News August 2003

Monday 04/08/03
The Folding Week that was.
A collection of Folding highlights for the past 7 days.

Forum threads....

Stats

  • Highest day total: 93,390 points (24hrs to 07:00 on the 30th of July).
  • Week total: 624,951 points. (The highest ever by a team, excluding the Google and noname groups)
  • Members: 3762 up 15.
  • Active: 792 up 1.
  • Weekly gain on [H]: 163,116 points
  • Days till OCAU becomes No1: 41
  • Out produced oc.com by 252,449 points for the week.
  • 47 members changed Folding Clubs down 29.
  • 10 members reached the Top 1000 down 8.
  • Amusing member name of the Week KegRaider
  • $360.12 in the FFF down $345 (we purchased 3 x cases and 3 x motherboards).
  • OCAU Active CPUs: 3540 down 5
  • [H] Active CPUs: 2730 up 135

 
BEAT the BOX: Rnd 2 - The winner is
The winner of the 2nd FBOX is

Forum name wrbell
Folding name Joe_Bloggs (515)

Congratulations wrbell.


Simpson -
Case: Midi tower - looktall
Power Supply: 300W - Gazzmo
Motherboard: PCChips M810LMR All in One - DarkShell
CPU + HSF: Duron 1 GHz + HSF - Lombers
Ram: 128MB PC100 - DarkShell
HDD: 1 GB - pete pumpkin


Send me a PM and we can sort out delivery of FBOX2 with the understanding that you must agree to run the machine 24/7.

FBOX2 stats
Points Produced: 2346.7
WU's completed 54
First WU 27th May 2003
Last WU 2nd August 2003

 
Top 500:
This weeks xylus 500 is here.

 

Red Alert Top 500 (27-July to 03-August)

Moving through the field:

 cbrazil: up 281 places
Stuck in the pits. zippo87:  down 24 places
Keep her revving when she fires: DGROMS.com: up 6,150  PPW
Missed a gear: Silicon Wars - a New Hope: down 5,035 PPW
Starting Line: 3,060  up 84 points
Number of entrants racing: 414:  down 4 members
No of points completed: 571,625  up 11,556 points
Average No points per entrant: 1,380 :  down 14  points

Thursday 07/08/03
BEAT the BOX: Update
Thanks goes out to wrbell for covering the cost of postage for FBOX2 and adding a bit extra to the FFF. The box was posted on Tuesday and should be getting close to its destination by now.

There has been some discussion in the BtB thread about tightening up the nomination prerequisites. So from now on you will need a minimum of 1000 points before being eligible to nominate for the Giveaway and the winner must be able to pay for postage. Check out the BEAT the BOX page for the details on the changes.

Just a note about the FBOXes, the total points contribution from all the FBOXes while waiting for distribution to their new owners as passed the 10,000 points mark. That total will increase quite rapidly over the next few weeks with some awesome folding machines due to come online. Still to come we have 4 x XP2400, 1 x XP2100Tbred and 2 x XP1800 and not to forget a little old Duron 1300. The Duron is waiting for a motherboard to call home, if you can help with this or any other items that you have spare post in this thread and let us know.

 
Less than 1 million to go:
As of this morning the gap to the [H]ardOCP team stands at 970,338 points. We reduced the gap by a record 30,861 points for the day and at the moment we are 39 days away from top spot. Well done team and keep up the great work rate and soon we be the No1 folding team again.

BTW: We passed the 11 million points milestone during the last 24hrs, the last million achieved in 11 days.

 

Sunday 10/08/03
The Folding Week that was.
A collection of Folding highlights for the past 7 days.

Forum threads....

Stats

  • Highest day total: 98,854 points (24hrs to 07:00 on the 8th of August).
  • Week total: 647,501 points. (The highest ever by a team, excluding the Google and noname groups)
  • Members: 3798 up 36.
  • Active: 796 up 4.
  • Weekly gain on [H]: 177,826 points
  • Days till OCAU becomes No1: 36
  • Out produced oc.com by 296,009 points for the week.
  • 55 members changed Folding Clubs up 8.
  • 9 members reached the Top 1000 down 1.
  • Amusing member name of the Week JamesBond
  • $611.17 in the FFF up $251.05 (we purchased 3 x XP2400+ and 3 x 256MB PC2700).
  • OCAU Active CPUs: 3669 up 129
  • [H] Active CPUs: 2776 up 67

 

 
Top 500:
This weeks xylus 500 is here.

 

Red Alert Top 500 (03-August to 10-August)

Moving through the field:

 Team_DF_Erect_Vicar: up 201 places
Stuck in the pits. GoodSquad:  down 20 places
Keep her revving when she fires: DGROMS.com: up 5,220  PPW
Missed a gear: Silicon Wars - a New Hope: down 3,896 PPW
Starting Line: 3,195  up 134 points
Number of entrants racing: 423:  up 9 members
No of points completed: 587,991  up 16,367 points
Average No points per entrant: 1,390 :  up 9  points

 

 
BEAT the BOX: Round 3
BEAT the BOX round 3 starts tomorrow morning at 07:00 WST. This time you are up against a Duron 1100@1243MHz (Morgan core) capable of delivering 250 points a week.

 

 
 
FAH Logstats v0.65: Updated
Buzzard has been busy again and added a few more features to his monitoring program.

* Can update protein data from Stanford
* Added estimated PPD and PPW
* More Assorted fixes
* Added Donut's template, and updated the old ones

Download it from here
 

Wednesday 13/08/03
BYO1 Draw winner:
I have put all the names from the FFF on a page here and from the usual Sequence Generator page assigned a number to each person. I then used the Random Number Generator to find the winner of BYO1.

Now on with the show...

The winner of the first BYO FBOX is......froop.

Congratulations froop, send me a PM and we can arrange delivery of BYO1

I will draw the other winning numbers for the rest of the BYO FBOXes when I have finished building them. Which should be tomorrow and early Friday. The forum thread is here.

 
BYO FBOXes: The goodies are here.
All the ingredients to make an awesome FBOX have arrived and over the next day or so I will build them up and get them folding. Then we will have to find a new home for these 3 beauties.

Update: BYO1 is up and folding at 2200Mhz at default voltage.

 
OCAU in the News
Overclockers Australia Folding team and a couple of its members have been mention in two separate news articles. First The Howard Hughes Medical Institute have written a great article about FAH in which the team gets a mention. Also a news item on the Stanford site congratulates DGROMS.com and plext along with OC-AMD from the 2CPU.com folding team for passing the one million points mark. This news item just happens to have a little picture of DG with a 3 day growth as well...nice one DG.

 

 
BEAT the BOX: Round 3
The first update of numbers are up for this round of box beating.

 

Monday 18/08/03
Top 500:
This weeks xylus 500 is here.

 

Red Alert Top 500 (10-August to 17-August)

Moving through the field:

 Razorback: up 581 places
Stuck in the pits. Mithickus:  down 22 places
Keep her revving when she fires: DGROMS.com: up 7,310  PPW
Missed a gear: HyDrA: down 4,285 PPW
Starting Line: 3,387  up 193 points
Number of entrants racing: 428:  up 5 members
No of points completed: 617,753  up 29,761 points
Average No points per entrant: 1,443 :  up 53 points

 

Thursday 14/08/03
BYO2 Draw winner:
Tonight's lucky number is 23.

...and that means trotkiller is the new owner of a brand new folding machine. Congratulations trotkiller, send me a PM so we can arrange delivery of your new wu factory.

 

Tuesday 19/08/03
Statometer Update:
All the Top 100 lists, Folding Clubs etc have been updated to use the Extreme stats pages.
BYO3 Draw winner:
Tonight's lucky number is 12.

...and that means yotka is the new owner of a brand new folding machine. Congratulations yotka, send me a PM so we can arrange delivery of your new folding machine.

 

BYO1 and BYO2 are currently in hands of Australia post and should reach their new owners in a few days.

 

Wednesday 20/08/03
The Folding Week that was: The late edition.
A collection of Folding highlights for the past 7 days.

Forum threads....

 

Stats

  • Highest day total: 100,307 points (24hrs to 07:00 on the 13th of August).
  • Week total: 678,429 points. (The highest ever by a team, excluding the Google and noname groups)
  • Members: 3810 up 12.
  • Active: 803 up 7.
  • Weekly gain on [H]: 168,381 points
  • Days till OCAU becomes No1: 27
  • Out produced oc.com by 321,760 points for the week.
  • 12 members changed Folding Clubs down 43.
  • 4 members reached the Top 1000 down 5.
  • Amusing member name of the Week Team_DF_Erect_Vicar
  • $854.56 in the FFF up $238.39.
  • OCAU Active CPUs: 3538 down 131
  • [H] Active CPUs: 2795 up 19

 

Thursday 21/08/03
Giveaway4: Rise of the Machines.
Do you want to help a great cause? do you want to help OCAU become the No1 Folding team and do you want to win a great prize? then get yourself nominated in the latest Overclockers Australia Folding@Home Giveaway. There are some nice prizes up for grabs this time and all you have to do to be eligible for the prize draw is fold for OCAU and produce at least 300 points over a 4 week period.

The prizes are....

1st prize

Case+PSU Tsunami Virgo ATX DGROMS.com
Motherboard Intel CA810E mtech
CPU + HSF Celeron 1.1 GHz +HSF mtech
Ram 256MB PC133 mtech
HDD Seagate 20GB Xenon
CDROM LG 32x
Modem 56k Internal Xenon
Mouse Microsoft Optical Xenon
Keyboard

Microsoft Office Keyboard (USB)

2nd prize

AMD XP2500+ (Barton) CPU or Antec LAN-boy case

Donated by Datsun 1600

3rd prize

$150 to spend at Lownoise PC

Donated by McCall Bros and Rod from Lownoise PC

4th prize

Thermaltake Volcano 7+ HSF

Donated by deranged128

The Giveaway4 page is here with all the details, Giveaway4 forum thread is here and the nomination thread is here.

 

Sunday 24/08/03
Top 500:
This weeks xylus 500 is here.

 

Red Alert Top 500 (18-August to 24-August)

Moving through the field:

 deranged128: up 243 places
Stuck in the pits. KrisT:  down 21 places
Keep her revving when she fires: DGROMS.com: up 14,680  PPW
Missed a gear: Norgs: down 3,629 PPW
Starting Line: 3,629  up 242 points
Number of entrants racing: 425:  down 3 members
No of points completed: 662,106  up 44,353  points
Average No points per entrant: 1,557 :  up 114  points

 

Monday 25/08/03
The Folding Week that was:
A collection of Folding highlights for the past 7 days.

Forum threads....

 

Stats

  • Highest day total: 110,025 points (24hrs to 07:00 on the 22nd of August).
  • Week total: 710,868 points. (Another record high)
  • Members: 3834 up 24.
  • Active: 772 down 31.
  • Weekly gain on [H]: 187,895 points
  • Days till OCAU becomes No1: 21
  • Out produced oc.com by 335,731 points for the week.
  • 87 members changed Folding Clubs up 75.
  • 16 members reached the Top 1000 up 12.
  • Amusing member name of the Week BiRDBRAiN
  • $1031.34 in the FFF up $176.78
  • OCAU Active CPUs: 3430 down 108
  • [H] Active CPUs: 2700 down 95

 
BEAT the BOX: Round 3 - The winner is
The winner of the 3rd FBOX is

Forum name michaelomyth
Folding name Michael0Myth (13)
Fred Hollows -
Case Midi tower: Tsunami Virgo ATX - DGROMS.com
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA7ZXR - C4P741N
CPU + HSF: Duron 1.1GHz (Morgan) + Volcano6+cu - McDaddy
Ram: 128MB PC100 - petercr/McDaddy
Video Card: Banshee 16Mb AGP - keenie
HDD: 1 GB - deranged128
NIC: 10/100 PCI - Teddy


Send me a PM and we can sort out delivery of FBOX3 with the understanding that you must agree to run the machine 24/7.

FBOX3 stats
Points Produced: 4361.3
WU's completed 97
First WU 31st May 2003
Last WU 25th August 2003

 

Forum thread.

Wednesday 27/08/03
Giveaway4: Rise of the Machines.
Giveaway4 is underway as of 09:00 WST, 2 hours later than originally planned. Therefore the finish time will be 09:00 on the 24th of September. So far we have had 299 nominations for the Giveaway with 30 members reactivating there folding status and also we had 14 nominations from members new to Folding. I will have a page up soon with all the nominations so that you can check on your progress.

 

Sunday 31/08/03
BEAT the BOX: FBOX5
The next round of BOX BEATING starts tomorrow morning at 07:00 WST. This time you are up against a AMD XP1700+ running at 1539Mhz capable of delivering approx 400 points a week.

-Uluru
Case AOpen KF45A-P4 ATX Midi Tower Jobaby
Motherboard ASUS A7S333 HOOVER
CPU + HSF AMD XP1700+ TbredA leonard.
Ram 256MB PC2700 DDR Xenon
Video Card Geforce2 MX 200 trotkiller
HDD Quantum 3.2G leonard/NFO Donovan Research.
NIC 10/100 PCI Inquisitor69

 

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