3rd Team Birthday Foldathon! Update - Week 3

It's the end of Week 3

3rd Team Birthday Foldathon! Update - Week 2

Two weeks have passed now since we started our 3rd Birthday Team Foldathon, so it's time for another Update to see how we are progressing overall and compared to last week (Week 1).

I'll hit yous all with this week's statistics first off:

- 120,828 points (down 33,227 from last week's 154,055 points)
- 17,261 average PPD (down 4,747 from last week's 22,008 average PPD)
- Advanced 7 places in the team rankings to 583rd (advancing 3 more than last week's 4 places)

As you see we've dropped away slightly with our points output this week, meaning our average PPD obviously drops as well, but the team rankings can be quite random because we've actually advanced more placings this week! This could be just down to the fact that the teams just above us were no longer active, or they have a lower PPW output than us, whereas last week the teams just above us might have had a lot closer PPW output to ours. Anyway it was good to advance one place each day this week, because that does not happen easily!

And now for how we're travelling overall:

- 274,883 points
- 19,635 average PPD
- Advanced 11 places in the team rankings to 583rd (starting from 594th)

I think we're doing quite well here as a team, and should surpass the total of 376,655 points recorded in last year's results, by next week's update.

Our top 3 points returners have spread out slightly:

Position - Team Member - Total Points - Avg. PPD*
1st - Reece (Stats) - 87,124 - 6,223
2nd - Jens_Klausen (Stats) - 72,025 - 5,145
3rd - QCKRNU (Stats) - 54,798 - 3,914

*Average PPD (Points Per Day) = Total Points / Day no.

Reece has pulled ahead a bit more from Jens_Klausen, whilst QCKRNU has fallen a fair bit behind due to some downtime. He's currenlty switching out his 9800 GX2 graphics card's standard air cooling setup (heatsink & fan) in favour of watercooling (using a waterblock). Just preparing for an Aussie summer i guess! haha :p

Let's keep pushing on to our next update!


PPD = Points Per Day
PPW = Points Per Week

3rd Team Birthday Foldathon! Update - Week 1

It's been one week since we kicked off our 3rd Birthday Team Foldathon, and I thought i'd give you all an Update on how we're going.

I'm a bit disappointed to see that whilst we are pulling big numbers, only 20 or so team members have actually participated in the Foldathon so far. Out of those 20, it seems less than 10 are doing the bulk of the work and the top 3 guys that i mention later, are basically 'carrying the team' in this event :(

So far, this is what we've achieved as a Team in this first week:

- 154,055 points
- 22,008 average PPD
- Advanced 4 places in the team rankings to 590th (starting from 594th)

Now you might have noticed that i've been keeping track of the top 3 folders during our Foldathon, listing them just below the countdown clock. These are three team members that are essentially 'carrying the team' as they're combined points return make up over 3/4 (78.7% to be exact) of the total points returned this week! (121,259). These guys do have computer systems (or multiple) that are capable of high PPD figures, and I acknowledge that some of you are doing your best, but to rely on these guys almost entirely is not good for our team's 'health' going forward. The sudden loss of peterdiva's high PPD returns a while back pretty much stopped our team advancing in the team rankings!

All I ask as is that as many of us as possible contribute a work unit atleast once a week, preferably more, than our team could move up the ranks a lot quicker and we can start to rely on there being a set amount of points coming in each day from the whole team, not just from a handful. During this Foldathon though, try to contribute as much as you can, and if possible, recruit some friends and family to join up as well ;)

The aforementioned 'team carriers' lol which is our 3rd Birthday Team Foldathon top 3:

Position - Team Member - Total Points - Avg. PPD*
1st - Reece (Stats) - 42,115 - 6,016
2nd - QCKRNU (Stats) - 39,716 - 5,674
3rd - Jens_Klausen (Stats) - 39,428 - 5,633

*Average PPD (Points Per Day) = Total Points / Day no.

It is still great to see how high our current points returns are, but i'll just stress again that every team member needs to do their bit. I don't see Folding@Home as something to just do 'every now and then'.. It's a project that needs your help, and regularly.

So as not to leave you feeling unappreciated, I do want to say that despite many members not contributing anymore, there has been a few of you that have come back on board, and it's great to see. I just hope everyone can stick around post-Foldathon and keep up the good work ;)

Let's push on to next week's Update and see if we can improve on our already impressive figures!


PPD = Points Per Day

November 2009 = 3rd Team Birthday Foldathon!

UPDATE (4:11 AM, Wednesday, November 4, 2009): I've updated the countdown clock section of the blog's sidebar (right up the top) and have included information about who is currently leading and also further down, previous winners. The section will be updated daily when possible and will be based on comparing my daily Team Stats recordings to those that appear down below. You can compare for yourself at anytime of the day by using this method ;) END OF UPDATE

This November marks 3 years since I started folding on my Family's computer under smASHer88 and created our Folding@Home team - Aussie Rules Footy. To celebrate the Team's 3rd Birthday, we're going to host a November-long Foldathon!

For those team members who don't know what a Foldathon is - It's where as many team members as possible, fold as much as they can within a set time period.

One of the main aims of the Foldathon is to push our team ranking position. Last year's results produced a 199 position bump! But starting at 594th position (as opposed to last year's 1,279th) means that the push for team ranking is so much harder because of the increased team competition within the top 1,000. I think though if we can put in a good team effort throughout this Foldathon, then we can advance our team ranking atleast 30 spots.

I'm also hoping Aussie Rules Footy will pickup a few new team members during the month as well. Please encourage your Family and Friends to join up ;) Of course your increased folding efforts during November will also be helping Folding@Home as well! lol

I've now edited the countdown clock that appears at the top of this blog's sidebar to show how much time is left until the end of our 3rd Team Birthday Foldathon.

The statistics below have been taken just earlier, and will be used in conjuction with figures from late on the 30th of November to decide our 3rd Team Birthday Foldathon winner! Now as like last year, if a team member has more than one name they fold under, then the sum of their names will be used (excluding typo'd names and default ('Anonymous' & 'PS3') names). I would love to be able to offer up a prize (or prizes!), but unfortunately until you guys start showing an interest in some of my advertising material lol, the team can't afford any. So the winner will have their name stamped in Aussie Rules Footy Team Birthday Foldathon history, with a list of previous winners to sit just below the countdown clock, year-round!

Aussie Rules Footy

Report generated on	02:50:02 October 31, 2009
Date of last work unit	2009-10-31 02:21:42
Active CPUs within 50 days	27
Team Id	52735
Grand Score	5947308 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	14480 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	594 of 167631
Home Page	http://team52735.blogspot.com/
Fast Teampage URL	http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team52735.html

Team members

Rank (within team)	Donor	Score	WU
1	Jens_Klausen	1839264	3474
2	peterdiva	1067208	1499
3	Ugly	621153	692
4	smASHer88_PS3	568240	2221
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	402727	1504
6	RoXeD	205533	832
7	QCKRNU	172532	521
8	Ravenge5	166003	745
9	zoneur	112710	252
10	Jawgz	100780	75
11	smASHer88	74567	245
12	BulleenAnt1	73481	220
13	newtronbom	73216	164
14	ROO_BOY29	57691	282
15	Johnny8380	49119	179
16	mikael	45517	185
17	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138
18	DSE_352_Notebooks	33657	138
19	BIGMAN	22293	64
20	brolli55_ps3	21771	84
21	Delta_Leviathan	19319	134
22	Ravenge	17288	70
23	Greg	16622	114
24	magicgate3	15835	66
25	[AllPS3Trophies.com]_Pokenny_PS3	13571	50
26	ahmsnake	11179	45
27	Lahm_Family	9600	5
28	savernake	9445	38
29	Jacko	7230	36
30	PS3	6245	42
31	rossqo	6186	13
32	alfaomega10	5796	21
33	mgpower0	5280	3
34	PS3*Cristopher	4531	18
35	nitty	4493	10
36	bec_clarke	4413	41
37	hobbozzrock	3685	15
38	MitchAllen	3614	42
39	[AllPS3Trophies.com]_Pokenny_Notebook	2960	9
40	poptart87PS3	2920	10
41	brolli55	2338	8
42	erBotty	2250	5
43	[AllPS3Trophies.com]_Tridon_PS3	2249	9
44	J4CKT	2220	9
45	SethTS_PS3	1758	7
46	BOONDOCKS	1500	1
47	TheePi	1388	36
48	[AllPS3Trophies.com]_Domba_car_PS3	1255	5
49	SethTS	1255	5
50	ningcaptor	1036	9
51	[AllPS3Trophies.com]_kingofgames73_PS3	1014	4
52	Thooz_PS3	1000	4
53	terminator80	960	2
54	luigi4562	953	7
55	Rfscann	935	6
56	Suzy_Wong	837	4
57	SHELL86	765	2
58	Bioufaxxx	751	4
59	[AllPS3Tropies.com]_Pokenny_Notebook	749	1
60	CCz619	625	5
61	Bennymac	598	4
62	wilson	545	2
63	[PS3-Leagues.co.uk]_Juancornetto_PS3	502	2
64	Meddings_PS3	501	2
65	QUEBEC	500	2
66	Valvak	450	1
67	Revolutionary_For_Life	372	2
68	goddest	340	1
69	NTC	313	2
70	PS34LIFE.ZACHZEHRUNG	287	1
71	KillerKahuna	287	2
72	Curer_Of_Diseases	256	3
73	[allps3trohies.com]_mlbrookeuk	251	1
74	naomi	250	1
75	captinmax	250	1
76	nigel	250	2
77	Beauwoodland	186	1
78	chris_be	186	1
79	J4CKT_PC	149	3
80	Shinobi	125	1
81	dcbunny	98	2
82	Jorgo	30	2
83	THAmyth	0	4
84	ronnie	0	3
85	Bernard	0	5