Strangely i was looking at the same graphs a few minus before this thread popped in, lol. It is kinda depressing but not surprising, imo, considering the changes that  have been lately passed on to donors. Plus summer is coming and i think it's going to get worse, we'll see.

I think the switch to the 680 slowed alot of EVGA folders down
 
Plus these work units have been all over the place (well for me anyway)
 
I'm working 24/7 and even loaded my bedroom pc to fold, poor thing is a single core amd 4000+ LOL churning a massive 268 ppd
 
I'm hoping to pick up a 680 myself (EVGA stock permitting) in about 1-2 weeks from now which should improve my folding as my current 550ti will grace the bedroom and let the cpu there rest ;)
 

also hspc has really changed alot of stats around, look for this to change next month.

Yes, we're having flame-outs as of late while [H] is on afterburners.  The progress we had vs [H] in early to mid-March was the March Madness contest.  Once that contest was over, [H]'s performance really kicked-in.  You have to hand it to those guys too by increasing production at a time when warmer weather typically reduces it.  They may have to fall off a bit as it get's hotter, but right now their "heat" is in their ability to Fold!  I really do hope that something breaks free for us so that we can give them a better run for their money.  Lately, they are exceeding our production while we are declining (a good recipe for an overtake indeed).
 

So...  I'm a long time folder for EVGA... 
 
How is it they are catching up?  What changed?  I'm confused?

Sleepee

The big thing, Zild, was Stanford changing the core requirement for -bigadv from 8 cores up to 16. That alienated a lot of us from the hefty point bonus, especially those who had dedicated i7 rigs just to run -bigadv, which was a good chunk of the team. Now we're relegated to running regular -smp units, which don't produce nearly as many points as -bigadv.

 
AHHHH...  I see...  16 cores?  the only cpu that has 16 cores is da dang bulldozer...  correct?  or a dual cpu machine...  Like a macpro...  or a server board...   That really cuts the majority of people off from the bigadv...  What the heck stanford?  That sure was a snotty move!!

Let's not forget... A few of our big hitters went to [H] the last few months. All you have to do to see who they are is look at our top 70 and see who is not producing any more (A few changed their name to save face BTW).
 
[H] is doing a great job with servers, and we have nothing on them for that. This is why folks are leaving us and going to them, not to mention the drama lama's that always have to pick a fight with any conversation about Stanford or a contest. That forces good people that are here to just be a part of a team not want to be here. And lastly, the changes Stanford made was the last straw for quite a few folks.

you have to remember most of their growth is coming during HPCS
much like OCN which had a 30% increase over the same period
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=37726
 
 

Sorry, misunderstanding...

I lost a lot of respect for [H] when grandpa admitted that "some or all" of their MP systems are using various hacks to avoid getting 8101's, and nobody there really took a strong stand against him.

Punchy

I lost a lot of respect for [H] when grandpa admitted that "some or all" of their MP systems are using various hacks to avoid getting 8101's, and nobody there really took a strong stand against him.

 
It's free to sling mud but keep things in check at least. That corehack is not about avoiding 8101, it's about receiving bigadv units with fewer than 12 cores, and you know that.
 
AFAIK, there is no way to avoid any work units.

Punchy

theGryphon

Punchy

I lost a lot of respect for [H] when grandpa admitted that "some or all" of their MP systems are using various hacks to avoid getting 8101's, and nobody there really took a strong stand against him.

It's free to sling mud but keep things in check at least. That corehack is not about avoiding 8101, it's about receiving bigadv units with fewer than 12 cores, and you know that.

AFAIK, there is no way to avoid any work units.

Actually, they are doing a "reverse core hack", to fool the assignment servers into not giving them bigadv-16, then running them on larger systems.  There is another way also, but I don't think we need to get into the details.  Grandpa mentioned using them both at [H] and and foldingforum.org.

 
I don't read the FF, but I didn't see any post at [H] regarding such a use of the corehack...
 

HPCS was not very popular with us over at [H], OCN have been the main team to gain from the beta program that they HP have been running, i think we had about 15 members top using it, Its a moot point now anyway as people are winding down there HPCS usage before the beta prgram closes on may 10th, whilst CON has dropped we haven't......
 
Fold one everyone, Whether you're at no.1 or we are, the race only pushes both teams harder and even more science gets done.

Yes, 6903 and 6904 wu's are still available for 12 thread processing, but ONLY if running Linux OS. I am getting them on my 970 running ubuntu all the time.

zildjian75

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