healing.

[Stryker]

Originally Posted by Panama Red I'll build another to replace it but I just haven't decided what I want to put in stock this time.

I vote for an Athlon 64 X2 4800+ system!

Good work folks... keep on foldin' and pumping out those work units!
Stryker

[fudtone]

I just started folding again a couple week ago from over a year off. Thanks for the recognition!

[bigandy]

Good to have you back fudtone.

And although a little lofty, I second Stryker's suggestion .

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by bigandy And although a little lofty, I second Stryker's suggestion .

A little too lofty for my wallet! I ordered some new stuff that I've never used before. Still trying to keep an economical build in stock. We'll see how this works.


AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.6GHz Socket 754 64-Bit Processor Retail ***Free 2nd Day*** $75.00 1 $75.00

MSI RS480M-IL Radeon Xpress 200 Athlon 64/(FX) Skt754 DDR M-ATX Motherbaord w/Audio, LAN, Serial ATA Retail ***Free 2nd Day*** $78.99 1 $78.99

Western Digital WD Caviar WD800JD 80GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer *** Free 2nd Day *** $56.90 1 $56.90

Kingston KVR400X64C3AK2/1G 1GB Kit DDR400 PC3200 Memory Retail *** Free 2nd Day *** $90.30 1 $90.30

Nu Tech QL-711V 17in LCD Monitor w/Speakers Retail ***Free 2nd Day*** $229.00 1 $229.00


ORDER TOTAL: $530.19(ZipZoomFly)

All going in an Antec SLK1650B case that comes w/a SL350 psu.

[Panama Red]

Time for a short celebration! The PC Mech team has passed them Tazmanian dudes to retake position 65. It'll be a short party tho' cuz them OCUk'sers are coming on fast - 4 days and they blow by us. Keep them WU's coming guys & gals.

[enhanced08]

yay pcmech!! whoo!!

[digitalfreedom64]

Originally Posted by Panama Red A little too lofty for my wallet!

You sound like me. I would love to have a X2 but I settled for a Sempron 64 3400+. If I can just get my AXP 2500+M and 2400+ back up i'll have ooh say 6 machines going.