Folding@home: July 2011 Stats

Jas-n 24 Comments

Seems like it’s my time of the month again. I mean time for the folding stats, not the other… woman thing…

Any-who, key features of these stats mainly involve RedStarGlow and AG2297.

Firstly RedStarGlow, as you may have read, he folded his way past 4 million points. But other than that, he submitted his 4,500th WU, managed to get into the top 5,000 global folders. As for AG2297, he’s folded his way up 82 places, from 150th to 68th, quite a feat for less than a months work.

June marked the start of what will be the hard push, from here on we’ll find it harder to make our way up the leaderboards, but we will do it, eventually. On the plus side, with more and more folders on board, eventually won’t be as far away. So please, join in the fight against the other teams, and more importantly fold for cures for diseases such as cancers and Alzheimer’s, amongst others.

For more information on folding visit the official Folding@home website.

Participation

It doesn’t take much to participate:

PS3 users can run Folding@home whilst downloading from the store or listening to music, and when it’s finished a WU, you can set it to automatically power off.

For PC (and MAC) users, running Folding@home couldn’t be any simpler. Once installed and configured, you can have the client running automatically at start-up. The great thing about running Folding@home on a desktop is that it’s set to the lowest CPU priority, so no matter what you’re doing, whether it’s heavy gaming, or simply using paint, Folding@home will only use up spare CPU power, that nothing else is using.

Installation/Configuration guides can be found over in the Folding@home forum thread.

Stats, as always are on page 2.

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24 Comments

  1. Good to see we’re stil lclimbing and haven’t rested after reaching top 500, well done everyone!

  2. Also as you can see I went with the times and put the battlefield orange up.

    • Video is about Folding@home on the PS3 BTW.

  4. curious, which group is number one in the world?

  5. Here’s a neat website that can tell us when we are expected to overtake other teams. We can also see our own progression:
    http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=78731

    • Which is how I get the team overtakes from, but I pick out the gaming/gaming related teams.

  6. Quite a jump for AG, who’s jumped up another 5 places to 63rd since the stats were taken.

  7. Here’s a stat for you (that I never thought about before).

    When I use Kakao Stats I can view how you’re all ranked based on how active you are (based on what’s been folded over the last 7 days), but I’ve never thought to view the teams based on how active we are, so I have, and it seems we’re currently 289th.

    Looking at this another way, at the current rate, the highest rank we can ever expect is 289th, so another reason why we need more people folding.

    • More, more, more, more, more, more, more…
      I’ve never thought to look at the active ranks either, puts a nicer perspective on things :)

    • Didn’t know about Kakao Stats, interesting.

  8. i’ve been meaning to get involved in this for ages, every month one of these is posted and i think “i’ll join up this month” and i never do.
    well this month i finally got started, i downloaded the pc software to start with.

    • Well done, you’ll soon be rising up the TSA leaderboard!

    • Good :)

    • i don’t think i’ll be matching redstar, but hopefully i can make a decent contribution.
      according to the stats page i’ve got bookmarked, team TheSixthAxis have moved up a few places since this article must have been written, ranked 478 now, and about 70 thousand more points.

      http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team78731.html

      how long will it take till my name’s on the list?

      • When you finish your first WU, If you want a program that tells you how long, and how many points etc… got to the folding forum thread, which is listed in the article above (2nd to last line, page 1)

      • Urgh… Bookmark this page instead:
        http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=78731

        More pretty :).

        As for when you’re name should appear, what Beeje13 said. But it may take up to 2 hours after submitting the WU.

  9. 85th contributor! Nice :D

    Glad to be a member of a decent team!

    • With no members there’s no team, so don’t forget to congratulate yourself too.

  10. As always, Jas-n Thanks for pulling the stats and posting. Up 12 places is not bad when you consider the competition and that we are in the Top 500 in the World!

    Careful AG, this folding thing can become addicting!!

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