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LandShark · 02-13-07, 01:37 PM

This is the 64th 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!!!

NOTE: 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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dropadrop

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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.
I have no idea... Extreme overclocking stats show 1.1.2004 but I remember wondering about that ages ago thinking I started alot earlier... Is there a way to tell? I probably suffer from some kind of dementia and can't remember things

If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be?
Outproduced WEDO (in PPD)

It's quite an achievment for me since him and Nihksub have allways kind of been folding idols for me

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)
I live in Helsinki, Finland (Europe). I've also lived near London and in Beirut for a few years (each).

How did you initially hear about F@H?
Followed a link in somebody's sig here on the forums.

After starting, why do you continue to Fold?
To make use of extra processing cycles in computers around me. I also enjoy the competitive aspect, though it's very secondary.

What do you do for a living?
I'm an IT Engineer. Basically I maintain a a production environment consisting of Linux, Unix and (a few) Windows servers, a SAN, switches (Fiber, iSCSI, Ethernet), backups, monitoring and of course the services running on the machines.

I also study in University, though it's hard to find sufficient time working full time (and more) and having a family.

What do you do for fun?
Mountain biking, hanging out with my family, reading

Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy?
I haven't had any spare time in years!

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?
No main rig folding since the timeout for the osx-smp client is so short and I can't keep my home computer on 24/7 (or my wife complains).

Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM)
I Borg machines around me as long as I get permission for it. When I started I worked in a helpdesk and borged my coworkers computers. They are not producing anymore, and I had quite a long "silent period" between. Now I borg servers which are not in production yet. I don't have alot of rigs, but they are mostly pretty fast:

linux smp-client:
2* HP DL580 4* Opteron 880 (8 cores) 32GB ram
HP DL380 G5 2* Xeon 5150 (4 cores) 8GB ram
Intel Engineering sample 2* Xeon 5150 4GB ram
Intel barebone 2*3Ghz Xeon 6GB ram
Clone with AMD X2 3800+ 4GB ram

linux client:
HP DL380 G5 2* Xeon 5150 4GB ram (only folding nights)
2* Intel barebone 2*3Ghz Xeon 4GB ram (only folding weekends)
Fujitsu-Siemens 2*3Ghz Xeon 4GB ram
2* Clone P4 2.8-3ghz 1GB ram

Apple ppc client
2* Xserve 2*G4 ?mhz 2GB ram

Apple smp-client
1 C2D macbook pro 2.33ghz 2GB ram

What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life?
Wow, what a hard question. [explanations] This is actually something I've been meaning to plan in a concrete manner, but have not had the time [/explanations]

For the moment I'm aiming at constantly having work that forces me to learn new intresting things. I spent 5 years working in a helpdesk some years ago and looking back I should have started to push forward after about 2 years. It's easy to get stuck in a comfortable position, but to get anywhere you need challenges, failures and achievements. It's hard to think forward when you are content with what you have, and that's my situation just now.

I'm also hoping I'll have the energy to get through my studies so I can spend more time with my wife and kid, and not end up as busy as my father was when I was young (not looking very promising right now)...

Note to everyone, studying will never get easier then it is now, so just push through it and be lazy later. It's not nice being over 30 years old and trying to make up for all the lazy years of your youth.

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?
My computer tweaking "goals" changed a few years ago from maximum performance to a balance between maximum silence and adequate performance. My last two builds where dead silent, with the only way to know they are running to look at the lights or screen.

I later sold all my pc's and moved to macs 'cause I prefer the operating system and wanted to find a way to stop the constant urge to tweak the computer (and get new parts). I love my current computer which is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.33ghz with 2GB ram. It must be among the most silent stock computers existing (though not as silent as my latest builds) and has a great screen.

And this time, Dropadrop had sent us a pic too!!

Here's a 3 year old picture of me in Dahab, Egypt.

benbaked · 02-13-07, 02:00 PM

Hi dropadrop! Glad to have you and your borgs as a member of Team 32!

WarriorII · 02-13-07, 02:07 PM

Glad to have you on OUR side.

nice to meet you.

WII

Macaholic · 02-13-07, 03:24 PM

Hey! Always nice to meet a fellow Mac addict!

Quote:

Originally Posted by dropadrop

I later sold all my pc's and moved to macs 'cause I prefer the operating system and wanted to find a way to stop the constant urge to tweak the computer (and get new parts). I love my current computer which is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.33ghz with 2GB ram. It must be among the most silent stock computers existing (though not as silent as my latest builds) and has a great screen.[/color]

If you ever happen to meander into the Central Illinois area, feel free to look me up and I can show you a nice collection of Merom Mac minis (very quiet indeed) and a soon to be Mac Pro Clovertown. Absolutely Mactastic! Fold on!

silent bob · 02-13-07, 03:31 PM

nice to meet you drop

jws2346 · 02-13-07, 04:24 PM

good to be on a team with you dropadrop

you sound like one intelligent guy, Team 32 has a lot of intelligent people

dfonda · 02-13-07, 05:30 PM

Good to meet one of the top folders on the team.

sno.lcn · 02-13-07, 05:33 PM

Great to meet you! Keep up teh good work!

Hack30 · 02-13-07, 06:22 PM

What's that yer readin'?

Nice to meet you and be foldin' with you!

cuda340 · 02-14-07, 01:29 AM

Good to meet you.

dropadrop · 02-14-07, 08:21 AM

Hi!

Thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hack30

What's that yer readin'?

I think it was called "Into The Void", but I might remember wrong. It was a story about a group of people climbing mount Everest (If I recall correctly). I like to read books when I'm on vacation.

Leviathan41 · 02-14-07, 07:26 PM

Nice to meet you dropadrop!

Quote:

Extreme overclocking stats show 1.1.2004 but I remember wondering about that ages ago thinking I started alot earlier... Is there a way to tell? I probably suffer from some kind of dementia and can't remember things

I was wondering about that as well. My EOC stats show the same starting date, but coincidentally, that was around the time I started folding. Does anybody know if 1.1.2004 is the earliest date that EOC stats shows?

pscout · 02-14-07, 08:07 PM

Nice to meet you dropadrop

Those are very nice borgs you have going

On 01.01.2004 ... i am pretty sure from reads somewhere (eoc stats news or faq maybe) that the stats system there had a major revamp at that time and that is why it is the earliest date shown there.

Not sure how individual stats track before that since i only pulled my own and i started after that date.
Try downloading your individual stats (uses a .csv or xml i think) and you may
see daily summaries prior to 01.01.2004.

Stanford prolly has it too but not sure where.

Great folding with you drop

- Pete

harlam357 · 02-15-07, 12:01 AM

Nice to meet the drop... Keep up the Folding!

PaciFIST69 · 02-15-07, 12:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dropadrop

Hi!

Thanks

I think it was called "Into The Void", but I might remember wrong. It was a story about a group of people climbing mount Everest (If I recall correctly). I like to read books when I'm on vacation.

By any chance do you mean "Into Thin Air?" Or are there just multiple books about Mt. Everest with similar titles?

Leviathan41 · 02-15-07, 12:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pscout

On 01.01.2004 ... i am pretty sure from reads somewhere (eoc stats news or faq maybe) that the stats system there had a major revamp at that time and that is why it is the earliest date shown there.

Ahh, I see. I just searched for my first post about folding and found that I started on 12-14-03, so a couple weeks before the EOC revamp. I knew it was close to 1.1.2004, but I thought I started slightly earlier. Anyway, sorry for the threadjack.

dropadrop · 02-15-07, 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leviathan41

Ahh, I see. I just searched for my first post about folding and found that I started on 12-14-03, so a couple weeks before the EOC revamp. I knew it was close to 1.1.2004, but I thought I started slightly earlier. Anyway, sorry for the threadjack.

That was a good idea

Seems my first time posting in the folding forum was in April 2003, and I was asking for help with the client.

Spion · 02-15-07, 01:05 PM

nice to meet you dropadrop. fold on

dz_jad · 02-15-07, 01:19 PM

good to meet ya some more!

ihrsetrdr · 02-15-07, 05:47 PM

Nice to meet you dropadrop! I've noticed that your production has droppedabit; hope that's only temporary.

dropadrop · 02-16-07, 10:46 AM

My production goes up and down, but it will be going mostly down for a little while. Of the two 8-core servers that have been my main producers, one has not been folding for a while, and I should install Redhat on the other one next week too (after which no extra applications like fah will be installed). I also had 3 quad core servers with Xeon 5150's which have not been folding for over a week.

Unfortunatly I've also been too busy to make sure everything else is running, hopefully next week I'll be at the office more then trainings and meetings and will be able to install fah on a few new quad core (dual dualcore) Xeons.

02-13-07, 01:37 PM	#1
LandShark Super Shark Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Deep Blue Sea (Maryland)	F@H Spotlight #64 This is the 64th 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!!! NOTE: 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. Now please give a warm welcome to.......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . dropadrop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. I have no idea... Extreme overclocking stats show 1.1.2004 but I remember wondering about that ages ago thinking I started alot earlier... Is there a way to tell? I probably suffer from some kind of dementia and can't remember things If there was something recent that you did that you wanted your fellow teammembers to know about, what would it be? Outproduced WEDO (in PPD) It's quite an achievment for me since him and Nihksub have allways kind of been folding idols for me 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) I live in Helsinki, Finland (Europe). I've also lived near London and in Beirut for a few years (each). How did you initially hear about F@H? Followed a link in somebody's sig here on the forums. After starting, why do you continue to Fold? To make use of extra processing cycles in computers around me. I also enjoy the competitive aspect, though it's very secondary. What do you do for a living? I'm an IT Engineer. Basically I maintain a a production environment consisting of Linux, Unix and (a few) Windows servers, a SAN, switches (Fiber, iSCSI, Ethernet), backups, monitoring and of course the services running on the machines. I also study in University, though it's hard to find sufficient time working full time (and more) and having a family. What do you do for fun? Mountain biking, hanging out with my family, reading Is there anything special you do in your spare time that you really enjoy? I haven't had any spare time in years! 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? No main rig folding since the timeout for the osx-smp client is so short and I can't keep my home computer on 24/7 (or my wife complains). Do you have a Borg-Farm? If so, how many computers, and what are they? (CPU, RAM) I Borg machines around me as long as I get permission for it. When I started I worked in a helpdesk and borged my coworkers computers. They are not producing anymore, and I had quite a long "silent period" between. Now I borg servers which are not in production yet. I don't have alot of rigs, but they are mostly pretty fast: linux smp-client: 2* HP DL580 4* Opteron 880 (8 cores) 32GB ram HP DL380 G5 2* Xeon 5150 (4 cores) 8GB ram Intel Engineering sample 2* Xeon 5150 4GB ram Intel barebone 23Ghz Xeon 6GB ram Clone with AMD X2 3800+ 4GB ram linux client: HP DL380 G5 2 Xeon 5150 4GB ram (only folding nights) 2* Intel barebone 23Ghz Xeon 4GB ram (only folding weekends) Fujitsu-Siemens 23Ghz Xeon 4GB ram 2* Clone P4 2.8-3ghz 1GB ram Apple ppc client 2* Xserve 2G4 ?mhz 2GB ram Apple smp-client 1 C2D macbook pro 2.33ghz 2GB ram What are your future goals? What do you most want to accomplish with your life? Wow, what a hard question. [explanations] This is actually something I've been meaning to plan in a concrete manner, but have not had the time [/explanations] For the moment I'm aiming at constantly having work that forces me to learn new intresting things. I spent 5 years working in a helpdesk some years ago and looking back I should have started to push forward after about 2 years. It's easy to get stuck in a comfortable position, but to get anywhere you need challenges, failures and achievements. It's hard to think forward when you are content with what you have, and that's my situation just now. I'm also hoping I'll have the energy to get through my studies so I can spend more time with my wife and kid, and not end up as busy as my father was when I was young (not looking very promising right now)... Note to everyone, studying will never get easier then it is now, so just push through it and be lazy later. It's not nice being over 30 years old and trying to make up for all the lazy years of your youth. 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? My computer tweaking "goals" changed a few years ago from maximum performance to a balance between maximum silence and adequate performance. My last two builds where dead silent, with the only way to know they are running to look at the lights or screen. I later sold all my pc's and moved to macs 'cause I prefer the operating system and wanted to find a way to stop the constant urge to tweak the computer (and get new parts). I love my current computer which is an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.33ghz with 2GB ram. It must be among the most silent stock computers existing (though not as silent as my latest builds) and has a great screen. And this time, Dropadrop had sent us a pic too!! Here's a 3 year old picture of me in Dahab, Egypt. __________________ ~~~ Currently In Semi-Active Mode ~~~ Got SOLD? MOVE your own thread! 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02-13-07, 02:00 PM	#2
benbaked Folding/SETI/Rosetta Team Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Washington State	Hi dropadrop! Glad to have you and your borgs as a member of Team 32! __________________ Maximus Formula SE \| QX6700 \| 4 GB ECC DDR2-800 \| Dual HD4850 in CFX \| TX750 GA-EP35-DS3R \| QX6700 \| 4 GB DDR2-800 \| 8800GT \| SST-ST56ZF GA-965GM-S2 \| E6600 \| 1.5 GB DDR2-533 \| 9800GT-U \| AX500-A PowerBook G4 12" 1 GHz \| 1.25 GB DDR \| 160 GB HDD HEATWARE (22-0) \| my quads \| OCF's first Folding/SETI/Rosetta triple millionaire (crunching BOINC as the ben.World.order) "I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer." - Douglas Adams

02-13-07, 02:07 PM	#3
WarriorII Moderator #666 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Moderating	Glad to have you on OUR side. nice to meet you. WII __________________ To Honor Those who went before their time. God Bless them all Fight the Fight worth Fighting *FOLD for Team 32* IS THERE A CURE AMONG US? Black Belt Overclocker MyHeatware under WarriorII Become a fan on Facebook! \| Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! \| Follow us on Twitter!

02-13-07, 03:31 PM	#5
silent bob Team 32 Folding Ghetto Hanging PC Senior Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: in "The Cave "	nice to meet you drop __________________ Heat Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. Frank Lloyd Wright

02-13-07, 04:24 PM	#6
jws2346 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Sep 2006	good to be on a team with you dropadrop you sound like one intelligent guy, Team 32 has a lot of intelligent people __________________ One cat (OC'ed depending on amount of catnip) Intel E6600 (OC'ed 3.0 GHz, WC'in') WinSMP Intel E6600 (stock, air coolin') Ubuntu 64 6.10 SMP Intel E6420 (OC'ed 2.8 GHz, air) Ubuntu 64 6.10 SMP Intel E6300 (on the floor, open) doin' nothing but wastin' electricity (only kidding, I surf with it to keep my folders undisturbed. All but the cat and E6300 folding their little transisters out 24/7

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02-13-07, 05:30 PM	#7
dfonda Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Folding for Team 32 in the Keystone State	Good to meet one of the top folders on the team. __________________ #1Win7GPUFolding eVGA 260GTX FoxconnX58 I7 920@3.1GHZ #2WinXP GPU2Foldingx2-8800GT'sRoseE6600 #3Win7RC64GPU2FoldingRoseQ66009800GX2 & 9800GTX+ Evga780i PS3 Folding on pete Folding for Hrstrder's wife Pete_Scout and Oldskool "I could not love a human baby more then I love this iphone"

02-13-07, 05:33 PM	#8
sno.lcn Extreme Cooling & Benchmark Team Content EditorFolding/SETI/Benching Team Senior Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Atlanta. School in Florida.	Great to meet you! Keep up teh good work! __________________ Join the benching team today! Folding Team! \|\| SETI Team! \|\| Rosetta Team! Want to see your writing featured on the overclockers.com front page? PM me for info! HWBot Profile \|\| Heatware

02-13-07, 06:22 PM	#9
Hack30 Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Folding@Home on the Blue Ball	What's that yer readin'? Nice to meet you and be foldin' with you! __________________ "All computers wait at the same speed:How fast is yours running?FOLD!" "The only one you are truly in competition with is yourself!" "I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe"-Jengo Fett" "Fight the Fight worth Fighting-FOLD for Team 32-WarriorII" "I'm just so envious of all that PPD good luck with the builds, bills and better half..-dfonda" "I hate not knowing what it is!-Daffy Duck" "We're sure of one thing, though - if we don't try to find a cure, it won't be found; so we try.-Adak" Foldin' For Team 32 HEAT

02-14-07, 01:29 AM	#10
cuda340 Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada	Good to meet you.

02-14-07, 08:07 PM	#13
pscout Senior Newbie Cannon-Fodder - R. I. P. good buddy :( Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Toronto	Nice to meet you dropadrop Those are very nice borgs you have going On 01.01.2004 ... i am pretty sure from reads somewhere (eoc stats news or faq maybe) that the stats system there had a major revamp at that time and that is why it is the earliest date shown there. Not sure how individual stats track before that since i only pulled my own and i started after that date. Try downloading your individual stats (uses a .csv or xml i think) and you may see daily summaries prior to 01.01.2004. Stanford prolly has it too but not sure where. Great folding with you drop - Pete __________________ Main Rig - p5b-d, E6600@3.15 Folding rigs - usually linux-64: 2xQ6600 B3 @3.0, 3.1 p5w64, DS3 4x Q6600 GO @ 3.1-3.3 on p35-DS3R/DS3L, p5k 4x x3210 B3 @3.0-3.1 on DS3 rev 3.3 x3220 B3 @3.0 on g33-ds2r 3x E6600 @2.8-3.5 on p5b, ds3, p5w64 E6320 @ 3.15 on ds3 1x930 c1 @4.0 on p5wd2-E Folding for OCF Team 32 as pete_scout

02-15-07, 12:01 AM	#14
harlam357 Senior Fold-a-holic Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: @Home... Folding@Home	Nice to meet the drop... Keep up the Folding! __________________ Q9550(C1)@(450x8) 3.6GHz 1.28v \| Gigabyte EP45-UD3P v1.0 F8 bios \| 2x2gb G.Skill@DDR900 5-5-5-15 2T 2.05v \| EVGA GTX275 \| Antec P180 - Corsair 650TX \| WD740GD - WD3200AAKS \| Samsung 2433BW FOLD32: 2xGTX285@1548MHz, GTX275@1566MHz, 2xGTX260-216@1458MHz, Bloomfield 920@3.8GHz, Yorkfield Q9550@3.6GHz, 3xKentsfield Q6600@3.4~3.0GHz, Wolfdale E8400@3.0GHz HFM.NET - Client Monitoring Application for Folding@Home \| I'm a Team 32 Folding Mentor - Ask me about Folding \| Team 32 Folding@Home Intro \| Team 32 F@H FAQ \| Folding/Gaming Room Project \| H's HTPC Build \| Heat (41-0-0)

02-15-07, 01:05 PM	#18
Spion Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Iowa	nice to meet you dropadrop. fold on __________________ Nova Phenom X4 9950 BE @ 3GHz \| 2x2GB Gskill \| Visiontek HD4850 FSP Group 700watt \| Rocketfish Case \| Foxconn A7DA-S \| WD 640 Black Edition HTPC Mobo - GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H \| CPU - Athlon II 250 Memory - 2gig DDR2 \| Video Card - ATI HD4200 (785G) Hard Drives - Maxtor 300gig \| 2x1TB WD GP \| Case - nMediaPC 1000B + PRO-LCD PSU - Sunbeam NUUO 550watt \| Tuner - Hauppauge HVR-2250 OCForums Metal Club member #3 \| Heatware

02-15-07, 01:19 PM	#19
dz_jad Team 32 Folding Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Bealeton, Virginia	good to meet ya some more! __________________ AM2 3800+ X2 Asus M2N-SLI DLX BIOS Rev. 0304 1GB Corsair PC8500 x1900xt - (Retired from Folding)

02-15-07, 05:47 PM	#20
ihrsetrdr Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: In the fold for Team 32	Nice to meet you dropadrop! I've noticed that your production has droppedabit; hope that's only temporary. __________________ Visit the Team 32 members on Facebook! \| Help improve overclockers.com! Get involved! Fold for the cure, support cancer awareness-make your sig pink! Folding Farm: Four i7 920 Linux folding rigs Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein Heat

02-16-07, 10:46 AM	#21
dropadrop Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Finland	My production goes up and down, but it will be going mostly down for a little while. Of the two 8-core servers that have been my main producers, one has not been folding for a while, and I should install Redhat on the other one next week too (after which no extra applications like fah will be installed). I also had 3 quad core servers with Xeon 5150's which have not been folding for over a week. Unfortunatly I've also been too busy to make sure everything else is running, hopefully next week I'll be at the office more then trainings and meetings and will be able to install fah on a few new quad core (dual dualcore) Xeons. __________________ folding for team 32 :sn: