Who in the H#@@ is team awachs?

don256us · Oct 10, 2011

They are out producing us at almost 2 to 1. They won't match us for over two years but OMG! Take a look for yourself. :comp:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overtake.php?s=&t=181223

I.M.O.G. · Oct 10, 2011

I'm seeing a history for them since February 2010 or so I think. They just started back up at the end of last month. Impressive folding, glad they are at it... Looking into it on google, it seems they work in collaboration with stanford, and only fire up when certain workloads are plentiful.

tuigi69 · Oct 11, 2011

Holy SH!ZNATZ. They are chewing through some WU's 1.7 mil every 3 hours. Wonder what they're running on. Looks like they're getting 5k per WU.

turbohans · Oct 11, 2011

LOL Google has a small team going I see

I.M.O.G. · Oct 11, 2011

Did a bit more looking, and my best bet is the power has something to do with Megan A. Wachs (awachs), a PhD student at Stanford currently, who works at Cryptography Research:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/megan-wachs/28/175/b61

If anyone has a boatload of computing power to throw spare cycles at, a cryptography company associated with a fellow Stanford graduate student sounds like a likely candidate.

ratbuddy · Oct 11, 2011

I have a different guess as to who it is, and emailed asking him to confirm/deny

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...u-h12G1GhEghsH5HPqNENBTCAKLdskeY44XuY8G&hl=en

I.M.O.G. · Oct 11, 2011

Ohh, another good candidate. Nice one ratbuddy.

Dead Things · Oct 11, 2011

ratbuddy said:
I have a different guess as to who it is...

ratbuddy's guess is correct. Anthony Wachs is a researcher at IFP and occasionally donates supercomputer time to fah when it comes up. Unfortunately, little is known outside of IFP regarding the specs of that supercomputer, except that it has a 17 Tflop capacity...

http://www.ifpenergiesnouvelles.com...-calculs-scientifiques-tres-puissants-a-l-ifp

Mario1 · Oct 11, 2011

Wow, that is some serious folding right there!
Doubling what OCF does as far as 24h average goes, that's impressive!
I'm not in any means mad/jealous tho, I'm really glad they're helping, its for a good cause!

CompuTamer · Oct 11, 2011

Guess they only start up when they're not using the computer for other things?

I.M.O.G. · Oct 11, 2011

It looks like they only start up when they aren't using the cycles, and when the right sort of work units are available... Their stats seem to reflect every WU they process is especially high value, so it looks like a coordinated effort alongside stanford to kick in cycles when they need a certain sort of work done.

don256us · Oct 13, 2011

Who ever or what ever it is very impressive. :comp:

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