I'll try to post some modified logos soon so that they can be used as forum avatars etc.Sunday, November 2, 2008
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.
I'll try to post some modified logos soon so that they can be used as forum avatars etc.
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.
Thanks guys for your participation and good luck!
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 |
Thanks guys for your participation and good luck!
Points Milestone - peterdiva - 20k
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
Friday, October 31, 2008
Work Units Milestone - peterdiva - 50
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Points Milestone - Ugly - 2k
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!
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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
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:
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
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!).
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!).
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