FBOX Progress:

If you look to the left you will see a new FBOX section with the total points that the FBOX's have contributed since the first one started folding a couple of weeks ago. I will update the total daily when I do the stats usually in the morning. Also there are some FBOX icons to denote how many FBOX's that we have completed and partially completed. I will also make up a list of the ancillary stuff that the generous members out there have donated during the coming week.

Statometer :

Thanks to the ACME Electric Factory No2 for sending me a new skin for the Statometer, it has spruced it up a bit and given it a nice blue look.

Giveaway3:

Just 12hrs to go to get that 30 points in to become eligible for the draw tomorrow and a chance to win a Low Noise Cooling kit from LowNoise PC. So far 481 members have qualified, with another 19 almost there.

The draw tomorrow will be in the evening sometime between 20:00 and 21:00 WST.

Top 500 :

This weeks xylus 500 has been updated.

Giveaway Week4: Winner

Week 4 winner of a Low Noise Cooling kit from LowNoise PC is cerebus (4844).

The prize consist of

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

Zalman ZM-NB32J chipset heatsink.

Panaflo 80mm FBA08A12L.



Congratulations to cerebus for winning this weeks prize. Send me a PM with your details and choice of cooler.

 

Giveaway Week5: Prizes

This weeks prize donated by LowNoise PC

Low noise cooling kit

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

Zalman ZM-NB32J  chipset heatsink

Panaflo 80mm FBA08A12L

4C contest : Update

The 4C is fast approaching the 1000 points mark with konnyaro holding a slight lead over donut for first place with WeeMan2 and pete_pumpkin not far behind.

Statometer: [H]orde fight back.

Well it looks like the [H]orde have turned up the wick and they have started to pull away from us again. We are still producing at record levels but they have called in the reinforcements to bolster their ranks and have started a fight back. Its going to be a long hard slog to peg them back again but we can do it.

4C contest: A new Champion is crowned.

Well done to konnyaro for taking out Round 2 of the 4C Contest with the previous champion donut a close runnerup, pete_pumpkin slipped for third by just 3hrs from WeeMan2. The race isn't over just yet there is still 5th to be decided between Hemmerage and hendot. Well done to all the participants it was a great race despite a slight hiccup at the start.

Folders Anonymous.

If you feel the need to purge yourself of some pent up folding anxieties we have just the place for you thanks to B5lurker.

Here are a few snippits...

"My name is Lurks and I am a Folding Addict, I scrimp and save just so I can buy new hardware so I can fold faster, harder and longer...." B5lurker

"I also enjoy starving myself for several months just to afford to buy the latest hardware component for my computer...." Mute

"Eventually I moved on to FAH...the hard stuff. No more colors, just black and white text...not even moving text (unless you are willing to sit and watch for an hour or so, and I've done that too)...." Amran
 

"Within the short space of a few months, the addiction took hold. My phone bill has gone up, my power bill has skyrocketed, and my rumpus room now looks like a high-technology graveyard, with cases, racks, network cable, and entire bare computers laid out across every flat surface available....." Draffa

Giveaway Week5:

So you want a chance of winning a nice cooler and a few other goodies, well you had better get your 30 points in before tomorrow morning or you will miss out.

Statometer: [H]orde fight back.

The [H]orde now have the afterburners firing away and have out produced us by over 30,000 points for the past 7 days, making the [H] side of the Statometer very red indeed. Pity that because I was liking the green so much.

Stress your CPU to the MAX!

What is StressCPU?
This is a small windows program to torture-test your CPU in order to make sure that you don't have overheating problems. It will only run on SSE-equipped x86 CPUs, and it is executing a special version of the Gromacs inner loops that mixes SSE and normal assembly instructions to heat your CPU as much as possible.

The program was written by Erik Lindahl and I simply compiled it and am making it available to use.
This program actually makes my CPU's run from 4C-6C hotter than simply running Gromacs.
It's a good heat test and it should make any system draw maximum power which will also test the stability of your power supply.

Let me know if you have any issues.
You can get the program in the EM-DC download area.

Enjoy,
Larry
http://www.em-dc.com

Note:Even after testing this program for an extended period of time, it is no guarantee that you won't get a Gromacs work unit issue. It's a good test to make sure that your system is temperature and voltage stable so you have the best chance of not having an issue with the FAH Gromacs core.

Forum thread is here.

4C contest: Final ranking

Here are the final ranking for the 4C contest.

1st: konnyaro

2nd: donut

3rd: pete_pumpkin

4th: WeeMan2

5th: hendot

Giveaway Week5: Winner

Week 5 winner of a Low Noise Cooling kit from LowNoise PC is Redefine (5971).

The prize consist of

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

Zalman ZM-NB32J chipset heatsink.

Panaflo 80mm FBA08A12L.



Congratulations to Redefine for winning this weeks prize. Send me a PM with your details and choice of cooler.

 

Top 500 :

This weeks xylus 500 has been updated.

75k Race : We have a winner

Congratulations to ugocau for winning the 75k race. The runner up is yet to be decided its going to be a close call between Teddy and Bollocks.

Giveaway3: The Final Week.

Its here, the final week of Giveaway3: Thunder Down Under. We started off with a bang and attracted many old and new members to the fold. We out scored the [H]orde for a couple of weeks, though they have made a move of their own to take back the blue line. Things are looking good to build on the base we have and move even further forward over the coming weeks. To finish off this Giveaway we have a great prize donated by a very generous person namely Falls. He has kindly gone out and bought a nice new 128Mb ATI Radeon 9700 Video Card to give away to some lucky folder out there. Falls is just one of the many unselfish people we have on our team that give more than is asked for to help make this the best folding there is. I would like to thank everyone that has given to this Giveaway, Stealthunit (Radiical Computing), leonard, Rod (LowNoise PC), Falls, ToranaGuy and Onyx. Your contributions are greatly appreciated by everyone and we all thank you very much.

On with the show, this week for your folding pleasure we have the following to Giveaway...

Major Prize Donated By

Falls

128Mb ATI Radeon 9700 Video Card

consolation prize 1

1 x 4m CAT5 network cable. Donated by ToranaGuy

consolation prize 2

1 x Antec Blue LED 80mm fan donated by Onyx

So far this week we have had 28 new nominations eager to get their hands on that video card, welcome to the house of folding everyone we hope you enjoy your stay.

75k Race : We have a winner and a runner up and ...

It was a close run to the line for second place and Teddy pipped poor old Bollocks by a few hours to the 75k mark, well done Teddy.

 Now that one is over, the race is on to reach 100k first...on your marks, get set, go!!!

Giveaway3: The Final Week.

We have had a big response to the Giveaway this week with 52 new nominations trying their best to win that video card. Only 34 hrs to go and it will be all over, so if you haven't got the required points yet you had better hurry up.

Electron Microscope v2.4.0 (Update) :

Double click tray icon
More Language Support
Skins listed in alphabetical order
Gromacs Time per Frame issue fixed

If you double click the EM tray icon, EM will hide or show itself depending on what state it is in when you double click the icon. If visible, it hides, if hidden, it becomes visible.

All windows in EM have been updated to support the current language file. When you switch to any languge but English, an asterisk (*) will appear in front of the words that need to be translated. If you want to translate those words and phrases, please feel free to do so. Then send me the modified language file so I can update it for everyone. I'm still looking for a full translation for Spanish and Russian. I would also be happy to add any other language you the user wants. Just translate the file to your language and send it to me in an email. I will then add the new language to the main distributed file. Most of the work needs to be done on page 6 of the options menu, the queue.dat file display menu, and the protein image right-click menu. Just look for the asterisk.

The skins listed in the skin menu are now in alphabetical order.

When EM monitored a Gromacs work unit and it finished, when the client downloaded the next work unit and it happened to be another Gromacs work unit, there tended to be a glitch in the way EM calculated the first frame. It would usually go very fast, then give an error alert because EM thought the time-per-frame was too long. After much testing that issue seems to be fixed.
 

Enjoy!

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

Stats Frozen:

It looks like the stats server is down and has been for quite a few hours. Its morning time now at Stanford so someone will come along soon and give it a kick start.

FBOX4: Is complete and ready.

I put together FBOX4 today and it is complete and ready to go. But the question is what do we do with it, do we sell it to buy stuff for future FBOX's? What would a Celeron 500 box be worth anyway? Any ideas post in the FBOX thread. I have a few but lets here what you have to say.

Top 500 :

This weeks xylus 500 has been updated.

Giveaway3: Grand Prize Winner.

Giveaway3: Thunder Down Under has come to an end with the drawing of the prize winners for week 6.

Major prize

128Mb ATI Radeon 9700 Video Card donated by Falls.

The winner is Draebor (ugocau): 3041


Consolation Prize 1

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

The winner is lulow: 3179


Consolation Prize 2

1 x Antec Blue LED 80mm fan: Donated by Onyx.

The winner is James Waldron (Whirlpool): 1069

Congratulations to everyone, give me a PM with your contact details.

I would like to thank the generous members that donated prizes for this Giveaway, your contributions to the OCAU Folding team have been greatly appreciated by everyone. We had 668 nominations in total with the highest number qualified in one week of 538, over the 6 weeks a total of 3327 numbers were issued including bonus numbers.

We salute you...

StealthUnit (Radiical Computing).

ToranaGuy.

leonard.

Rod M (LowNoise PC).

Falls.

Onyx.