[TBR] Viva La Roast! (Perpetual Thread V)

TheJet · Jan 17, 2007

In the spirit of our soon to be #5 ranking, and due to the extreme length of the previous perpetual thread, I'm starting a new TBR perpetual thread, in the hopes that those folks that haven't taken a look lately will come back and see what they are missing! -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>Stats Website: http://tbr.virtual-olympus.com/<br><br>Here is our current overtake graphs for TBR in OGR-25:<br><br>-- View image here: http://tbr.virtual-olympus.com/TeamOverallComparisonGraph.aspx?r=633046366312680292&project=OGR-25&days=30&team=15068%2c112%2c10635 -- -- View image here: http://tbr.virtual-olympus.com/TeamDailyComparisonGraph.aspx?r=633046366312680292&project=OGR-25&days=30&team=15068%2c112%2c10635 -- <br><br>This thread is also home to the RC5 folks, even though that isn't the team's primary focus at the moment:<br><br>-- View image here: http://tbr.virtual-olympus.com/TeamOverallComparisonGraph.aspx?r=633046374125083924&project=RC5-72&days=30&team=28988%2c15068%2c30947 -- -- View image here: http://tbr.virtual-olympus.com/TeamDailyComparisonGraph.aspx?r=633046374125083924&project=RC5-72&days=30&team=28988%2c15068%2c30947 -- <br><br>Previous Thread Data:<ul type="circle">
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BlisteringSheep · Jan 17, 2007

I had never added it up before, but look at our d.net member team member stats:<BR><BR><UL TYPE=SQUARE><BR><LI>RC5<BR><LI>74,472 participants<BR><LI>6.891 active yesterday<BR><LI>232 current team members<BR><LI>21 active yesterday<BR><LI>2 in top 1000<BR><LI>4 in top 2000<BR><LI>10 in top 3000<BR><LI>21 in top 5000<BR><LI><BR><LI>OGR<BR><LI>117,805 participants<BR><LI>2,576 active yesterday<BR><LI>481 current team members<BR><LI>29 active yesterday<BR><LI>1 in top 100<BR><LI>6 in top 200<BR><LI>8 in top 300<BR><LI>12 in top 500<BR><LI>19 in top 1000<BR><LI>37 in top 2000<BR></UL><BR><BR>Now I didn't do any other-team comparisons, but it looks pretty impressive to me.

continuum · Jan 17, 2007

And I'm still freelancing. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --

Hobbes · Jan 17, 2007

Yes, and it's tempting to make my first post in the new thread a harassment of our reclusive Senator. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>Good analysis, Sheep. I hadn't noticed that at all, and it certainly does speak to TBR's strength. <br><br>Here's something I never thought I'd see, especially one day after he dropped over 1,000,000. Sheep is in somebody's crosshairs. That really shows how much Coaster has been cranking out lately. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif --

BlisteringSheep · Jan 18, 2007

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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hobbes:<br>Here's something I never thought I'd see, especially one day after he dropped over 1,000,000. Sheep is in somebody's crosshairs. That really shows how much Coaster has been cranking out lately. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif -- </div>
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<br><br>Not to seem imperious, but aren't you jumping the gun a bit early? -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif -- <br><br><blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote">
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<br><br>I'm not going without a fight! -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/devious.gif -- <br><br>Seriously though, <b>Coaster</b> has been doing a great job, along with several others. We had <b>8</b> people with over 10,000 today, and <b>4</b> of those had over 20,000! We've got <b>46</b> in the Million-Ars club, with a couple more hanging just outside there. We've got <b>34</b> identified as "Active" by <b>TheJet</b>s script.<br><br>Whatta Team!

Hobbes · Jan 18, 2007

Yeah, it's not like you're due to be passed tomorrow. -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/biggrin.gif -- But given your sizable lead and production, I'm still quite impressed . Also, I'm aware and watching with great delight as you're swinging a mighty axe over in other projects while still dumping in impressive fashion here.

Coaster-COG · Jan 18, 2007

I've been on vacation so no one has been around to sprinkle magic packets about and keep the farm awake. Also with classes back in session people are actually using the computers again -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --<br><br>My goal is to hang out around 200k/day with a weekend here and there that is higher.

continuum · Jan 18, 2007

200k/day is still damned impressive. I'm hoping to sustain 100k/day within the next 6 months-- people keep turning off boxes here, too. sigh.

TheJet · Jan 19, 2007

OK, the website stats update process should be working again. I had to put in a temporary fix due to some technical issues with transferring dates from my local machine to my data import service, but those are fixed now. At this point, the site is feature complete until I start migrating it to the ASP.NET 2.0. At that point, I'll introduce the milestone tracking and user-gauntlet bits that I started designing eons ago but never finished. That won't likely be for another few months, but it'll get there eventually. I'm also toying with some sort of "project aggregate" stats which track your total contribution to the team, regardless of project. The gauntlet stuff will probably require that interested users sign up with the site to maintain the gauntlet information and track status. Depending on whether or not my provider supports it, I'd also like to get some WCF [.NET 3.0] web services setup that could be queried to download the raw data for users/gauntlets/etc so people could play with the data on their local machines, this would likely tie in with the user login system so I could control who has access to those features if my bandwidth starts to get out of control.

Urugami · Jan 22, 2007

It was a good week to borg...<BR>I had 14 computers and started with 2000 OGR In-blocks. By the middle of the 4th day, I had 1998 Out-blocks and 86,508 stats units, plus a hundred or so RC5 Randoms. (No idea where those 2 missing ones went)<BR>I had lots of big (100+ stats-unit) blocks, and a few single-digit ones. I might try to crunch some numbers on those just for grins.<BR>The tap will stay at 5K for now...<BR>Urugami

CanSpice · Jan 22, 2007

I borged four computers over the weekend. They'll continue to be weekend warriors as they get used during the week. Scored an extra 7-8000/day from them. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --

continuum · Jan 22, 2007

Yes, it's been a good weekend. Maintained >100k/day Gnodes output for three days straight now. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>Although now that I've said that, I'm sure I'm gonna plunge drastically in tomorrow's statsrun as I find a half-dozen boxes turned off or something. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif -- -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif --

Hobbes · Jan 23, 2007

That's good news and good work, we're going to need that horsepower if we're going to pass and stay ahead of Team Warped. We've been on their radar for nearly a year now, I don't think they're going to roll over simply because we closed to within 1.5 Million. <BR><BR>Speaking of teams which roll over, who remembers passing slashdot? That was early September 2006, or a little more than 4 months ago. We've now buried them by over 50,000,000. <BR><BR>From the "Dewey Defeats Truman" department, <B>bayanne</B> looks like he'll be the next person to hit 10,000,000. <B>Team Hidyman</B> has made a tremendous effort, cutting the lead to ~40,000, and winning nearly every day for the past 30 days, but time appears to have run out. Interesting sidenote, these two are next to each other in the overall stats, standing at 199 and 200.

CanSpice · Jan 23, 2007

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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by CanSpice:<br>I borged four computers over the weekend. They'll continue to be weekend warriors as they get used during the week. Scored an extra 7-8000/day from them. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif -- </div>
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<br><br>Actually... I've borged these machines to be nighttime warriors. Thank you to the dnetc people for allowing their client to be paused when a flag file appears. A simple cron job later, and presto, nighttime warriors!

BlisteringSheep · Jan 23, 2007

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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by CanSpice:<br>Actually... I've borged these machines to be nighttime warriors. Thank you to the dnetc people for allowing their client to be paused when a flag file appears. A simple cron job later, and presto, nighttime warriors! </div>
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<br>Indeed!! All hail dnetc, the bestest DC client ever! If any other DC project ever comes up with a client as flexible and easy to use as this is, I'd be all over it. No-net, no-problem. WUs by e-mail. Don't want to run a proxy? No problem, fetch from an alternate buffer store. Pause on a flag file or presence of an application. The only way I'm able to sieve is by using cron jobs and shell scripts to emulate what's already built-in to dnetc. There are only two features I'd like to see added:<ul type="SQUARE">
<li>Built-in clock-based scheduling<br>
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<li>Not renaming the process to dnetc regardless of the executable name<br>
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<br>BTW, we'll be a bit closer to Team Warped after the stats update tonight. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- And I'm saving up a little RC5 present for Mr.J. and ACCS. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif -- <br>-- View image here: http://members.arstechnica.com/x/egoforth/sheep-emoticon.gif --

garo · Jan 23, 2007

I think the reason for the second limitation is that some people built a trojan that would run dnet on other people's machines.

CanSpice · Jan 23, 2007

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<br><br>Sweet fancy Moses. That's a dump and a half.

Hobbes · Jan 23, 2007

Nicely done, Sheep*! I don't even need my spyglass to see them now. But while this is the closest we've been, I certainly think they'll put up one of the better fights we've had. Let's all keep at it!<br><br><br>* I hope Accs and MrJ enjoy their present this much, whenever it arrives. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --

Accs · Jan 24, 2007

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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by BlisteringSheep:<br>I'm saving up a little RC5 present for Mr.J. and ACCS. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif -- </div>
</blockquote>If you can finish as many RC5-72 blocks as you did GNODES, I'll be VERY impressed -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- In case you don't think it can happen, here's a single system that did >1M RC5-64 blocks in a week.<br><br>BTW, how do I get dragged in on this? I'm one of the few here with good numbers, and running on their own systems (2 laptops, 2 servers, a desktop and a workstation).

BlisteringSheep · Jan 24, 2007

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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Accs:<br>BTW, how do I get dragged in on this? I'm one of the few here with good numbers, and running on their own systems (2 laptops, 2 servers, a desktop and a workstation). </div>
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<br>You know me - so much love I've just got to share it with everyone! -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif --<br><br>Kidding aside, I'm very impressed with your numbers and your dedication, both here with TBR and in Eon where you're kicking serious butt. It's members like you who make Ars the best team around! <br><br>And, as I'm sure Hobbes will tell you, I've got a serious inferiority -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/scared_classic.gif -- complex and machine envy when it comes to crunching and being challenged in the rankings.

Hobbes · Jan 25, 2007

Yes, I wish you'd chin up and set some lofty goals every once in a while. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>Overtake report: We are less than 200,000 away from passing Team Warped! They're not going to make it easy, their numbers have been steadily increasing as we approach.

Accs · Jan 26, 2007

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hobbes:<BR>Overtake report: We are less than 200,000 away from passing Team Warped! They're not going to make it easy, their numbers have been steadily increasing as we approach. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>It's now down to <50K. Coaster either did a dump, or had a good day.

Hobbes · Jan 26, 2007

Yeah, Coaster nearly outdid them all by himself yesterday! That helped us make a good dent in the remainder. Let's see what we can cook up this weekend.

Coaster-COG · Jan 26, 2007

All my numbers are live rate since I don't ever hold anything for a dump. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>I'm making sure to sprinkle magic packets around a couple times a day to keep the herd awake till we make the pass.

Accs · Jan 26, 2007

As of today's stats, TBR has moved from 6th place to 5th place in OGR-25. This appears to be the result of a good day from Coaster, and a small dump from the sheep.<BR><BR>Congrats.

continuum · Jan 26, 2007

Go TBR!<BR><BR>Jeebus, I just hit #100 in OGR, and Coaster's already at #105. I suspect he'll pass me before the end of next week, possibly before next Tuesday...

Hobbes · Jan 26, 2007

/me does the happy 5th place dance<br><br>Good job, everybody! -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif -- Let's keep pouring it on.<br><br>continuum, I'd highly recommend making another pass to stay in the top 100, then getting over in the right lane for a bit. Coaster is on a mission and I wouldn't want to be in his way.

continuum · Jan 27, 2007

I'm less than 120k behind the #99 person and he/she has less than 5k/day production, so I should be safe to stay in the top 100 by the time Coaster passes me.<BR><BR>BTW I have the opportunity to get my hands on a Mac Pro-- the key is, the client installation can only run during certain hours of the day (e.g. midnight to 6am) when the user isn't there. Is there any way to configure the client to startup automatically at hour <B>x</B> and then shut down at hour <B>y</B> every day?<BR><BR>Alternatively a screensaver multiplexor would be fine, but while that's standard in the Windows client, I couldn't figure out how to run it in the OS X client?<BR><BR>Anyone have any tips?

TheJet · Jan 27, 2007

Just for posterity:<br><br>-- View image here: http://members.arstechnica.com/x/thejet/TBR_no5.jpg -- <br><br>P.S. How long you gonna stay in stealth mode there, we could use a boost to jump up on Anandtech a bit -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- Of course, I suppose it would only be sporting to allow the Warped guys a chance for a week or so -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/biggrin.gif --

MrJackson2000 · Jan 27, 2007

continuum, you should be able to do that quite easily with a cron job.

continuum · Jan 27, 2007

I talked to Sheep last night and he let me know what was what to do as well.<br><br>I was trying to avoid coming into work on a Saturday, but I might do that today to see if I can get it setup.<br><blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote">
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</blockquote>Til it's time to go Amiga hunting? -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- Maybe longer?

Hobbes · Jan 27, 2007

Just in case you're not aware, I'd like to see you on the team. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- Regardless, congrats on your top 100 milestone and the 20,000,000 mark. <br><br>Going Amiga hunting will be difficult. We are steadily gaining, but they have a large lead. And we're not cutting into them like Anandtech. It's certainly not impossible though. <br><br>A few items of note. OGR Phase 2 recently crossed the 40% mark. This time last year we were around 15% complete. OGR Phase 2 started in May 2004 (in parallel with OGR 24 Phase 2 which ended Nov 2004). I believe we had recently taken 9th, and were hoping to close the large gap to Slashdo. Also, around this time last year we were joined by Coaster, hitting 10k/day and promising to add a "few more boxes". I think he made good on the promise. <br><br>It's been a great year, let's have an even better one.

continuum · Jan 28, 2007

WOW!! Holy crap, Coaster had 431K Gnodes yesterday, at this rate I'll jump to #99 tomorrow, then tomorrow or the next day, Coaster will bump me back down to #100 as he hits #99... WOW. I wish I had that kind of keyrate!!

Daehlie · Jan 28, 2007

I am gonna lobby the management to allow me to run dnetc on the idle QA servers when no one is using them, which should add a bunch of out-of-production caliber servers. A bunch of old dual chip xeons. <BR><BR>That should add a bunch to our total.

magicfan241 · Jan 28, 2007

yo, is it just my internet, or are the keyservers for RC5 running even slower than the forums?

Coaster-COG · Jan 29, 2007

It seems there was a traffic jam at 100 so I just jumped on past to 96. I never thought I'd see the top 100. Getting to the top 50 might take a little while since it's about another 10 million to get there.

CanSpice · Jan 29, 2007

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by continuum:<BR>BTW I have the opportunity to get my hands on a Mac Pro-- the key is, the client installation can only run during certain hours of the day (e.g. midnight to 6am) when the user isn't there. Is there any way to configure the client to startup automatically at hour <B>x</B> and then shut down at hour <B>y</B> every day? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Here's my crontab for machines that run from 1730 to 0800:<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">0 8 * * * touch /net/akule/export/data/bradc/dnetc/hahalua/pause.now
30 17 * * * rm /net/akule/export/data/bradc/dnetc/hahalua/pause.now</pre><BR>Then in the dnetc config there's a 'pause on flag filename' option; set it to whatever you've set your flag file to in the cron job.

magicfan241 · Jan 30, 2007

well, I guess the G5's still have that advantage in RC5.<BR><BR>799 WU's yesterday for me, and #1 for the day on the team (without any dumping).<BR><BR>magicfan

Hobbes · Jan 31, 2007

Hey magicfan, good to see you around! Congrats on your top spot for the day. <br><br>Daehlie - good luck getting those idle QA servers added. I have a feeling those Xeons will do quite well. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif --<br><br>Looks like we have another very solid producer in the 5k - 10k range. Welcome aboard <b>ash</b>! <br><br>A (slow forum) belated congrats to <b>Hidyman</b> for his 10 Meeellion point milestone, and also for passing bayanne. Dang, apparently I missed <b>nick.goodman</b> passing the 1,000,000 mark as well. At this point, I probably need to turn in my milestone watcher card.<br><br>I hope I don't jinx it, but it looks like the forums are speedy!

Accs · Jan 31, 2007

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</blockquote>This was over a week ago, and I haven't seen anything -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif -- Did I miss it?

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