Saturday, November 1, 2008

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!

Friday, October 31, 2008

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!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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!

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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!

Monday, October 27, 2008

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.

Friday, October 24, 2008

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

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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

Monday, October 20, 2008

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!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

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.

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