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    Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    Hi,

    As pointed out by Nibbler, we are fast approaching a major landmark of 100,000,000 points, which is one hell of a lot of points! Recently we've seen our numbers swell, and then fall back a little to just over 30 active folders working concurrently - I think today it is showing at 31, who are knocking out a massive 295,000 points on average per day, which is a massive achievement.

    At this rate of production, the next 10 million points will take approximately 33 days to knock out, but I'd like to try to cut that to be achieved by the end of February, if possible.

    Is that even possible? It's a tough, but achievable target. 1stRaven knocked out 4 million points over December, and nearly did the same again in January. I've doubled my production from 45k ppd to around 100k ppd, and am looking to get another rig built by the end of the week to see if I can further increase my rate. Trust me, my room at home is like a FoxConn sweatbox!

    Even my dog has stopped coming in, or is that because I sit there in my underpants?

    What can you do? Well the first thing is to fold! Download the app from the stanford site (here here and follow the install guide. Bit-Tech did an article a while back here, or read up on our very own forums here but please remember to use team number 69776!

    I have the folding software running on my works laptop, and it causes no issues as it runs on the redundant clock cycles. Sure the points are lower, but they all add up! Currently I'm 3rd overall in team Hexus (2nd of the active folders) and this is achieved using 4 machines - 3 at home, and 1 work machine.

    What else? Well, we need to get more people folding ideally and spread the love so that we're not so heavily reliant on big producers, although, they're contributions are very welcome!

    Some figures for you - over time Hexus has had 317 people submit workunits for the team, of which (only!) 31 are currently active. Last summer this number, no doubt aided by the extremely hot spell we had in May, numbers of contributors plummeted to 14 which has slowly been recovering, aided in no small part by 1stRavens prompt to the mods to do an article about our cause and I'd like to think our witty banter and friendly, yet helpful advice in our sub-forum.

    Any other suggestions to bolster support would also be greatly appreciated. Feedback good folk! Your team needs you!

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    Re: Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    Yup, would be good if a few more hexus chaps gave us a push over the 100M mark.
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    Re: Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    If I could get my GPU client running again I'd be contributing my measly few K every few days

    Might take one last look at it.

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    I think I'm going to make it my mission to "thank" every post that is made by someone who contributes to our folding team. Wotcha fink?
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    I've started the ball rolling, and sent the Hexus news team a note about this. Fingers crossed....
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    Re: Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    Quote Originally Posted by Tattysnuc View Post
    I think I'm going to make it my mission to "thank" every post that is made by someone who contributes to our folding team. Wotcha fink?
    Wouldn't that just devalue the whole system?

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    I think it would... Not much point really.

    Lets see what happens with the news team.

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    Re: Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    You think? I'd agree if everyone was doing it, but we're talking about just those who return workunits.

    That's saved me trundling through hundreds of posts at least! Next suggestion?
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    Re: Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    Quote Originally Posted by Tattysnuc View Post
    You think? I'd agree if everyone was doing it, but we're talking about just those who return workunits.

    That's saved me trundling through hundreds of posts at least! Next suggestion?
    I'm saying that people probably enjoy appreciation for funny/informative/helpful posts - getting thanks for completely normal posts on the basis that they folded/rode a bike/owned a cat wouldn't provide any satisfaction, and therefore people wouldn't really care that they had thanks.

    It's a bit like how receiving a birthday email from your family will probably make you feel happy, but the 500 birthday emails you get from forums, websites and shops probably won't instil the same kind of emotion. I'm not talking so much about the system as a whole as querying why anybody would feel better with the thanks than they did before!

    Anyway, I thought folding was meant to be somewhat altruistic? That plus a mention on the main site should be more than adequate really. The only other thing I can think of is if you wanted to make some sort of glory banner - an avatar or something that says "folder of the month" or something like that, for either the best contributor or the most improved newcomer, or someone helping out with advice and the like.

    Then if people wanted to advertise their folding prowess they could sport the new shiny avatar, otherwise it would just sit in the folding forum as a testament to their greatness

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    Re: Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    I'm saying that people probably enjoy appreciation for funny/informative/helpful posts - getting thanks for completely normal posts on the basis that they folded/rode a bike/owned a cat wouldn't provide any satisfaction, and therefore people wouldn't really care that they had thanks.

    It's a bit like how receiving a birthday email from your family will probably make you feel happy, but the 500 birthday emails you get from forums, websites and shops probably won't instil the same kind of emotion. I'm not talking so much about the system as a whole as querying why anybody would feel better with the thanks than they did before!

    Anyway, I thought folding was meant to be somewhat altruistic? That plus a mention on the main site should be more than adequate really. The only other thing I can think of is if you wanted to make some sort of glory banner - an avatar or something that says "folder of the month" or something like that, for either the best contributor or the most improved newcomer, or someone helping out with advice and the like.

    Then if people wanted to advertise their folding prowess they could sport the new shiny avatar, otherwise it would just sit in the folding forum as a testament to their greatness

    Subtext: Hi I'm Jim and I don't fold so I won't get any thanks, so I'm going to complain about it
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    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    I'm saying that people probably enjoy appreciation for funny/informative/helpful posts - getting thanks for completely normal posts on the basis that they folded/rode a bike/owned a cat wouldn't provide any satisfaction, and therefore people wouldn't really care that they had thanks.

    It's a bit like how receiving a birthday email from your family will probably make you feel happy, but the 500 birthday emails you get from forums, websites and shops probably won't instil the same kind of emotion. I'm not talking so much about the system as a whole as querying why anybody would feel better with the thanks than they did before!

    Anyway, I thought folding was meant to be somewhat altruistic? That plus a mention on the main site should be more than adequate really. The only other thing I can think of is if you wanted to make some sort of glory banner - an avatar or something that says "folder of the month" or something like that, for either the best contributor or the most improved newcomer, or someone helping out with advice and the like.

    Then if people wanted to advertise their folding prowess they could sport the new shiny avatar, otherwise it would just sit in the folding forum as a testament to their greatness
    I take your point, and it's a valid opinion. However, folding as a team is not altruistic as othewise you wouldn;t have "points" or "Bonus Points", "teams" or other means to encourage healthy competition. Of course, your motives for doing this as opposed to participating in other distributed computing "events" are driven by personal motives. Mine? My grandmother died while suffering from Altzeimers a little over 3 years ago, and my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer 2 years ago this week. For me it started as something that I stumbled upon through CustomPC. The being-able-to-contribute-while-effectively-benchmarking my computer(s) against others appealed as I am interested in overclocking and maximising my performance. Folding enables that.

    I've already set up the folder of the month statistics and adminisiter this to encourage friendly banter. I'm merely looking to use the tools already at our disposal to try to encourage better team scores.

    Thanks for the suggestion about the folder of the month Avatar. We've discussed the possibility of different coloured usernames to indicate folding awards, but actually having an avatar that acknowledges this may be a positive, assuming it was a serious suggestion. Next question is: Who would we contact in order to find out if that is possible?

    Also, why don't you fold?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post

    Subtext: Hi I'm Jim and I don't fold so I won't get any thanks, so I'm going to complain about it
    I do like your sence of humour mate. Made me laugh!
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    Re: Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    Quote Originally Posted by nibbler View Post

    Subtext: Hi I'm Jim and I don't fold so I won't get any thanks, so I'm going to complain about it
    I knew you were going to post something!

    I'll bet this is some reverse-psychological attempt to make me fold... you haven't won me over yet though

    Keep trying!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tattysnuc View Post
    Thanks for the suggestion about the folder of the month Avatar. We've discussed the possibility of different coloured usernames to indicate folding awards, but actually having an avatar that acknowledges this may be a positive, assuming it was a serious suggestion. Next question is: Who would we contact in order to find out if that is possible?

    Also, why don't you fold?

    The whole reason I mentioned it is because there's no particular need to contact anybody - people are free to upload their own avatars after 500 posts, and can customise their signatures after very few posts. If you've created a graphic, then on the basis that people want to sport it, they're free to - and there's no administration or difficulty required. Whether they would choose to or not, I have no idea. I would presume so, but who knows.

    As for why I don't fold, a few reasons

    Firstly because all my hardware tends to break, and I really don't think I could put myself through that again - so I'm avoiding unnecessary system stress
    Secondly because I sleep in the same room as my PC, and I can't be doing with the heat
    Thirdly because that would mean I've given in to Nibbler's constant nagging

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    Re: Countdown to 100 million points for www.HEXUS.net

    Nibbler - you my friend are getting a bit of a name for yourself!

    Good on ya!


    SnootyJim:

    Think that might be a good idea for a competition! Deisgning the folder of the month "logo." Where are my chubby crayons....

    Regarding your non-follding:

    If you set the priority to a low percent in the client then it'll only use that percent of the CPU or GPU cycles, thus reducing load. Just fold when you have your machine on - I run it on a dell laptop at work and the only times that I notice it is when I have to submit work units - that's only because our proxy blocks the connection so I have to periodically go on wireless. Likewise, you don't have to leave it running 24/7, just long enough to contribute something.

    Think of it another way - the more people that we have contributing, the longer it takes me to generate the monthly folding stats, the longer I'm tied up not bothering good folk like you about getting on our folding bandwagon...

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    I only fold on one of my GPU's at home, mainly since my cpu is pants and I cant be bothered to work out how to get a second gpu client going for the other card, esp when I only get 500 points per unit on it.

    The folder of the month is kinda nice but I'll get bored of it after a couple of months of taking off Tatty........

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