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palespartan reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Prelude
Well guys, another major folding event has rolled around much sooner than we anticipated and with it has come yet more advances in our back-end system. We are hoping these improvements will make for a better experience and reduce the likely hood of errors in the data. The majority of the work has now been completed and we will be testing it over the next 48-72 hours to ensure we are all systems go for the event!
This is an event unlike any other, we are not folding for glory, for competition, for fame, but instead we join our brothers and sisters combating the epidemic of COVID-19. We are a competitive bunch I will admit that, but remember the main reason we have all come together. This is far beyond anything we have seen before, more people than ever have signed up for folding. More system and more compute power has been poured into folding than ever in the history of the project. We are not THE team, but simply A team in the crowd. Because now, we fold not just for Team LTT, but for humanity, more so now than ever before.
The current health crisis is scary, scary in its size and proliferation, scary in its effect on the world, scary in the fact that it has been over 100 years since we last had an infection on this scale. But never before in history been we better equipped to deal with such a crisis. Never before in history has there been a way that 'normal' people like you and me have been able to directly aid in the response. Never before in history have we had such a deep connection with each other as we now do as technology brings the people of the world closer together.
All I ask of you is to fold!
Fold for your grandparents, your parents, yourselves, your friends. Because for the first time in history we have the tools and system in place that we can assist with research that is far outside of most of ours understanding. This is a dark time, but through folding we shall shine a light into the darkness. We shall beam hope into the shadows!
I would just like to thank every single one of you for getting involved, no matter if you are folding on some decrepit system from a by gone era or on the greatest and latest. Because, now, we forge ahead, with the knowledge in our hearts that we are doing what is needed for the greater good. As whole countries are on lock down, and millions of people are in isolation, we stand together with all other folding teams new and old to combat this threat to the most vulnerable in our world.
A big thank you to @leadeater for smashing through the needed work to make sure we have the tools that we need to run the event smoothly.
Don't forget to follow the blog for updates!
Please find below a table of current(as of 22:00 GMT) signs ups with notes on if they have any issues.
If you are not in the list you record may have not registered through the google form so please feel free to fill in the form again. if you signed up after 2200 GMT you won't be on the list but don't worry.
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palespartan reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Award Ceremony 2019!
Well guys, my oh my has it been a month of pure excitement and an unexpected plot twist, the king has been dethroned!!!
But before we get into it I just want to say a few things, first and foremost, I want to thank the guys who have been helping behind the scenes, @Gorgon for his exceptional data handling and filling in for blog posts, @palespartan for being my rival giving a helping hand with data validation, prize allocation and a blog post or two and @Imbellis for validation and giving us a secondary source of point data. You guys really have been lifesavers this event and without you I honestly don't think the event would have ran at all as I would have needed to throw in the towel with all the hospital trips.
I want to thank every one of who participated, no matter if you made 3 points(yes, somehow that was a thing, I even validated it myself) or if you made over 800m *cough* @Yggdrasil128 *cough*, you really are all beautiful, amazing people. I also want to give a special thanks to you all for standing by me despite all the hospital trips and unavailability, I really appreciated all the warm messages I received wishing my partner good health, it will surly be needed over the coming months and possibly years.
Competition was stiff this year, with not only the highest number of sign ups for any folding event here on the forum but also some of the most impressive folding I've ever seen, period. You guys have rocked it hard and you should all be proud for what we accomplished. 17,933,433,473 points over the course of the event and moving from 10th place to 8th, but the science is not over and the folding must continue.
Roughly, if team LTT was measured on the top500 list of supercomputers we would have found ourselves somewhere around 70-75th, just think about that for a moment...
Please can all make sure we donate a few dollars to Jason over at EOC, his servers must have taken a beating with all the traffic we have thrown at the guy over the last month or so. You can either use this PayPal link or find the PayPal donation button on the EOC Website on the right. Don't forget to include a note thanking him so he knows its from team LTT.
List of the dead
It is a sad time when we see the demise of our hardware, even sadder when that hardware holding out a few more days or weeks would have secured up a better position.
@justpoet's brain
@azmariadei Apevia 300w psu and CyberPower 1000VA UPS
@xoggy's sanity over vega 64 folding
@gotspectrum's brain, sleep, sanity, general state of health, liver, oh and hd 7950, evga 500w psu,
@palespartan built in sound card on msi z97 krait edition
@sanya567xxx HiPer V500 550W max PSU, and nervs about nvidia boost algrothym.
@spotty's gpu? maybe a 7970?
@HrutkayMods 970 ftw
@xWeegix 970
Rest In Piece Valiant hardware, there is a special place in silicon heaven(Red Dwarf Reference right there) for you, least we forget.
And now, without further delay, here are the final, verified ranks and prize winners.
In first place we have @Yggdrasil128, with 886,386,763 points over the course of the event. Mr. Drasil, now crowned the new king of folding for team LTT, really surprised us all, laying low for much of the event before making a dash to the top with his mercenary armies rented folding power, we don't mind how you get your points as long as you get them under your name. You truly deserve to sit in this spot, your prize os to have the bragging rights for the next 11 months, All Hail The King of Folding, 2019!
In second place we have the dethroned kind, @Den-Fi with 660,756,810, you really pushed hard towards the end of the month, but with some sandbagging at the start it has to be asked if you could have taken the crown, that is something we will never know. But, hear this, there is no shame here, for we are all winners when it comes to folding, as we fold, FOR SCIENCE!
In third place we have @Gorgon with 520,575,343 an impressive number, our very own Gorgon showing that we are all in it full tilt, even if we are consumed by crashing google sheets and failing giant IF statements. He was up there right from the start and really took the fight to the dethroned king, a real man of the people.
In 4th place we have @miker07 with 438,025,030, a fine effort from the folding month veteran.
in 5th place we have @catawalks with 415,533,572, if only he pushed that little more he could have taken 4th.
6. @_Rlocke with 221,628,810.
7. @JB25304 with 212,774,860.
8. @leadeater with 202,564,470.
9. @Favebook with 191,299,492.
10. @GOTSpectrum with 186,742,539.
If you don't see your name on the list above you either did not sign up for this event or you did not meet the minimum requirements. All event badges will be handed out without any intervention needed from you guys, PLEASE DO NOT message me or the team about event badges.
Now it is time for the prizes!
I was planning to tag each winner but due to the number of prizes and limitation I have recently been made aware of the winning ranks will be listed here and the winners will be tagged in comments to this post. This will ensure all winners get a notification for the tag.
The winners will have 7 working days from the publication of this post to claim the prize, if the prize goes unclaimed it will be raffled again. In order to claim the Prize you will need to PM me here on the forum, with the subject
'I am here to claim what is rightfully mine!'
Steam keys
10x random Steam keys - Donated by GOTSpectrum
Draw - All Ranks
9x random Steam keys - Donated by tg4life666
Draw - All Ranks
24x random Steam keys - Doanted by kubo6472
Draw - All Ranks
20x Random Steam keys - Donated by ossi120
Draw - All Ranks
20x Random Steam keys - Donated by ObscureMammal
Draw - All Ranks
1x 60USD Steam gift card - Donated by YBPT
Draw - Ranks 1-25
5x 20USD Steam gift cards - Donated by Den-Fi
Draw - Ranks 26-50, 51-75, 76-100, 101-125, 126-150
1x Wolfenstein - young blood, bethesda client key - Donated by shaz2sxy
Draw - Ranks 150 - 300
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB kit - Donated by JoeDaCabbie
Draw - Ranks 1-100
I really just want to thank you all again for taking part in the event, you guys have really made it special, every single one of you!
And, with that said, it's time to finally wrap up the folding month for 2019, I can't wait to see you all taking part in the future folding events like the intra-forum friendly in Febuary, the summer folding sprint and yes, next years folding month.
EDIT: In all the excitement, I forgot to add my two little announcements...
The first is, the billion point badge is now here!
1 billion points, Diamond Badge - 'When you have contributed more than 1 Billion points, Tales of your folding adventures will be whispered through the ages, You are now mythical.'
The second is that, It has been decided that new leadership for the folding team could reinvigorate the team, well I can tell you that I have accepted to take over the leadership role from @Whiskers!
This is Spectrum signing off,
Happy Folding,
Spec.
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palespartan reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Day Eighteen - placeholder
Well another day another dollar. As day 18 passes by we are now over the half way point in the event. And at the current production rate its looking like we might take that 8th place spot just before the end of it to add a little cherry to our ice cream Sunday of a folding month. (Sorry if your lactose intolerant). But you're here just for the team stuff so into the dirty stats competition.
In first we still have @Den-Fi with a whopping 290 million points and will soon be the first to 300 million over the competition by tomorrow barely holding onto second we have @Gorgon who holds his place for the last day at 274.8 million since @Yggdrasil128 is only 160k behind still holding that 4th spot is @miker07 with 227.7 million behind them to round out the top 5 we have @catawalks with 182.6 million down in 6th we still have @_Rlocke holding on with 152.1 million. In 7th is still @leadeater with his massive cpu army giving him 106.4 million and @DUW1G1T steadily holding his 8th spot with 86.4 million. and in 9th and 10th we have @GOTSpectrum with 82 million and @Lucky7 with 77.7 million (I guess it really is a lucky number) respectively. But there are challengers on the horizon with @GoatCrasher and @JB25304 having really high production numbers we might see some tom foolery happening in the top 10 pretty soon... But you will have to tune into a future episode of Folding Month Stat Blog to find out...
Top 10 = 25.14% Top 50 = 49.62% Top 100 = 66.77%
Please remember that this is a friendly event, but we are all folding away for Science, AND GLORY!
I'm really impressed with the numbers we are seeing here, Thank you to all who are involved and who make this worth while every year.
Remember we are a team first and individuals second, so give thanks where thanks is due and hit that reaction button when someone helps you out.
Be wary of the minimum participation requirements this year.
minimum requirements: 100k points, 20 WUs, and 20 days of having activity over the course of the whole month.
Happy folding,
Spec
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palespartan reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Day Fifteenth - Mix Up At The Top
Well guys, we have seen some mixing up of the top 20 or so over the last few days, I may have been knocked down a couple of spots but that's great. I love the fact you guys have thrown yourselves at this and we are really making a splash. But, please, remember that Folding needs compute power all year round, so even if you are only hitting it up in the winter months, keep on folding after the event guys, we could all be making a difference.
I'm not going to be talking about the top 10 as usual, you can see the ranks below and tbh all this back and forthing to the hospital is really draining with a baby about. Instead, just the quick, top 10 - 25.62%, top 50 - 50.21%, and top 100 - 64.71% of the events production.
I have to say, some of you guys have scary levels of PPD, I know that a couple of you high PPD guys are using cloud computing and/or resources from work, but damn, you all make me so proud!
Please remember that this is a friendly event, but we are all folding away for Science, AND GLORY!
I'm really impressed with the numbers we are seeing here, Thank you to all who are involved and who make this worth while every year.
Remember we are a team first and individuals second, so give thanks where thanks is due and hit that reaction button when someone helps you out.
Be wary of the minimum participation requirements this year.
minimum requirements: 100k points, 20 WUs, and 20 days of having activity over the course of the whole month.
Happy folding,
Spec.
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palespartan reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Day Eight - Production Soars For Week Two
Well guys, here we are, the first day of the second week and my oh my have we been busy bees, that 500m day is still elusive but we are creepy ever closer.
In first place we have @Gorgon with a massive 116.56 million points, he really has expanded his fleet since last folding month and finds himself in first, but that lead is slipping away as @Den-Fi is hot on his tail with 115.66 million, and seeing as the advancing royalists are outpacing the the rebel leader it's only a matter of time. Taking third place we have @miker07 who continues to play with the big boys holding onto the number three spot with 103.63 million points, in fourth we can see the teams biggest producer @Yggdrasil128 flying up the ranks at warp speed currently holding onto a ticket with 66.13 million points, fifth place is take by @catawalks with 64.2 million points, The cat man is slowing that he can do more than simply scratch a post. 6th place is taken by @_Rlocke with 57.8 million points, hes built himself up a mighty lead over @GOTSpectrum in 7th who has 36.1 million points to his name, 8th place we see @DUW1G1T continuing to push hard with 35.8 million points, hes so close to 7th he can taste the rainbow Mr spec is leaving behind.In 9th place we have @Lucky7 with 33 million points and he isnt feeling overly threatened by @palespartan in 10th who has 26.7 million points.
The top 10 brought home 24.44% of the points for this update, the top 50 ranks can claim 48.46% while the top 100 has 63.23% this update.
as always:
Please remember that this is a friendly event, but we are all folding away for Science, AND GLORY!
I'm really impressed with the numbers we are seeing here, Thank you to all who are involved and who make this worth while every year.
Remember we are a team first and individuals second, so give thanks where thanks is due and hit that reaction button when someone helps you out.
Be wary of the minimum participation requirements this year.
minimum requirements: 100k points, 20 WUs, and 20 days of having activity over the course of the whole month.
Happy folding,
Spec.
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palespartan reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Day Seven - A New Chapter Opens
Well guys,
going to be a quick one as I have about 6 appointments today, but heres the ranks.
Sorry about this not being a full post but the little has been unwell after his immunisations, hope you can all understand.
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palespartan reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Day One - In The Beginning
Well guys, we had a hick up for the day one stats and blog, posting in the wrong blog... Total error on my part.
We go through a rigorous validation procedure, most of it is automated, but the final validation is done by hand, which means there is a chance for human error. In this case one value was missed in the sheet of 1754 records, we record both point and WU data too. If you see anything not quite right feel free to drop any of us a DM.
any users that have not produced any points will not be seen here, if you think this is a mistake please also DM one of the team.
Please remember we fold as a team first and for personal glory second, give reactions to posts that have helped you and be kind.
Happy folding,
Spec.
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palespartan reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Verset
Well guys, it is my pleasure to once again welcome people from all social echelons of the LTT forum to the second official Linus Tech Tips FOLDING MONTH!
We welcome folding titans such as @Den-Fi who is the sitting champion, @Gorgon who will be eyeing up the top spot this year with the intention of dethroning the king and @_Rlocke who has promised to give us a good show with more hardware to throw around this year. LMG staff such as @jakkuh_t will hopefully be joining us along with moderators such as @TVwazhere and @leadeater. @Tomerrs is nowhere to be seen though, and with his startling leap to second it will be a real shame without him.
We have seen the biggest number of participants to date sign up for any folding event so far. I'd really like to take a moment to thank each one of you; from guys with multi RTX rigs right down to the CPU folders, all are welcome and appreciated here at folding month!
It has been an exciting year for tech, with the release of RTX cards we are seeing productions numbers that are seemingly unreal to what we had only a few short years ago, along with high core count chips from AMD at affordable prices and the falling prices of HEDT platforms from Intel's previous generations make it ever more easy to get yourself set up with some decent hardware and start smashing out the WUs under the orange banner of team LTT!
Could we all give thanks to the team this year, we gain nothing out of this event other than your gratitude so please give a hand to: @palespartan who folding wouldn't exist without, @Gorgon who helps facilitate the stats handling, @Imbellis who will be offering a secondary source of production data, @Ithanul and @dean_21 who will assist with data validation, and finally myself, who will be working hard behind the scenes building the datasheet, organising data and writing these wonderful blogs.
I'm feeling a little rusty with the writes up so please excuse me getting back into the swing of things as the event goes on. We have the most advanced datasheet to date when compared with folding week 2017, folding month 2018 and the summer folding sprint of 2019. With multiple methods of validating data, increased redundancy of data fetching and more hands to share the load we are hoping there won't be a repeat of last years mishaps. Here's to hoping for a good clean event. But, if you do notice any errors or mistakes please do feel free to drop me a PM then we can investigate and get it sorted as quickly as possible.
One thing I have to say is once the month is over I really hope to see you guys continuing to fold. We have always punched well above our weight class when it comes to the number of active folders we have compared to the number of points we can churn out on a daily basis. When I first started folding the team was in decline, but since the first folding month we have exploded, and I hope to see that continue into the future.
As usual just a little PSA, we are a small tight-knit community here, so if someone helps you out don't forget to thank them and give them a reaction, Also always remember we fold as a team first and for individual glory second. So be kind, be humble, here at Folding Month 2019!
With only a few days to go we have been working hard behind the scenes, building the datasheet, advertising the event and delegating tasks. But the time for planning is coming to an end, and the time for action is fast approaching. These last few days are crucial, so get checking stability, tuning clocks, running general maintenance and prepare to push your hardware right to the limits of what they were designed to do.
Let us all bask in the warmth of our folding rigs, listening to the pur Scream of the fans blasting away and be proud of just what we can accomplish when we come together.