I've also got my Sapphire for C4CW, so it's disabled in all profiles......that may help a little, as I won't be downloading 50+ workunits at once for it, if more get seeded in!

The day starts with a mix of good news, bad news!

In the Points rankings the UK team has finally succumbed to the challenge of TeAm AnandTech and drop a place to #70.

But in the Results rankings we passed HardOCP to advance to #64,

Looking ahead though, we should regain the lost Points ranking in 2 days and gain another Results ranking place within the week, There's also the promise of a rare RunTime ranking place to be gained tomorrow at which point I'll update the Targets & Threats report.

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in yesterday's crunching:

MissMelisande moves above 110,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #109,443
Wicksman moves above 11,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #10,992

fosking moves into the UK top 100 RunTime Rankings at #98
adamhill1988 moves into the UK top 50 RunTime Rankings at #50

endellion 6,000,000 Points
MissMelisande 3,000,000 Points

Soong passes 90,000,000 Points for the UK team
Ian_UK passes 15,000,000 Points for the UK team

fosking moves into the UK top 40 Results Rankings at #40

The Maestro passes 2,500 Results for the UK team

Soong moves above 400 in the Results Rankings to #399

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime

						                          	Hours			
	Yesterday's Production				1:002:14:11:17		8,822			
	Average RT per cd  		February		 371.2		8,904			
	                       		January  		 328.2		7,872			
	7day Avg per cd	           	Current 		 371.2		8,904			

Milestone Targets for the UK team

	       	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate		
	RunTime	  900 years		    307,164	     21,336	    371.2	   57 days Apr-21		
	RunTime	1,000 years		    307,164	     57,836	    371.2	  156 days Jul-29		
	Points 	900,000,000 		862,084,317	 37,915,683	3,187,373 	   12 days Mar-07		
	Results	  2,000,000		  1,836,091	    163,909	    6,551	   25 days Mar-20		

No. Of Members Active Yesterday

       				Total	        64	out of	93	
				Group 1    	35 	,,  ,,	36	
				Group 2    	12 	,,  ,,	13	
				Group 3    	11 	,,  ,,	23	
				Groups 4 & 5 	 6	,,  ,,	21	

I just hate to spend my hard earned cash on a decent PC and then have it sitting idle. If I'm not using it, I'm very happy for it to be put to good use as part of a distributed computer, and I haven't found a better one than WCG, both in terms of variety of projects and genuine usefulness.

Also, it's not particularly expensive - I have the kit anyway (different for those very generous individuals who buy kit specifically for crunching), and my heating has a thermostat, so heat generated by crunching isn't wasted in the winter. I'm not usually so active over the summer though.

Also, it's nice being part of a great team - I don't tend to post much, but always check in to see how we're getting on via jonnieb-uk's updates.

I heard of crunching, in general, many years ago when I was in University. Back then, I tended to alternate between SETI@Home, United Devices (one of the original grid-computing "cure-cancer" projects, I believe), and distributed.net (RC5-64 decryption).

After I graduated from Uni (mid-2000), I occasionally fired a PC back up to do one of the above, but it's only very recently (just over a year ago) that I realised I could put plenty of servers in work to better use than just sitting there idle. So, they're now in a huge bank of "working spares", being constantly tested so that if we have a failure of a live server, we know there are working spares ready to swap straight in.

I'm concentrating mainly on HCC for two reasons (although the first is the main reason):

1) My Grandad on my Dad's side was my first grandparent to pass away, many years ago back when I was 6 or 7, and it was due to lung-cancer from smoking 60-80 a day. My Nan on my Mum's side was the most recent to pass away, just before Christmas last year, and there was cancer involved there (although nothing 100% confirmed as my Nan didn't want any of the later tests done).

2) It's the only project that properly supports GPU-crunching, so far.

Plus, the heat generated by the single crunching machine here at home (my gaming PC) means that I generally only need to have the heating on for about 6-7 days in an entire year!