A giant has come to our shores. 40 Million PPD

[Jorge1950]

HP Cloud Service (HPCS) http://www.hpcloud.com/ , has come. It is with us since 3 days ago.
PPD: http://kakaostats.com/?col=8

You are running nearly 40 million PPD, 690 active clients, after his first day of global warming.
Output: http://kakaostats.com/tp.php?t=213904
Radar Scope: http://kakaostats.com/tr.php?t=213904
Well if it will last long with FAH.

Remember that folding@evga and [H] ardOCP, processed 16-21 million PPD. 40 million PPD are almost 16% of the total production of FAH.

[MoneyGuyBK]

THAT is some points average; Awe$ome.
hope they stay strong like that!






Peace

[Ivoshiee]

It is a pure speculation on my part, but such systems are expected to be short lived. They are likely just power running/stress testing their system and soon left us. If they continue then at much lower rate.

[Jorge1950]

I see much logic, the presumption in question of stress tests. But if the computing centers new or extensions, do tests in FAH, it would be a new source of computational power.

[Jonazz]

Isn't this that copernicus project?

[Grandpa_01]

I would say more along the line of this http://2011.hpcs.ca/

[bruce]

Isn't this that copernicus project?

No.

Copernicus does not earn FAH points. It's specifically designed for researchers.

As I'm sure you know, the FAH clients can be installed on Windows, Linux, or OS-X with the permission of the hardware owner. If someone with a lot of hardware chooses to run FAH, either at a (temporary) burn-in of new hardware or on a more permanent basis, that's up to them, and it's certainly good for the research being done by the Pande Group.

[Jorge1950]

Already confirmed your address. Is: http://www.hpcloud.com/

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[k1wi]

I think everyone should click the link from their team page to their website - that way they can see their advertising getting out there.

Only 9 days and my team is passed... Good on them

This makes me think of two points:

1. If there is any imbalance in demand for work units between SMP and big-beta, 266WU/hour should be putting it a little bit back into SMP's favour
2. Imagine if they were running the -bigadv flag*...

* From their P/WU etc, I believe they could. Hopefully they can fold for as long as possible and that if they do stop, they complete all their outstanding work units by running the -oneunit flag and not just stopping the clients mid-workunit...

[spider220075]

I noticed one strange thing about their production. Team 24h average: 31.682.054, total users: 1, User 24h average: 16.777.215
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ ... =&t=213904
How could this be possible? Both numbers should have been identical. Oh, well, maybe their production caused dizziness to the stats server and cannot keep up with all these numbers

[k1wi]

It's possible that that third party site uses a different formula from which to calculate 24h averages.

From the numbers I would expect that the user average has a reference period that is probably about twice as long as the team average. i.e. 2 weeks instead of 1 week.

[codysluder]

16.777.215 is a magic number. It's 2^24 - 1 which is the largest binary integer that can be stored in 3 bytes. That's also the point at which single-precision floating point math starts dropping the addition of small values. Probably we're seeing some limitation that the programmer expected would never be exceeded.

[Jesse_V]

16.777.215 is a magic number. It's 2^24 - 1 which is the largest binary integer that can be stored in 3 bytes. That's also the point at which single-precision floating point math starts dropping the addition of small values. Probably we're seeing some limitation that the programmer expected would never be exceeded.

+1 Reminds me of http://folding.typepad.com/news/2007/11 ... nymou.html

[Jorge1950]

It is a pure speculation on my part, but such systems are expected to be short lived. They are likely just power running/stress testing their system and soon left us. If they continue then at much lower rate.

This statement was successful.
HPCS has finished their participation in the early hours of today.
It has left to FAH 595 million points, in 16 days of participation. It reached 46 position.

[gwildperson]

Fantastic.

... and thanks for all the fish.