Work Units Milestone - QCKRNU - 100

QCKRNU has now achieved the 100 work units milestone!

Gaining 16,772 points from 100 work units, he sits 15th on the team leaderboard, and 160,240th out of 1,123,968 all-time folders. Great stuff mate!

Playstation 3 Folding@Home client wins Japanese Design Award

The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry has awarded Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) the 'Good Design Gold Award 2008' (otherwise known as the 'G-Mark' award) for its design of the http://folding.stanford.edu/ application for the Playstation 3.

The collaboration of Stanford University (more specifically the Pande Group team) and Sony Computer Entertainment resulted in a Folding@Home client tailored to the PS3 specifications. Optimized specifically to take advantage of the power of the Cell Broadband Engine, the program is the first of it's kind on a games console.

Sighting a highly detailed world map where the location of other users are shown, and with the addition of a detailed protein visualization (powered by the NVIDIA designed RSX GPU), this earned Sony Computer Entertainment and its Folding@Home program the prestigious award which has been given out since 1957 to award outstanding design in industrial and consumer products.

The award jury commented saying:

"Analysis of proteins for the purpose of shedding light on diseases is just one example of solution design for social issues, a stance that indicates the direction that design should take in the future. Motivating the people who will be involved in these studies will be the key to success, but the program functions well as an idea for making participation in this project visible on a global scale."

Masayuki Chatani, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Technology Platform commented on receiving the award on behalf of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. saying:

"It is a great honor to receive the ‘Good Design Gold Award’ for our support for the Folding@home project on PS3, Over 1.5 million PS3 users have participated in the Folding@home project and I truly appreciate their contributions for making this project a success. We will continue our efforts in delivering compelling and original services only possible on the PS3 platform."

Congratulations to Sony Computer Entertainment on it's Good Design Gold Award Achievement. They also picked up 'Good Design' Awards for the PlayStation®Network logo and PlayStation®Store user interface design.

Sources:
Kotaku's report & Vijay Pande's Blog
The following is taken from the official Sony press release:

"The “Good Design Award” is Japan’s
only comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system. This system itself
has its origin in the “Good Design Selection System” instituted by the Ministry
of International Trade and Industry in 1957. This year, over 3000 entries were
made and as a result of first and second screening, 1067 items received “Good
Design Award.” Out of 1067 Good Design Award items, 15 entries received “Good
Design Award Best 15,” which includes 1 “Good Design Grand Award” and 14 “Good
Design Gold Award.”"

Points Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 100k

Jens_Klausen has now past the 100,000 points milestone, bumping himself up a notch in the Team Member Major Milestones Club!

Joining the team less than two months ago, Jens_Klausen has been making over 50,000 points / month! Just goes to show that GPU folding pays... pays very well! Haha thats points-wise anyways.. as for the science of Folding@Home, it's still important to have a range of different clients complimenting each other. For example, GPU clients lack flexibility in the type of work they can 'fold', whereas CPU clients have the most flexibility, but are obviously a lot less powerful. PS3s sit somewhere in between. So team members, if your not getting heaps of points for your work.. don't worry, it's all helping out!

So anyway, Jens_Klausen is now on exactly 101,720 points from just 217 work units. He's currently 4th on the team leaderboard, and sitting 42,275th out of 1,121,283 all-time folders. Awesome achievement mate!

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

Our Top 10 team members have had another small change to their lineup, with zoneur now at 8th spot, pushing DSE_352_PS3 back to 9th spot.

Here's how the top 10 looks:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	260631	1061
2	Ravenge5	155266	705
3	RoXeD	129730	535
4	Jens_Klausen	99914	213
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	65453	217
6	smASHer88	54019	184
7	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
8	zoneur	38043	85
9	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138
10	DSE_352_Notebooks	33652	137

Points Milestone - BIGMAN - 20k

BIGMAN has now scored a milestone for 20,000 points!

Sitting on exactly 20,013 points from 57 work units, he sits 142,802nd out of 1,119,765 all-time folders. Great stuff mate!

Work Units Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 200

Jens_Klausen has made the work units milestone for returning over 200 work units!

Currently sitting 4th on the team leaderboard, he sits 43,815th out of 1,119,765 all-time folders with 206 work units and 97,154 points to his name. Well done mate.

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

Our Top 10 team members have had just a small change in their lineup, with zoneur now taking out 9th spot, pushing DSE_352_Notebooks out to 10th spot.

Here's how the top 10 looks:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	259951	1058
2	Ravenge5	154290	701
3	RoXeD	128610	530
4	Jens_Klausen	97154	206
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	64309	211
6	smASHer88	54019	184
7	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
8	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138
9	zoneur	36603	82
10	DSE_352_Notebooks	33487	136

Points Milestone - Ugly - 5k

Our first known Mac SMP folding team member, Ugly has just past the milestone for 5,000 points!

He's so far scored exactly 5,657 points from only 3 work units! He sits 285,461st out of 1,118,857 all-time folders. Well done mate.

PS3 Server 171.64.65.83 Reset

Just over half an hour ago I switched on smASHer88_PS3 to successfully download a new work unit - Project 5308 Run 40 Clone 848 Generation 5. Lahm_Family_PS3 then downloaded Project 5308 as well, Run 35 Clone 854 Generation 8.

Reading Vijay Pande's blog, he's told us that they've reset server 171.64.65.83 and that seems to have fixed the PS3 downloading troubles we've been having. I dare say this particular server didn't boot up properly after the scheduled server outage they had a few days ago. There looks to be another scheduled server outage for 171.64.65.XX network on November 5, 7 AM to 8:30 AM PST (2 AM to 3:30 AM, November 6 for us on AEDT) so if ya have some issues then, hopefully it will pass quickly.

PST = Pacific Standard Time = GMT-8
AEDT = Australian Eastern Daylight Time = GMT+11

EDIT: Seemed to be a 3-4 hour period after my two 7hr work units finished where they wouldn't then download another new work unit! However i've turned them back on yet again to download new work units. I seriously hope these troubles are behind us now for the PS3! Haha

PS3 Servers seem to be down

If your PS3 is saying "can't connect to Server" then your not your own. It seems to be another small problem with the servers as many people have reported on the Folding Community Forum. Less than a fortnight ago, PS3 folders experienced the same problem, and it was given a short-term fix.

So hold tight guys, hopefully the Stanford guys are working on fixing this problem as we speak, as it is daytime there now. I'm sure Vijay will give us some official news soon. I have shutdown both my PS3s for now, and will keep checking one of them every now and then and post back when i have success in downloading a new work unit! Haha this doesn't really help our Foldathon, but oh well, gotta keep crunching away best we can!

New Official Team Logo

I've designed a brand new official team logo, just for the hell of it! The old one was getting a bit boring.. needed a refresh. You may also notice the new blog banner. Hope everyone likes!

Just so everyone knows, this is the original logo it is replacing -

I'll try to post some modified logos soon so that they can be used as forum avatars etc.

November 2008 = 2nd Team Birthday Foldathon!

Marking the 2nd Birthday of our Folding@Home team Aussie Rules Footy, we are going to celebrate by hosting a 'Foldathon'!

Basically, a Foldathon is where you fold as many work units as you can during a set time period (ours being the whole month of November), and building as many points for your donor name as possible.

As well as acting like a Team Member Recruitment Drive, we want to see how far we can push our Team Ranking position, as it stands at 1279th at the moment. By folding as many work units as possible, we'll be doing a lot of important work for Stanford University. It's also a way to create a bit of friendly competitive spirit amongst our team members, spurring them on to either putting on extra machines for themselves, or encouraging their friends and family to join the cause!

I've changed the 'Team Birthday' countdown clock to reflect the time period of the Foldathon. So we now have to the end of November to make as many points as possible!

Here's a snapshot of our current team stats which will be used in combination with a snapshot early on the 1st of December to decide a Winner of the 2nd Team Birthday Foldathon! Where a team member has more than one folding name, the sum of their folding names will be used.

Aussie Rules Footy

Date of last work unit	2008-10-31 08:30:13
Active CPUs within 50 days	33
Team Id	52735
Grand Score	1106761 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	4402 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	1279 of 146442
Home Page	http://team52735.blogspot.com/
Fast Teampage URL	http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team52735.html

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	257161	1047
2	Ravenge5	153170	696
3	RoXeD	125120	517
4	Jens_Klausen	84908	180
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	61759	201
6	smASHer88	54019	184
7	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
8	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138
9	DSE_352_Notebooks	33487	136
10	zoneur	32860	73
11	mikael	26502	127
12	peterdiva	20962	54
13	BIGMAN	19683	56
14	Delta_Leviathan	18817	132
15	Greg	16622	114
16	magicgate3	13335	56
17	ROO_BOY29	13055	46
18	QCKRNU	12655	66
19	ahmsnake	11179	45
20	savernake	9445	38
21	Jacko	7230	36
22	rossqo	5596	10
23	mgpower0	5280	3
24	bec_clarke	4413	41
25	PS3	3982	33
26	hobbozzrock	3685	15
27	Ugly	3513	2
28	MitchAllen	3160	39
29	Ravenge	2917	24
30	nitty	2750	4
31	Jawgz	2434	16
32	erBotty	2250	5
33	J4CKT	2220	9
34	BOONDOCKS	1500	1
35	TheePi	1388	36
36	ningcaptor	1036	9
37	luigi4562	953	7
38	Rfscann	935	6
39	Suzy_Wong	837	4
40	SHELL86	765	2
41	CCz619	625	5
42	Bennymac	598	4
43	wilson	545	2
44	QUEBEC	500	2
45	Bioufaxxx	500	3
46	Revolutionary_For_Life	372	2
47	goddest	340	1
48	PS34LIFE.ZACHZEHRUNG	287	1
49	KillerKahuna	287	2
50	Curer_Of_Diseases	256	3
51	naomi	250	1
52	captinmax	250	1
53	nigel	250	2
54	Beauwoodland	186	1
55	chris_be	186	1
56	J4CKT_PC	149	3
57	Shinobi	125	1
58	dcbunny	98	2
59	Jorgo	30	2
60	THAmyth	0	4
61	ronnie	0	3
62	Bernard	0	5

Thanks guys for your participation and good luck!

Points Milestone - peterdiva - 20k

Joining the team a bit over a month ago, peterdiva has just passed the 20,000 points milestone!

Currently on 20,962 points from 54 work units, he sits 138,004th out of 1,116,493 all-time folders. Well done mate!

Work Units Milestone - Lahm_Family_PS3 - 200

Gunning for just over two months straight, Lahm_Family_PS3 has now made a milestone for returning over 200 work units!

Currently on 61,759 points from 201 work units, it sits 63,307th out of 1,116,493 all-time folders.

New Top 10 Team Member - zoneur

A bit late to report on this one sorry, but zoneur has taken 10th spot on the Team Leaderboard, pushing mikael back to 11th.

Only joining less than 3 weeks ago, zoneur has made a quick climb up the ranks!

Work Units Milestone - peterdiva - 50

peterdiva has now returned over 50 work units for the team!

Currently on 18,082 points from 51 work units, he sits 151,270th out of 1,115,453 all-time folders. Good work mate!

Points Milestone - Ugly - 2k

My mate Ugly has just passed the 2,000 points milestone!

He's already scored 3,513 points for the team from only 2 work units! He's looking to climb the team leaderboard quickly too, so lookout! Haha, so far he's sitting 352,481st out of 1,114,484 all-time folders. Great work mate!

Points Milestone - J4CKT - 2k

J4CKT has just passed the milestone for 2,000 points!

Sitting 423,848th out of 1,113,471 all-time folders, he's returned 9 work units already for a total 2,220 points. Keep up the good work mate!

Points Milestone - J4CKT - 1k

J4CKT has just passed the 1,000 points milestone!

Currently sitting 493,538th out of 1,111,984 all-time folders, he has returned a total of 6 work units for 1,450 points. Good stuff mate!

New Team Member - J4CKT_PC

It looks as though our latest new team member - J4CKT_PC is part of J4CKT's subteam!

Obviously this is a PC, and it has already returned 1 work unit for 119 points. This one currently sits 904,543rd out of 1,110,747 all-time folders. Thanks for joining up!