And the Winner of the Folding@Home Contest is...
martyb writes:
Back on November 1, 2021 I announced a Folding@Home contest.
SoylentNews has a team that has been running for several years now. In fact, out of the over 200,000 teams in the world, we still rank in the top 300 teams! (Other teams include: Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Google, Hewlett Packard... you get the idea.) Barring any surprises, I anticipate our team attaining 3 Billion Points in the next few weeks!
The contest? Logged-in SoylentNews users only. SoylentNews account must have been created on-or-before 2021-10-01 UTC. Entry must be submitted on-or-before Saturday 2021-11-06 UTC. One entry per account. Goal is to guess when the SoylentNews.org Folding@Home team first exceeds 3,000,000,000 (3 BILLION) points according to our IRC channel: #folding-rank. (N.B. That is an echo of results shown at https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=230319 [extremeoverclocking.com]). That channel is now logged [sylnt.us] (again) and will serve as the official channel-of-record.
We had these entries:
| mexsudo (6146) | My entry is 2021-11-03 11:09 UTC |
| maxwell demon (1608) | My entry is 2021-11-13 21:07 UTC |
| acid andy (1683) | My entry is 2021-11-14 06:37 UTC |
| LabRat (14896) | My entry is 2021-11-15 06:32:02 GMT |
| weilawei (109) | My entry is 2021-11-21 21:21 UTC |
At the time of this writing, our most recent updates have been:
Rank: 396 | WUs: 173,220 | Score: 2,999,447,358 (Sun Nov 14 04:17:15 GMT 2021)
Rank: 396 | WUs: 173,224 | Score: 2,999,635,828 (Sun Nov 14 07:17:32 GMT 2021)
Rank: 396 | WUs: 173,228 | Score: 2,999,961,921 (Sun Nov 14 10:17:48 GMT 2021)
Rank: 396 | WUs: 173,233 | Score: 3,000,413,151 (Sun Nov 14 13:18:02 GMT 2021)
Rank: 396 | WUs: 173,235 | Score: 3,000,434,452 (Sun Nov 14 16:18:15 GMT 2021)
And the winner is?
All of the them! Each will receive a free month's subscription to SoylentNews.com - thanks for playing!
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