[LandShark]

This is the 61th in the series of T32 Spotlights!! I'll try my best to keep this Spotlight as regular post as possible as long as the nominations keep coming in!! So, keep sending me the nomination guys/gals!!!

For how to go about nominating a fellow folder, please go to THIS THREAD, or better yet, you can PM me directly. To see the ever growing list of who has been interviewed and the expected date of the next spotlight, please go to THIS THREAD.

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Gulp35

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Again, Thanks for taking the time to allow me to interview you.

When did you join the Team? Approximate date is ok if you don't know the specific date.

Gulp35, Inc. started folding December 24, 2004

If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be?

We went down to New Orleans this June to help fix houses damaged by Katrina. It was very hard work, but we had a great time, and met some great people. We are looking forward to going again soon.


What is your EOC (extremeoverclockers) stats link?

EOC

You do not have to give specifics (address), but what State do you live in, and if you don't mind telling, what town? (town is not required, but if not a town, a general direction and distance from the nearest 'big town/city' would suffice)


Gulp35, Inc. maintains its corporate offices in Marietta GA (a suburb of Atlanta), with a satellite office in Pittsburgh PA (@Carnegie Mellon Univ.). Gulp35, Inc. started a wholly owned subsidiary, Junebug Ltd. in June 2006 ( to allow Junebug to express his radical ideas with out getting Gulp35 banned!).

How did you initially hear about F@H?

Gulp first heard about FAH in the forums after seeing an article on the front page.

After starting, why do you continue to Fold?

We (Junebug and Gulp35) fold for a number of reasons. One, we are competitive. Gulp35 initially wanted to see what his computer could do. It also gave us a reason to have fancy, fast computers. And it is beneficial to society. We are both “geeks” and like to build and tweak stuff. So this gave us another techie hobby. And its fun to freak out friends when we show them the “farm”

What do you do for a living?

Gulp35 is a sophomore at CMU studying Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Junebug is a Chemical Engineer for a major chemical company.


What do you do for fun?

Gulp likes to hang out with his buddies, watch movie, play video games, etc. The normal stuff a 20 year old does!
Junebug is a Site Project Manager for Habitat for Humanity and you will find him most Saturday’s building houses with 40 or 50 other volunteers. He builds two or three houses a year typically.


Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy?

Gulp has a HAL project under way. This is a Athlon XP built into a 2U case. Ultimately it will look like HAL 9000 for 2001. HAL is the game server for Gulp35’s apartment building (And the rest of the world ). He and his friends play Armagetron using it as the central game server. http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=397069
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=413793

Junebug likes unconventional computer enclosures. He has built an open, wooden, platform (for lack of a better description (see link) which is a Tyan motherboard and two 246 Opterons. This machine is the family computer and mainly is used for homework, e-mailing and web browsing. http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=397070

Time to spill your guts. What are the stats of your main folding rig? Why is it your fave? What all do you use the rig for?

Junebug's latest creation is a DFI Ultra D and Opteron 165 built into a mission style end table and it functions as a HTPC. Here is a link to the build log http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=435097

Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM)

Yes we have a farm. Most of it is in our basement, but parts are scattered about the house. We name upstairs computers for deceased pets we have loved, and basement computers for cows (it helps us keep them straight!) Here are some juicy details:

Upstairs Computers (Cats!)

Cleo – HTPC - Opteron 165 at 2.75 GHz - 2GB @ 204Mhz Our Fastest Folder

Deva – A64-754 3000 at 2350 MHz - 512 Mb RAM. second fastest folder

Pandora – Pandy is the family workstation - Dual Opteron 246 (AMD tech tour 2005) – 1GB RAM

Schatzie – This is a recycled “cow’ from the basement farm. AMD XP 2600 at 2350 MHz – 512MB RAM. runs Ubuntu

Basement computers (Cows!)

We bought our basement farm from Papsomax (a sometimes visitor to OCforuns.) We made a 4 day, 2400 mile trip from Atlanta , first to Kansas City to pick up the farm, then to Pittsburgh (to visit CMU), and then back home. We have modified the farm some to hopefully increase stability and have added a couple of cows along the way. She has a UPS since this June that has dramatically improved farm stability (Atlanta‘s power flickers often in the summer T-storm season).

The first nine cows all live together in a Plexiglas case. It’s not pretty, especially when the KVM is hooked on, but it has been a very reliable system

Angus - XP 2400+ at 2 GHz - 512MB –The server Computer

Holstein XP 2200+ at 2 GHz - 256 MB. HDD’d Overclockix 3.79.

Charolais - XP 2400+ at 2 GHz - 128 MB. client under Angus.

Jersey - Pentium 4 2.8E @3300MHz . client under Angus.

Golbveih - used to be a twin to Jersey. Her motherboard is flaky and she may need to have a new motherboard soon as well. She is a strictly stock cow for now. She is another one of the clients under Angus.

Watusi - XP 2400+ at 2 GHz. Poor Man’s install of Overclockix 3.79.

Highland - aka the Screamer (92mm Vantec Tornado). AMD Barton 2500+ at 2.35GHz -512 MB. A client under Angus.

Ayrshire - XP 2800+ running at 2300 MHz. Another Poor Man install.

Devon - XP2200 at 2Ghz -128MB.

Then there are three boxen cows:

Elsie - P4 2.8C at 2850 to 3000Mhz 512 MB a client of Angus

Guernsey (Actually Guernsey II) - Overclockix 2.79 on a Celeron 2.7 at 3100 MHz with 512MB. Another Poorman’s install.

Brown Swiss - XP2400 at 2050 MHz 256 MB.

Cats and cows away from home:

First there is Major Tom, a once water cooled, now air-cooled AMD 1700+ T-bred B @2350-2500Mhz w/ 512MB (BH5 Memory ) sitting in a new shiny Lian Li case. Plans are someday soon to replace her aging guts with more modern parts.

The Borg community:

200+ machines at Gulp’s old K-12 school. Gulp spent the summer working at his Alma mater and he put FAH in all the images! These only fold 8/5 so it’s not as impressive as it sounds, but it’s still a healthy borg.


What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life?


Gulp35 is having a hard time deciding exactly what he wants to do in ECE. Though right now Embedded Systems(and the rest of the CS side of ECE) is looking the most intriguing.

Junebug is having the time of his life. He has the love of his family, is challenged intellectually at work, and gets to make a difference in peoples lives every Saturday.

If there is something you want to tell the team, then spill your guts! What have I missed in my questions that could help the team learn more about you and who you are?

Well, in case you haven’t already figured it out Gulp35 is Junebug’s son. We used to use one user name, but Junebug got his own when he was afraid he would get people mad at Gulp for Junebug’s opinions. Junebug still uses Gulps accounts to get to the classifieds. Both of us are on the quieter side...we tend to only post when we feel we have something to say. Junebug (who wrote a lot of this) tends to wax on philosophically sometimes …as you might have noticed in this post.

We enjoy working with computers and FAH has been a fun thing that we can do together, even when Gulp is off at school in Pittsburgh. Besides computers, we like just messing around building stuff, and we both love our cats. Junebug is actually the name of one of the household cats. Gulp35’s cat is named Moses. The latest cat in the family is Churro (a possible FIV positive cat unfortunately, so she is currently in isolation from the others). We recently lost Oscar, another family cat that was very special to all of us, but especially to Gulp35’s mom. You can see pictures of the cats in our build logs (we actually were chastised on one forum for posting the cats!) Junebug is not secretly Bob Dole although he wrote most of this in the third person for some reason.

Junebug has been a vegetarian for the last 15 years. Gulp35 claims he is not a vegetarian although he is rarely seen to actually eat meat.

Junebug and friends at the dedication of a Habitat House

I have some pictures though I can post them in the main thread when it is posted.

awaiting for your pics!!

[dfonda]

Nice to meet you both. At first I thought you were a split personality. LOL

[sno.lcn]

Great to meet ya some more guys. You live right next to me!

[dz_jad]

good to meet ya both! Nice to get a little story in there....it was quite the break from work

[benbaked]

Hey nice to meet you cool cats, fold on brothers!

Sweet DFI build too, pretty slick built into the table.

[Hack30]

Very nice farm and Pleased to meet you! Fold on!

[Spion]

nice to meet you way to borg

[jws2346]

Hey man, you sound like one dynamite folding team, keep on keepin' on and thanks for "caring"

[cuda340]

Good to meet you.

Fold on !!

[harlam357]

Great to meet the Gulp family! Harlam thinks Gulp should Fold On!

[dropadrop]

Pleased to meet you!

[TollhouseFrank]

nice to meet you guys. Keep it up!