Folding@home: December Update

Jas-n 27 Comments

Contributor Milestones
363,000 points and 2,395 Work Units make up this months contributor milestones, are you one of them, if so, well done.

Rank Contributor Milestones
Points WU’s
1 TheDeathAvenger 250,000
2 jediryan123 500
3 phantom5813 500
4 GTOWN 50,000
5 3shirts 250
6 darkaeon76 250
7 Monkeycat15 250
8 iiekka 10,000 100
9 Burgess_101 100
10 colossalblue 100
11 QPRW12 100
12 Pookinator 10,000
13 Yahavage 10,000
14 Sagata 5,000 50
15 cam_the_man 5,000 25
16 eye8have9you3 5,000 25
17 monkalottapus 5,000 25
18 CrawFail 50
19 El_Diablo_Guapo 50
20 DeCreatorQPR 5,000
21 AdamGuest1985 2,500 10
22 Stueeeee 2,500 10
23 a_inferior_race 1,000
24 DrNate86 1,000
25 kerrfaewishy 1,000

Decembers Top Folders
A total of 2,384 work units have been folded over December, bringing in 644,692 points, 89.3% (575,738) of which, have been folded by these 25 people.

Rank Contributor Change
1 RedStarGlow 138,509
2 Jas-n 72,219
3 XTG 40,093
4 TheDeathAvenger 37,979
5 Slimeh 35,720
6 Surjit-UK 33,180
7 SuburbanMe 21,584
8 bunimomike 21,570
9 iiekka 18,412
10 Vandix 16,817
11 Bonyman 16,296
12 markwijnants 15,159
13 AdmiringWorm 15,052
14 GTOWN 12,473
15 KatyNorge 10,457
16 phantom5813 9,729
17 Radboud 9,627
18 Watchful 8,935
19 monkalottapus 8,801
20 tgjones 8,432
21 CrawFail 5,773
22 colossalblue 5,378
23 3shirts 5,041
24 darkaeon76 4,371
25 eye8have9you3 4,131
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27 Comments

  1. Awesome data! *mind boggles* Really pleased to be back in the charts. Sure, my PS3 died but a new one is Folding and I feel at peace once more with seeing Folding@Home articles. I get quite guilty if I’m not Folding.

    Also, the slim has lower power consumption which is great! Quick question, Jas-n. Have you explained the Advanced option in the PS3 software (Life with Playstation/F@H)? I’d love an explanation, fella.

    • Ditto on the request for explanation of the Advanced option!

    • It basically gives you experimental work units, which can be of varying lengths (i.e. larger or smaller than normal work units).

      • Actually, standard can give you 48 hour ones, just like the advanced (ask AG2297).
        The only real difference, is advanced gives you a graph.

      • Eh? Aren’t PS3 WUs usually the eight hour ones? How do I open up to more experimental tomfoolery? (with the PS3 ;-))

      • I’m on Advanced (also Expert Mode set on in general settings) and All my wu’s are 300,000 long and take just under 6 hours.
        Before i switched to Advanced mode i did have one wu which was 1,000,000 long and took a day and a half to complete.
        So if Advanced only has an exra graph and isn’t necessarily folding more i might switch back to normal mode.

      • Yeah, I fold in Advanced and always get 300,000 point Work Units. For the past 15 at least but you’d think if a million-pointer was gonna pop up it’d have done so by now.

      • Well it’s meant to be a more focused mode with more CPU power going to folding (and less stuff running in the background). But as far as I (and some of you others) can tell, there’s only a graphs difference.
        In advanced, the WU’s are 6 to 6.5 hours, just like normal. And in normal you can receive WU’s that take 24-48 hours to complete, just like advanced.
        So it’s a case of, do you want a graph?

  2. Yay I made the top fifty! I got off to a really good start this month folding, but I did kinda start forgetting to leave it running, with the excitement of Christmas and all. Back to normality now though, so I hope to contribute even more :)

  3. I’ve upped my folding a bit lately as i picked up a broken (no bluray) ps3 just before xmas and i have it folding 24/7 since xmas eve. Too late to make much difference this month but next month should be better.

    • Sounds like a good plan, where did you get the broken PS3 from?

      • Bought it for 50 euros from a 2nd hand store who didn’t want to fix it themselves!

  4. ranked 25th for my second month, happy with that!!

    • That’s only in December mind, you’ve got a way to get to 25th overall. But congrats

  5. After you called me out last month…
    ” I blame RedStarGlow for his week of reduced folding.”

    I increase by 20,000 points this month! I got a new video card so I may try the GPU later this month.

    • Yeah, then I stop folding for a week, AND my ps3 doesn’t fold, so I just stopped, where you tootled along on your PS3 :P.

  6. Hi TSA folders, I’ve just joined the TSA website and I’ll be folding for yourselves. I wonder does WU’s or points earned from previous teams transfer over to your new team…..

    • Nope sorry, the points start again, but your overall points are combined, but in these stats it’s the points earned for the team that are taken into account.
      Its how Stanford is.

  7. ranked 5 for december with 4 work units dont know if that a good thing or a bad thing ?

    • silly me that out of the newcomers oh well al certainly get the broke blueray ps3 up and going now

    • It has to be a good thing, you’ve contributed to research….

      • Certainly, every little helps, and you are doing more than others, some of which aren’t doing any, it’s like they’re for diseases.

  8. Whoa! I rocked that month….. Linux now. Let’s see what happens.

  9. alziron 527 5

    thanx to my intel dual core (he) rly dwn (his) best

    • thanks to my 8 logical core i7 I’m 2nd ;)

  10. No.3 out of newcomers. I am happy with that! :-)

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