Folding@home: August Update
Because you need another post about numbers.
Published: 18:00, 01/08/2010 by Greg [Watchful].
10School’s out for Summer, sang Alice Cooper, and many of you are likely making the most of it. Judging from our Folding@home team’s performance over the past month many of them must have taken an early holiday and left their PCs and PS3s folding uninterrupted.
After last month’s blip our monthly point total is back on the up slope of its ballistic curve as we smashed our previous record from two months ago by over 100,000 points. That is another step towards our first million-point month with the new record being 814,239. Unsurprisingly the 20,265 Work Units that were processed to achieve that score was a new record for us too.
Team Info
| This Month | Last Month | Change | Score | New Points | Work Units |
| 761 | 860 | 99 | 6,261,340 | 814,239 | 20,265 |
We have certainly come a long way from this time last year when we were ranked a mere 3,326th. In the last month we have climbed over the sun-dried corpses of three of those teams we had identified as targets, Sony Foster City (home of SCEA), Criterion Games and GTAForums. Given my earlier PSN-related post it is with a wry smile that I notice SCEE are being beaten by SCEA in the below rankings.
Team Overtake
| Project Rank | Team Name | Points Ahead | Overtake in | |
| 100 | PS3Forums.com | 97,695,385 | N/a | |
| 156 | IGN-PS3 | 45,423,036 | 8.4 | Years |
| 182 | Team Kotaku | 36,840,063 | 6.1 | Years |
| 216 | Team GameFAQs | 27,310,862 | 3.4 | Years |
| 249 | Apple Computer, Inc. | 22,982,650 | 2.9 | Years |
| 282 | ps3-hacks.com | 19,139,463 | 2.6 | Years |
| 300 | Gamespot @ Home | 16,035,015 | 1.8 | Years |
| 303 | PS3Folding.com | 15,298,789 | 4.3 | Years |
| 353 | Cheap Ass Gamers | 10,580,983 | 1.2 | Years |
| 367 | Microsoft | 9,632,654 | 12.1 | Months |
| 369 | NVIDIA | 9,451,783 | 1.2 | Years |
| 394 | IBM | 8,064,309 | 1.4 | Years |
| 443 | Insomniac Games | 6,273,726 | 8.2 | Months |
| 462 | Joystiq | 5,435,350 | 7.0 | Months |
| 508 | PS3Gen | 4,097,331 | 5.6 | Months |
| 639 | PS3Blog.net | 1,398,861 | 1.7 | Months |
| 645 | scea | 1,357,805 | 1.6 | Months |
| 653 | GayGamer.net | 1,278,982 | 1.6 | Months |
| 662 | Tactical Gamer | 1,166,215 | 1.5 | Months |
| 680 | SCEE | 852,829 | 1.1 | Months |
Just five new team members this month but all are equally welcome and we look forward to seeing some of you in the Top Folders chart in the coming months. No pressure. :-)
New Members
| Rank | Contributor | Points | WU’s |
| 1 | Sir_Oddington | 3,514 | 14 |
| 2 | apollo | 2,008 | 8 |
| 3 | eirekun | 753 | 3 |
| 4 | mrfodder | 251 | 1 |
| 5 | a_inferior_race | 123 | 1 |
The team may not have had its first million-point month yet but we now have our first million-point member with RedStarGlow passing that particular milestone recently. Jas-n managed to rack up more than 100,000 points last month and both myself and Whodey12 completed our 1,000th WUs.
Top Folders Last Month
| 1 | RedStarGlow | 249,967 |
| 2 | Jas-n | 127,294 |
| 3 | Silverx75 | 75,894 |
| 4 | dejinator | 47,115 |
| 5 | SuburbanMe | 30,116 |
| 6 | XTG | 20,588 |
| 7 | whodey12 | 18,571 |
| 8 | phantom5813 | 17,558 |
| 9 | Radboud | 17,435 |
| 10 | TheDeathAvenger | 17,292 |
| 11 | bunimomike | 15,946 |
| 12 | Burgess_101 | 14,787 |
| 13 | Watchful | 14,167 |
| 14 | Kai | 10,135 |
| 15 | tgjones | 9,330 |
| 16 | topgear | 8,923 |
| 17 | Jeebers | 8,162 |
| 18 | sonicsteve | 7,459 |
| 19 | Asdafer | 7,302 |
| 20 | Vandix | 7,016 |
| 21 | codeman- | 6,153 |
| 22 | Slimeh | 5,960 |
| 23 | RadRazor | 5,026 |
| 24 | Bonyman | 4,769 |
| 25 | KatyNorge | 4,609 |
If you would like to help contribute to the biomedical research projects whose science is the whole reason for the Folding@home project’s existence then please consider joining our team. Alternatively if you are just looking for another way to participate in TSA’s community and maybe get your name up on a front page post you are also more than welcome. Just head on over to the Folding@home thread in our forum for all the information and help you might need.
Here for your enjoyment are the graphs of the team’s monthly progress and that of the top ten individual folders.
Thanks to Jas-n for compiling the tables.
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01/08/2010 at 18:16
Member since: Apr 2009
W00t, in the top 25 folders hehe… well my laptop is broken and my PC is overheating so neither of them have been folding, nor has the PS3 since I repaired its YLoD, that only leaves my two web servers. Not really sure how I got any units folded at all this month :P
01/08/2010 at 20:13
Member since: Jun 2009
A vacuum never hurts katy ;) unless its just realy hot where you are.
02/08/2010 at 20:24
Member since: Apr 2009
It is really hot, but, what is this ‘vacuum’ you speak of? Is that that thing that other people use to clean their houses?
01/08/2010 at 18:24
Member since: Feb 2010
Can somebody tell me why the music function only plays the default track despite there being over 2000 mp3s on my 80GB HHD?
01/08/2010 at 18:24
Member since: Feb 2010
HDD grrr..
01/08/2010 at 20:09
Member since: Aug 2008
Do you mean you have to select a track on at a time?
02/08/2010 at 09:34
Member since: Feb 2010
Manual selection works, but I tend to prefer using Mood then Recommended (the only option available, the others are blacked out).
02/08/2010 at 10:55
Member since: Aug 2008
I don’t know why it’s blocked out… plus if it’s the only one there, why not use the normal selection? I know it’s a bit more awkward, but it does the job.
02/08/2010 at 12:24
Member since: Oct 2008
You realise that with 2,000 MP3s to go through it’ll probably play the default “lift music” track several times while it sorts them out into categories? You’ll be able to see if it is still doing that as the HDD light will be going crazy. If the default track is still playing once the HDD light calms down, then I’m out of ideas.
01/08/2010 at 18:35
Member since: May 2010
Dang Red……. almost 250k in a month =/
02/08/2010 at 12:34
Member since: Jun 2009
I had an i7 I was fortunate enough to get to test on. I doubt that is a performance I will repeat anytime soon (doesn’t mean I won’t try though).
02/08/2010 at 20:53
Member since: Aug 2008
oh… so you are/will e down on power soon? this is where I catch up easier, got my i7 clocked at 3.8Ghz, then there’s the other computers and PS3′s I have folding every now and then.
01/08/2010 at 18:52
Member since: Dec 2009
Nice result for the team this month! and i got placed in top 25 – yay! :)
01/08/2010 at 18:55
Member since: Jul 2010
hmmn may have to join this,i used to ages ago when i first got my ps3 but kind of ended up forgetting about it :S
01/08/2010 at 19:48
Member since: Mar 2010
Simply just go to “Forums”, “General Chat”, “Folding Home Leaderboard” then just write a comment “I want to join too”.
01/08/2010 at 20:17
Member since: Aug 2008
Don’t need to do that, just check out the first post, should tell you all you need to know, simply follow, and then if you need help or want to post you can.
01/08/2010 at 19:07
Member since: Jun 2010
Thanks for the welcome, seemed like a natural progession from my paper-folding days and I like the community spirit. :D
01/08/2010 at 21:02
Member since: Jul 2009
My PS3 will be back folding when it’s fixed this week (hopefully).
01/08/2010 at 21:51
Member since: Jul 2009
YES!!! Made it into the top 10!!!
01/08/2010 at 22:16
Member since: Aug 2008
Sorry to make you feel worse, but that’s only 10th for last month only, not overall, so you’re not on the graph yet.
01/08/2010 at 22:49
Member since: Mar 2010
Jas-n, why i only have 10 WU on leaderboards?? I have 15 WU, but my computers are broken, so i can’t update even on PS3… :[
02/08/2010 at 10:53
Member since: Aug 2008
Simply because…
SHAKUGAN 2,506 1,255 1,251 10
(TSA)Shakugan 1,255 502 753 5
Total’s 15, make sure you have everything set to the top name (SHAKUGAN), makes things easier, and more likely to see yourself on the top folders list.
02/08/2010 at 12:59
Member since: Mar 2010
Thanks Jas-n!
01/08/2010 at 22:40
Member since: Mar 2010
Gotta Fold ‘em all!
02/08/2010 at 10:54
Member since: Aug 2008
Poke your mum, sorry that’s not right… Pokémon… yeah, that’s it.
02/08/2010 at 20:03
Member since: Jan 1970
hey guy, not sure whats going on jus finished a unit and it wont upload and now my new unit is gonna take 1day 19hrs to fold =\? help
02/08/2010 at 20:51
Member since: Aug 2008
Guy?
If you can sign into your PSN account it’s the folding server’s that are down.
If it didn’t upload and you got a new one you probably didn’t finish it in time, so it expired.
And sometimes the PS3 will download WU’s that take 2 days, but usually you see them take 5 and a half to 6 and a half hours.
Hopefully that helps you.
02/08/2010 at 22:51
Member since: Jan 1970
lol srry guys!!! yh it finished then it tried downloading it but it said it couldnt and said trying again in….1min,3min then 5mins, does it still count as one unit even if it takes so long? i could get 7units in 1day 18hrz.
02/08/2010 at 23:59
Member since: Aug 2008
yeah it’s still classed as one, but you do get more points the longer you have to have it running (a 6h one gets 251 points, if it takes longer you will get more, just not sure how much)
Also the server is down so you can’t upload completed ones yet, and can’t download a new one, best to shut off the PS3 and try in the morning.