9th Annual Holiday Season Folding@Home race

[petrusbroder]

OK, here we go again ... ()

It is the time of the year 2014 when we should start organizing ourselves for the

9th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Season Race!

Just the bare facts:

1. Start: December 1, 2011, 19:00 UTC
2. End: January 1, 12:00 UTC
3. Short intermission for the The Winter Solarstice PrimeGrid Challenge)

Here are the rules:

1: Have fun.
2: Let others have fun.
3: Crunch as much as you can, as often as you can and as efficiently as you can.
4: Assimilating computers, adding members to the teams, switching teams and borghing is allowed.
5: (Sid's rule) Whistle while you work; DON'T whistle while you sip.
6: (Sid's rule) No pouting.

Please post here if you intend to take part. Our Folding@Home tream number is 198.

I'll put the teams together one day before the race but the discussion about who will race against whom is open.
Please remember: joining and recruiting is allowed. Once the race is started, I decide into which team the new members go.

The primary goal: TeAm AnandTech should climb in the ranks!
The secondary goal: The TeAm shall have a lot of fun!

Those who want to participate, please post your names (the AnandTech name as well as the Folding@Home name) in this thread. I'll add those names to this post.

The day before the race (November 30, sometime in the evening UTC) I will compose the two teams as well as I can. The deciding factor is - mostly - past ppd, past history in Folding@Home and my feeling on how things may develop ...

December 1 part 1 of the race starts - and please remember, in the first part is the time to assimilate, recruit, borgh ...
Until the Prime Grid race I will see how every one is doing.
During the Prime Grid race I'll even out the teams one last time.
After the Prime Grid race part 2 of the F@H race starts and the members of each team will stay in their team.
However, borghing and assimilating and recruiting is allowed during the whole race.
Usually the race is quite even ...

Now the final question arises: What should the names of the teams be? Please propose names and after a few days I'll post a poll.

OK: lets get this ball rolling! Only 1 more races and then we have a decade of Annual Holiday Season Folding@Home races!

Participants:
Assimilator1
biodoc
geecee
GLeeM
Icecold
Ken_g6
lane42
MarkFW900
Neurodog
OrangeKid
Plimogz
Pokey_TA
Salvorhardin
TAS-Petrusbroder
VirtualLarry
Wingding (=Brownstone)

OP edited:
2014-11-19: added participants.
2014-11-22: added participants.
2014-11-24: added participants.
2014-11-28: added participant.

 

[Pokey]

OK, Pokey is in.
Folding name: Pokey_TA

 

[VirtualLarry]

Now the final question arises: What should the names of the teams be? Please propose names and after a few days I'll post a poll.

The "Buddies" and the "Hollys"?

Edit: Should be able to count me in. Need to heat my apt. this winter.

 

[GLeeM]

Count me in!

<--- Anandtech name

Folding name: GLeeM

Thanks petrusbroder :thumbsup:

 

[Ken g6]

Ken_g6 __________________ 5

I'll be back.

Thinking about building a new machine soon too. :sneaky:

 

[biodoc]

I'm in!!:whiste:

FAH user name = biodoc

 

[Markfw]

I'm in !

 

[Neurodog]

Me too.

name: Neurodog

 

[salvorhardin]

I'm in, salvorhardin in f@h.

 

[Orange Kid]

I'll be in, though my puters will be unattended for two weeks during race. Output could be sketchy.

 

[geecee]

Sure, I'm in.

 

[lane42]

I'm in

 

[petrusbroder]

Thansk for joining!
Please consider joining if you have not before!
Added participants to OP.

 

[Icecold]

I'm in

F@H username: Icecold

 

[Markfw]

I am probably going to hit a big ppd achievement right at the beginning of the race, 1/2 billion points. Might be before.

 

[Pokey]

I am probably going to hit a big ppd achievement right at the beginning of the race, 1/2 billion points. Might be before.

Awsome milestone. :thumbsup:

 

[Assimilator1]

I'm in!

Markfw
Amazing milestone!!

 

[petrusbroder]

Added two more folders.
Bump for Sunday ...

 

[petrusbroder]

We have to propositions for names:

"The Starks" and "The Lannisters" (proposed by Mark (Assimilator1) in the other thread)
"Buddies" and "Hollies" (proposed by VirtualLarry in this thread).

Any more propositions?

 

[Markfw]

Cowboys and Indians ?

 

[brownstone]

Don't have much to contribute this year, but sign me up for the good times!
Folding name = wingding

 

[Ken g6]

Cowboys and Indians ?

That's racist!

Now, Cowboys and Redskins? That's just football.

 

[Pokey]

Just for giggles I looked back at our previous names:


YR Race Teams
2005 1 TAS-F@H vs The Folders
2007 2 TeAm Anandtech Sentinals vs The Folders
2008 3 TAS vs The Folders
2009 4 The Twisted Fissures vs The Erythrocyte Membranes
2010 5 The Snowmen vs The Yetis
2011 6 The Snowmen vs The Yetis
2012 7 The Folding Firecats vs The Lightening Folders
2013 8 The Scientists vs The Thinkers
2014 9 ????? vs ????

 

[Orange Kid]

Tin Men vs Aluminum Allies

Why you say? tin/aluminum is for tenth anniversary.

 

[petrusbroder]

OK, there are four prpositions now:

"The Starks" and "The Lannisters" (proposed by Mark (Assimilator1) in the other thread)
"Buddies" and "Hollies" (proposed by VirtualLarry in this thread)
"Cowboys" and "Redskins" or "Indians" (proposed by Ken_g6 and MarkFW900)
"Tin Men" and "Aluminum Allies" (proposed by Orange Kid)

Soon ready for a poll!

Thanks Pokey, for all the namnes in te races! Very nice info!