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 This could be just down to the fact that the teams just above us were no longer active, or they have a lower PPW output than us, whereas last week the teams just above us might have had a lot closer PPW output to ours.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