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Moving up again!

This is getting exciting!! Love to see the momentum we are starting to create... We have five different projects listed now
 
Placing # 265 in the world on their list and point scale is one seriously exciting measurement to look at....

I just went over to that website shared above to see what we had accomplished.  Man, that was quite the deal for a Team that is basically in it's infancy!!  I'm gonna say it even if it is an overused statement...We Rock!

Viper97

265?  When I looked we were at 260! 

So I see 
 
And for a general comment to this thread....
 
Just to keep things in perspective... I am not bringing this up so we can run to be #1 in everything. I think it is best to be number one in a place or two. But not overall. We simply do not have the man power or reach to do that any time soon.
 
Add that to us being so new to DC Vault I would hate to create focus on their way of measuring to become how we decide to measure ourselves. Personally I see a few flaws and unbalanced ways they do it. That does not mean we cannot use it a one of the measuring tools available to us as we grow.
 
Many teams have at least ten years on us. That is to much ground to make up in any short goal time period. But keeping our focus on comrade, teamwork and getting work units completed is a fine way to maintain course.
 
And then once we are big enough we can talk smack and have good hearted fun times as we chase each other to the top... As long as we never lose touch with why we are doing and who we are doing it for, I will support it with everything I can...

I tell ya, my focus has been so far removed from "points" with this new "crunching team", I could go for a very long time and not know if we're number 10000 or 1.  I'm finally focused on the cures again and spend more time reading about what our efforts are doing than ever before.  I'm happy to say that I don't care about my standing on this team, just that I'm helping to solve these world issues.  That is enough for me.  I love the way this thing is designed and that it removes me from competing with hardware, points and every other form of distraction as a donor.  This feels like "home" for me. 

It wouldn't be smart for me to be all about points with as many projects as I crunch for.... Collectively, I get about the same as I would if I put everything towards one project.... I help out on things I think are important by giving my CPU time to work on these projects.... Yeah, it'd be nice to be recognized for finding the largest prime number to date or cruching the task that unlocks a cure to a disease, but that is all I would expect.... I didn't do the research and lab tests that created the data we're crunching and folding, I didn't do the programming that allows us to help out, I'm not the one who gets the call at 0200 to fix something when one of the project servers goes down, I shouldn't be getting anything really in return for something my computer did when the tasks it gets is pretty much the luck of the draw....

The points are nice because it make a competition out of it and everything is a competition, it causes most of us to donate more to help out more.... Without some sort of scoring system, how many of the big crunching and folding farm owners would still have them? I have no need to have 3 laptops and a desktop and in the process of building a second desktop, I only crunch on one of each and I plan to get one of the laptops back up and crunching when I get around to replacing the CPU fan.... It maxes out at 512 mb for ram, the points gain from it will hardly be noticeable but it's an extra task or two everyday and hopefully that much closer to helping out in the end....

Enough with that, forgot where I was going with it, it takes too long typing out that on a phone....

Good grief, you typed all that on a phone?!?!?
 
DC Vault's main meaning to me is that it's the one place that integrates our team - it puts all of our distributed computing efforts into a single spot.  I don't think we need to think about our standings there; it's just a nice place to see them all at once.  The scoring system actually favors those that spread their resources as widely as possible, whereas we will always have a huge focus on folding@home.

Well said AB. Now all we need ot do it get others to feel the same way.

Well, any team named "Crunching@EVGA" should auto-populate "at the next stats run" according to Rusty.

I can contact him in a day or so if they don't show up after his next stats run, but I haven't looking in to the timing of his updates.
What other projects should be on there?  I see a number on the Free-DC cross-project stats that aren't on our DC Vault list, but then some of the projects there aren't in DC Vault at all.
Is there a difference between SETI@Home and SETI@Home Beta?

Punchy

I can contact him in a day or so if they don't show up after his next stats run, but I haven't looking in to the timing of his updates.
What other projects should be on there?  I see a number on the Free-DC cross-project stats that aren't on our DC Vault list, but then some of the projects there aren't in DC Vault at all.
Is there a difference between SETI@Home and SETI@Home Beta?

 
MilkyWay and SZTAKI are there now....  I keep forgetting docking and QMC had a team already....

I'm crunching on Cosmology@Home at the moment since there is no work being dished out by Climate Prediction.

Rank 125 overall 

Spinhenge@home has been removed from the scoreboard hence our Crunching@EVGA team has shot up to Rank #108 in the standings ...simply impressive, really.

If you check today you may see 16th.  But no cause for alarm, there's a stats outage over at distributed.net.  I'm sure once that's resolved we'll be back in 15th and closing in on 14th.