Top 500 :

This weeks xylus 500 has been updated.

 

Logo MIA:

Quite a few of you noticed that out logo was missing from the stats pages, Darkness had it linked to a server at alienmedia. I have sorted out Statsman but have yet to do the Stanford pages.

Giveaway2 Week Three:

After just 3 days there are already 353 members qualified for the draw for the hard drive on Monday. Hopefully by the end of next week we can get that up to 500 members chasing a bit of water cooling action.

Flogometer :

Finally its gone green again after a few days stuck in red mode and a fair flogging by the oc.com guys. We need to make up a lot of ground if we are to get back in front for the weekly numbers, we were trailing by 3,600 points this morning.

Huge Gro's:

The guys at Stanford have released a Gromac for general use, its a biggun at 33 points and you don't need the "-advmethods" switch to get it.

Project 540 is released on server 124. Hopefully, this will be the first stable Gromacs WU for general (non-adv/bet) users! Credit is 33.0, and it will take ~ 1 day on a decent machine.

Thanks!
Young Min

 

Top 500 :

This weeks xylus 500 has been updated.

Giveaway2 winners Week 3 :

The winner of the Western Digital 80G IDE Hard Drive donated by DG is....

2682: duhwood

The winner of the Jar Hypermints donated by CoolPC is.....

2029:Beaver_Roadkill

Congratulations duhwood and Beaver_Roadkill could you PM me your details.

Giveaway2  Week 4 :

The final week of the Giveaway is underway and we have 2 great prizes to give away (thanks to CoolPC) to two lucky winners.

Innovatek Complete Water Cooling Bundle -AMD

and

Clear Acrylic Midi Tower Case

Hypermints are on the way:

After a minor hiccup the Hypermints are on the way (Express Post) to the lucky winners from the first 3 weeks of the Giveaway.

Just 84hrs left and Giveaway2 comes to a close and 2 members will be the receipts of some great prizes from CoolPC. The water cooling kit will be drawn first followed by the acrylic case on Monday morning.

Amran is back and needs your numbers:

Hi fellow folders,

Some of the older members may remember we had a Fastest Folding Machines web page that basically listed people's best times for certain proteins in a competitive format.

That page was 100% hand written in notepad and as a result I couldn't maintain it alone. I have spent some time playing with PHP and MySql, hopefully soon the page will be back and require little maintenance.

Anyway, all I need at the moment is a heap of people who use EMIII to drop by this page and whack in their folding name, protein and time taken to complete a protein (benchmark too would be good). This will give me a larger database to play with and let me test my input page.

You can find your best time by opening EMIII, clicking on the microscope (top left) then using the arrows (top right) to find the "HTML Stats" page. Click on "Make HTML", then "View HTML". You can then find your best time on the resulting HTML page.

Click here for the page.

At the moment I only need times for:

p388_perm
p542_BBA5 in water
p638_L939_K12M_ext
P651_TZ4_EXT
P633_TZ3_EXT

I'm trying to find out what the most common proteins are so I can get some more people entering data. Please let me know if you know of some popular ones.

Thanks guys!

Check out the thread here.

EM3 Updated :

New Milestone page :

Since DG upgraded some of his many machines he has had a habit of break things around here. First it was the Folding Clubs, he has broken all records going from the 19,000 Club all the way up to the 37,500 Club with more to come. He is very close to outscoring the "anonymous" user (which is a conglomerate of unknowns) which is an outstanding effort. Anyway along the way he has also broken the Milestone Selector as well and a new one was needed urgently since DG has quietly slipped into 320,000 Milestone Club and is rapidly heading towards the next one. The Milestone Selector now goes up to 950,000 points and it is easy to add new clubs when the need arises, say in a few months time when DG hits the million mark. Well done big fella your efforts are much appreciated and have gone a long way to but a buffer between us and the oc.com team.

Top 500 :

This weeks xylus 500 has been updated.

Giveaway2 :

There is now just 10 hours left and Giveaway2 will come to a close, so those 75 nominees with out a number this week had better hurry or they may miss out.

Electron Microscope III v2.3.6 (Update) :

What's New in Version 2.3.6
Genome Team Selection Recognized
Genome Image save fixes
Genome Score display
Status Icons show info
New EM version alert
Fixed Genome EM Calculator issue
EM starts when Windows starts option

I have fixed the point display when Genome work units are being done in conjunction with a Genome team number. The point values are different when you are a member of a FAH team doing a Genome work unit rather than a member of a GAH team doing a Genome work unit. EM now detects this configuration and displays the correct number of points you will get which depends on this information in your config file.

It seems that there are some garbage characters that show up in the image save routines when dealing with Genome work unit names. I have made some adjustments that will hopefully fix this issue.

If the Genome work unit is the first client in the list, and the team number is a Genome team, then the score recovered and shown in the score window is your Genome score and number of genes. The Folding info will be as usual if you are a member of the Folding team.

The status icons now have a "tip" that explains what core is being used. I hope this ends the confusion. If there is a problem, the tip will also display the possible issue.

If you have EM set to alert you when a new version is available, a web browser will be launched and you will be taken to the EM web site when you click the message.

When launching the EM calculator to figure out point info when using a Genome work unit in EM III, EM III would return an error. This issue has been fixed. It was related to the garbage characters in the protein name noted above.

Added a selection in the Options menu to add a shortcut to the StartUp folder. EM also removes it if you uncheck the box. This option requires that Windows scripting be installed. In most cases it should be there if you have Win 98 or higher and one of the newer versions of Internet Explorer installed.

Enjoy!

Get latest version here: http://www.em-dc.com

Giveaway2:Major prize draw and the winner is... :

Welcome to the final draw for Giveaway2. The Awakening

The winner of the water cooling package donated by CoolPC


is
3980 - Duallayerformat
 

The winner of the clear acrylic case also donated by CoolPC



is
1626 - griffo
 

Congratulations to you both and send me a PM with your details and I will pass them on to Rob.

I would like to thank David (DGROMS) and Rob from CoolPC for donating the great prizes for this Giveaway. They have been very generous and we appreciate it very much.


This Giveaway was designed as a recruitment drive and to reactivate some of the inactive folders. This has been achieved, just before the Giveaway was announced we had 543 active folders from 3103 members. We hit a top of 659 active members a few days ago and currently we have 3223 members. So an increase of 116 active members over 5 weeks isn't to bad.

Plans are in progress to have another Giveaway in the next few weeks so don't stop folding because you will miss out on the all important bonus number that could just win you a great prize.

Quick Hello :

Welcome back mutantaxe, its good to have you folding for OCAU once again.

Flogometer :

Even though our output has been on the increase over the past week oc.com have had a growth spurt (oc.com thread) that has seen them out produces us and take back the black line on Statsman. With Easter and the school holidays upon us we may be in the red for a while till things get back to normal in a couple of weeks time. We also have a special treat coming our way about then that should give us a boost and remedy the situation and make the Flogometer totally green once again.

Fastest Folders Page :

Amran has done a lot of work on the Fastest Folders page and its coming along nicely now. If you want to show off your super fast hardware drop by and submit a score or two. Here is the associated thread in the forums.

Statsman woes :

Yet another stats reset for everyone on the OCAU team page yet for some reason the numbers for the Top 1000 individuals are ok. If you are lucky enough to be in the top 1000 and you reach a new Folding Club let me know in this thread and I will change your club status.

Top 500 :

This weeks xylus 500 has been updated.

Fastest Benchmark:

The Fastest Benchmark list has moved to Amran's  Fastest Folding Machine site now. There are some impressive numbers turning up over there from other teams so go and have a look and see if you can beat them and put OCAU back on top.

G3 coming soon :

I am just finalising the prize list for the next Giveaway so look for an announcement later this week with an expected start date of the 5th of May.

Flogometer :

Its getting redder and redder!!!

Folding Clubs :

Seeing that Statsman isn't up to speed yet and the stats from extremeoc seem to be fairly accurate now, I think we can use them until Statsman catches up. So until that happens I will do a daily update using extreme's numbers.

Giveaway3: Thunder down Under

Ladies and Gentlemen start your engines for 7 weeks of fantastic folding action with the chance to win some great prizes from some very generous members team members. Giveaway3: Thunder Down Under will start on Monday the 5th of May at 07:00 and run for seven weeks. All you have to do to qualify for the weekly prize draw is produce at least 30 points for the week. Here is the prize list for each week.

Week One

Main Prize

Spire FalconRock II Cooler and 256 MB Samsung PC2700. Donated By: Radiical Computing

Consolation Prize

1 x 4m CAT5 network cable. Donated By: ToranaGuy

Week Two

Main Prize

 XP2400+ Tbred CPU. Donated By Leonard

Consolation Prize Sponsor

1 x 4m CAT5 network cable. Donated By: ToranaGuy

Week Three

Sponsor

Low Noise PC

Low noise cooling kit

Spire Falcon Rock II  Heatsink or Zalman CNPS5500 (P4)

Zalman ZM-NB32J  chipset heatsink

Panaflo 80mm FBA08A12L

Week Four

Sponsor

Low Noise PC

Low noise cooling kit

Spire Falcon Rock II  Heatsink or Zalman 5500Cu HSF (P4)

Zalman ZM-NB32J  chipset heatsink

Panaflo 80mm FBA08A12L

Week Five

Sponsor

Low Noise PC

Low noise cooling kit

Spire Falcon Rock II  Heatsink or Zalman 5500Alcu HSF (P4)

Zalman ZM-NB32J  chipset heatsink

Panaflo 80mm FBA08A12L

Week Six

Main Prize

128Mb ATI Radeon 9700 Video Card. Donated By Falls

Consolation Prize 1 Sponsor

1 x 4m CAT5 network cable. Donated By: ToranaGuy

Consolation Prize 2 Sponsor

1 x Antec Blue LED 80mm fan. Donated By Onyx

Check out the main Giveaway page for the full details and rules also dont forget to nominate yourself in the Giveaway3 nomination thread in the forums.

Top 500 :

This weeks xylus 500 has been updated.

Giveaway3- Test Run :

When you check your name on the nominations pages you will see how many points that you or your subteam have done since yesterday afternoon. This is just a test run to see if everything is working out.

Flogometer under pressure :

The Flogometer is coming close to reaching full working capacity today with a score of 5545 Flogometric Units (FU's) being registered by our team over the oc.com team for the past 24hrs to 7am WST. So far today we are 4271 FU's ahead and looking good to push the Flogometer to its limits tomorrow. If that's the case I think I will order the Deluxe Pro ULTRA version tomorrow from the ACME Electric Factory No2 who have done a great job of supporting our team so far.

Giveaway3- Pending Members :

I have put the new members who have nominated for the Giveaway but have yet to produced their first points on a pending table until they slip one in. Once they have join the team proper then they can join the rest of the members in the pursuit of some great prizes.

So far we have had 338 people sign up for G3, we had 403 nominees for G2 by the end of the first week and 486 all up. I think we should beat those numbers quite comfortably.

For the new folks to the team if you want to increase your through put and make sure you get the Gromac type proteins add these switches to a shortcut of the Folding exe file.

Graphical client

"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" -advmethods -forceasm

Console client

"C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\FAH3Console.exe" -advmethods -forceasm

With switches in place you will mainly get the 33 point proteins with the occasional 18 pointer coming through. The Gromacs process at lot quicker than the Tinkers proteins due to the FAHcore_78 using the SSE/SSE2 and 3DNow extensions of your CPU.