The article for the Front Page only contained the leading paragraph. For some reason, the code I submitted was causing a problem for Paul.

I have the page up on The Castle Gate if you would like to view the whole story. This is the address for the page: http://groups.msn.com/TheCastleGate/yourwebpage.msnw

To save the page either go to the Documents folder for it or right-click the link below and choose, "Save As".
http://www.msnusers.com/TheCastleGate/Documents/Thursdays%5FTeam%5FTidbits%5Fvol1.html

The page "Folding@Home For The Holidays" can be found here: http://www.msnusers.com/TheCastleGate/Documents/FOLDING%40HOME%20FOR%20THE%20HOLIDAYS.html

The Front Page article has been updated, edited and is now complete.

It also features one of hearteaters graphics which I animated. Now all we need for the articles is a header and a graphic to go along with it, so I can post these under "Team F@H" instead of the generic "CastleCops"

The Front Page article about the team has undergone some cosmetic changes.

Paul has added the category and hearteaters graphic for the new category and from now on all team articles will go under that "banner".

At the moment it is linked back to the short version, but should be fixed shortly. The link to the full article is: /article-5881-thread-0-.html-1

This is a slightly modified version of last week's front page article.

Thursday Team Tidbits
You probably missed the recent buzz in the Folding Forums. Unfortunately, some other "events" overshadowed the reporting of this news, so it is late in coming to your attention. The team was celebrating a few notable milestones. On Friday, Feb 11, 2005 6:32 A.M. after waiting through the night for the update I was able to announce to the team that our one millionth point had been recorded.	_
This Milestone was recorded by the Stanford servers at 03:08:08 A.M. and captured at 06:29:36 A.M. E.S.T. It's a small thing really, but only one hundred seventy (170 out of 36,234) teams had achieved it before us!	__ __ ___

Folding Forums ____ graphic designed by hearteater

Several Notable Items: Tamara_aka_Satchick, who now leads the team, became the first to complete 1,000 Work Units. On Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:42 am, she posted, "At 9:12 am today, I see my 1000th Wu was completed! I seem to get a lot of the small ones and so they add up quickly."

User Name	Milestone	User Name	Milestone	User Name	Milestone	New Team Members In MARCH
Tamara_aka_Satchick	160,000	Barrius	120,000	rsclark3	100,000	We would like to send out a big hello
nfntjy	80,000	Chuck2	50,000	vmax seafsee	30,000	and THANK YOU to: ____
TJXPERT MrPatLarge Mirin GGSearch DaveMo	40,000			Shiftless Remnant sputnik365 chuck_hail Kraken Atomic_Punk	20,000	bcorreira Crash39 FisionChips Acsell mctoo P3-450 Aidin
RayJay1 wawadave Buckc Cateyes687 Ikester Marvin_Wilson Jason_Bosslett	10,000			hearteater lionsden iaggod Itchywolf kikosho	5,000	Scott_562 Scoticus J.Win Louise

. ._ ._

Pos	__User Name (with URL)__	Total Credit	day	week	month	Avg Cr	Country	SETI	CPDN	E @ H
1	seafsee	16,884	311	618	3,230	134		x	x	x
2	chasfc11	2,761	104	245	1,172	040		x		x
3	JoAnn	1,357	277	431	1,268	052				x
4	FisionChips	810	0	115	0	036		x
5	Pieter	567	0	0	0	125			x
6	YounGun	394	0	0	0	061				x

Great write-up, seafsee! Just one small addition - I am not normally one for blowing my own trumpet but I also passed 20,000 points some time in the last week of March. Not what I would call a farm here but I now have 6 machines folding having managed to persuade one of my colleagues to let me install F@H on both his old and new PCs.

Unfortunately, I messed up the last WU on the Win95 box. We had had a power cut and, before I restarted, I checked the files to see if any looked as though they had been corrupted. As expected, there was garbage at the end of the log files and it looked like there was some more at the end of the "dyn" file so I removed it. Big mistake! The "garbage" turned out to be the hashes/checksums and, because it couldn't validate the checkpoint, F@H restarted the whole work unit from the beginning. This was really annoying as it takes about 30 days per WU and it only had about 2 or 3 days to go. All of the other machines continued ok without my interference.

Moral of the story: F@H is quite good at recovering after problems providing you LEAVE IT ALONE....

patermann

patermann congrats!!!

i hate those set backs. but you know now what not to remove.....

I'll be sure to add you on the current article. My apologies for the omition.

Incidentally, amongst the various stats I mentioned elsewhere, you are in elite company by virtue of this:

Really? I was thinking that two might be a flower bed, my four a garden patch, perhaps 10 a small farm? ... So when do we get to ranches?

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CastleCopsWiki

One of the many things I've been stockpiling for an alternate stats post is exactly Client statistics by Windows OS subtype. I'm not exactly sure, but there may be one other on our team also running Win 95. The only machines I have left to run Win 95 are now all 486s with a max capability of only 32 MB RAM, unfortunately. I don't think any DC projects have a minimum that low.

Thursday Team Tidbits vol. 2


Last week I hinted other "events" conspired to make reporting of team news late without getting into the specifics of these events. A recent front page article here talks about another "event". Be sure to read Ben Edelman's page (Last Updated: April 11, 2005). Since February, no less than nine different vendors have tried pressuring either anti-spyware/adware programs and/or security forums to de-list them from their databases to prevent detection. Many have sent Cease and Desist letters, like the one Castle Cops received in February.
My feelings on this issue are best reflected by this post:

On now to the latest team news.......



What Is A Farm ?


The previous article sparked several discussions in the forum among the team. Many want to know exactly "what is a farm?" and I don't have the definitive reply to that yet, but a quick glance through all the various stats reveals many more than previously suspected. Part of the reason for not knowing beforehand is several of the team don't post in the forum very often! It was also pointed out that a new farmer's milestone* didn't make last week's list which I have rectified below.

User Milestones In Past Week

User Name	Points/ .Milestone
Tamara_aka_Satchick	180,000 2,000 wu
Barrius	140,000 1,000 wu
MrPatLarge	050,000
Atomic_Punk	030,000
drbaker123	030,000
* patermann *	020,000
Marvin_Wilson	020,000
virus4dummies	020,000
kikosho	010,000
Scott_562	001,000

The latest update for the entire team is below. It took nine months for us to reach the first million points which you found out about last week. Two months later, we are well on the way to the second million!

Date of last work unit	2005-04-15 06:06:34
Active CPUs within 50 days	227
Grand Score	1,643,433
Work Unit Count	13,614
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	141 of 37489

Wednesday saw us post new daily highs in points on our own stats - 19,713; extremeoverclockering.com - 15,328; and also kakaostats.net - 17,582. We are averaging almost 12,000 points and 69 work units daily.
There has been confusion regarding some of the stats being reported among the four major stats sites we follow. All data comes from one place - Stanford . The differences are usually minor and reflect the differences in certain criteria used among the among the different sites and the scripts used to accumulate the data. This includes different time zones.

Folding@Home uses Universal Time for the purpose of defining a day. Other sites use the time zone where their servers are located. Active vs. inactive is defined differently with Stanford setting that line at 50 days, while extremeoverclockering.com uses 30 days for instance. Sometimes, in the presentation of stats, a little poetic license is taken because different sources will be combined to flesh out some numbers that one site might report and another site does not. With this in mind, here is a big reason our team has achieved so much so soon.

We have 71 active users out of now, 135 members. They are running 227 CPUs. Doing the math, our active users average slightly over three CPUs each! Of all team members the average is still 1.68 CPUs/member!


Welcome New Member


We have shown a higher than average active member status for some time now, and the numbers keep growing every week. Our newest member, jmschwartz , who came aboard late Wednesday evening, EDT has 5 work units completed already and has mentioned he'd be putting F@H on all his available computers. Following the link in his uname indicates he has four CPUs working for the team!


Folding Fact Of The Week


This is normally presented as Folding Fact of the Day on the Stanford pages. I have also been reproducing these in the forum .
Folding fact #0
The first molecular mechanics implementations date to the 1940's, but only in the late 1960s/early 1970s did the availability of digital computers make such calculations tractable.

B.O.I.N.C.


To quote a most beloved movie, (and I know at least one team member will appreciate this) BOINC stats are "... a horse of a different color".
There are teams for the different projects of which there are seven, three of which we are involved with; teams within teams; and teams by country. Each article will focus on a different project - a different segment of our overall BOINC team.

Einstein@Home is the newest project open to the general public coming online in late February. As such, it has fewer members, and less work completed than some of the more established programs. SETI@Home, and Climate Prediction dot Net have been around longer and both are running a classic verson of their program in addition to the BOINC version, which complicates matters further, and is broken down further by Total Credit and Recently Added Credit (shown as TC and RAC respectively).

Our Einstein@Home team is currently at 996 out of 2,050 teams (TC) and also has the most individual members. It has the best chance of raising in the ranks, though in my opinion, the important one is CPDN.

Today ...


In the U.S.A. it is Tax Day.

CNN reported that Starbucks will begin using Wind Power in their restaurants in addition to recently starting to use recycled materials in its cups. Climate change and the effects on coffee production worldwide was cited as a concern. (Perhaps, I'll email them and tell them about CPDN !!!)

McDonald's turns 50 today.

Just a reminder ...

When the formatting problem is determined and fixed, I will stop reproducing them here.

Instead, they can be found at The Castle Gate > Documents. There is a folder called Thursday Team Tidbits. All vol./versions will be found here.
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