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

Thargor 80 years RunTime
suraklin moves above 14,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #13,976
suraklin moves above 14,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #13,976
grangizmo moves into the UK top 400 Points Rankings at #393
Peter2004 30,000 Results
suraklin passes 8,000 Results for the UK team
cmcmanus moves above 200,000 in the Results Rankings to #199,004
dcrobinson moves into the UK top 200 Results Rankings at #197

Congratulations also to the following UK team members on setting new PBs

	Edstar           	Runtime	          	Points	        	Results	   45	

Congratulations on New Badges at the last update:					
arkangath        	Gold      	UGM1			
dcrobinson       	Bronze    	UGM1			

UK team - Individual Ranking Movements

					        	
	        RunTime		        Points		        Results	
Tom.tamplint	up   1 to 	120	         	   	up   1 to 	 99
tobiasmf    	         	   	         	   	up   2 to 	128
seamansgirl 	         	   	up   1 to 	269	   	   
scol5913    	         	   	         	   	up   1 to 	 79
mike@oberon 	up   1 to 	137	         	   	   	   
Matthew674  	         	      	up   1 to 	216	   	   
Joe87       	up   2 to 	190	         	   	   	   
jacquiob    	up   2 to 	222	up   1 to 	131	   	   
Gilarm      	up   1 to 	163	up   1 to 	136	up   3 to 	150
Edstar      	up   3 to 	170	up   3 to 	163	up   6 to 	181
DerekJGB    	up   2 to 	167	         	   	   	   
dcrobinson  	up   5 to 	280	up   2 to 	160	up   5 to 	197
danielwejone	up   1 to 	404	         	   	up   4 to 	362
cmcmanus    	up   2 to 	248	up   1 to 	226	up   2 to 	243
carlos.urald	up   1 to 	387	         	   	up   1 to 	345
RipR        	         	   	         	   	dn   1 to 	 80
Hatstand    	         	   	         	   	dn   1 to 	185
GB033533    	         	   	         	   	dn   1 to 	100

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime, Points, Results

			                          	Hours		Points		      Results	
Yesterday's Production	2:145:17:58:07	  		21,017		2,931,998		5,026 	
Average per cd									
October      	          822.8	  		        19,728		2,981,640		5,387	
September   	          740.6			        17,760		2,560,633		3,731	
August      	          776.0			        18,624		2,835,927		4,821	

Average Daily Crunching Comparison

         	RunTime			Points		        	        Results		
         	23-Oct	22-Oct	  +/-	23-Oct	        22-Oct	        +/-	23-Oct	22-Oct	+/-
 7day Avg	891.99	877.18	 14.81	3,049,788	3,039,207	10,581	5,108	5,180	 -72
14day Avg	817.60	811.14	  6.46	2,992,540	2,988,630	  3,910	5,790	5,766	  24
28day Avg	787.39	779.96	  7.43	2,822,782	2,797,963	24,819	4,842	4,775	  68

Milestone Targets for the UK team

	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate	
RunTime	  1,750 years		      557,681	     81,069	    892.0	  91 days Jan-22-2015	
Points 	2,000,000,000 		1,950,186,698 	 49,813,302	3,049,788 	  16 days Nov-08-2014	
Results	    4,000,000		    3,837,277	    162,723	    5,108	  32 days Nov-24-2014	
							

No. Of Members Active Yesterday

       					        Day	        out of	 Tot.	
				Total      	78	        ,,  ,,	134	
				Group 1    	30	        ,,  ,,	 31	
				Group 2    	17	        ,,  ,,	 17	
				Group 3    	17	        ,,  ,,	 26	
				Group 4    	 8	        ,,  ,,	 14	
				InAct New	 2	        ,,  ,,	 11	
				InActive	 0	        ,,  ,,	 31	
				New/Restart	 4	        ,,  ,,	  4	

Daily Global5000

    		  RT(days)  #			Points 	            #		      Results       #
Mamajuanauk 	357.9	   18	Mamajuanauk 	1,052,346	   20	Mamajuanauk 	1,884	   20
GrumpyCat   	 96.2	   74	GrumpyCat   	  328,817	   86	GrumpyCat   	  495	  112
Thargor     	 36.2	  314	Soong       	  119,055	  384	crooks_uk   	  189	  453
Labinopper  	 32.1	  388	crooks_uk   	  115,446	  403	themoonscres	  172	  525
themoonscres	 28.4	  462	themoonscres	  102,006	  476	Labinopper  	  164	  560
crooks_uk   	 23.4	  588	Labinopper  	   98,169	  508	Thargor     	  155	  626
Soong       	 21.9	  646	Thargor     	   92,863	  553	Mike D Green	  152	  654
Mike D Green	 20.5	  728	Mike D Green	   83,045	  657	Scribe      	  123	  878
fosking     	 19.1	  805	Scribe      	   71,219	  820	Soong       	  114	  995
RTS48       	 18.5	  825	RTS48       	   61,883	1,014	RTS48       	  106	1,098
Scribe      	 18.5	  831	arkangath   	   60,780	1,045	arkangath   	  104	1,129
arkangath   	 17.7	  872	Barnsley_Tat	   51,471	1,324	Barnsley_Tat	   85	1,510
suraklin    	 12.7	1,389	suraklin    	   44,758	1,590	suraklin    	   74	1,859
Ian_UK      	 11.1	1,677	fosking     	   42,367	1,729	fosking     	   74	1,859
Barnsley_Tat	  8.2	2,519	Darkmatter.N	   28,911	3,126	Peter2004   	   58	2,677
ChrisUK     	  8.2	2,535	stroudwaterb	   26,977	3,473	gilesk      	   52	3,152
Edstar      	  6.8	3,344	ChrisUK     	   25,706	3,710	Darkmatter.N	   49	3,413
Candyguitar 	  6.7	3,450	Peter2004   	   25,638	3,722	stroudwaterb	   49	3,413
gibbcorp    	  6.6	3,488	Ari1        	   22,203	4,492	djerram     	   48	3,505
Gilarm      	  6.2	3,829	Clockwork   	   21,956	4,557	Edstar      	   45	3,843
stroudwaterb	  6.1	3,885	djerram     	   20,509	4,989	ChrisUK     	   43	4,072
gordoncarrut	  5.5	4,412	            	         		Ari1        	   39	4,648
Peter2004   	  5.5	4,446	            	         				
Apis Tintinn	  5.3	4,673	            	         				
	
								
								

The Daily Global5000 accounted for 71.3% of yesterday's RunTime of 436.4 years
The UK Team accounted for 0.55%

The UK Team has advanced to #51 in the Points rankings passing RedRaider Technology

2, or possibly 3, more places to be gained by year end:

Points			      	      	      	      
            	Gap	          Average Net Crunch		Est Days to Close		
            	Points 	                 7day	        28day	         7day	        28day	Trend
Media Temple	   77,235,583	    3,043,472	    2,889,316	           25	           27	Closer
BOINC.Italy 	   95,098,384	    1,499,142	    1,496,177	           63	           64	      
SETI.USA    	  119,275,613	    1,492,862	    1,715,863	           80	           70	Wider
NJIT IST    	  407,871,392	    3,049,188	    2,895,912	          134	          141	Closer
Kansas S Uni	  462,142,044	    3,046,394	    2,887,802	          152	          160	Closer

You could change the 'Write to disk' option to 900 seconds, this will reduce the disk activity...
in the profile...

As I understand it, "write to disk at most" only affects checkpointing. I have reported elsewhere that UGM1 writes a lot of other things. It appears to me to be the result file that is the biggest (only?) culprit. I would guess that it is written to at the end of each comparison operation, rather than have them queued up and written at the checkpoint frequency. This seems to me to be simply a poor programming choice.