So it’s a new year (Happy new year by the way), and what better way to look forward into 2011, than look back into the last month of 2010. So, as a fitting tribute to our best year ever (we had 6 months in 2009, so it’s not exactly hard), I thought I’d add in a few, extra folding tidbits about TheSixthAxis’ folding during 2010.
Before we start, we have the usual call for new folders, yup, it’s our monthly “we need YOU on board this magical trip to cure this world of it’s horrid diseases … drive”. Yes we need more of you to set your Linux, MAC, or Windows based computer or PS3 up to fold for a cure.
Unfortunately this month we folded 17,000 points less (a total of 645,000 points) than during November, making December our worst month since June, so in answer to last months question, “Will we reach 1million points in 1 month during 2010?”, it’s a firm no, so 2011, I’m pretty sure we’ll get to the magical milestone during this year.
Team Information
This month I have 2 tables for you, this time in actual colour, first of which is the usual monthly info.
| This Month | Last Month | Change | Score | New Points | Work Units |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 603 | 621 | 18 | 9,764,231 | 644,692 | 32,569 |
The second one is what we’ve managed during 2010, it’s hard to think that we’ve actually climbed over 800 places, and folded 7.7million points and completed 25,000 work units.
| Rank | Points | Work Units | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2010 | 1,426 | 2,039,784 | 7,076 |
| December 2010 | 603 | 9,764,231 | 32,569 |
| Change | 823 | 7,724,447 | 25,493 |
Team Radar
Seems like we’ve lost another big team, Kotaku have started to pull away, currently folding a mere 2,000 points more than us per day, come on TSA, surely the best gaming community can take over the big Kotaku, I mean, we don’t dish out your details.
| Project Rank | Team Name | Points Ahead | Overtake in | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 177 | IGN-PS3 | 43,497,674 | 10.9 | Years |
| 244 | Official-ish PS3Fanboy Folding Team | 25,625,152 | 8.6 | Years |
| 247 | Team GameFAQs | 24,833,786 | 7.1 | Years |
| 275 | Apple Computer, Inc. | 20,666,664 | 5.5 | Years |
| 300 | ps3-hacks.com | 16,739,209 | 4.8 | Years |
| 315 | Playstation.fr | 14,644,033 | 3.3 | Years |
| 324 | Gamespot @ Home | 13,204,345 | 4.6 | Years |
| 350 | [email protected] | 10,727,777 | 2.3 | Years |
| 383 | Cheap Ass Gamers | 8,296,725 | 3.6 | Years |
| 391 | NVIDIA | 7,948,967 | 2.3 | Years |
| 394 | Official German PlayStation Community Team | 7,865,658 | 6.5 | Years |
| 421 | IBM | 6,283,586 | 9.9 | Years |
| 435 | EdgeGamers.Org Folders | 5,646,719 | 1.6 | Years |
| 461 | PS Forum EU | 4,309,561 | 11.1 | Months |
| 481 | Joystiq | 3,268,092 | 8.1 | Months |
| 482 | Insomniac Games | 3,268,092 | 8.1 | Months |
| 520 | ChicagoGamers | 1,991,140 | 4 | Months |
| 545 | PS3Gen | 1,214,804 | 2.9 | Months |
| 558 | SCEA SD FPQA | 963,193 | 1.9 | Months |
| 596 | Maryland PS3 Team | 79,575 | 6 | Days |
New Members
13 new folk this month making a total of about 150 new people over 2010. Hey look there’s YOURMUMANDME!
| Rank | Contributor | Points | WU’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iiekka | 18,412 | 176 |
| 2 | monkalottapus | 8,801 | 32 |
| 3 | Stueeeee | 4,016 | 16 |
| 4 | AdamGuest1985 | 2,842 | 14 |
| 5 | kerrfaewishy | 1,004 | 4 |
| 6 | alziron | 527 | 5 |
| 7 | dizwod | 493 | 1 |
| 8 | James123 | 251 | 1 |
| 9 | AkimboGeordie | 251 | 1 |
| 10 | Y2Ken | 251 | 1 |
| 11 | YOURMUMANDME | 251 | 1 |
| 12 | Jim | 251 | 1 |
| 13 | GrabMyJoystick | 0 | 9 |
bunimomike
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.
TSBonyman
Ditto on the request for explanation of the Advanced option!
TheDeathAvenger
It basically gives you experimental work units, which can be of varying lengths (i.e. larger or smaller than normal work units).
Jas-n
Actually, standard can give you 48 hour ones, just like the advanced (ask AG2297).
The only real difference, is advanced gives you a graph.
bunimomike
Eh? Aren’t PS3 WUs usually the eight hour ones? How do I open up to more experimental tomfoolery? (with the PS3 ;-))
TSBonyman
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.
ShovellyJoe
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.
Jas-n
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?
Yahavage
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 :)
TSBonyman
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.
project84music
Sounds like a good plan, where did you get the broken PS3 from?
TSBonyman
Bought it for 50 euros from a 2nd hand store who didn’t want to fix it themselves!
eye8have9you3
ranked 25th for my second month, happy with that!!
Jas-n
That’s only in December mind, you’ve got a way to get to 25th overall. But congrats
RedStarGlow
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.
Jas-n
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.
TURRICAN-808
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…..
Jas-n
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.
kerrfaewishy
ranked 5 for december with 4 work units dont know if that a good thing or a bad thing ?
kerrfaewishy
silly me that out of the newcomers oh well al certainly get the broke blueray ps3 up and going now
TURRICAN-808
It has to be a good thing, you’ve contributed to research….
Jas-n
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.
Kitch
Whoa! I rocked that month….. Linux now. Let’s see what happens.
alziron
alziron 527 5
thanx to my intel dual core (he) rly dwn (his) best
Jas-n
thanks to my 8 logical core i7 I’m 2nd ;)
stueeeee
No.3 out of newcomers. I am happy with that! :-)