Points Milestone - Johnny8380 - 10k

Johnny8380 has passed the Points Milestone of 10,000!

From 32 work units, he's gained exactly 10,330 points and sits 229,203rd from 1,179,803 all-time folders. Congrats mate!

Top 5 Team Members Shuffle

Ugly has forced another change to the order of our Top 5 Team Members, now snagging himself a podium spot (3rd!) which means peterdiva sits 4th place once again.

Team Leaderboard positions 1st (Jens_Klausen) and 2nd (smASHer88_PS3) look pretty damn safe, but 3rd is by no means, and looks as though it could change hands quite a bit over the next couple of months.

Current Top 5:

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	520274	1164
2	smASHer88_PS3	335990	1329
3	Ugly	170930	242
4	peterdiva	169894	217
5	Ravenge5	166003	745

Top 5 Team Members Shuffle

We've had a small change to the order of our Top 5 Team Members - peterdiva has now moved ahead to take 3rd spot on the Team Leaderboard with the idle Ravenge5 now slipping back to 4th.

Current Top 5:

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	510092	1139
2	smASHer88_PS3	333900	1322
3	peterdiva	166374	215
4	Ravenge5	166003	745
5	Ugly	164760	231

Work Units Milestone - Lahm_Family_PS3 - 500

Lahm_Family_PS3 has passed the 500 Work Units Milestone!

will update tomorrow

Contributions by team and project:

Donator	Lahm_Family_PS3
Team	Aussie Rules Footy (52735)
Score	145945 (certificate)
Donator Rank	34579 of 1175203
WU	502 (certificate)

Points Milestone - ROO_BOY29 - 20k

ROO_BOY29 has just passed the 20,000 Points Milestone!

It's been quite a while since his 10k Points Milestone, late August 2008 in fact, but the important thing is that he's still made a good contribution to Aussie Rules Footy.

With 77 work units and 20,296 points to his name, he sits 153,808th out of 1,175,203 all-time folders. Well done mate, keep up the good work!

Points Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 500k

Jens_Klausen has reached an extraordinary Milestone for 500,000 Points!!!

will update tomorrow sorry

(save certificate and post)

Contributions by team and project:

Donator	Jens_Klausen
Team	Aussie Rules Footy (52735)
Score	500588 (certificate)
Donator Rank	9733 of 1174734
WU	1117 (certificate)

Points Milestone - newtronbom - 10k

newtronbom has now past the 10,000 Points Milestone!

Only joining the Team on New Years Eve, this Kiwi has made 10k points in a touch over a fortnight. Currently on 10,302 points, he's returned 24 work units so far to position himself 226,885th out of 1,173,025 all-time folders.

Good stuff mate.

Work Units Milestone - Ugly - 200

Ugly 200 Work Units Milestone

will update tomorrow sorry

Score	145908 (certificate)
Donator Rank	34279 of 1171977
WU	203 (certificate)

Work Units Milestone - peterdiva - 200

peterdiva 200 Work Units Milestone

update tomoz sorry

Score	153734 (certificate)
Donator Rank	32647 of 1171977
WU	208 (certificate)

Points Milestone - newtronbom - 5k

newtronbom has also passed the 5,000 Points Milestone!

With 5,005 points from 11 work units, the Kiwi sits 323,695th out of 1,171,294 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Points Milestone - Johnny8380 - 5k

Johnny8380 has passed the 5,000 Points Milestone!

Currently on 5,068 points from 17 work units, he sits 321,931st out of 1,171,294 all-time folders. Good stuff mate!

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

Another change to the Top 10 Team Members sees my 2nd PS3 - Lahm_Family_PS3 move ahead to 6th place, pushing veteran PS3 folder - RoXeD back to 7th.

Current top 10:

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	471735	1047
2	smASHer88_PS3	326280	1296
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	peterdiva	151430	199
5	Ugly	141220	195
6	Lahm_Family_PS3	138095	475
7	RoXeD	137390	562
8	zoneur	87603	199
9	Jawgz	57797	50
10	smASHer88	57220	195

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

Jawgz moves to 9th spot on the Team Leaderboard as our latest change in the Top 10 Team Members. He passes my computer - smASHer88, which is now at 10th spot.

Current Top 10:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	466771	1034
2	smASHer88_PS3	325290	1293
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	peterdiva	151430	199
5	Ugly	140120	191
6	RoXeD	137390	562
7	Lahm_Family_PS3	137105	472
8	zoneur	87603	199
9	Jawgz	57797	50
10	smASHer88	57220	195

Work Units Milestone - Jawgz - 50

Jawgz has now made the 50 Work Units Milestone!

Currently on 57,797 points from 50 work units, he sits 74,039th out of 1,170,680 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Points Milestone - brolli55 - 2k

brolli55 has passed the 2,000 Points Milestone!

With 7 work units returned, he's earned exactly 2,113 points and sits 461,870th out of 1,169,547 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Work Units Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 1k

Congrats to Jens_Klausen who has now made the 1,000 Work Units Milestone!

Its quite an achievement to reach the 1k work units milestone, with only one other team member currently above 1,000 work units - smASHer88_PS3 ;) This bumps him up a category in the Major Milestones Club.

With 2 GPUs cranking away, the current Team Leader has now contributed over 15% of the Team's total work units, which has increased from 10% since his 500 work units milestone. There is now also 130,000 points separating him from his closest rival! (my PS3 - smASHer88_PS3 lol)

Current stats are as follows: 1,009 work units for 455,920 points and a position of 10,558th out of 1,169,547 all-time folders.

New Top 5 Team Member - Ugly

Ugly has now moved into the Team's Top 5 on the Leaderboard, moving above RoXeD who has only just started folding again recently on his PS3.

Current top 5:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	443920	984
2	smASHer88_PS3	321520	1280
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	peterdiva	144390	193
5	Ugly	136020	177

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

We've had a small change to our Top 10 Team Leaderboard, with Ugly now moving ahead to 6th spot, pushing my 2nd PS3 - Lahm_Family_PS3 back to 7th.

The current top 10:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	437200	970
2	smASHer88_PS3	320384	1276
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	peterdiva	143910	192
5	RoXeD	134080	551
6	Ugly	132660	172
7	Lahm_Family_PS3	131785	452
8	zoneur	87603	199
9	smASHer88	57220	195
10	Jawgz	55172	48

Points Milestone - Johnny8380 - 2k

Johnny8380 is now past the 2,000 Points Milestone!

Currently on 2,198 points from 8 work units, he sits 454,169th out of 1,167,611 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Points Milestone - newtronbom - 2k

newtronbom has passed the 2,000 Points Milestone!

Since joining the Team, I have found out that newtronbom is from New Zealand, but he's actually living in Bangkok, Thailand full-time. The Kiwi folds on his computer just with the regular PC client for now, but i've gone through his specs (Intel Quad-Core Q9300 CPU & ATI HD4800 GPU) and I will be helping him achieve better PPD figures soon.

He's currently on 2,318 points from 5 work units and is positioned 444,957th out of 1,167,611 all-time folders. Good stuff mate.

PPD = Points Per Day

Points Milestone - Aussie Rules Footy - 2m

Aussie Rules Footy - 2,000,000 Points Milestone!

will update tomorrow sorry

Grand Score	2010545 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	6444 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	923 of 151286

Points Milestone - Johnny8380 - 1k

Johnny8380 has now passed the 1,000 Points Milestone!

Currently on 1,098 points from 4 work units, he sits 576,261st out of 1,166,394 all-time folders. Wel done mate - keep folding!

Points Milestone - Jawgz - 50k

Jawgz has now claimed the 50,000 Points Milestone!

Using a Macbook Pro running the SMP client, he's averaged roughly 1,000 PPD since his 20k Points Milestone, but lately he's been producing nearly 2,000 PPD!

Jawgz also now moves into the 50k Points Major Milestone Club, joining smASHer88 and zoneur.

With a total of 51,666 points from 46 work units, he is currently placed 10th on the team leaderboard and 79,817th out of 1,166,394 all-time folders.

Congats mate, you've made a great contribution to Aussie Rules Footy so far!

PPD = Points Per Day

EDIT: Jawgz no longer has work computers contributing under his name.

Points Milestone - brolli55_ps3 - 5k

brolli55_ps3 has passed the 5,000 Points Milestone!

Joining the Team in mid-December '08, his latest milestone has had to put up with the interruptions that the Xmas/New Years Holidays brings, so expect to see his 10k points milestone to come up quite quickly in comparison.

Current stats are as follows: 5,060 points from 19 work units and positioned 319,403rd out of 1,165,626 all-time folders. Congrats mate!

New Team Member - Johnny8380

Johnny8380 is our Newest Team Member!

Already returning 2 work units for a total of 220 points, he sits 882,483rd out of 1,165,626 all-time folders. Thanks for joining mate!

Points Milestone - newtronbom - 1k

newtronbom has passed the 1,000 Points Milestone!

Currently on 1,293 points from 3 work units, he sits 544,771st out of 1,165,116 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Jim Clark & John Hennessy visit Folding@Home offices

Just before Christmas, on the December 22, 2008, Entrepreneur Jim Clark and current President of Stanford University - John Hennessy visited the offices of Vijay Pande and his Folding@Home team.

Jim Clark, formerly a Professor of Computer Science at SU and founder of many Silicon Valley tech companies has contributed much back to his former stomping ground, with one of his more notable donations being a sum of $100M towards building the Clark Center, a Uni-wide center for interdisciplinary Biology.

Vijay posted on his blog about the visit, saying:

"Today, Dr. Clark along with John Hennessy (the President of Stanford University) visited our offices to hear about our recent work. They both were heavily involved in computer architecture in the past, so they were interested to hear about our work with GPUs and the success we are seeing there (in particular, the significant speed increases). Also, they are both interested in neuroscience and so I was excited to tell them about our recent Alzheimer's work.

Anyway, I was excited to give them both an update and some idea of where we're going, and it was great fun for me to tell them all about how much we've done."

Both Jim Clark's and John Hennessy's Wikipedia pages are interesting reads.

Top 5 Team Members Shuffle

peterdiva has pushed past veteran (but recently idle) RoXeD to claim 4th spot on the Team Leaderboard!

The current Top 5 as it stands:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	400993	892
2	smASHer88_PS3	314304	1256
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	peterdiva	132870	183
5	RoXeD	132100	543

New Top 10 Team Member - Jawgz

Jawgz enters Aussie Rules Footy's Top 10 pushing BulleenAnt1 back to 11th.

As soon as Jawgz makes the 50k points milestone, all of our top 10 team members will have contributed over 50,000 points each. Congrats mate!

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	393409	876
2	smASHer88_PS3	313084	1252
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	peterdiva	130630	181
6	Lahm_Family_PS3	124095	426
7	Ugly	114017	141
8	zoneur	87603	199
9	smASHer88	56995	194
10	Jawgz	46094	43

Possiblity for an Alzheimer's Drug to be made from new Folding@Home results

Vijay Pande posted on his blog back on the 18th December, 2008 about a Possible New Alzheimer's Disease Drug to be made from new Folding@Home results.

Vijay warns that although it's very exciting, this is still preliminary news:

"On Tuesday, we presented our results regarding new possible drugs (small molecule leads) to fight Alzheimer's Disease at a recent meeting at Stanford. This meeting was part of the NIH Roadmap Nanomedicine center retreat and was supported by NIH grants to Folding@home.

It's very early (so we are not publicly talking about the details until this has passed peer review), but we are very excited that it looks like we may have multiple small molecules which appear to inhibit toxicity of Abeta, the protein which is the toxic element in Alzheimer's Disease.

This is exciting in many ways. It's been a long road for FAH to get to this point, but we are starting to see the possibility of seeing these results published easily before our 10th birthday (October 2010). Considering all the technology development that had to be done in the first five years, these results have come very quickly (in the last 3 years), which is exciting. In particular, we are now looking to apply these methods to other protein misfolding diseases (we have pilot projects for Huntington's Disease underway).

Finally, I should stress that while we're very excited about this, it's still early and a lot can go wrong between where we are and having a drug that doctors can prescribe. Over the holidays, we will be double checking the experimental data, crossing t's and dotting i's to make sure there is nothing missed before we think about submitting this for peer reviewed publication. Also, there is still a long way from an interesting possible drug (where we are now) to something which has passed FDA clinical trials (where we'd love to be), and a lot can go wrong in clinical trials in particular.

Thus, this is an important milestone for FAH and we are very grateful to all who have contributed."

Hopefully all goes well and we can have a Alzheimer's Disease Drug on the market soon with Folding@Home to thank!

Happy New Year!

It's 2009!!! I'd just like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Hope yas all had a blast last night, as I did at Jawgz' place, Ugly there as well. Hopefully 2009 will deliver a top 500 team spot for Aussie Rules Footy, and let Folding@Home make some ground-breaking research papers!

Drop a comment to let us know your New Year's resolutions for 2009 - Mine will be to shed some pounds!