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!

Work Units Milestone - RoXeD - 500

RoXeD has now bumped himself up a notch in the Major Milestone Club department, returning his 500th work unit for the team!

Sitting at 120,232 points from 500 work units, he has contributed nearly 10% of all the team's points, and over 10% of all the team's work units! Currently positioned 3rd on the Team Leaderboard, he sits 35,538th out of 1,110,747 all-time folders. Great work mate!

New Team Member - Ugly

One of my mates has just joined the team and is folding under the name Ugly!

He's running the SMP client on an Apple MacBook Pro, so this explains why he has received 1,760 points from his 1st work unit! Already gaining his 1,000 points milestone, he currently sits 460,804th out of 1,110,747 all-time folders. Good stuff mate!

Points Milestone - peterdiva - 10k

peterdiva has just passed the 10,000 points milestone!

Joining the team just over a month ago in late September, he is now positioned inside the team's top 20 team members. Having a look at his donor page tells us he has 3 'active processors' folding under his name, and I can tell by looking at his Kakao Stats summary page, that he has folded atleast one SMP work unit worth 1,760 points. So i'd say he's running a dual-core computer with the SMP client, and possibly another computer with just a single regular client installed. Although, i'm just guessing!

He stats are as follows - 45 work units returned for 10,978 total points, sitting 202,248th out of 1,110,747 all-time folders.

New Team Member - J4CKT

Aussie Rules Footy now has another team member, with a folder going by the name of J4CKT joining up!

Returning 3 work units already, they have made 680 points and sit 626,027th out of 1,110,747 all-time folders.

Work Units Milestone - zoneur - 50

zoneur has just made a work units milestone for returning over 50 work units!

This guy has now earned the team a total of 23,620 points from exactly 51 work units. He now sits 126,507th out of 1,105,763 all-time folders. Well done mate.

New Top 5 Team Member

We have a new Top 5 team member, with my 2nd PS3 - Lahm_Family_PS3 now sitting 5th, nudging out my founding computer name - smASHer88 out of the top 5 to 6th spot.

Heres our current top 5:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	250891	1023
2	Ravenge5	147630	674
3	RoXeD	117096	488
4	Jens_Klausen	68640	143
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	53942	171

Points Milestone - zoneur - 20k

Amazing, zoneur only joined 11 days ago, and has already cracked the 20,000 points milestone!

Our favourite Belgian has so far returned 44 work units, for an exact 20,260 points. He currently sits just outside the team's top 10, and 139,630th out of 1,104,764 all-time folders. Great effort mate!

PS3 work unit downloading issues given short-term fix

If you fold using a PS3, you probably would have noticed just lately, in the last few days or so that your system may have had troubles downloading a new work unit. It seems the servers have been temporarily out of 'jobs' or work units to dish out.

Reading Vijay Pande's blog, Stanford have implemented a short-term fix for the issues, but no comment as to exactly what is wrong.

I had both my PS3s switched off for two days, turning them back on every now and then to see if a new work unit could be downloaded. Last night both PS3s successfully downloaded new work units, one after 1 retry, the other straight away. As far as I can tell, both have been trouble free since. So if you currently have your PS3 down, waiting for these issues to pass, switch her back on, everything should be smooth sailing for now! lol

Points Milestone - Aussie Rules Footy - 1m

A fortnight out from the team's 2nd Birthday, Aussie Rules Footy now joins over 1,300 other teams that have broken through the much sought after 1,000,000 Points Milestone!!!

If you refer back to the 500k points milestone posted in early June, you'll see that we have certainly come a long way as a team, meeting some expectations set down, and exceeding others.

"The 1,000,000 point milestone should be less than 12 months away now" - It took 19 months to achieve the first 500k points. Turned out to be only a bit over 4 months to achieve the next 500k!

"Team PPD (Points Per Day) figures now average atleast 2,000 PPD with regular figures of 3,000 PPD" - Average figures are now between 4,000 ~ 5,000 with regular 7,000 ~ 9,000 'days'.

"Hopefully recruitment wise we can get a couple of SMP client-running members, and possibly some GPU folders for some big PPD figures" - Whilst i'm not sure about any team members running the SMP client, I do know that we have successfully recruited 2 GPU folders! And yes, they are certainly helping our daily points production!

Exact figures for the team are as follows - 1,000,174 points from 4,098 work units, and a 1,375th position out of 145,334 all-time teams.

I'd just like to thank everyone who is currently folding for Aussie Rules Footy - Team 52735, as well as past members who have contributed to the total points figure we have now. I'm now looking forward to seeing many new team members joining up and pushing ahead for Aussie Rules Footy's 2m Points Milestone!

Folding Setup - Lahm_Family_PS3

As promised this is a snap of my setup for Lahm_Family_PS3. Similar to my other PS3 - smASHer88_PS3, it's a 40GB PAL unit, but it's actually got a different model no. with the serial no. ending in CECHJ02 instead of my existing PS3 which has CECHG02. I'm pretty sure the J models are for those that were part of the Bonus PS3 with Sony Bravia LCD HDTV promotion that happened in July.

Anyways, here's a pic of the PS3 paired up with a Metz Artos 82 MF using Component Video (It's a 'Medium Definition' CRT TV.. no HDMI unfortunately!).

Points Milestone - Lahm_Family_PS3 - 50k

My old man's Playstation 3, Lahm_Family_PS3 has now passed the 50,000 points milestone!

Since joining the team late August, this PS3 has kept it's PPD (points per day) between the average 900~1,000 for a PS3. Expect a 100k points milestone Christmas present from this one! In the new team member post i made at the time, i said i would post a 'Folding Setup' picture soon... well, just look for my next post.

Lahm_Family_PS3 now has exactly 50,211 points to it's name, and that comes from returning 157 work units. It now sits 73,137th out of 1,101,765 all-time folders.

Points Milestone - zoneur - 10k

zoneur has reached the milestone for 10,000 points!

Using his NVIDIA 8800GTX GPU, he certainly climbs the stats fast! Currently sitting on 11,520 points from 24 work units, he's positioned 194,940th out of 1,101,049 all-time folders. Great stuff mate!

Points Milestone - QCKRNU - 10k

QCKRNU has just passed the 10,000 points milestone!

Using his dual-core setup, he's sitting on exactly 10,023 points from 53 work units, and is positioned 210,762nd out of 1,101,049 all-time folders. Congrats mate!

Major Milestone Clubs

I've decided to sort of 'collate' some of the milestone achievements in both points and work units, and makeup a Major Milestone Clubs list in the top right-hand side of the blog.

The milestone figures used will be the top 3 in each category starting from a the highest achieved milestone figure that either one or more team members has achieved, and then will be the 2 figures below that as well. This may change later on depending on how many team members is in each category.

I hope this can encourage more friendly competition amongst us team members! haha

Work Units Milestone - smASHer88_PS3 - 1k

My original Playstation 3, smASHer88_PS3 has reached the 1,000 work units milestone!

Folding pretty much non-stop since Boxing Day (26th December) last year, this little ripper has just churned out the work units! Accounting for just under a quarter of Aussie Rules Footy's total work units, and just over a quarter of the total points, my PS3 is nearly 100,000 points clear of its closest rival - Ravenge5.

Exact stats are as follows - 1,001 work units, 245,506 points and sits 16,984th out of 1,099,193 all-time folders. What an achievement!

Work Units Milestone - QCKRNU - 50

QCKRNU has now recorded his first work units milestone for returning 50 for the team!

Having returned exactly 52 work units, he has earned a total of 9,858 points, and sits 212,020th out of 1,099,193 all-time folders. Good stuff mate!

Points Milestone - zoneur - 5k

zoneur has just passed the 5,000 points milestone!

Using his GPU system to his advantage, he's only been a part of the team for less than a week, and already breaking 5k milestones! He currently sits on exactly 5,760 points from 12 work units, and is placed 278,345th out of 1,099,193 all-time folders. Well done mate!

Points Milestone - mikael - 20k

RoXeD's computer mikael has reached the milestone for 20,000 points!

His computer now has returned 109 work units for 20,041 points, and sits 139,245th out of 1,098,458 all-time folders.

New Top 10 Team Member - mikael

mikael has moved up into the Top 10 on the Team Leaderboard to edge out Delta_Leviathan to take 10th spot!

It's certainly an achievement for mikael/RoXeD to have two folding aliases in the top 10!

Work Units Milestone - BIGMAN - 50

BIGMAN has now returned a total of 50 work units on behalf of the team!

Earning 17,923 points from 50 work units, he 148,872nd out of 1,097,078 all-time folders. Good stuff mate.

Top 5 Team Members Shuffle

Our Top 5 team members have had a small change in their order with Jens_Klausen now occupying 4th spot, overtaking my computer (and founding team member) - smASHer88 to push it back to 5th spot.

The top 3 order remains unchanged, but now that Jens_Klausen has passed the 50k points milestone, each of our top 5 team members have now contributed over 50,000 points for the team! Congrats guys!

A snapshot of our Top 5:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	242676	990
2	Ravenge5	147630	674
3	RoXeD	108082	451
4	Jens_Klausen	54240	113
5	smASHer88	52940	181

Points Milestone - Ravenge - 2k

Ravenge has now passed the 2,000 points milestone!

Having returned 17 work units for a total of 2,056 points, he sits 429,598th out of 1,096,496 all-time folders. Keep up the good work mate.

Work Units Milestone - mikael - 100

mikael has just passed the milestone for returning 100 work units!

As of today he has returned 102 work units and made 17,735 points for the team. This sits him 149,655th out of 1,096,496 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Points Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 50k

Our one and only Danish team member, Jens_Klausen is killing it points-wise, now racking up his 50,000 points milestone!

Now sitting 70,109th out of 1,096,496 all-time folders, he has returned 109 work units for 52,320 points. Great stuff mate!

New Team Member - zoneur

Another GPU folder has joined the ranks, and funnily enough he happens to comes from YouTube just like Jens_Klausen. Welcome zoneur to the team!

I missed yesterday's reporting, but he's already racked up his 1,000 and 2,000 points milestones! Sitting on 2,400 points from only 5 work units, he's placed 405,523rd out of 1,096,496 all-time folders.

Our new team member hails from Belgium, and on his YouTube account, he's posted his own video on folding with his NVIDIA 8800GTX graphics card which features below.

Points Milestone - peterdiva - 5k

Joining a bit over a fortnight ago, peterdiva has just passed the 5,000 points milestone!

Returning 28 work units for a total of 5,028 points, he sits 294,998th out of 1,094,967 all-time folders. Great stuff mate.

Work Units Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 100

Jens_Klausen has now returned over 100 work units!

With exact figures of 101 work units for 48,480 points, he now sits 74,038th out of 1,094,967 all-time folders.

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New Top 5 Team Member - Jens_Klausen

It hasn't even been a month since Jens_Klausen joined our team, but he has already made a quick entrance into our Top 10 on the Team Leaderboard, and now Top 5.

Currently sitting on 40,320 points from 84 work units, he's positioned 5th team-wise, and 84,511th out of 1,092,028 all-time folders. Great stuff mate.

Points Milestone - RoXeD - 100k

We now have two Canadian team members who have passed the milestone for 100,000 points, this time its RoXeD!

Ravenge5 being the other one, these guys both run computers also, but under different names.
RoXeD is also mikael. Ravenge5 is also Ravenge... which is more of an obvious one lol. They both have dual-core computers which means they can double their output compared to us single-core people.. lucky!

So anyway, now RoXeD has 100,792 points from 424 work units. Sitting solidly in 3rd spot on the Team Leaderboard, he sits 40,043rd out of 1,092,028 all-time folders. Great stuff mate.

Work Units Milestone - Lahm_Family_PS3 - 100

Lahm_Family_PS3 has just passed the 100 work units milestone!

Returning a total of 101 work units for 36,537 points, my 2nd PS3 is now positioned 90,892nd out of 1,091,197 all-time folders.

Points Milestone - Ravenge - 1k

Ravenge5's Computer - Ravenge has just passed the 1,000 points milestone!

Scoring 1,001 points for the team from 5 work units, his computer sits 541,716th out of 1,088,685 all-time folders. Good stuff mate.

Increase in 'active' PS3 folders pushes Folding@Home past 4 Petaflops!

Sony's recent release of 'Life with Playstation' has played the major factor in Folding@Home passing the 4 Petaflops mark. The new update for the folding application on the PS3 has attracted many more 'active' PS3 folders than in recent months. The last time the PS3 had ~ 60,000 active folders would have been when Metal Gear Solid 4 came out, and since then, the numbers have slowly declined back to an average of ~40,000.

At the time of the 3 Petaflop breakthrough, The GPU guys were the major factor, and it has to be said, they've kept up consistent 'active' folder numbers, and even added ~ 300 Teraflops worth since then.

I personally would like to see 'active' PS3 numbers rise to ~ 100,000 and consistently stay there. Considering there is well over 10 million PS3 systems out there, i'm only asking for just 1%!

Taken from the OS Stats page -

Client statistics by OS

OS Type	Current TFLOPS*	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	207	217288	2191266
Mac OS X/PowerPC	6	7455	120622
Mac OS X/Intel	23	7580	64552
Linux	57	33374	333719
ATI GPU	494	4490	11195
NVIDIA GPU	1518	13802	32137
PLAYSTATION®3	1716	60867	621405
Total	4021	344856	3374896

Total number of non-Anonymous donators = 1085872

Last updated at Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:04:09

DB date 2008-09-28 05:00:01

Points Milestone - peterdiva - 2k

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

Returning 14 work units for a total of 2,002 points, he sits 428,273rd out of 1,085,961 all-time folders.

Points Milestone - nitty - 2k

Congrats to nitty who has just passed the 2,000 points milestone!

Sitting on exactly 2,750 points from 4 work units, they now are positioned 378,660th out of 1,084,934 all-time folders.

Work Units Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 50

Jens_Klausen has racked up his 50th work unit milestone!

Currently on 51 work units, he has earned 24,480 points total which puts him 119,023rd out of 1,083,926 all-time folders. Well done mate.

New Team Member - Ravenge

Whether it's Ravenge5's 2nd machine or just a typo he's made, we have a new team member on the stats page with Ravenge.

Returning 1 work unit for 15 points, he sits 992,860th out of 1,082,956 all-time folders.

Points Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 20k

Continuing his assault on the team stats, Jens_Klausen has just passed the milestone for 20,000 points!

Whilst only joining the team on the 13th, Jens has already made a significant milestone, one that takes many others months to achieve. Going by the current rate, he'll easily sit 4th on the team leaderboard in a month's time.

The GPU folding champ has so far returned 42 work units for exactly 20,160 points. He's positioned 134,849th out of 1,082,027 all-time folders. Great stuff mate!