Post your Folding Goals for 2008!

[harlam357]

As the title says... what are your Folding goals for the year 2008?

My List

#1- Don't let MaxPC pass us!

#2- Fold 4 million points in 2008

[traldan]

Keep OCF in 3rd place, and provide a fair challenge to OCAU.

Hit 2 million points (from just over 300,000 atm ;)).

Beat Evil_Inc to 1 million points. :D

[Jolly-Swagman]

In 2008,,,,

1, Fold more WU's
3, Climb the OC Ladder

[WarriorII]

"To STORM THE WALLS !!!! and Beat them Down !!!"



Help Keep T32 on the upward move.

:attn:


Be around more often. :rolleyes:
Fold bigger, better, faster.

again, Fold for 365 days, 24/7, non stop.

[AmbientFiction]

Add at lease 2 new rigs this year.
Try to reach 22+Ghz of folding power.

And of course its 24/7/365 folding.

Oh yeah 08 I get a real birthday. I'll be 7 :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

[Sorin]

1) Maintain my current pace, at the least.
2) Upgrade to Penryn, if it is deemed worth it.
3) Upgrade my dual core linux box to a quad.
4) If I've moved out at some point during the year, add a quad.



Don't know about MaxPC. They're making almost as many points per day as [H], and we've never come close to them in recent times. Suppose we could at least try to prevent an overtake from happening this year.

We also lost ground on OCAU. I remember when Zim was here we got the deficit down to 97 million. It is now back up to 110 million. So we could also try dropping that to sub 100 million.

[CGR]

1. Add a quad core for folding
2. Get my dual athlon mp system running

[harlam357]

Don't know about MaxPC. They're making almost as many points per day as [H], and we've never come close to them in recent times. Suppose we could at least try to prevent an overtake from happening this year.

We also lost ground on OCAU. I remember when Zim was here we got the deficit down to 97 million. It is now back up to 110 million. So we could also try dropping that to sub 100 million.

Yep... that's the idea for MaxPC. Although, we should strive for more... I'd like to see them have to wait. A year is a long time... so anything could happen between now and then.

Also agreed on the second point, let's try to make up some ground on the Aussies.

[Hack30]

For now just keep on keepin' on!

Fold On!

Lotta RL stuff to finish.

[whfrazier]

Break 1 Million points.
Add 2 Quads to my lineup, prob 1 Q6600 and 1 Phenom, or more :D
Setup dedicated file server, to free up the folders
Upgrade all to rackmount except my 2 main rigs, thanks to my new 42U :beer:

[sno.lcn]

Get folding full time again, been spread so thin with seti, benching, and folding. But at least my ppd has never hit zero :thup: I'll have at least a couple of smp clients back folding for me when christmas is over and the gifts have all been delivered ;) :santa:

[dfonda]

1) Get to see jonspd reach 1mil.:clap::beer:
2) Go Red again
3)Get in the top 20 and stay there.
2 + 3=4) Reach 2 Mill.
5)See slaytalera hit 100k.
6) Make some more friends.:)
7) Try to make Ned laugh so soda comes out his nose :soda:up.:)
8)Try to follow Chasr's technical explanations on RAM timings.:)
9)Finish building the new Rig sitting in dining room.:confused:

[Mustanley]

break 20,000PPD and keep it up.

recruit at least 1 new folder.

break 17,000,000 by years end.

keep all my laundry folded and put in the proper drawers, racks and cubbies for the entirety of the year.


I think that last item will be hardest to follow thru with :o

[NedClocker]

Fold for 365 days, 24/7, non stop.

Yeah. Hope the price of electricity does not go thru the ceiling. Or, worse yet, the roof.

[William Hung]

1. Get another Yorkfield folding soon.
2. 5 million total points by end of 2008. (I'm at 2.8 million right now)
3. Help find a cure!

[deadlysyn]

Continue folding 24/7. Get some more rigs online for T32, even if not for my own PPD gains. And recruit atleast one new team mate. Hopefully this will be enough to help hold off MPC, and catch up to the Aussies.

[Audioaficionado]

Get two quads folding in addition to the two C2D I have now.

That should keep me in red ;)

Hit 3 million

Hold team position for 2008

[Adak]

I was hoping to build a Quad up with the new, less expensive 45nm, (9450?), that was scheduled to be released next month.

Now Intel has decided to hold off on that, since AMD's Tri-Core isn't a threat to them in the marketplace, until possibly 2009. They won't undercut their own premium 45nm Quad unless absolutely necessary.

Looks like a 90nm Quad is back to being the best upgrade. That should push me to 3 million by the end of '08. :burn: :burn: :burn:

[klear]

-Get red before 2008
-Stay red throughout 2008

[Alpha_One]

Get past 350,000 points.

Currently at 163k points. My only 24/7 rig is my CD T2050 laptop, which can't do SMP (Windows client keeps crashing and I can't use Linux or VMWare for various reasons) and I've got neither the time or the resources to add more to that. :( But my main C2D rig folds too, just not 24/7, and I'm going to borg my bro's Toshiba laptop with the C2D T7200 when he gets it. Plus, I've got a couple of friends' and relatives' computers and a few isolated borgs here and there for a total of about a dozen rigs inconsistently contributing to T32. :)

[Adak]

Laptops are dicey for folding - many just aren't made for hard hours of high intensity use.

Main problem is they may not have the air flow, and/or general thermal design to handle the increased heat. Be careful with it - your bro won't like it if you kill his lappy! :eek:

You can set the amount of free cycles that FAH will use, however, with the advanced part of the set up routine. I have a laptop that folds fine at 100%, but the increased heat causes a big increase in fan speed and noise, which drives me to distraction. Just cutting it down to 75%, really is the thing that makes folding on it, palatable.

[Alpha_One]

Yes, I know about issues running 100% full load on laptops. The heatsinks are small and the ventilation space is cramped, they're a lot more susceptible to dust than desktop computers.

The first laptop I started folding on 100% (six hours a day, five days a week) was my dad's Toshiba, and it just shrugged off the extra heat (almost two years now). I am counting on my brother's Toshiba also having a well-designed cooling system. :)

I originally didn't fold with my laptop because the increased heat production (and resulting hyperactive fan) caused it to suck up so much dust that the thing did random reboots! Temps were over 85 degrees C, until I found a way to routinely suck that dust up - using our household vacuum on the fan vent hole on full power. It worked so well that my laptop now folds at 100% CPU at around 60 degrees C, which I find acceptable (and I can finally feel the air blowing). I do that vacuum treatment once a week now.

None of us really mind the noise, we live in a rather crowded and noisy neighborhood with lots of kids, the noise often gets drowned out. My laptop isn't that noisy when the heatsink isn't clogged, but it gets really loud when its really hot (like 70+ C). Actually, I find that newer Acers have a different cooling system that seems to work much better than mine (while sucking up much less dust).

[ludeboy12]

My goal is just to keep folding. Unfortunately though i will be away on rotations for jan - march so i will have to shut everything down while I'm gone.

[benscoobert]

a couple of days ago I thought should i start a 2008 thread, but I thought as a new member it was a bit ahead of myself.....phew someone did it and i can stop itching

anyways, im aiming for a minimum of 2 million for 2008
I might secretly borg my brothers q6600 i bought him for xmas, if i do then 3million for 2008 wooooooo

[Adak]

Ludeboy: It's great that you can have the holidays here, before you have to start your rotation. You'll be back before Easter? :D Good timing, LB! :clap: :clap:

Ben: be sure your bro approves the folding. Stanford takes a *VERY* dim view of anyone borging another computer, without permission. :eek: :eek:

Great folding goals, though. You're cruising with that quad! :santa:

[LandShark]

personally, I don't have much goals left from F@H. I'll just keep on folding and trying to keep up my pace, that's it.

however, as for the team and the F@H project, my goal for 2008 is to offer more help to the team (site, avatar, advice, ppd, etc.) and the F@H project itself (keep folding hard, more tracking apps/add-on, and keep spreading the word!).

oh, I too would like to keep MaxPC at their bay for 2008 too and don't let OCAU run away!!

http://landshark-racing.com/icon/foldon.gif guys and gals!!!

[jonspd]

make it to a mill....

have A rig able to fold 3k ppd

[jmsanders2]

Buy my new home, buy my new car, and... oh yea this is folding:
build my farm of at least 20,000ppd, borg (with permission) so many computers to challenge chasr, discover the cure for cancer without foldings' help...

[Sleepy_Steve]

Don't fold up my car w/ a mistake

Make the race between Traldan and Evil_Inc a bit closer without them noticing. Considering I don't have the PPD or resources to compete directly without me getting a quad some time soon.

[Voodoo Rufus]

1. Add a PS3 to the Fold.
2. Add my secret weapon to the Fold.
3. Put OC-rev.com on Page 1.
4. Fold and Seti as much as possible.

[ChasR]

33,000,000 points and maintain ChasR's position as the #1 producer in the world, excepting PS3 and anonymous of course.

[dfonda]

ChasR= Now thats a goal +1:drool::beer:

[NedClocker]

Wow, Chas. I didn't realize you held that position. That's incredible. Extreemly brag worthy. :D (Yeah, beating PS3 would take some doing.)

[CaliVW78]

Ok, been years since I have posted...but I'm still around. I've got some folding going on again between a mac mini and my Pentium based Debian node. I've got a PS3 I'll try and get in the game too. Overall though, try and consistently keep folding for t32 and help find a cure.

[NedClocker]

My folding goal for 2008 is to fold consistantly throughout the year.

[ihrsetrdr]

My goal is to make my folding farm greener and meaner!







:soda:

[AlabamaCajun]

My goal is to make my folding farm greener and meaner!

:soda:

I'm with you on that. So far power consumption of these rigs is the same but we doubled the number of cores for the same juice as the duals which is a good thing.
Hit 2 mil before CJ5
More or higher PPD layers.

[drshivas]

My goal is to make my folding farm greener and meaner!



Me too. I spent last summer purging all my Socket A systems in favor of C2D purely for PPD/electricity considerations. I guess you can call that green or thinking green.

Oh yeah, my goal is to get above 10K PPD and stay there.

[harlam357]

1. Get another Yorkfield folding soon.
2. 5 million total points by end of 2008. (I'm at 2.8 million right now)
3. Help find a cure!

<smack>

Dude... I'm so pledging 4 mil this year! That'll put me @ 6.7 mil total by the end of 2008... all I'll need is another quad in a couple months and I'm golden. Ca'mon... you don't want me to pass you this year do ya? :D

</smack>

a couple of days ago I thought should i start a 2008 thread, but I thought as a new member it was a bit ahead of myself.....phew someone did it and i can stop itching

You just keep Folding for T32 and I'll pass it off to you next year ben. :beer:

Oh yeah, my goal is to get above 10K PPD and stay there.

<smack>

That's just too bad... my goal is to get above 14k ppd and stay there... looks like you're gonna loose a spot. ;)

</smack>

Sorry... couldn't help but to throw some http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/harlam357/smileys/poofcannon.gif the way of my direct competition. :D Ahh, it feels good to be back. :beer:

[LandShark]

33,000,000 points and maintain ChasR's position as the #1 producer in the world, excepting PS3 and anonymous of course.

http://landshark-racing.com/icon/thumbsup.gif

[Audioaficionado]

33,000,000 points and maintain ChasR's position as the #1 producer in the world, excepting PS3 and anonymous of course.Then in 2009 kick their @$$ too :p

[Lofty]

My folding goals aren't that much, but I have to be realistic.

1) Hit & maintain 200 PPD
2) Hit 30,000 points
3) Move into the top 1,000 team 32 folders.
4) Get a 5 star forum rating!

[Lofty]

My folding goals aren't that much, but I have to be realistic.

1) Hit & maintain 200 PPD
2) Hit 30,000 points
3) Move into the top 1,000 team 32 folders.
4) Get a 5 star forum rating!

Just thought I'd bring this back up, seen as it's nearly halfway through the year.

1) Current PPD: 561 (hangs between 500 and 800 because of SMP)
2) Current Points: 124,530
3) Team 32 Position: #577
4) Still on four stars, DOH!

[nitteo]

33,000,000 points and maintain ChasR's position as the #1 producer in the world, excepting PS3 and anonymous of course.

Check my sig! :santa:

My goal is to beat the best.

[harlam357]

You beat me to it Lofty... I was gonna wait till we were officially in July... but, I'm glad someone else was thinking about it too. :)

- I'm over half way to my 4 million for the year. New secondary goal... 7 million total by the end of 2008!

- Also, the battle between myself and drshivas rages on... we both are well above our goals for ppd, and I just recently passed him... so let's see if he's got some nVidia whoop@ss to make a counter attack. :D

[OldSkool]

Given my newly increased performance capabilities:

1) Hit the top 100 for team 32
2) Help team 32 to break into the #2 spot
3) FOLD ON!!!!!! :attn:

[Shiggity]

1) Be in the top 200 for T32 - It'll be hard with everyone getting GPU's and massively increasing their own PPD :)

2) Maintain a 5000-6000PPD (I love you GPU2) and break 1 million by the end of the year.

3) Build a cheap rig for my parents with a decent GPU and teach them how to F@H.

4) Recruit more of my friends to T32 and get them addicted to folding.

5) Never fold for another team besides T32! :beer:

[dfonda]

Check my sig! :santa:

My goal is to beat the best.If you want to beat Chas for aday I'll chip in. Else you and WP need to form team Nitt-Pix.:)

1) Get to see jonspd reach 1mil.:clap::beer: -DONE
2) Go Red again - DONE
3)Get in the top 20 and stay there. - Very close in and out.
2 + 3=4) Reach 2 Mill. - Done
5)See slaytalera hit 100k. DONE
6) Make some more friends.:) HOPEFULLY
7) Try to make Ned laugh so soda comes out his nose :soda:up.:) DONE
8)Try to follow Chasr's technical explanations on RAM timings.:) FAILED
9)Finish building the new Rig sitting in dining room.:confused: DONEI knew number 3 would be the hardest.

[Wicked_Pixie]

1. Lobby for cheaper electricity for SoCal, or beg my neighbors to start hosting a rig or two. :rolleyes:

2. Jump on the GPU2 bandwagon (waiting for ATI 4xx series FAH benchies).

3. Put all my rigs in cases so I can move them around.

4. FOLD IT 'til you BORK IT !!! :attn:

5. Find cure for folding addiction...

[NoWhereM]

5. Find cure for folding addiction...

LOL

[dark bishop]

to fold 24/7 and climb the ladder.

[LandShark]

Check my sig! :santa:

My goal is to beat the best.

http://landshark-racing.com/icon/thumbsup.gif

it's good to aim high Chris!! and in your case, aiming at the moon!! :eek: ChasR is being tooooo bored lately.... hope you can wake him up someday....!!

[dz_jad]

5. Find cure for folding addiction...

The only cure is more.....cowbell? HA! FOLDING! need m0ar farm.

[David]

Ideally? Make OCF #2. Stave off MinimumPC, show the Aussies that they should stick to chasing Kangeroos. Then look at [H] ;).

Realistically? We don't go down. Stave off MaxPC and try to make some progress towards OCAU (which may be tricky). A light sprinkling of competitions, a heavy dose of smack talk and unfortunately some large power bills.

[Audioaficionado]

Well I'm bringing a Q6600 on line this weekend and should double my PPD to >7k. Later this year (hopefully) I'll bring on another Quad and top out at ~!10kPPD. I just don't have the bux to go any higher with energy costs constantly escalating. Even if the hardware was free, the electric bill will still kill you.

[NoWhereM]

I wasn't here at the start of the year, but my goal is to reach 1,000,000 points by the end of the year. I've been folding for just shy of two months and have 46,000 points so that won't exactly be easy, but what's the point of having a goal if it's easy?

[Lofty]

New goals for 2008:

1) Fold 500,000 points.
2) Reach Page 3 of EOC stats.
3) Get some new folding hardware.
4) Get 5 forum stars.
5) Find some more folding competition!
6) Get a dog.

[metloaf]

I want to have this folding farm setup this year...2 Q6600 running linux(have 1 already) still have my 3110 folding SMP, and PS3 folding 24/7. My goal is to hit 1,000,000 points by the end of the year.

[dfonda]

Bump for new Goals reach 3mill.

Old goals met:

1) Get to see jonspd reach 1mil.:clap::beer: -DONE
2) Go Red again - DONE
3)Get in the top 20 and stay there. - Very close in and out.
2 + 3=4) Reach 2 Mill. - Done
5)See slaytalera hit 100k. DONE
6) Make some more friends.:) HOPEFULLY
7) Try to make Ned laugh so soda comes out his nose :soda:up.:) DONE
8)Try to follow Chasr's technical explanations on RAM timings.:) FAILED
9)Finish building the new Rig sitting in dining room.:confused: DONE

[harlam357]

3)Get in the top 20 and stay there. - Very close in and out.

You're back in the Top 20 Dave! :beer:

[dfonda]

I am going to do my best to stay there...its been a long time since I was close.:beer:

['Cuda340]

WTF Dave!! :beer: :beer:

[torin3]

I am going to do my best to stay there...its been a long time since I was close.:beer:

Congrats! I see you are up to 19! WTF! :beer:

I think you're good to go on the make new friends goal as well. It was nice meeting you and your family. My wife and roommate both were impressed with you guys!

[nitteo]

My New Goal:

NO MORE PRANKS FOR 2008!

[dfonda]

Congrats! I see you are up to 19! WTF! :beer:

I think you're good to go on the make new friends goal as well. It was nice meeting you and your family. My wife and roommate both were impressed with you guys!

Same Here Torin:beer: it was cool getting to see the Project build up close and personnel!
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=395477&highlight=torin

Along with your other very interesting hobbies.http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v319/tankexmortis/Smileys/th__blindfury__by_mykel.gif

I now have somebody to call on the phone guys.... with my water cooling questions!:beer:

Thanks Cuda.... your sure not in any danger.:drool::D

Nitteo quote
My goal is to beat the best.
If you want to beat Chas for aday I'll chip in. Else you and WP need to form team Nitt-Pix.:)
and Nit you should have taken some bets on whether you could do it...you could have paid for your farm! You sure didn't need any help!:drool:

[dark bishop]

to fold 24/7 and climb the ladder.


goal met! :D though sometimes its only one client, im working on that also. ive been climing the ladder and will be in the 1,000's soon.

[dfonda]

Congrats db.:beer: We are holding the door open!:)

[Lofty]

New goals for 2008:

1) Fold 500,000 points.
2) Reach Page 3 of EOC stats.
3) Get some new folding hardware.
4) Get 5 forum stars.
5) Find some more folding competition!
6) Get a dog.

--- PROGRESS UPDATE ---

1) I set this goal not expecting to come close until the end of the year...currently on 445,790 points and closing by 5,000 a day!
2) Already there!
3) Quad Core Q6600 & GeForce 8800GT got me to where I am now. Entirely rebuilt my computer
4) Done!
5) Eggbert is not too far ahead and we have a similar PPD...
6) This one's a fail, I think...

[Lofty]

Wow...at the start of the year I thought I'd only be able to hit 30,000 points. Now I think I will have to aim by 1,000,000 by Boxing Day. (Why that day? Becuase New Year now means little after my grandmother died, christmas means nothing because my father has also died, but on Boxing Day I go out and honour them by going to his old favourite pub several miles away (by walking) and getting wasted on fine beers!)

[Mark620]

Add 9 more GPU Folders.

So far I bought 2...

so that 7 to go...

[harlam357]

Nice progress on the Goals Lofty! :beer: Although I'm saddened to hear of your losses... stay strong my friend, and keep true to those words your father lived by.

As far as my goals go... I've blown by both of them...

- 4 million in 2008
- 7 million total by the end of 2008

I guess I need to make a new goal... 10 million total by the end of 2008, that all inclusive 8-digit club. ;)

[Voodoo Rufus]

1. Add a PS3 to the Fold.
2. Add my secret weapon to the Fold.
3. Put OC-rev.com on Page 1.
4. Fold and Seti as much as possible.

Well, I've done #1, but my secret weapon went to BOINC SETI. I crunched a bit in the last race with it, but SETI has assimilated me.

Putting OC-Rev.com on page 1 is going to take more power than my PS3 and fellow folders currently have.

Doing #4 is no problem.

[HDCHOPPER]

my 1 goal is for her NOT to find the folder wayyyyyy in the back of the closet heheehheee

[traldan]

Well I lost some of my folding boxes. 2 million won't really happen. 1.5 mil would be a stretch but maybe doable if I get my laptop folding.

[Sleepy_Steve]

Well I lost some of my folding boxes. 2 million won't really happen. 1.5 mil would be a stretch but maybe doable if I get my laptop folding.

My goal is to pass you. Not likely this year, but I might be able to close the gap... who knows. Actually, this is now an end of 09 goal for me.