Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

With the latest change to the Top 10 Team Members order, Ugly has now moved to 8th spot on the team leaderboard, overtaking my computer - smASHer88, which is now at 9th spot.

Current top 10:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	290635	1178
2	Jens_Klausen	251679	538
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	97053	333
6	peterdiva	89374	132
7	zoneur	65715	145
8	Ugly	57770	54
9	smASHer88	55491	192
10	BulleenAnt1	42445	144

Work Units Milestone - Ugly - 50

Ugly has now returned 50 work units to claim his first work units milestone.

Currently on 55,040 points from 50 work units, he's 9th on the team leaderboard, and 73,169th out of 1,145,122 all-time folders.

Points Milestone - Ugly - 50k

Ugly joins eight other team members on the Major Milestone Club list for achieving the milestone for 50,000 points!

Since joining the team in late October, Ugly has managed to gain 51,950 points from just 45 work units! How? Well as you'll read in joining post, he has been running the SMP client on an Apple MacBook Pro, which usually fetches him between 1,000 and 2,000 points per work unit! Of course his points to work unit ratio show hes much closer to 1,000 points / work unit. This could be because he's recently added a PS3 to fold under Ugly as well, bringing his average points per work unit down.

He currently sits 9th on the team leaderboard and 76,306th out of 1,144,455 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Work Units Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 500

Jens_Klausen has become the 4th team member to make the 500 work units milestone as he bumps himself up a category in the Major Milestone Club!

Since joining nearly three months ago, he has returned exactly 506 work units for a total of 237,864 points. This means he has contributed approximately 15% of the team's points, and nearly 10% of all work units!

He's currently coming 2nd on the team leaderboard, and could easily overtake my main PS3 - smASHer88_PS3 just after New Years! He sits 19,715th out of 1,143,682 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Where Folding@Home is heading

Vijay Pande has posted a 'Long term vision' on his blog about Folding@Home about where it is heading and what sort of results we can expect Science wise.

He mentions the fact that the first few years of the project was spent working out the right types of methods to use to enable a functional Distributed Computing network.

The next step was to work in the latest range of clients (Playstation 3, SMP and GPU) which has been a big task to accomplish and still not perfected as of yet. An 'SMP2' client is the next target for the development team, with hopes that it will be similar to the transformation of the GPU to GPU2 client. Vijay comments saying -

"Our goal is to be bleeding edge in the nature of our science, but get back to the simplicity and stability found in the classic client"

Science wise, we are to expect some pretty big results very soon, with many research papers to be published after peer review is completed. Vijay comments -

"In particular, results on Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and some other surprises in the works"

So there you go guys, the real reason we are all folding hasn't been forgotten. Hopefully a lot can be learned from these future publicly-released research papers, and we can see the benefit gained from lending our CPU cycles!

Points Milestone - Jawgz - 20k

My mate Jawgz has now hit the 20,000 points milestone!

In addition to his Mac, he's now got some computers at work crunching away for him as well! Sitting on exactly 20,966 points from 29 work units, he sits 15th on the team leaderboard and 143,102nd out of 1,143,038 all-time folders. Good stuff mate!

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

Ugly has pushed ahead to 9th spot now on the top 10 team leaderboard, which means BulleenAnt1 slips back to 10th.

Current top 10:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	285805	1160
2	Jens_Klausen	229388	487
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	92013	317
6	peterdiva	79806	116
7	zoneur	64217	141
8	smASHer88	55491	192
9	Ugly	45060	31
10	BulleenAnt1	42274	143

2nd Team Birthday Foldathon! Results

As we finish our 2nd Team Birthday Foldathon, we look back at some interesting stats that have happened just over the month of November.

A total of 376,655 points was generated by Aussie Rules Footy in November by returning a total of 884 work units. Our team ranking position has advanced 199 places up to 1,080th! (previously 1,279th).

We've seen eleven changes to the top 10 team leaderboard, and two changes in the top 5 order. We've had a few work unit milestones - three 100, two 200 and a 5k for the team. Also, for points milestones, we've had three 5k, two 10k, four 20k, two 50k, one 100k and one 200k. We've also brought in a new team logo, had two new team members join, and have had some interruptions to our foldathon in the form of server troubles.

But past all that, we

EDIT:
WILL UPDATE AS SOON AS I HAVE ENOUGH FREE TIME TO WRAP UP THIS HUGE POST, SORRY!

Winner: Jens_Klausen - 144,096 points from 306 work units, averaging 4,803 PPD

Aussie Rules Footy

Date of last work unit	2008-11-30 06:44:37
Active CPUs within 50 days	39
Team Id	52735
Grand Score	1483416 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	5286 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	1080 of 148592
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	284585	1155
2	Jens_Klausen	229004	486
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	90273	314
6	peterdiva	75820	113
7	zoneur	61625	135
8	smASHer88	55491	192
9	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
10	Ugly	39450	21
11	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138
12	DSE_352_Notebooks	33652	137
13	mikael	26502	127
14	QCKRNU	24728	153
15	BIGMAN	20343	58
16	Delta_Leviathan	18817	132
17	Jawgz	16992	25
18	Greg	16622	114
19	magicgate3	15835	66
20	ROO_BOY29	13055	46
21	ahmsnake	11179	45
22	savernake	9445	38
23	Jacko	7230	36
24	rossqo	6186	13
25	Ravenge	6090	38
26	mgpower0	5280	3
27	bec_clarke	4413	41
28	PS3	3982	33
29	hobbozzrock	3685	15
30	MitchAllen	3614	42
31	nitty	3080	5
32	erBotty	2250	5
33	J4CKT	2220	9
34	BOONDOCKS	1500	1
35	TheePi	1388	36
36	ningcaptor	1036	9
37	terminator80	960	2
38	luigi4562	953	7
39	Rfscann	935	6
40	Suzy_Wong	837	4
41	SHELL86	765	2
42	CCz619	625	5
43	Bennymac	598	4
44	wilson	545	2
45	QUEBEC	500	2
46	Bioufaxxx	500	3
47	Revolutionary_For_Life	372	2
48	goddest	340	1
49	NTC	313	2
50	PS34LIFE.ZACHZEHRUNG	287	1
51	KillerKahuna	287	2
52	Curer_Of_Diseases	256	3
53	naomi	250	1
54	captinmax	250	1
55	nigel	250	2
56	Beauwoodland	186	1
57	chris_be	186	1
58	J4CKT_PC	149	3
59	Shinobi	125	1
60	dcbunny	98	2
61	Jorgo	30	2
62	THAmyth	0	4
63	ronnie	0	3
64	Bernard	0	5

PPD = Points Per Day

New Top 10 Team Member - Ugly

Congratulations to Ugly who has now joined the Top 10 on the Team Leaderboard knocking DSE_352_PS3 back to 11th!

Here's how the current top 10 stands:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	283685	1152
2	Jens_Klausen	225613	478
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	89463	311
6	peterdiva	73608	111
7	zoneur	61625	135
8	smASHer88	55491	192
9	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
10	Ugly	38557	20

Folding@Home Server changes plan to reduce downtime

Vijay Pande has posted some news on his blog about recent changes regarding the Collection Servers (CS), and also about plans for Server upgrades in the near future.

The Collection Servers have gotten a bit of tweaking, and have been moved onto a new network as the old one has had quite a few problems. Both Servers (171.67.108.17 & 171.67.108.25) are reportedly doing well for now. These servers act as backups when the Work Servers (where you download work units from) can't handle all the completed/uploaded work units, or when they are down.

The Folding@Home team also plan to issue general server upgrades with v5 code (currently in beta testing with Project 3798) early next year, with production Work Servers likely to be updated starting in January. This v5 code is being built from scratch and hopefully will result in much more stable servers for a more reliable Project network.

New Team Member - terminator80

A new team member going by the name of terminator80 has joined our team.

Already returning 2 work units, they have earned 960 points so far and sit 584,890th out of 1,137,792 all-time folders.

Points Milestone - Jens_Klausen - 200k

Joining smASHer88_PS3 in the 200k points Team Member Major Milestones Club category, Jens_Klausen is now the second team member to crack the 200,000 points milestone!

Only joining the team just over two months ago, Jens_Klausen has made a significant contribution to the team's total points in such a short time. Using 2 x GPUs to fold, he cranks out over 4,000 points daily! Now sitting on 205,679 from 433 work units, he's sitting 2nd on the team leaderboard and 22,452nd out of 1,136,995 all-time folders. Well done mate!

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

Our most recent change to our Team Leaderboard Top 10 sees zoneur move ahead to 7th spot, pushing my computer - smASHer88 back to 8th.

The current top 10:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	277478	1129
2	Jens_Klausen	193199	407
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	83243	287
6	peterdiva	61671	100
7	zoneur	55834	122
8	smASHer88	55491	192
9	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
10	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138

Work Units Milestone - peterdiva - 100

peterdiva has made a milestone for returning 100 work units!

Gaining 61,671 points from those 100 work units, he sits 6th on the team leaderboard, and 65,642nd out of 1,135,251 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Points Milestone - Ravenge - 5k

Ravenge5's computer, running as Ravenge has just broken through the 5,000 points milestone!

Currently on 5,283 points from 35 work units, his computer sits 299,565th out of 1,134,191 all-time folders. Good stuff mate!

New Team Member - NTC

Please welcome our newest member to the team - NTC.

They've already returned their 1st work unit for 114 points and they currently sit 928,174th out of 1,134,191 all-time folders.

Main Assignment Server was down temporarily

Reading Vijay Pande's blog (posts 1 & 2), it seems the Main Assignment Server was out of action for approximately an hour, which wasn't to worry as they have other backup servers in place for times like these. This all happened at approximately 4:30 PM PST November 21 (so just before lunch, 11:30 AM AEDT, November 22 here on the Aussie East Coast!)

The main consequence is that the Stats system had to hold off updating for a while, so the Team/Donor stats might not have appeared to update for a few hours. All work unit credits were still counted, but they just might have taken a while to get credited to the Stats system. All should be good now.


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

Points Milestone - QCKRNU - 20k

QCKRNU has now made the 20,000 points milestone!

Using his dual-core AMD processor, he's returned 134 work units so far for a total of exactly 20,053 points. Sitting 15th on the team leaderboard, he sits 145,347th out of 1,133,297 all-time folders. Great stuff mate.

Points Milestone - Jawgz - 10k

Jawgz has now passed the milestone for 10,000 points!

Sitting on 11,007 points from only 21 work units, he sits 21st on the team leaderboard and 206,995th out of 1,133,297 all-time folders. Well done mate.

Work Units Milestone - Aussie Rules Footy - 5k

We as a team have now collectively returned over 5,000 work units!!!

We currently sit on 5,041 work units which has earned us a total of 1,366,048 points so far. We sit 1,136th out of 147,872 all-time teams. Well done guys, we have contributed a great effort to Folding@Home so far, and we should be at 10,000 work units in no time!

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

With another change to our Top 10 Team Members, peterdiva now jumps to 6th spot, pushing my computer - smASHer88 back to 7th.

There's been a lot of changes on team leaderboard just in November, and I can't wait to see where everyone sits at the end of 2008! Heres the current top 10:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	274698	1118
2	Jens_Klausen	173999	367
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	80133	275
6	peterdiva	56927	96
7	smASHer88	55199	191
8	zoneur	51514	113
9	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
10	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138

Points Milestone - zoneur - 50k

zoneur has now passed the milestone for 50,000 points!

Our 8th team member to do so, he joins seven others on the Major Milestone Club for passing 50k points. He now sits on exactly 51,514 points from 113 work units. Currently 8th on the team leaderboard, he's running 75,227th out of 1,132,309 all-time folders. Congrats mate!

Top 5 Team Members Shuffle

It was only 5 days ago, Jens_Klausen nudged aside long-running 3rd placed team member RoXeD, but now it's Ravenge5 turn to give up his long-running team placing as well (2nd). As of today, Jens_Klausen now sits 2nd on the Team Leaderboard, with quite a stretch to reach my ol' faithful - smASHer88_PS3!!! No doubt this guy will chew through the 100k points buffer in no time, i'm just not looking forward to reporting on my own de-throning!

Current top 5:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	273831	1114
2	Jens_Klausen	167279	353
3	Ravenge5	166003	745
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	79173	271

Work Units Milestone - zoneur - 100

Joining the team a bit over a month ago now, zoneur has now returned over 100 work units for Aussie Rules Footy!

Having completed a total of 105 work units, he's gained 47,674 points and as he currently sits 8th on the team leaderboard, he sits 79,589th out of 1,131,392 all-time folders. Well done mate!

Points Milestone - Jawgz - 5k

My mate, Jawgz has recently started folding again, now using his brand new Macbook Pro, he has now passed the 5,000 points milestone!

Since the Intel Macs can only fold using the SMP client, he gains quite a few points from each work unit, just like Ugly with his Macbook Pro. So expect his 10k point milestone to come up relatively quickly.

He now sits on exactly 5,247 points from 18 work units and 299,422nd out of 1,129,902 all-time folders.

Points Milestone - peterdiva - 50k

peterdiva joins the Major Milestone Club for 50,000 points!

Only at the start of this month had he made his 20k points milestone, and now he's sittin on 50k points, and inside the team's top 10! On exactly 50,135 points from 89 work units, he's 7th on the team leaderboard and 76,421st out of 1,129,902 all-time folders. Well done mate!

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

zoneur has now taken 8th spot on the Top 10 Team Leaderboard, as he overtakes BulleenAnt1, leaving him at 9th spot.

The current top 10 looks like this:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	270881	1101
2	Ravenge5	164693	739
3	Jens_Klausen	149488	316
4	RoXeD	132100	543
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	75913	258
6	smASHer88	54907	190
7	peterdiva	47895	87
8	zoneur	42874	95
9	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
10	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138

Points Milestone - Ugly - 20k

Ugly folding with his Macbook Pro has passed the 20,000 points milestone!

Currently on 21,053 points from 11 work units, he sits 13th on the team leaderboard, and 139,958th out of 1,129,195 all-time folders. Good stuff mate.

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

As promised Jens_Klausen has taken 3rd place on the Team Leaderboard today, pushing RoXeD back to 4th.

EDIT:
Forgive me, but I was actually meant to post the top 10 figures here, as it seems I missed the fact that peterdiva overtook BulleenAnt1 as well, meaning this is now a 'Top 10 Team Members Shuffle' post. So peterdiva moves to 7th spot, leaving BulleenAnt1 at 8th.

As we now have over 60 members in our team to keep track of, you'll just have to forgive me if I miss reporting on something, so please leave comments if I do again.

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

Another change to the Top 10 Team Leaderboard this week now has peterdiva at 8th spot, leaving zoneur to fall back to 9th.

Expect another shuffle post tomorrow for the top 5 as Jens_Klausen surges ahead, eyeing off RoXeD's podium spot! But as for now, here's the current lineup:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	268661	1093
2	Ravenge5	162863	733
3	RoXeD	132100	543
4	Jens_Klausen	129328	274
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	73683	248
6	smASHer88	54743	189
7	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
8	peterdiva	40951	82
9	zoneur	40474	90
10	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138

Jens_Klausen has added a 2nd GPU!

Future Team Leader, Jens_Klausen has recently added a second ASUS EN9600GT SILENT graphics card to his Computer, boosting his PPD (points per day) output even further!

With his current PPD output of ~4,000, he'll most likely overtake 3rd placed RoXeD tomorrow to continue his push up the team leaderboard!

Previously running a quad-core system with a single GPU, he's told me that the NVIDIA GPU client no longer requires a dedicated CPU core to feed it, so he's squeezed in another GPU for more output. The rest of his CPU time he uses to contribute to the BOINC Distributed Computing program, running under the name Jens.

For those that haven't seen his YouTube video - Folding@Home on a NVIDIA 9600GT GPU, you can either use the link, or go back to his 10k Points Milestone where his video is also featured.

Great stuff mate!