At least you get warmer temps with rain. We are just at freezing.

Sunny and mid 60s today but rain is moving through overnight. They'll be bowling in Valhalla tonight. We'll get our due though - back into the 40s/20s for the second half of the week. No spring yet but did see some geese headed north already.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 02/21 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
marysduby                         1          0      43,433,785          66,186
RT                                2          0      32,959,540         109,463
Coingames                         3          0      22,386,707          44,674
parmesian                         4          0      20,206,455          20,793
nl59056                           5          0      15,037,657               0
Dave Bell                         6          0      12,214,410          21,824
Esteban69                         7          0      11,399,641           2,249
keithhenry                        8          0      10,524,074           1,139
Jonathan Figdor                   9          0       8,084,028               0
NiceMedTexMD                     10         +1       7,274,937          39,912
brown chris                      11         -1       7,271,226          28,648
Fanie                            12          0       6,778,978               0
frans6nl                         13          0       5,997,072           1,961
sulcata                          14          0       5,526,147           4,085
PohSoon                          15          0       5,466,382             495
Vuj                              16          0       5,060,019          16,488
Blueprint                        17          0       4,528,755           6,138
Tomwp                            18          0       2,678,105           3,312
Alain Bryden                     19          0       2,586,415               0
lawrencehardin                   20          0       2,410,173           1,929
wrr                              21          0       2,065,316           2,667
siseberg                         22          0       1,827,014             209
Sunny L. Kae                     23          0       1,807,563           2,231
Wunderwuzzi                      24          0       1,733,000             451
smcclarigan                      25          0       1,722,110           2,037
largethunder                     26          0       1,659,676               0
johng                            27          0       1,501,715           2,093
darth_vader                      28          0       1,262,262           5,353
harry_i_c                        29          0       1,158,741               0
Airwolf_Liu                      30          0       1,053,538           2,614
Jockin                           31          0       1,041,938           5,170
laughing66607                    32          0         994,235             992
Bravehart                        33          0         917,437           8,606
imin                             34          0         830,382           2,040
elpe                             35          0         829,180           2,850
Rene Punt                        36          0         679,058           5,903
Bon Kuhlman                      37          0         593,333               0
Momentary Lapse of Reason        38          0         343,194             385
barney15c                        39          0         293,204           1,619
Daeloan                          40          0         277,019           3,357
madambaster                      41          0         271,602           1,091
WindmillMan76043                 42          0         263,465               0
Natalino                         43          0         256,256               0
cknotty                          44          0         183,756               0
Mechanical                       45          0          61,056           3,059
hne12359                         46          0          23,982               0

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Twenty active members returning points today:
01: RT - 109,463 points
02: marysduby - 66,186 points
03: Coingames - 44,674 points
04: NiceMedTexMD - 39,912 points
05: brown chris - 28,648 points
06: Dave Bell - 21,824 points
07: parmesian - 20,793 points
08: Vuj - 16,488 points
09: Bravehart - 8,606 points
10: Blueprint - 6,138 points
11: Rene Punt - 5,903 points
12: darth_vader - 5,353 points
13: Jockin - 5,170 points
14: sulcata - 4,085 points
15: Daeloan - 3,357 points
16: Tomwp - 3,312 points
17: Mechanical - 3,059 points
18: elpe - 2,850 points
19: wrr - 2,667 points
20: Airwolf_Liu - 2,614 points

Total points returned today: 422,023
Active members returning points today: 35
Average points per member active today: 12,057.8

For those of you starting or wanting to crunch DDDT2, here's some things I've noticed:

First, if you want to get another badge for Rice, do it fast. Rice supposedly has another one, maybe two, months left.

Looks like DDDT2 will be a short project - possibly six months based on Sek's chart.

The Type A DDDT2 WUs are monsters. BOINC's been estimating the ones I have at 50-60 hours but they are actually looking like 40-45 hours. That's on a Q9300 Quad at 2.5 GHz. I'm seeing about 700 credits being claimed on average - that's about 5000 points per WU. If you run only DDDT2, you'll have feast and famine days possibly points-wise unless you can manage to have half of those active finish each day. More than likely, you'll be waiting on them to get out of the PV jail, especially with the 14 day reporting deadlines. Things may be better once we start getting the smaller type B and C WUs but be careful with these type As. I've only set my quad to crunch DDDT2 so far. The C2D will be back on HFCC in the next few hours once it wraps up a couple of Milkyways. At least that way, I can count on some points each day. DDDT2 is going to make our numbers a bit more erratic for now.

Just noticed something else about DDDT2. BOINC defaults to switching between projects every 60 minutes. Normally, I wouldn't think that setting would matter if all you are running is WCG. It may be a result of me adding FreeHAL on my quad but I saw BOINC switch from once DDDT2 WU to another. With the infrequent checkpoints on the type A's, this switching may end up wasting a good bit of crunching time. If you've got an active WWWT2 type A WU, you can click on Advanced/Preferences and, in the Switch between Applications field, enter the estimated hours to complete times 3600 (to convert it to seconds). You'll see the WU running, high priority which means normally it will run until it finishes. Note that BOINC normally won't get new work during that time but you can just click on the clear button to go back to your normal settings. This may matter to those of you who prefer to try to squeeze out as much work from your machines as you can.