[UD] Perhaps another contest ?? :D

[surreal]

Yep I think it's time boys...

Let's put on our thinking caps for another UD contest.

KenyG part of this is your fault! I'll be enlisting your voulenteering too

So what'll it be guys??? We need some fresh steam..
All ideas appreciated!

[Tomteriffic]

Lets see, we did a new members thing before, and, of course, that was quite successful. SOme of the participants in that are stalwarts now. Something like that by way of a recruiting drive would be good.

Another thought might be "greatest increase in daily average points output"?

Fingers might have to kill himself on that Excel spreadsheet, but the start and end stats would be easy to get.

I can think of a drawback or two (like, people who've been at it a long time dont have that much change in their daily average, while newer team members do, stuff like that). Anyway, it's an idea....

[DVNT1]

can think of a drawback or two (like, people who've been at it a long time dont have that much change in their daily average, while newer team members do, stuff like that)

True thoughts Tomterrific, but what we need is the change. Staying the same output will not keep us climbing up the ladder for long.

The most new recruits sounds like a good one except it won't include those who add more computers to their current account.

I think it should be based on % change of output (except that new UDers won't have much of a baseline). ...hmmm...

Maybe two different ones?

[surreal]

Originally posted by DVNT1
True thoughts Tomterrific, but what we need is the change. Staying the same output will not keep us climbing up the ladder for long.

The most new recruits sounds like a good one except it won't include those who add more computers to their current account.

I think it should be based on % change of output (except that new UDers won't have much of a baseline). ...hmmm...

Maybe two different ones?

Hmmm maybe 2 different ones indeed!
Perhaps most points in first 30 days by new member and largest increase by exhisting member?
And I need your help blowing the ideas full of holes and pointing out pitfalls.. Not saying I'll not do it because of your comments.. I'm saying that way I'll be prepared for the worst!

[Agent_Embryo]

Hey. Look at my daily output now. Anyone have old stats available? I'd like to compare my new daily output with the one from 2 weeks ago.

[Martoch]

I'm a [slacking] ECCP member & would sure like to utilize my crunching power (Athlon XP2000+ w/1GB Mushkin PC2700 RAM) to help UD as much as possible. From what I remember the UD program doesn't give me control of how much CPU it uses right? Or does it just run during "idle" CPU times?
Anyhoo, I want to help. When I do install it, are there any "better" UD programs than the one on this forum? With ECCP I was able to get some program meant for Athlon processors...it helped boost my crunching power about 20%.

Thanks!
Mike

[Tomteriffic]

Originally posted by DVNT1
True thoughts Tomterrific, but what we need is the change. Staying the same output will not keep us climbing up the ladder for long.

The most new recruits sounds like a good one except it won't include those who add more computers to their current account.

I think it should be based on % change of output (except that new UDers won't have much of a baseline). ...hmmm...

Maybe two different ones?

Again, true thoughts, DVNT1. Where I was going with the increase in daily average was, for instance, at one point, I was up to about a 4,500 point per day output, but my daily average (since I began crunching) would only inch up a point or two per day, just because I'd been doing it so long, and there were a lotta days to average

To include those who add more computers to an existing account, well, it opens up the door to a bit of finaglery (is that a word???) because one could easily dump UD from a machine, then add a whole gang of cache slots under a new device name. I've done it quite innocently when I had to rebuild a machine after a HD failure.

Another measure comes to mind, that of overall gain in positions worldwide (i.e. perhaps an average of one's overall position in terms of time, points and units). This would tend to be weighted toward team members who aren't crunching all that much, as the higher you go, the more difficult it is to rise in the overall worldwide standings. Just a thought, that would encourage folks to add the extra cow, a little more memory, that sort of stuff.

[DVNT1]

Martoch: if you are using W2K or XP you can change the UD related processor usage within TaskManager (right-click on the UD tasks and choose Set Priority).

I personally don't think that is the best way though. By changing the priority you may reduce the responsiveness of your computer during other tasks. Instead, I try to eliminate all the un-needed apps/services.

AFAIK there is only one UD client for all processors.

[surreal]

Martoch, UD runs during idle processor times.
In addition I run Eccp on all my UD machines. I think running UD with Eccp enhances the UD point system.
Your molecules take longer to run and you don't loose processing time sending and receiving molecules 2 or 3 times a day. ON occassion I shut down Eccp for a couple hours if UD gets too far behind because some molecules will "time out" after 100 or 150 hours.

While UD and Eccp are running I have no problems doing any other processor intensive task like photo editing.

[surreal]

As far as increased output. I'm sure the best thing to do for that is to just go back to the dreaded spread sheet that Fingers and I did for the first project. That would be the best way to track the info. On the last contest we would pull up the team scores and put them in the sheet. That seemed the most accurate way to track the info.


(heehee he's gonna pop a cork when he see's this )