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.

Call for Fair Pricing on Sony PS3 console, games & accessories in Australia

Call for Fair Pricing on Sony PS3 console, games & accessories in Australia

We are getting reamed Downunder pricewise on things like Playstations, please sign the petition!

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!

Points Milestone - peterdiva - 1k

Only two days ago peterdiva joined the team and now he has already cracked the 1,000 points milestone!

With exactly 1,004 points from 4 work units, he sits 536,653rd out of 1,081,025 all-time folders. Well done mate.

New Team Member - peterdiva

A new team member by the name of peterdiva has joined the ranks already returning 2 work units for the team.

Gaining the team 307 points, he (I assume going by the name) positions himself 731,834th out of 1,079,025 all-time folders. Welcome to the team mate.

New Top 10 Team Member - Jens_Klausen

Folding with a GPU certainly has an advantage points-wise as proven by Jens_Klausen. He's just broken into the Top 10 on the Team Leaderboard, pushing Greg aside to take 10th spot.

Current stats are as follows: 15,360 points from 32 work units and sitting 159,269th from 1,079,025 all-time folders.

Work Units Milestone - Lahm_Family_PS3 - 50

Lahm_Family_PS3 has passed the 50 work units milestone!

Actually achieved yesterday, my 2nd PS3 has now returned 55 work units totalling 24,198 points. This positioned it 119,079th out of 1,079,025 all-time folders.

Points Milestone - nitty - 1k

nitty has passed the 1,000 points milestone!

Returning 3 work units for at total of 1,500 points, they now sit 471,348th of 1,077,676 total all-time folders.

Points Milestone - QCKRNU - 5k

QCKRNU has just passed the 5,000 points milestone!

Returning 20 work units for a total of 5,418 points he now sits 278,263rd from 1,076,612 all-time folders. Great stuff mate.

Sony's new 'Life with Playstation' News & Weather Software integrates the latest Folding@Home update

The latest upgrade to the Playstation 3 Folding@Home software will now be integrated into Sony's newly launched 'Life with PlayStation' News and Weather Software.

The new software will function as 'channels', two of which are available at present, one called 'Live' for the News & Weather related side, and of course 'Folding@Home' for viewing the current protein and detailed stats etc. Apparently plans are that new channels of various types will be added down the line.

The good thing about the integration aspect with Folding is that whenever someone uses Life with Playstation they are participating in Folding@Home project at the same time, as the folding process is always going on in the 'background'. So with the current draws of the cool News and Weather Globe, and the likelihood of more channels to be added later, the more participants we can likely add to the project.

If you notice that your folding performance (NS/day) has gone down, its simply because one of the updates has increased the complexity of the folding methods used on the PS3 and are now equal to those used in GPU2. This means better accuracy of scientific results. Folding points have been adjusted so that the PS3 client will still maintain a rough 900~1000 PPD.

Another addition to the folding side of things, is a 'Contribution Points' system (completely separate to the official Stanford stats) where every PS3 folder starts on a clean slate, and gradually builds points as per their contribution efforts. These new points will be linked to the current user's Playstation Network ID (PSN), so lookout for Lahmy88 & Lahm_Family on the leaderboard!

As Vijay Pande has on his blog, here is a video from lead Sony-side developer Noam Rimon explaining the functionality of the new program.