Well, I've reached 100K - wow! Averaging 277 points/wu at present, which isn't bad.

I never expected to get this far, but my ascendancy is not without competition... Mario is hard on my heels and looking to overtake (indeed he has, just briefly). I'm hoping to win back the lead though it's going to be tough. I suspect HopeSeekr is not in danger, though :-)

Folding on an Athlon 64 X2, one P4 HT 3GHz, and an Athlon XP 3.2GHz (btw, the Athlon XP is miles faster than the P4). And soon adding another Athlon 64 (single core :-( ). I did have a P4 laptop helping out, but that is (temporarily, I hope) in the emergency ward for major repairs to a worn out connector and cable.

Well, I promised myself I would post again at 80K, and I've just passed that - 81140 as I write. Still at position 17, though I'm hoping for an overtake soon ...

The boost is partly due to my Workstation being upgraded to a dual Athlon 4400+, which is as fast as it sounds :-)

Not much other news, really. Be good to hear more from you all, though.

Ruth

My first blog post to SFX to mark my reaching 60K points. I've been folding here for some time, and seem to have "caught the F@H bug" - drat :-)

I say that because Lanza, who has tracked me up the chart doggedly for many months now, seems to have found another CPU, or a faster one, and I am feeling that I need to do likewise to keep up. I thought this was about using spare cycles, not buying new ones :) Oh well, it's a good cause!

If Lanza is reading this I would be interested to find out about you. I'm a software engineer living in Cambridge, and have 3 more-or-less fulltime folding machines: an Athlon 3100+ that's also my fileserver (0.5TB), a P4 3GHz that's my desktop workstation, and an old P4 1.8GHz laptop that's not always folding. I used to have a PIII 866MHz on permanent folding duty, but it seems to have given up the ghost now.