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!

Top 10 Team Members Shuffle

With our fourth change in the Top 10 for Team Members in the space of a week, peterdiva now moves ahead to take 9th spot, leaving DSE_352_PS3 at 10th.

DSE_352_PS3, a now defunct team member, was the first Playstation 3 to join Aussie Rules Footy. Running on a store-display PS3 at my place of work - Dick Smith Electronics, store number 352, it joined the team on the 26th May, 2007 (the Folding@Home software for PS3 was only just released months before in March, and it was also one of the now defunct CECHCxx 60GB PAL models) and was folding consistently as a store display PS3 could until it's last work unit on the 20th September, 2007. I believe the PS3 had to transferred as stock to another store, so that's pretty much how it stopped. Since it started folding at a time when the team only had ~14,000 points, it played a crucial role in getting the team to is first 100,000 points milestone.

Current top 10:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	266801	1086
2	Ravenge5	160823	726
3	RoXeD	132100	543
4	Jens_Klausen	118644	252
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	71623	240
6	smASHer88	54728	188
7	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
8	zoneur	40474	90
9	peterdiva	38231	74
10	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138

Points Milestone - Ugly - 10k

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

He has so far earned 11,641 points from only 6 work units! He also sits 198,464th out of 1,124,796 all-time folders. Well done mate!

New Top 10 Team Member - peterdiva

peterdiva has now joined the Top 10 on the Team Leaderboard!

Relegating DSE_352_Notebooks to 11th place, he now sits comfortably at 10th spot with only a couple more thousand points needed to overtake DSE_352_PS3.

Here's the current top 10:

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	smASHer88_PS3	265841	1082
2	Ravenge5	159773	722
3	RoXeD	132100	543
4	Jens_Klausen	114773	244
5	Lahm_Family_PS3	70573	236
6	smASHer88	54683	185
7	BulleenAnt1	42274	143
8	zoneur	40474	90
9	DSE_352_PS3	37070	138
10	peterdiva	35831	72

Work Units Milestone - QCKRNU - 100

QCKRNU has now achieved the 100 work units milestone!

Gaining 16,772 points from 100 work units, he sits 15th on the team leaderboard, and 160,240th out of 1,123,968 all-time folders. Great stuff mate!

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.