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    Stormseeker9 reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Prelude V   
    We have lunged ourselves over the precipice, many of us find ourselves stripped of liberties for the safety of the most vulnerable in society. These measures are alien to most of us, a pandemic of which the likes has not been seen for a century. But even now, we have millions of doctors tending to the unwell, thousands of working to find a solution, a treatment, a vaccine. 
     
    Together we are all working towards that goal, whether that by directly assisting the research, abiding by the limitations placed on us by the state or by dedicating our massive pool of computing resources to the cause. We will defeat this, we will emerge from the other side. I hope that after this is all over many of us will remember the sheer amount of work Folding at Home has put in, and i hope, that you will stick around, folding, doing your own small part in the never ending march of scientific progress. Because only together and united can we dream of a better tomorrow. 
     
    I am so proud of every single of of us, from people running a old laptop with an ATOM processor to the more eccentric of us, who dedicate massive numbers of devices folding 24/7. We are not in competition, we are a team. You may feel like folding on your lower power hardware is not as worthwhile as someone folding on 4 2080TIs, but it takes the cumulative force of us all to advance this march of progress. So please, sit back, listen to the pur(or scream) of your rigs and smile to yourself. Remind yourself that this is not wasted power nor wasted money. Bask in the knowledge that together we are making a difference, not only to COVID-19 research but to a plethora of areas. We may not see the benefit of much of this research for quite some time. 
     
    'If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.' - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
     
    The research carried out by F@H allows to better understand not only the enemy that is the Virus' and diseases but also to better understand ourselves and our biological functions. 
     
    We have verified around 90% of these, I'm hoping to post a list of invalid forum names and folding names in the next 24 hours so people have time to let me know what needs to be changed. 
     
    This list is valid as of 1315 GMT, if you have signed up after this time you won't be on the list but you will be on the sheet. Please wait for the next list update and refrain from messaging me inquiring on the status of your sign up.
     
    If you see an issue please go to this thread and post, if you have already posted a correction don't post another, we will get around to it as soon as possible. https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1167867-covid-event-entry-corrections
     
     
    Just so you all know I am taking a little bit of a breather today, I am about if I am needed but after pulling 12+ hour days for the past week or so I need a little leisure. 
     
    Happy folding,
     
    Spec.
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    Stormseeker9 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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    Stormseeker9 reacted to GOTSpectrum for a blog entry, Day Twenty-one - Production Boost   
    Evening everyone. With the event still going strong we have just over 2 weeks left in the event and an estimate of 2.2 weeks to take the 8th spot on the overall list. But I personally think with a little elbow grease we can get it done before then so all steam ahead. But into the inter team battling:
     
    in now first with a commanding amount of PPD (almost 30 million) is our king @Den-Fi with 361.2 million points. Having taken 2nd place a couple of days ago we now have @Yggdrasil128 with 337 million and he will stay there assuming that @Den-Fican keep up this insane amount of production. In 3rd now is @Gorgon with 322.2 million and seeming safe in that spot as well. Now that the big 3 are out of the way lets shift down the sheet a bit and see what other battles are happening.
     
    In 50th we have @ladd134 with 33.6 million but is being very closely trailed by @ossi120 who is less than 200k behind with a good amount more production but even after @ladd134 gets passed he will have to battle it out with @Stormseeker9 who seems to have just a slight amount more production and is only 400k back from that 50th spot right now should be fun to see how that battle turns out in the next couple of days.
     
    And moving further down the battle for 100th continues as @mparker42 holds the spot currently but with their production numbers will actually be moving up soon leaving @v.zollner to have to battle it out with a bunch of people since the difference between 99th and 112th is less than 1.4 million but the major contenders bassed on their production are @SynapseBreak @Gorillix and @shp based on their production.
     
     
    But overall with the top 10 all but set in stone with their places the races for the everyone else are starting to heat up. Especially as people learn more about cloud computing and start using it to their advantage. So what will happen next? will we look at even lower battles? will we tag your name for seemingly no reason at all? am I running out of interesting things to say to keep you reading? Find it all out and more next time on Dragon Ba... I mean folding month blog post.
     
    As always the usual team stats: top 10=28.26% top 50=52.7% top 100=68.57%
     
     
    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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    Stormseeker9 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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    Stormseeker9 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. 
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