Rosie RAC Harvest - Status/DiscussionThread

[baditude_df]

Welcome all!
So what is the goal of this whole contest you ask? Well, I'd like to say the goal is to blow the doors off Team China, But since that will be a near impossible feat to accomplish in a 2Wk Period, the Goal is to get to 30MIL Total Points.

SCREW IT! We're gonna blow Team China's doors off!

I just had a look at our overtake stats and at our current rate we'll take them in 41.4 days. Since I see our RAC going WAY up, and theirs seems to be slowly dwindling.
I figure by the end of November we'll take em no problem!
I really didn't expect things to start ramping up at such an early date, and definitely not to rise so quickly. WOW!

Here's where we sit currently:


TOTAL POINTS
28 DSL Reports Team Helix 167 15,233 31,617,610
29 Team China 1599 37,144 30,162,648
30 Overclockers.com 177 64,608 29,061,694
31 EMU--CompSci 9 44 27,399,038
32 MacOS X Users 292 53,845 25,897,360
33 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 227 72,537 25,946,539


TEAM RAC
10 BOINC.Italy 1928 81,692 64,609,187
11 USA 1236 79,391 56,588,612
12 VTC 43 74,546 25,362,487
13 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 228 72,549 25,946,338
14 SETI.Germany 1760 70,932 60,065,348
15 ICES 2 65,291 9,167,137
16 Overclockers.com 177 64,592 29,061,438
As you can see, we are currently 1.1MIL from our Goal.

Let's see what we can do!


Prizes so far!

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/9618/imgp0710.jpg

THIS JUST IN!
I have two more Sweet Prizes here that I hope to be adding to the pool!
Each of these prizes will remain a mystery until they are unlocked!
How will they be unlocked?

Prize A) Reach a team RAC of 100K! ACHIEVED!
Prize A is a $100 Gift Certificate from Petra's Tech Shop!

Prize B) Reach our Goal of overtaking Team China! ACHIEVED!
My Trusty Foxconn Bloodrage GTI X58 Mobo

W2F Everybody! Great job so far!

[muddocktor]

Here's a pic of the MC-TDX I donated to the contest. It has the metal, univesal mount, which is drilled for everything up to i7. Also included is a rethreaded TR backplate which the 6-32 studs will now screw in to for mounting on LGA775. I used this waterblock for around 4-5 months on the PH II system in my sig before I found a great deal on a Fuzion V. 1, which is on that system now. Anyways, here's the waterblock and extra mounting stuff:

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/429/pumps003a.jpg

[baditude_df]

I've used one of these, and it was a great block for 775.
The addition of the back plate and metal top is really nice!
Thank you mud.

[baditude_df]

Wow, lots of registered contestants already!

Some familliar faces and some new. Awesome!

Again, stay tuned for more prizes. I plan to add at least one more b4 the end of the contest. Hopefully b4 it starts, so I can double my RAC b4 giving it away! ;)

[baditude_df]

Two Mystery Prizes added! See first post.

I'm confident that I'll be able to add them both to the pool!

[baditude_df]

Updated First Post.
Only 35.4K till we reach 100K RAC, and only 17.1K till we hit the Top10 in the world!
And only 1.1MIL points away from Team China and 29th Place!
We're really moving now!


TOTAL POINTS
28 DSL Reports Team Helix 167 15,233 31,617,610
29 Team China 1599 37,144 30,162,648
30 Overclockers.com 177 64,608 29,061,694
31 EMU--CompSci 9 44 27,399,038
32 MacOS X Users 292 53,845 25,897,360
33 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 227 72,537 25,946,539


TEAM RAC
10 BOINC.Italy 1928 81,692 64,609,187
11 USA 1236 79,391 56,588,612
12 VTC 43 74,546 25,362,487
13 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 228 72,549 25,946,338
14 SETI.Germany 1760 70,932 60,065,348
15 ICES 2 65,291 9,167,137
16 Overclockers.com 177 64,592 29,061,438

[muddocktor]

Well, I'm glad I started my machines early as they are ramping up the RAC real well. I just passed you for 2nd place in RAC, bad. :p

I might be able to fire off another quad when I get back in from offshore for the contest too. But that won't be until the middle of next week.

[baditude_df]

You Rat, I only have one CPU! ;)

On another note, we just passed 70K team RAC, and Pixie hasn't even fired up the jets yet. We're really moving!

[baditude_df]

Status Update!
Team RAC----> 70651. Up from 48546 on the 1st of the month! Only 29349 to go till 100K!
Distance to Team China---> 941176pts. 28.03 days at our current rate. We need more POWAH!

Here's where we sit relative to other teams in our neighborhood.

TOTAL POINTS
28 DSL Reports Team Helix 166 14,735 31,654,804
29 Team China 1601 36,012 30,253,059
30 Overclockers.com 179 70,779 29,311,883
31 EMU--CompSci 9 44 27,399,162
32 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 230 72,537 26,145,187
33 MacOS X Users 292 53,673 26,045,467



TEAM RAC
10 BOINC.Italy 1930 82,636 64,848,417
11 USA 1237 80,771 56,826,342
12 VTC 43 77,794 25,613,979
13 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 230 72,113 26,145,187
14 SETI.Germany 1763 70,946 60,264,255
15 Overclockers.com 179 70,779 29,311,883
16 BOINC Synergy 722 64,375 64,792,687
17 ICES 2 63,749 9,331,602


Still climbing fast! Keep it up!

[muddocktor]

Hey bad, I don't know if you've noticed 2 things yet, so I'll state them now.

First, if you look at the stats on the BOINCstats page (http://boincstats.com/stats/team_graph.php?pr=rosetta&id=230), we are right at 100k ppd right now on daily production. :salute:

Second, as part of being the point-***** I am and checking my stats ;) , I noticed that on our member's page there (http://boincstats.com/stats/user_stats.php?pr=rosetta&st=0&ti=230) that Pixie is now getting into serious production mode. :comp: :thup:

Let's bring it on, team!:grouphug:

BTW, you will notice that I.M.O.G. pestered iNet enough that they finally gave us some new smileys to play with too. :D

[drshivas]

Should we make a a friendly announcement in the FAH and SETI forums re: the Harvest? I went looking and didn't see one.

[muddocktor]

Should we make a a friendly announcement in the FAH and SETI forums re: the Harvest? I went looking and didn't see one.

I had mentioned this a week or so ago in the Seti forum. And there is an announcement about the contest posted forum-wide. But I see no harm if you want to post about it in the Folding forum, drshivas.

[baditude_df]

Hey bad, I don't know if you've noticed 2 things yet, so I'll state them now.

First, if you look at the stats on the BOINCstats page (http://boincstats.com/stats/team_graph.php?pr=rosetta&id=230), we are right at 100k ppd right now on daily production. :salute:

Second, as part of being the point-***** I am and checking my stats ;) , I noticed that on our member's page there (http://boincstats.com/stats/user_stats.php?pr=rosetta&st=0&ti=230) that Pixie is now getting into serious production mode. :comp: :thup:

Let's bring it on, team!:grouphug:

BTW, you will notice that I.M.O.G. pestered iNet enough that they finally gave us some new smileys to play with too. :D

Oh yeah, I noticed. On both accounts. Personally I prefer Boinc all Project Stats (http://www.allprojectstats.com/po.php?projekt=7) I like the interface better.
If you look at anyone's stats, typically their points per day will be greater than the RAC itself. The actual points produced are what I used in my scenarios and calculations when drawing up the contest rules and for when I do my status updates. Since our RAC other team's RACs change all the time, overtake predictions are extremely hard to do, and often have to be revised on a weekly or daily basis though.

PS speaking of Production Mode, I'm coming for you! 4.2GHz and CPU preference set to "in use" mode for some TRUE 24/7 crunching power.
Should we make a a friendly announcement in the FAH and SETI forums re: the Harvest? I went looking and didn't see one.

Forum wide announcement and Main Page announcement made on the 1st, albeit not too visible. I should have asked IMOG to make it green or red. Oh well.

I had mentioned this a week or so ago in the Seti forum. And there is an announcement about the contest posted forum-wide. But I see no harm if you want to post about it in the Folding forum, drshivas.

Absolutely. If anyone would like to promote the contest in their respective team forums, please do. I see no harm in it, especially as we can also help them when it comes time for their events. Thx shivas.

[drshivas]

Reminder and invite posted in the SETI and FAH forums.

I'm looking forward to this contest! We have a great turnout and some heavy hitters joining us.

I also started crunching on my laptop to help fight off Pixie, and anyone else who's about to steamroll me!

[Sir-Epix]

I would love to help out, but I have to sit this one out. I have 2 laptops out (1 hard drive failure that I am fixing) the other got trojened out the wazoo. If I fix them in time I will donate some rosetta time. Talk about a bad time for me :(

[Wicked_Pixie]

I also started crunching on my laptop to help fight off Pixie, and anyone else who's about to steamroll me!


My RAC is simply a flash in a pan. It'll be gone (or drastically cut) before you know it. But It sure is fun to put some distance between us and VTC. Man, those guys are rocking! Hopefully, their RAC will take a nosedive when the holiday season starts.

When does Thanksgiving start again? :p

Anyway, all rigs switched to R@H except for 2. I have some leftover WUs from the Gauntlet that needs finishing. I switched to F@H and forgot all about them. Man, they have very long due dates. I was hoping they would've been recycled by now. :p


I would love to help out, but I have to sit this one out. I have 2 laptops out (1 hard drive failure that I am fixing) the other got trojened out the wazoo. If I fix them in time I will donate some rosetta time. Talk about a bad time for me :(

Hey Sir-Epix. Sorry to hear about the pesky trojans and HW issues.(must've been watching more than Hulu lately ... j/k ;) Pls. don't shoot me. )

[baditude_df]

ALRIGHT, WE'RE OFF!
Team RAC----> 78,539 and #12 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month! Only 21,461 to go our goal of 100K!
Distance to Team China---> 790,416pts 19.25 days to goal at our current rate. We're Closing the Gap, BIGTIME!

Here's where we sit relative to other teams in our neighborhood.

TOTAL POINTS
28 DSL Reports Team Helix 166 14,222 31,677,386
29 Team China 1602 36,144 30,323,711
30 Overclockers.com 184 78,539 29,533,295
31 EMU--CompSci 9 42 27,399,199
32 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 230 71,047 26,271,379
33 MacOS X Users 293 54,086 26,152,937



TEAM RAC
10 BOINC.Italy 1934 81,959 64,999,227
11 USA 1238 81,641 56,990,932
12 Overclockers.com 184 78,539 29,533,295
13 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 230 71,047 26,271,379
14 SETI.Germany 1767 69,617 60,385,692
15 VTC 43 68,398 25,659,194
16 BOINC Synergy 722 65,205 64,924,970
17 ICES 2 63,618 9,452,579



April 26, 2009. Team Overclockers.com reaches it's all time high of 84,300 RAC.
Only 5761 more till we break that record. I see us shattering it TBH.
Give it everything you've got! CRUNCH!

[dfonda]

:thup:Way to fold folks.

[Jorlain]

http://media.ign.com/boards/images/icons/games_8bitmagedance.gif

[Bobnova]

Woot, go us!
I recruited a P4 2.4(oooOOoooo!) and an athlon x2 4400+ to my/our cause to join my e1200 and e5200 (at 2.6 and 3.7 respectively)

[baditude_df]

STATUS UPDATE!
Team RAC----> 82,712 and #10 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month! Only 17,288 to go our goal of 100K!
Distance to Team China---> 694727pts 15.47 days to goal at our current rate.

That's a 4173 point jump in RAC, 95689 total points and two places in the World RAC Standings in one day!
HOLY COW!

[drshivas]

:clap: great job folks! keep crunching! :comp:

[Bobnova]

The x2 4400+ is starting to turn results in, i'm happy :D

[QuietIce]

I don't know what scheme Rosetta uses for RAC but if it's anything like SETI then we've still got a big increase coming. We're showing an RAC of ~84K right now but BOINCStats has us at a DAC* of 97K and growing. With the SETI RAC equation it takes about 2 weeks for a machine to start winding up and another week or so to hit full stride. I originally started posting the DAC so that any changes will show up sooner. As time went by I found that DAC was close to a week ahead of RAC, not perfect but a fair reflection. Rosetta may calculate RAC differently, though - the SETI equation is a monster that must have been a nightmare of a CalTech mathematician. :p


*DAC is a term I coined for BOINCStats "Credit/week" divided by 7, which yields a Daily Average Credit over the past week.

[baditude_df]

Daily Production(Daily Average Credit) from what you describe, and RAC in the Rosetta World sound like they would be pretty darn similar, if not exactly the same as Seti then.

[drshivas]

As a data point to this discussion, when I crunched in the Gauntlet this year, my RAC peaked around 19K RAC. In Rosetta, I probably won't break 11K with these same rigs. So there's definitely a difference somewhere.

As a side note, my two Win7 Pro x64 quads are cranking out 500 RAC more than they did with Win2K3 32bit. In fact, you can see it in my stats now: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/hosts_user.php?userid=284352&show_all=0&sort=expavg_credit (Two are clocked at 3.4, one at 3.6, with the 3.6 being one Win7)

Anyone else finding Win7 x64 is a better crunching OS?

[hokiealumnus]

It's better than XP 32-bit, I can tell you that much. Still not as good as Linux (at least with F@H, never crunched Rosetta in Linux and it's not on any systems here presently).

[muddocktor]

I just cranked up a Q6600 system for the contest and 30 minutes after firing it up the damn D4 pump on the system crapped out and started making some awful noises. Luckily I had a spare D4 and just brought the system to the kitchen and pulled the pump out of the case and changed the pump motors out without having to take the housing loose from the tubing. After swapping the motors out and replacing the little bit of water lost doing that, I have the system back up and crunching some Rosie units again. And I swapped my Mac Mini over to Rosie too.

[Bobnova]

Got an Athlon II 245 headed my way destined for my mom. Guess what it's going to do till Dec. 1st? :beer:

[nzaneb]

Our DAC has us at 7th in the world, and moving in on Canada, to take 6th.

[baditude_df]

As a data point to this discussion, when I crunched in the Gauntlet this year, my RAC peaked around 19K RAC. In Rosetta, I probably won't break 11K with these same rigs. So there's definitely a difference somewhere.

As a side note, my two Win7 Pro x64 quads are cranking out 500 RAC more than they did with Win2K3 32bit. In fact, you can see it in my stats now: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/hosts_user.php?userid=284352&show_all=0&sort=expavg_credit (Two are clocked at 3.4, one at 3.6, with the 3.6 being one Win7)

Anyone else finding Win7 x64 is a better crunching OS?

What about the WU's? That would be my first guess right off the bat. But maybe I'm way off base there as I know nothing about Seti other than it is a BIONC based application.

I am crunching Windows 7 x64 RC1 (7100) and this 950 at 4.2GHzHT is pulling 4000RAC by itself and rising fast. I have no reference though, since I have only ever used Windows7 x64 with this 950 (or any i7 for that matter).

PS: THX FOR THE EXTRA HORSEPOWER MUD and BOB!

[QuietIce]

As a data point to this discussion, when I crunched in the Gauntlet this year, my RAC peaked around 19K RAC. In Rosetta, I probably won't break 11K with these same rigs. So there's definitely a difference somewhere.

As a side note, my two Win7 Pro x64 quads are cranking out 500 RAC more than they did with Win2K3 32bit. In fact, you can see it in my stats now: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/hosts_user.php?userid=284352&show_all=0&sort=expavg_credit (Two are clocked at 3.4, one at 3.6, with the 3.6 being one Win7)

Anyone else finding Win7 x64 is a better crunching OS? The difference is the optimizers available for SETI crunching. If you had been running only the base SETI app you wouldn't have chalked up nearly the RAC you did. AFAIK no project has code to match the optimized SETI apps with CPU specific routines and all that goes with them. From what little I've read Einstein comes closest to SETI only because the project leaders there update their app frequently and attempt to take advantage of SSE et al as much as possible ...

[baditude_df]

STATUS UPDATE!
Team RAC----> 87,488 and #8 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month! Only 12,512 to go our goal of 100K!
Distance to Team China---> 593097pts 12.27 days to goal at our current rate.

That's a 4776 point jump in RAC, 101630 total points and two places in the World RAC Standings since my last update 24.5hrs ago!
WELL DONE, Keep it coming!

PS: Congratulations Pixie on becoming our first 3MIL+ Cruncher! You ROCK!
2) pixie 3,072,302 8,461.94 United States

[Transparent Elf]

nice one pixie! where do you get all those quads?!

[Sir-Epix]

My RAC is simply a flash in a pan. It'll be gone (or drastically cut) before you know it. But It sure is fun to put some distance between us and VTC. Man, those guys are rocking! Hopefully, their RAC will take a nosedive when the holiday season starts.

When does Thanksgiving start again? :p

Anyway, all rigs switched to R@H except for 2. I have some leftover WUs from the Gauntlet that needs finishing. I switched to F@H and forgot all about them. Man, they have very long due dates. I was hoping they would've been recycled by now. :p




Hey Sir-Epix. Sorry to hear about the pesky trojans and HW issues.(must've been watching more than Hulu lately ... j/k ;) Pls. don't shoot me. )

Yeah I was watching Youtube.com watching a tutorial about making an external USB HD bootable to reinstall vista. Alsa they somehow got an automatic download to go and well you know the rest!

[nzaneb]

The difference is the optimizers available for SETI crunching.

What about the WU's? That would be my first guess right off the bat. But maybe I'm way off base there as I know nothing about Seti other than it is a BIONC based application.



It's the optimizers, like QuietIce said. Seti's work units grant more credit, on a credit per time crunched ratio, because of this. Some are optimized so efficiently for SSE3, that they grant MUCH more credit. A Seti AstroPulse (or AP) WU, grants almost double the credit compared to an already optimized MultiBeam WU (normal), using the credit granted/minutes crunched ratio. Granted, a single WU will take 10-13 hours on a 4ghz overclocked i7 thread, and up over 48 hours on some rigs; but the credit payout is quite worth it (usually 1200+ credits per AP WU). As of late they are pretty hard to come by though.
From what I've read, Rosetta does not utilize the SSE instruction sets, so optimizing is next to impossible.

[drshivas]

Ah, makes sense, QuietIce and nzaneb. I forgot about that I optimized when I ran the Gauntlet. I wonder if Rosetta will ever consider using such instruction sets. I guess the project would have to grow in such a way that they would have no choice but to write new code to take advantage of such instruction sets.

[QuietIce]

Ah, makes sense, QuietIce and nzaneb. I forgot about that I optimized when I ran the Gauntlet. I wonder if Rosetta will ever consider using such instruction sets. I guess the project would have to grow in such a way that they would have no choice but to write new code to take advantage of such instruction sets. SETI@Home doesn't use the advanced instruction sets at all - it's all done by 3rd party. The guys over at Lunatics (http://lunatics.kwsn.net/index.php) and Crunch3r (http://calbe.dw70.de/) (Alex Klein? from the AK_v8 SETI optimizer) are responsible for most of them and have done a great job over the years! All it takes for Rosetta to have optimizers is for someone to sit down and write them. If Rosetta attracts enough lunatics ;) I'm sure we'll eventually see Rosetta optimizers ...

[baditude_df]

STATUS UPDATE!
Team RAC----> 91,060 and #8 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month! Only 8940 to go our goal of 100K!
Distance to Team China---> 509018pts 9.68 days to goal at our current rate. WE'RE NOW IN STRIKING RANGE, AND OVERTAKE IS IMMINENT.

That's a 3572 point jump in RAC, 84079 total points and only 5.3K from #7 in the World RAC Standings since my last update 22.85hrs ago!
KEEP CLIMBING!

[Bobnova]

Go us!
I hope to have a nice shiny new Athlon II 245 going before the end.

[nzaneb]

I think you need to set our goal a little higher baditude. To say, to take out DSL Reports Team Helix... it looks feasible.:salute:

[QuietIce]

I don't think he was prepared for the pixie dust ... ;)

[baditude_df]

Actually, I PM'd pixie in advance to make sure she'd be able to help out. Whattaya tink I'm toopid? :p
And I didn't want to set our goals to high, as I wanted to make damn sure I we get the two mystery prizes into the pool. But if you guys figure you wanna, we can go for it!

[baditude_df]

STATUS UPDATE!
Team RAC----> 95,873 and #7 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month! Only 4127 to go our goal of 100K!
Distance to Team China---> 393364pts 7.03 days to goal at our current rate. PROXIMITY ALERT! Aww screw it... RAMMING SPEED!

That's a 4813 point jump in RAC, 139,990 Total Points, 115,654 points closer to Team China, and a jump to #7 in the World RAC Standings since my last update 25hrs ago!
HOLY CRAP! lol! :) WOW! :clap: I don't know where we're gonna top out, but I don't see it coming anytime soon!!!

Also, congratulations team! We passed 30MIL Total Points during the night! Well done! Another milestone in the history books for Team Overclockers.com

[drshivas]

Awesome.

[ozzlo]

I'm back from out of town so I got a late start, my average is shooting up fast!

[jr1]

Just for clarification
When i have installed boinc it starts and i don't have to do much more about it than leaving my computers on
Is this a correct assumption or ?

[baditude_df]

Pretty much. As long as those machines are connected to the internet, and you have installed BIONC, connected to the project and chosen a team, you should be crunching away.

However, I do not see you anywhere in the team roster: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_members.php?teamid=230&sort_by=expavg_credit&offset=0
This tells me that you have either not connected to the rossetta@home project, or you have not chosen Overclockers.com as your team.
Please PM me if you require any help with this.

[jr1]

Think i figured it out
As far as i can se i'm teamed up now

[baditude_df]

STATUS UPDATE!
Team RAC----> 100,606 and #7 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month! We have reached and surpassed our Goal of 100K! Keep an eye in this thread tomorrow, where I will be unveiling the first mystery prize!
Distance to Team China---> 283458pts 4.83 days to goal at our current rate.

Since my last update 24hrs ago, we've seen a 4720 point jump in RAC, crunched 142,321 Total Points, and gained 109906 points on Team China. To add to that, we are only 9063 away from Team Canada and #6 in the World RAC Standings.
LET'S CRUSH THOSE STINKING CANUCKS! Hehe.

[muddocktor]

Way to go, Team!:comp::salute:

The extra machines I've put on have really helped my RAC (and the Team's RAC) out the last few days. I've been averaging over 9000 credits/day the last 2 days.

[Jolly-Swagman]

Way to go, Team!:comp::salute:

will have another machine up soon just had to get another wifi adapter for it, and install Win7 - Boinc Manager and Rossie, on The Sled,s, hardware gear sitting on my test bench, but it will crunch.

EDIT- The Sled Hardware is Running and Crunching Rosetta /setup on my test bench

[baditude_df]

No wonder we broke 100K!!!! We have the sled now!!!!!! :)

[baditude_df]

100K RAC Achieved! Mystery Prize A has been unlocked and added to the prize pool.
A $100.00 gift certificate from Petra's Tech Shop.
Grab that Swiftech XT you've had your eye on, or that D5 Pump, or XSPC RX360, or 7 tubes of MX-2 or 400 herbie clips or whatever!

Good luck to all, and congratulations on reaching 100K Team RAC!
This contest has already exceeded my expectations, thank you to all participants.

[dfonda]

:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:Co ngrats to your efforts Bad and to all the Team

[baditude_df]

My pleasure. I'm quite pleased with the way things have turned out.
I donate to charities every year. Typically I'll split evenly between two.

Last year was The Canadian Cancer Society, and the Burn Unit at a hospital here in Calgary.

This year it's Prostate Cancer by way of "Movember" where everyone grows mustaches to raise awareness of Prostate Cancer, and raise money.
And the other, I have decided, is to sponsor a Rosetta Event here at OCF.

I suppose I could have written all that in the event intro. Anyway. so far they have both proven to be a pretty fun way to contribute to good causes.

[muddocktor]

Really nice mystery prize, bad!:thup:

I see that Team China will be going down in 3 days or less, according to BoincStats too. :D We gonna kick their butts and take their names real soon!:salute:

[Jolly-Swagman]

Really Awesome mystery prize, bad!:thup:

Team has certainly pulled through on this, well done All!

[baditude_df]

STATUS UPDATE!
Team RAC----> 108,427 and #7 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month, and only 2749 to Team Canada and 6th Place!
Distance to Team China---> 283458pts 1.50 days to goal at our current rate.

Here's where we sit relative to other teams in our neighborhood.

TOTAL POINTS
28 DSL Reports Team Helix 166 13,000 31,761,650
29 Team China 1613 35,361 30,572,204
30 Overclockers.com 190 108,472 30,498,114
31 EMU--CompSci 9 36 27,399,437
32 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 232 68,756 26,749,830
33 MacOS X Users 294 58,668 26,598,481



TEAM RAC
5 L'Alliance Francophone 3092 118,690 107,980,187
6 Canada 1022 111,190 113,835,770
7 Overclockers.com 190 108,441 30,497,351
8 (ESL) 22281 94,160 202,569,325
9 BOINC@Poland 1991 86,120 65,281,627
10 USA 1241 85,272 57,625,359
11 VTC 44 84,800 26,323,154
12 BOINC.Italy 1942 83,532 65,602,724


Since my last update 44hrs ago, we've seen a 7821 point jump in RAC, crunched 294789 Total Points(as of 21st), and gained 209368 points on Team China.
TEAM CANADA AND TEAM CHINA ARE ABOUT TO GET THEIR DOORS BLOWN OFF!
W2F EVERYONE! AND KEEP IT UP!

[molnarc]

My systems have all started reporting that there is no work to download. Is this universal or do I have some parameters set incorrectly?

[TaCoSwInDeZ]

No I believe it is an issue with Rosetta, im no longer getting any WU's from rosetta to be crunched for the team however my Seti GPU client is chugging away getting all it can handle.

[baditude_df]

There are no announcements of server problems as of yet on the Rosetta home page, and I did not look at my BOINC manager this morning, so I'm not sure what this is all about.
molnarc, did you have any computation errors? Did your AV prevent the .exe from starting in anyway? Just throwing it out there.

[molnarc]

No, I don't see any errors in the message log. Everything was fine and at about 7:10 MST, any requests for new work from any of my machines returned 0 new tasks.

[jr1]

Mine is going as normal here it looks like

[TaCoSwInDeZ]

I cant get rosetta to download any new work. It keeps asking for new tasks for CPU and it returns Scheduler request completed:got 0 new tasks. Ive even tried resetting the project to no avail.

EDIT - Finally back up and running!!

[jr1]

Well i'm a totaly fresh noob when it comes to this here just got started 3-4 days ago so unfortenutly all info i can give is that it looks normal here
Wish i could do more tho

[baditude_df]

STATUS UPDATE!
Team RAC----> 111,338 and #6 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month, and only 8096 to L'Alliance Francophone and 5th Place!
Distance to Team China---> 0pts GOAL ACHIEVED!!!!!
Stay tuned to this thread tonight, where I'll reveal the 2nd Mystery Prize!


OUR TEAM RAC OF 111,338 HAS JUST PUT US PAST TEAM CANADA FOR 6TH PLACE IN THE WORLD!
TEAM CHINA HAS OFFICIALLY HAD THEIR DOORS BLOWN OFF AND WE ARE STILL CLIMING!!!!!!!
From here on in, this contest is strictly to see how high we can go! Keep doing what you've been doing and let's see where we top out! (If we top out, hehe).

[Roisen]

I suspect that we will overtake the next team before the competition's end. Even though our team RAC is at 111,000, the last couple of days we have turned in about 150,000, making the next team within reach as long as everyone keeps pushing

[baditude_df]

Oh yeah, no doubt. I have faith that our new found powah will take us up one more spot.

[PenguinsPal]

Still adding PC's... Lets see what I can do ....

[baditude_df]

STATUS UPDATE!
Team RAC----> 115,568 and #6 in the WORLD! Up from 48,546 on the 1st of the month, and only 1515 to L'Alliance Francophone and 5th Place!


Here's where we sit relative to other teams in our neighborhood.

TOTAL POINTS
28 DSL Reports Team Helix 166 12,784 31,785,737
29 Overclockers.com 191 115,567 30,798,065
30 Team China 1613 35,361 30,572,204
31 EMU--CompSci 9 36 27,399,506
32 HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC 232 67,925 26,880,930
33 MacOS X Users 297 58,285 26,713,924



TEAM RAC
5 L'Alliance Francophone 3092 117,083 108,205,762
6 Overclockers.com 191 115,568 30,798,027
7 Canada 1023 110,009 114,049,653
8 (ESL) 22286 90,939 202,726,042
9 BOINC@Poland 1993 86,652 65,464,220
10 VTC 44 85,625 26,508,277
11 USA 1241 85,272 57,625,359
12 BOINC.Italy 1943 82,569 65,762,105



As we have neatly put Team China behind us, the 2nd mystery prize has been unlocked.
I'll be adding my trusty Foxconn Bloodrage GTI X58 LGA1366 Motherboard to the prize pool!
A great way for someone to get into i7! Complete with latest OC BIOS and full compliment of my OC Profiles to get you started! :)
This board has been the platform for all of my benching, crunching and testing for the last 6 months or so, and now it's time to try something else. I figured instead of putting it up in the classifieds, I'll give it away to one of our lucky contestants!
Here's a recent bench using this board:
http://www.hwbot.org/signature.img?iid=264255 (http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=902982)
Good luck!

W2F EVERYONE! AND KEEP IT UP!

[PenguinsPal]

Ok, I have all the PC's up that I can muster... Sounds like a wind chamber in my little office now, but I think its a discomfort that is worth it. 10 CPUS.... Wonder what the RAC will be for my crappy rigs ... LMAO....

[Bobnova]

Yay prizes!

As of about 20 minutes ago i have an Athlon II 245@3ghz (couldn't resist an OC. only 120mhz though :P) crunching away.

That brings my total to...

24/7:
e5200@3.75ghz
e1200@2.66ghz
AthII 245@3ghz

Part time:
Ath 4400+ x2@stock
P4 2.4ghz@stock
Ath 4000+@stock

[muddocktor]

WOOT!

An X58 board added to the prizes, that's nice! :D

And way to go, team! We are kicking some serious pointage out now! :thup:

[nzaneb]

BOINCstats (http://boincstats.com/stats/team_stats.php?pr=rosetta&co=&st=0&or=10) has had us in fourth for Daily Average Credit (Credit/Week column) for a couple days now. The Dutch Power Cows dropped off like a rock for some reason.

Nice prizes Baditude, you're very generous:salute:

[Voidbringer]

Excellent news on the prize, though I doubt I'll get it, thanks for your generosity!
At least this way I get at least a small chance since I can't access the classifieds, unless their rules have changed since last time I checked.
Also, I keep smuggling tasks back to my offline desktop using my laptop, which gives the CPU tasks, but I haven't found a way to fool my laptop into fetching tasks for my desktop's 4850 X2, so it's been idle for quite some time now. Any solutions?

[PenguinsPal]

Although I probably won't win anything, I am happy to help the cause and contribute to the team. Thank you for all the wonderful prizes Bad. Looks to be a great gathering of items. I drool over the chance to get my hands on a i7 rig :D

[baditude_df]

Everyone's got a chance guys. Keep fingers crossed.
Thx for your help.

[Insane Scyth]

Also, I keep smuggling tasks back to my offline desktop using my laptop, which gives the CPU tasks, but I haven't found a way to fool my laptop into fetching tasks for my desktop's 4850 X2, so it's been idle for quite some time now. Any solutions?

Rosetta doesn't currently support GPU folding. Apparently it's not as useful for the type of calculations Rosetta does. Using GPUs currently has two main problems for R@H, the first is the major rewrite of the code to support them (or waiting for cards to support the code) and the other is the memory bandwidth. Currently Rosetta requires a certain amount of memory per process and the cards can't effectively handle it.

You can check out this (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=5023) and this (http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_what_is.html) for more info.

[PenguinsPal]

You would think since they are making 3-D renderings of protiens they would figure out how to use our GPU's ... lol

[donuts]

GPU folding isn't that old, (I remember, back in the day, if you wanted folding to use 2 cpu's, you ran 2 instances)

From what I understand, (iirc, from when I started Rosie) the code is long and complicated, that's why there are no optimizations. I would assume that's why there isn't a GPU client yet.

Baditude, I wasn't crunching for the prizes (Rosie has got all my cpu power anyway, lol) As it is, it took a friendly nudging PM for me to sign up for the contest. However your trusty x58 did raise my eyebrows.

My old DP Opty was fired back up last week. As long as it doesn't eat another hard drive, it'll crunch. (last IDE drive I own, and it's only 10gb. lol)

[PenguinsPal]

GPU folding isn't that old, (I remember, back in the day, if you wanted folding to use 2 cpu's, you ran 2 instances)

From what I understand, (iirc, from when I started Rosie) the code is long and complicated, that's why there are no optimizations. I would assume that's why there isn't a GPU client yet.

Baditude, I wasn't crunching for the prizes (Rosie has got all my cpu power anyway, lol) As it is, it took a friendly nudging PM for me to sign up for the contest. However your trusty x58 did raise my eyebrows.

My old DP Opty was fired back up last week. As long as it doesn't eat another hard drive, it'll crunch. (last IDE drive I own, and it's only 10gb. lol)

You could try a diskless run of linux. ;)

[baditude_df]

DONUTS!

Looks who came to visit. Hardly ever see you anymore my friend.



GPU folding isn't that old, (I remember, back in the day, if you wanted folding to use 2 cpu's, you ran 2 instances)

From what I understand, (iirc, from when I started Rosie) the code is long and complicated, that's why there are no optimizations. I would assume that's why there isn't a GPU client yet.

Baditude, I wasn't crunching for the prizes (Rosie has got all my cpu power anyway, lol) As it is, it took a friendly nudging PM for me to sign up for the contest. However your trusty x58 did raise my eyebrows.

My old DP Opty was fired back up last week. As long as it doesn't eat another hard drive, it'll crunch. (last IDE drive I own, and it's only 10gb. lol)

[donuts]

You could try a diskless run of linux. ;)

Or I could finally put the old girl out to pasture. :D
It's been crunching DC projects since I bought it used, like 6 yrs. ago. At the time the P4 was Intel's top dog, the board doesn't even support dual core procs.

It wouldn't eat drives if I wasn't so cheap and wanted to invest in new ram for it.

Baditude- the weather is cooling off, time to quit tinkering on the old truck, and hang out here more.:cool:

[muddocktor]

If that old system eats that IDE hard drive, give me a PM, donuts. I probably can help a fellow BOINCer out. ;):comp:

[Voidbringer]

I wonder, why does it then check for GPUs on start up and have that option "Use GPU while computer is in use". A typo, and just a generic host hardware check?
Ah well, if it can't use it, then that solves my problem, seems a bit of waste though.
*Edit: I did a search on the subject, also found another forum with a penguin in it. :)
Fairly interesting read.
Also, with only 42 entries so far, assuming not many more people are going to sign-up, and 8 prizes, the odds aren't as bad as I thought as long as everyone wasn't like Pixie racking up the entries with monstrous crunching power. :P

[baditude_df]

9 prizes. :)

[donuts]

If that old system eats that IDE hard drive, give me a PM, donuts. I probably can help a fellow BOINCer out. ;):comp:

Thanks for the offer:thup: (thanks also for a couple of other offers I've had from other members) The only reason this rig is still running is I did have 1 last IDE drive. I even had to wipe Win98 of of it. lol

Eventually it will finally get retired (permanently), but if the team could use the points...:salute:

For instance, the last BIOS for this board I think is dated '03. It does predate dual cores. Mudd, you might remember it as SM-6 from along time ago and elsewhere.

[muddocktor]

Wow, that one is ancient then. But it's still doing DC work, which is really cool.:cool:

[Voidbringer]

By the way, if someone wins a prize, are they then eliminated from the drawing pool, or are they retained and allowed a chance to win again?

[baditude_df]

1 prize Max. There will be 9 individual names drawn from a randomized pool of the entries. Winners will be announced in this thread in random order, so everyone knows who the winners are, and each winner will be PM'd through these forums in order from first to last. #1 will have first pick of prizes, #2 second and so on until all the prizes are spoken for.

[QuietIce]

Ahhh, it's good we can take our pick. While all the prizes are great for someone, for others they're almost useless. For example, it's not much good to have a great water block if you don't have everything else it takes to make it work. In my case I haven't got much use for Intel parts ... ;)

[baditude_df]

Yes, and it is pretty much inevitable that at least one winner will wind up with something they can't make use of(not right away anyhow). It's unavoidable really. At the very least, a prize that can't be used can be sold to offset something the you do need.

This is why I like gift certificates to places like Petra's on Performance PC's. You can choose what you want, and EVERYONE needs or wants something that is carried at those e-tailers.

[Bobnova]

Eh, i'd be pumped to win any of it, if it's something i can't use i'll just sell it and buy something i can :D

If it's a water block, it's time to water cool the hell out of the shop computer, i'll rip the radiator out of one of the toyota pickups sitting around!

[Voidbringer]

If it's a water block, it's time to water cool the hell out of the shop computer, i'll rip the radiator out of one of the toyota pickups sitting around!
LOL. If I end up with a waterblock, I'll have them send it to you in exchange for pics of that absurd setup. ^.^

[baditude_df]

I can't believe it, but our RAC is still climbing!
128,198 and not showing much signs of slowing down b4 the end of the contest!
Not to mention, we're pulling roughly 150-160K per day in total points!

Here's where we sit relative to other teams in our neighborhood.


TOTAL POINTS
28 DSL Reports Team Helix 167 12,326 31,839,646
29 Overclockers.com 192 128,198 31,493,701
30 Team China 1621 35,831 30,814,037



TEAM RAC
4 Dutch Power Cows 1996 153,458 129,350,156
5 Overclockers.com 192 128,253 31,493,270
6 L'Alliance Francophone 3101 117,957 108,754,853



We still need 3.28 at our current rate though, till we pass DSL Reports Team Helix for 28th Spot. We'll get em soon, one way or another.
Nice job team. Couldn't have asked for more really.

[klear]

Glad this contest was a success, I hope to participate again. congrats to us on achieving our goals. On to the next!

[PenguinsPal]

Since I have been a couple PCs a day my RAC keeps climbing, just can't wait till I actually get at least one ticket in for the drawing .. LMAO ..

[muddocktor]

I would think that we'll pass DSL Reports real soon anyways, just on our momentum from this contest. And for you all that hadn't run a BOINC project before, you should really switch your boxen over about a week before the start of the contest to get everything running smoothly and your RAC climbing hard. Also, de[pending on the project, you can have a quite large buildup of credit pending (Seti more-so than Rosetta) which can get stabilized by starting a bit early.

[PenguinsPal]

I would think that we'll pass DSL Reports real soon anyways, just on our momentum from this contest. And for you all that hadn't run a BOINC project before, you should really switch your boxen over about a week before the start of the contest to get everything running smoothly and your RAC climbing hard. Also, de[pending on the project, you can have a quite large buildup of credit pending (Seti more-so than Rosetta) which can get stabilized by starting a bit early.

Does it take the full 2 weeks for it to level off?

[muddocktor]

Or more, to tell the truth. But in 2 weeks or so, you should be getting close to your max RAC. This is more so in Rosetta than Seti, since you don't have to have a wingman process the same work unit for you to get credit. I've had over 50k in pending credit with Seti in the past and it can take a month or so for your RAC to stabilize in Seti.

[PenguinsPal]

I can't wait to get my hands on a couple more 300watt power supplies, that would be 2 more rigs to add :D

[zangler]

my RAC pretty much never leveled off during the contest...i do use my computer really heavily in the evenings though...but it did just keep climbing. i actually wonder what i could get to if i left my machine alone for a month.

[baditude_df]

my RAC pretty much never leveled off during the contest...i do use my computer really heavily in the evenings though...but it did just keep climbing. i actually wonder what i could get to if i left my machine alone for a month.
Why don't you leave it on Rosetta and find out???? :);)

[iceage]

I think I'll leave my CPUs on Rosetta. I'll keep the GPUs on FAH as there isn't a Rosetta GPU option, but I like the simplicity of BOINC overall.

When, and how, will we see the prize results? ;)

[Bobnova]

I really like how boinc works, it's very nice and simple. Beats FAH all to hell.

[staticpage]

I really like how boinc works, it's very nice and simple. Beats FAH all to hell.

word:thup:

[baditude_df]

I think I'll leave my CPUs on Rosetta. I'll keep the GPUs on FAH as there isn't a Rosetta GPU option, but I like the simplicity of BOINC overall.

When, and how, will we see the prize results? ;)

This is the way I do it, but running GPU clients, handicaps your CPU production a bit. No a huge amount, and nothing to really be worried about. The fact that you would consider leaving your CPU's with us is very much appreciated.

Entries will be tallied and randomized tonight at midnight. Draw will be made, then winners announced(in no particular order) in this thread tomorrow (Dec-1st.). After than each winner will be contacted via PM in these forums in order from 1st to 9th, to choose their prize.
Remember, the randomization process ensures a chance that even a single entry contestant could come out in the #1 position, even though odds are heavily against.

I really like how boinc works, it's very nice and simple. Beats FAH all to hell.

I tend to agree with this. I do like the efficiency of the console clients for F@H though.

[WonderingSoul]

I will probably keep Rosetta running on my main rig and put F@H back on my GPU folder.

[baditude_df]

Yes, many of us [even myself(2*GPU's)] will be helping out with the F@H event which means our team RAC is going to take a drastic turn downwards. Every little bit of help we can get to make sure teams like HardwareBG ROSETTA Team @ BOINC, MacOS X Users and VTC don't pass us during that time would be much appreciated. Thank you Soul.

[Jolly-Swagman]

Great Going everyone during the Contest,, and Team RAC is still rising @ over 131,277

[PenguinsPal]

I don't think I was able to pull off getting one entry in :(

[baditude_df]

41) Daniel Sonntag 8,933 677.77 United States
RAC of 677.77 puts you in the <1000 category with 3000pts required per entry. 8933 total points right now will likely turn into 9000+ points by midnight which means 3 entries. At least 2 anyway.
Not bad seeing as you started so late in the contest.

[PenguinsPal]

I just read the other post ... Misunderstood and thought it was just RAC ....

[PenguinsPal]

I just want to bust into the top 20 by Christmas .....

[QuietIce]

In the future, especially for these short run challenges, you might consider using the Credit/week column instead of RAC. Like SETI, Rosetta RAC takes f o r e v e r to get wound up while Credit/week is a real-time measure of performance.

Just a thought ... :shrug:

[baditude_df]

In the future, especially for these short run challenges, you might consider using the Credit/week column instead of RAC. Like SETI, Rosetta RAC takes f o r e v e r to get wound up while Credit/week is a real-time measure of performance.

Just a thought ... :shrug:

In what regard? Within the framework of this contest, I'm not sure it would make much difference one way or the other unless a person was somewhere close to their maximum in terms of RAC. I'll have to look into it further, and maybe the next contest could be restructured to accommodate that.

[QuietIce]

I was just thinking how people like to see quicker results. You and I are used to the delay - we know it's just part of the project and accept it. That's more difficult for people who are doing something like this for the first time, especially younger people who see it more like a score in a game rather than long-term effort.


Aah - maybe it's just my old age showing itself today ... :p

[PenguinsPal]

I am think I will end up splitting my resources between R@H and F@H... I am looking at Micro-ATX Atom 370 MBs that have a PCIe slot... Maybe use the CPU for rosetta and drop a decent x16 graphics card in them for F@H..... Rosetta seems to do really well with ANY CPU, so I may buy a few of these systems around tax time ..... Hmmmm.......

[baditude_df]

I am think I will end up splitting my resources between R@H and F@H... I am looking at Micro-ATX Atom 370 MBs that have a PCIe slot... Maybe use the CPU for rosetta and drop a decent x16 graphics card in them for F@H..... Rosetta seems to do really well with ANY CPU, so I may buy a few of these systems around tax time ..... Hmmmm.......

Please do.
I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say it's always good to see new members join up.

[baditude_df]

Alright everybody, Our contest is at an end.
I would personally like to thank everyone who came out to give us a hand!

Here's a summary of what we've achieved in two short weeks:

-RAC-
Team RAC on Nov 1st 48,546
Team RAC at beginning of contest 78,539
Team RAC at End of contest 131,339
Total RAC Increase 82,793 WHOA! NICE WORK EVERYONE!


-TOTAL POINTS-
Team Total Points on Nov 1st 29,061,694
Team Total Points at beginning of contest 29,533,295
Team Total Points at End of contest 31,719,665
Total Points Crunched 2,186,370 SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP!


Individual points totals were recorded at midnight, entries tallied and double checked, and draw made on this morning over at random.org (http://www.random.org/).
In total we had 271 entries from a total of 41 registered contestants, and 9 individual winners drawn.
The draw type was chosen as "entrant accessible (http://www.random.org/draws/details/?draw=1125)" so that you can verify your entry and see how many entries you had in the draw.
I will be contacting all of the winners via PM starting today, in order from 1st to 9th, at which time you can choose the prize you want.

I will then list the winners here in order along with the prize they chose and the date they received that prize. Once receipt of each of the 9 prizes has been confirmed, I will then officially close out the event.

WINNERS

Jackson - Bloodrage GTI Great way to get into i7!
hokiealumnus - Petra's Gift Certificate
benbaked - Navig Station Congrats ben. Sorry Mud :(
JollySwagman - GA-X48T-DQ6
staticpage - Swiftech GTZ Upgrade time, nice!
joe90 - TRUE.
Pixie/grunion - Megahalems
Daniel Sonntag-PSU
muddocktor- His own MC-TDX. Talk about the short end :(

The prize list again:
- Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 - SHIPPED
Full retail package, Socket 775/DDR3. This one is tried, tested and True! In "as new" condition, and ready to go!

-Navig Benching/Test station- SHIPPED
Custom Built for me last year. Ask around and find out how great these things are!

- Prolimatech Megahalems- SHIPPED
Complete retail package with 775 and 1366 mounting + two sets each 25mm and 38mm mounting clips. Used for THIS (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=622824) comparison.

- Thermalright TRUE Black Original Series - SHIPPED
Complete retail package with 775 and 1366 mounting and two sets fan clips. Used in two comparisons 1 (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=622824), 2 (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=618279) and that's it.

- BFG LS 550W PSU - SHIPPED
Oklahoma Wolf - Review Sample. Never been in a machine.

- Swiftech GTZ Waterblock - SHIPPED
775 and 1366 mounting included! Excellent block, confirmed fully functional and in excellent condition. Disassembled, sanitized, re-assembled and sealed. Ready to rock!

- Danger Den MC-TDX Waterblock - No takers
for Socket 775. Straight From our friend muddocktor. I've personally used one and it's an excellent block!

- $100 Gift Certificate from Petra's Tech Shop - SENT/USED SUCCESSFULLY
Code to be emailed upon the the lucky winners' request

- Foxconn Bloodrage GTI - SHIPPED
X58, LGA1366. Full retail package. Bought from Newegg.ca earlier this year.

Again, thank you to all who registered and helped make the first OCF Rosetta Team Event such a great success!!!!

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/3517/rosieentrylistcap.jpg

[staticpage]

that was a fun time, I'm ready for the next contest. I cant wait, all this heat helped me perfect my OC and water cooling system.

[Jorlain]

Great job, guys. And congratulations to the winners!

[Duner]

It was a lot of fun. I'm going to leave my imac and mac mini running Rosetta for now. Since they don't do any GPU crunching, I feel they should focus on pure CPU projects like Rosetta.

[drshivas]

Thanks for a great contest, baditude_df! :clap:

And thanks for all those who helped out. Everyone new is more than welcome to hang back and stay with the team in any capacity. :welcome:

[donuts]

It's done already!:shock:

Congrats to the winners, and everybody thank-you.:salute:

Baditude, thanks for the contest.:thup:

[hokiealumnus]

Thanks for the contest baditude, thanks to all of those that donated for your generous prizes and most of all, thanks to all that participated. Folding@Home or Rosetta@Home, we're all doing very important research for a very good cause. Thanks for donating your cycles!

EDIT - I guess all those SETI people are doing something for a good cause as well... ;)

[zangler]

had a great time guys and congrats to the winners!

[jr1]

Glad to be a part of pulling the team up on the list and i'm joining the congrats to the winners

[WonderingSoul]

Announce the winners already! :p

[Bobnova]

I wanna be a winner, announce me already! :beer:

[baditude_df]

Announce the winners already! :p
I'm posting them one at a time, in order, as I hear back from each of the winners.

I wanna be a winner, announce me already! :beer:

If your name was drawn, you'll recieve a PM. Currently I am waiting on a reply from #4. Should all be up by tonight.

Guys, the draw summary is hyperlinked in the top post of this page under "entrant accessible". Click on the hyperlink, and type in your BOINC username to verify your entry into the draw. It will also tell you the number of entries, and whether or not you are one of the 9 winners.

[Jolly-Swagman]

Thanks for a great contest, baditude_df! :clap:

Many Thanks to the donors of the Prizes, and all Team-mates that entered the Rosie RAC Harvest

Had a Great time as always crunching with you guys, for Science and Team,

Congrats to all the other Winners too!! :clap:

[WonderingSoul]

WonderingSoul had 5 entries in this drawing but was not picked as a winner

Oh noes! My heart is broken now!

Just kidding of course. Thanks for hosting an awesome contest baditude!

[PenguinsPal]

Thank you for the opportunity to win some great stuff, I have had a blast getting everything all set up and running ... Congrats to all the winners.. This was a great event and hope to be part of many more ..... Also can't wait to bust into the top 20 :D #38 right now, but I will need to double my production somehow ... lol

[temperedcore]

I feel your pain Wonderingsoul. I had 6 and didn't win..I'm crushed hahaha. You know what this means...gotta get some more rigs put together for the next contest! This was definitely the most fun I've had on the computer in a while. I'd wake up every morning and stumble over to see what kind of progress I made overnight. Can't wait for the next one. Thanks baditude_df and everyone else that donated and helped put this together and congrats to the winners.:beer:

[Deathhorse]

LOL fail Bluedood lolz i had a machine malfunction then a router issue and after the hiccups i gave up. But ya know i am going to continue this because its really a great cause. Thanks OCF peeps for learnin me something new.

[Voidbringer]

This was a fun contest, always nice to feed the competitive side while actually contributing something useful.
Those are some huge numbers as a group, really impressive.
Thanks, and see you around other contests! :)

[donuts]

Just because the contest is over, doesn't mean you have to leave.;)

Some of us do crunch Rosie full time..

[xsuperbgx]

Thanks for the contest and the introduction to rosetta. Looks like we moved up another rank in points today.

It was fun and I will probably keep rosetta on one or more of my machines permanently.

[QuietIce]

Just because the contest is over, doesn't mean you have to leave.;)

Some of us do crunch Rosie full time.. I shuttled some SETI for Rosetta to help the team - now I've put the same amount of work to use Folding, to help the team. By next month I'll be back to SETI & some Einstein as usual.

IMO, the physical sciences are getting neglected more than health science so that's where most of my computer time goes ... :)

[baditude_df]

Yep, to each their own.

[QuietIce]

Yep, to each their own. I'm actually surprised more Folders haven't migrated to Rosetta. The F@H apps have gotten a little better to handle than in the past but it's still a lot of work to set up compared to BOINC and it's still "folding" ...

[ohiosurfer]

Thanks for the contest baditude! :thup:

Nice work everyone for crunching the hell out of them proteins. Watch you back though, my farm is in the works and I'll be cruising up the leaderboard shortly. :attn:

[Bobnova]

I'll probably switch back to rosetta once the FAH contest is over, i like how it is set up much better. It deals with part time internet a lot more smoothly, too.

[baditude_df]

Thanks for the contest baditude! :thup:

Nice work everyone for crunching the hell out of them proteins. Watch you back though, my farm is in the works and I'll be cruising up the leaderboard shortly. :attn:

Ahhhh, excellent!

I'll probably switch back to rosetta once the FAH contest is over, i like how it is set up much better. It deals with part time internet a lot more smoothly, too.

That would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[Bobnova]

Still got a few computers running Rosetta, the ones that are on windows and hence wouldn't make a different in FAH anyway.

I love the names they give the work units too, they're funny.


So if i haven't gotten a pm yet, does that mean i didn't win? Or are you waiting for a response from Pixie before you PM #8?

[baditude_df]

Still got a few computers running Rosetta, the ones that are on windows and hence wouldn't make a different in FAH anyway.

I love the names they give the work units too, they're funny.


So if i haven't gotten a pm yet, does that mean i didn't win? Or are you waiting for a response from Pixie before you PM #8?

Again, you can go up to the first post on this page, click the link "entrant accessible" and follow the instructions to verify that you were entered into the draw, how many entries you had and whether or not you were a winner.

And yes, I have to wait for each winner to get back to me b4 I PM the next as it is a first drawn first pick format.
I waited almost two days for joe90 to get back to me b4 I bumped him to the back of the line, so we're a little bit behind.
Pixie doesn't seem to be around either :(

[Bobnova]

Oops, missed that, sorry! No winning for me. Oh well.

[Jorlain]

In the event that a winner does not respond, even after being bumped to the back of the line when it is their turn again, is a new winner drawn?

[baditude_df]

I'm giving two days for a response b4 being bumped to the back of the line. I may consider bumping completely after 1 week, and drawing a new name. We'll see.
I really didn't think it would be a problem.

[PenguinsPal]

Just waiting patiently :D

[staticpage]

I'm giving two days for a response b4 being bumped to the back of the line. I may consider bumping completely after 1 week, and drawing a new name. We'll see.
I really didn't think it would be a problem.

I think that would be best. I know people have busy life's but they cant expect you to wait to long. If you where to wait it could be a month before you even know what to send.
For the people that might get bumped you must realize its not fair for the others after you to wait so long. It does stink but suck it up you had a chance.

[baditude_df]

Still waiting on responses from another member who doesn't seem to know how to check their PM's or Emails. On the chance that these contestants are away for the weekend I'm giving them till tomorrow 6PM MST, then they get bumped to the end of the line.

[iceage]

OT....

Woo! #15 with a bullet! Although I'll have to have more powah to get past here.

[baditude_df]

OT....

Woo! #15 with a bullet! Although I'll have to have more powah to get past here.

Nice! That's a solid average with that CPU at 3.6GHz. Is it still rising?

Alright everyone, with all the winners announced, the prizes will start shipping soon.

Now that the contest and draw portions of the event have come to a close, I'll see you all back at the Rosetta Status Thread (http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=574313&page=46).
The event(and this thread) will remain open however, until all the prizes are shipped.

Again, thank you to those who came out to crunch for us and help make this event such a success!

[dfonda]

Well run contest Bads!

Congrats to the winners!!

[iceage]

Yep. Still rising but slower than the first week, of course.

Nice! That's a solid average with that CPU at 3.6GHz. Is it still rising?

[Forgotton]

Congratulations to winners

:: Jealousy ::

Forgotton

[Bobnova]

I'm back to rosetta! Lets throw a new contest :beer:
I'll donate socket A systems :chair:

[PenguinsPal]

I have:
2 1GiB DDR2 PC2-4200
2 512MiB PC2-4200
2 512MiB PC2-6400
2 Corsair XMS2 b512MiB PC2-5400

I'd be willing to put up for prizes. Not much I know, but ya never know what ya might need to finish a rig for Rosie.

[baditude_df]

Hehe, this is true.

Speaking of prizes, I've really been delayed with shipping on this end. Everytime I go to ship one, I get called into the office or something else. But I'm getting sick of this pile of parcels out of my living room, so I'll be starting soon. Everything is boxed up, protected and addressed, I've just got to take em down!

I'll post in this thread as the shipping progresses.

[Bobnova]

I have:
2 1GiB DDR2 PC2-4200
2 512MiB PC2-4200
2 512MiB PC2-6400
2 Corsair XMS2 b512MiB PC2-5400

I'd be willing to put up for prizes. Not much I know, but ya never know what ya might need to finish a rig for Rosie.

I smell a new contest coming up :D

[baditude_df]

GTI and Benching Station Shipped today. Hokie got his Gift Certificate the day of.
Since Mud ended up with his own waterblock, that leaves 5 more to go. I'll be sending PM's to all the winners with shipping confirmation and or Tracking #'s.

[Bobnova]

Since Mud ended up with his own waterblock

lol, that's funny.

[baditude_df]

lol, that's funny.

Mud crunched a boat load of WU's for us during the contest. I felt kind of sad about it really. I think we both knew it could happen though.
Not only do you have to get drawn, but you definitely want to be drawn somewhere near the top to make sure you get something you need/want.

Anyhow, next contest I think I'll just go with gift certificates across the board. That way everyone can get something they need or have had their eye on.

[muddocktor]

Yeah, that's my luck for sure.:sly::chair:

bad, since I'm back in, give me a PM about what your plans are with the block and we'll arrange something there.

P.S.: And I'm still crunching a boatload of wu's for Rosie still; have 3 machines still crunching Rosetta. But I have one of those down right now while I figure out what's up with it. I rebuilt my daughter's 940BE system in a HAF922 case and since I got it back together this evening I've been having stability problems with it. Temps are looking good running OCCT after backing it down to 3400 and completing an OCCT run. But that's 400 MHz off from where it was at before the transfer.

[baditude_df]

P.S.: And I'm still crunching a boatload of wu's for Rosie still; have 3 machines still crunching Rosetta. But I have one of those down right now while I figure out what's up with it. I rebuilt my daughter's 940BE system in a HAF922 case and since I got it back together this evening I've been having stability problems with it. Temps are looking good running OCCT after backing it down to 3400 and completing an OCCT run. But that's 400 MHz off from where it was at before the transfer.

Yep, I definitely noticed. And I'm glad you are. While still slowly dropping, we're still seeing enough RAC generated by members like yourself, that we're at ~86K 20 days after the end of the contest. That's more than I was hoping for, and a very respectable number. Respectable to keep us in the Top10 in the world anyway. :bday:

[Bobnova]

I switched my home box back to rosie, though at a lower OC as some testing has shown a previously stable OC to no longer be stable (eeeee! And i thought i'd be safe at 1.39v 65*c. Guess not).
Now it's at 3.4ghz or so.

It was ~800-1000RAC at 3.7, should still be close to that.

Work and bonus box will return (if possible for bonus box) in january when the FAH contest is over.

[baditude_df]

PSU and GTZ Shipped today. PM's with tracking #'s sent.

That leaves 3 more to go.

[baditude_df]

Mega and TRUE shipped today. PM's with Tracking #'s will be sent tonight when I get home from work.

That leaves Swag's X48T. I'll wait till payday tomorrow to ship that one. lol.

Regardless, my goal was to get the prizes shipped by the end of December and it looks like I'll meet that goal. :)

EDIT: PMs sent @ 17:31 MST.

[benbaked]

I got the benching station yesterday, the pictures don't do it justice, this thing is NICE! :D

Thanks!

[baditude_df]

Forgot to update. Sent Swags package the other day. Tracking # sent via PM.
That about wraps it up.
I'm gonna have this thread closed, and we can all get back at er over at the Rosetta Status thread.

Thanks again for your support everybody.

[muddocktor]

Since everything is shipped, this thread is now closed per request.

mudd