Folding@home: September Update
It's time to pass over the ball and stick.
Published: 21:00, 01/09/2010 by Jas-n.
27Our faithful Greg has written the Folding@home updates since July last year. But now it’s time to fold over a new page as I take over the duties as TSA’s official Folding@home co-ordinator. So from now on I’ll be bringing you the monthly updates as well as some other folding related stuff, such as meet the folder, as well as a competition here and there.
We’ve sorted out an email address so you can contact us on folding related matters. Simply send your email to folding[at]thesixthaxis.com and we’ll do our best to get a reply to you as fast as possible.
Team Info
We’ve still not reached the magical 1,000,000 points per month, but we’re not giving, up, as the now official Folding@home co-ordinator, it’s my job to get more folders on board to help reach milestones like this, so watch this space as I’ll be announcing incentives to get us all folding along for this great cause.
| This Month | Last Month | Change | Score | New Points | Work Units |
| 721 | 761 | 40 | 6,948,627 | 687,287 | 22,510 |
Although we are still slowly moving up the ranks, with the departure of one of our highest folders, Silverx75, we’ve slowed down our pace, but all is not lost as we still have a good selection of folders to make sure we’re not going backwards. However, we could do with more recruits to help us crunch our way higher, and past the likes of Eurogamer and the other sites mentioned below.
If you would like to help us with a small form of world domination head over to the Folding forum thread and follow the simple steps to join the team. If you do however have trouble with setting up, don’t hesitate to get in touch via the same email as above, folding[at]thesixthaxis.com.
Team Radar
Unfortunately we haven’t passed any of the teams we were hoping to, but by next month we should have moved into the top 700 teams and overtaken SCEE’s team, they must be too busy prepping for the Move launch.
| Project Rank | Team Name | Points Ahead | Overtake in | |
| 161 | IGN-PS3 | 45,127,745 | 12.9 | Years |
| 186 | Team Kotaku | 36,543,695 | 10.2 | Years |
| 223 | Team GameFAQs | 26,823,248 | 5.8 | Years |
| 254 | Apple Computer, Inc. | 22,533,800 | 4.2 | Years |
| 286 | ps3-hacks.com | 18,697,616 | 3.6 | Years |
| 302 | Gamespot @ Home | 15,506,525 | 2.4 | Years |
| 308 | PS3Folding.com | 14,821,238 | 2.9 | Years |
| 360 | Cheap Ass Gamers | 10,157,455 | 2.1 | Years |
| 376 | NVIDIA | 9,153,299 | 6.2 | Years |
| 378 | Microsoft | 9,055,433 | 1.4 | Years |
| 403 | IBM | 7,755,519 | 2.0 | Years |
| 450 | Insomniac Games | 5,689,469 | 10.3 | Months |
| 471 | Joystiq | 4,855,304 | 8.5 | Months |
| 512 | PS3Gen | 3,495,335 | 6.0 | Months |
| 549 | Eurogamer | 2,580,306 | 1.0 | Year |
| 654 | PS3Blog.net | 738,292 | 1.2 | Months |
| 660 | scea | 675,082 | 1.1 | Months |
| 661 | GayGamer.net | 648,633 | 1.1 | Months |
| 665 | Tactical Gamer | 576,026 | 1.1 | Months |
| 689 | SCEE | 181,529 | 1.3 | Weeks |
New Members
We’ve had nine new faces join the team, most of which are also new faces to the site too, so welcome along and happy folding. If you would like to be part of this list in the future, all you need to do is join the team and complete a single work unit, it’s quite simple really.
| Rank | Contributor | Points | WU’s |
| 1 | DJJAMMIE | 19,507 | 56 |
| 2 | Surjit-UK | 15,052 | 60 |
| 3 | james_m2603 | 4,619 | 20 |
| 4 | UKVampire | 3,363 | 28 |
| 5 | Yahavage | 1,087 | 14 |
| 6 | Blipblipblur | 823 | 162 |
| 7 | Scylax7 | 797 | 3 |
| 8 | Tobo_56 | 377 | 4 |
| 9 | Tuffcub | 291 | 2 |
Last Month’s Top Folders
It’s good to see that even new folders can get into the top 25 with only a month or less to hand, and we have a third of our new members in the top 25 so congratulations to you if you’re one of the 25, but don’t worry if you’re not, you’ll have your chance to shine in the future.
| Rank | Contributor |
Change |
| 1 | Jas-n | 153,663 |
| 2 | RedStarGlow | 152,580 |
| 3 | dejinator | 34,514 |
| 4 | Silverx75 | 29,008 |
| 5 | SuburbanMe | 26,840 |
| 6 | TheDeathAvenger | 25,988 |
| 7 | Radboud | 25,381 |
| 8 | DJJAMMIE | 19,507 |
| 9 | XTG | 17,112 |
| 10 | Surjit-UK | 15,052 |
| 11 | phantom5813 | 14,626 |
| 12 | Kai | 13,115 |
| 13 | Vandix | 12,790 |
| 14 | Watchful | 11,745 |
| 15 | SeaBeorn | 10,161 |
| 16 | tgjones | 8,265 |
| 17 | KatyNorge | 7,286 |
| 18 | bunimomike | 6,878 |
| 19 | Sir_Oddington | 5,781 |
| 20 | sonicsteve | 5,593 |
| 21 | Lemming64 | 5,534 |
| 22 | Bonyman | 5,525 |
| 23 | Asdafer | 4,817 |
| 24 | Aitrus | 4,690 |
| 25 | james_m2603 | 4,619 |
So lets see how the team and its top members have been doing with the aid of the usual graphs.
Thanks this month goes to Greg for writing all the previous updates. So thank you, from me and the rest of our folders.
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01/09/2010 at 21:09
Member since: Aug 2008
My launch day PS3 seems to be making less noise again so I’ll be folding again.I’ll set it for auto again. I need to break back into the top 20.
01/09/2010 at 21:20
Member since: Dec 2008
How do you set it to Auto?
01/09/2010 at 21:32
Member since: Aug 2008
Triangle on Life with PlayStation then select Auto-start after X minutes.
01/09/2010 at 21:23
Member since: Jan 2010
If only it would fold when using PlayTV, I’d be joining and climbing up the table. I can’t afford to have my phat running just to fold I’m afraid.
01/09/2010 at 21:26
Member since: Jun 2010
Yay, top twenty! Now I just feel like I neglet my Playstation.
01/09/2010 at 21:33
Member since: Aug 2008
You’d be higher if you set you PC to fold under the same name, that’s why it doesn’t appear on the new folders, it’s better for all of us if you stick to the one name,
Thanks
01/09/2010 at 21:48
Member since: Jun 2010
Ah, righto, I shall do that immediatly. Thanks for the heads up.
01/09/2010 at 22:06
Member since: Aug 2008
My electric usage goes through the roof when I set my PC off folding. Damn HD graphics cards.
01/09/2010 at 21:30
Member since: Mar 2010
I wish I could set my playstation to fold in the background while I’m using it as a media centre…
01/09/2010 at 21:47
Member since: Nov 2009
I would really like to help TSA but I mostly game, watch videos stored on PS3 and go on YouTube. They should just let it run in background so we dont have to go do something else when folding.
01/09/2010 at 22:11
Member since: Apr 2010
I’ve started yelling at my partner to make sure he launches folding when he uses his PC, which is much, much better than mine, so that’s helping me jump up the ranks a bit now :) Hoping to contribute a lot more over the coming months!
01/09/2010 at 22:17
Member since: Aug 2008
it can be set up to run automatically, so you don’t need to keep yelling at him… unless you like to of course
01/09/2010 at 23:00
Member since: Apr 2010
maybe >:)
He’s not too keen on it auto-starting incase it starts slowing stuff down, and apparently right-clicking the icon and clicking pause is too much like hard work! His PC is fairly good spec though, i5 750 (overclocked to 3.3ghz), nvidia GTX460 gpu, 4GB ram, compared to my 4 year old E6400 dual-core, nvidia GT9800 gpu, and also 4GB ram (though that’s just been upgraded recently!)
I’m hoping I can do folding whilst playing FFXIV and it doesn’t kill my PC haha <3
01/09/2010 at 23:19
Member since: Feb 2009
You have just described my PC! The GT9800 is still working well for me too :)
03/09/2010 at 06:33
Member since: Mar 2010
So… you’re using him Yahavage??
01/09/2010 at 23:20
Member since: Feb 2009
I have actually folded less lately since I set up seperate folding for my cores! Weird. Ill try and fold more on my PS3 aswell as my laptop.
01/09/2010 at 23:36
Member since: Jul 2009
Just joined up, been meaning to do this for a while xD
01/09/2010 at 23:50
Member since: Dec 2009
Welcome to the new TSA team folders.
I just set my PS3 to do one each day while i’m at work. That’s just 5 per week and doesn’t interfere with my personal use of the ps3 for gaming movies etc. A small contribution but that just shows how easy it is to make a difference. :)
02/09/2010 at 00:25
Member since: Aug 2010
i will do one per day