Monday 01/09/03

Forum threads....

• Giveaway4- Nomination thread
• Pimping the cause (arty types needed)
• 30,000 Race
• Race to catch [H] <400,000 points now!
• Post Your DC Boxen...
• New Folding Quotations
• Hyperthreading Help!

Stats

• Highest day total: 107,294 points (24hrs to 07:00 on the 31st of August).
• Week total: 730,918 points. (Another record high)
• Members: 3861 up 37.
• Active: 796 up 24.
• Weekly gain on [H]: 185,989 points
• Days till OCAU becomes No1: 13
• Out produced oc.com by 341,653 points for the week.
• 54 members changed Folding Clubs down 33.
• 10 members reached the Top 1000 down 6.
• Rising Star vchoy
• $1129.44 in the FFF up $98.10
• OCAU Active CPUs: 3531 up 101
• [H] Active CPUs: 2825 up 125
• Quote of the Week: "folding protein's like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get"- Forest Gump.
   

Wednesday 03/09/03

Thursday 04/09/03

You can see we have a clear lead over the [H]orde but we are no where near the top. Just to spice things up a bit, if we take DG and plext out of the equation we still beat the the [H]ardOCP team on points per member output for the past week, 610.3 to 610.1. Now to add even more fuel to the fire, if you take into account the active CPU's each team has. We produce 210 points for each CPU and the [H]orde manage 196 for each active CPU. So what can we make of that, either we have faster processors and know how to overclock them better or perhaps as a team we know how to run Gromac's more than the average [H]ordite does, either way we now know who Folds the hardest out of the 2 teams.

Friday 05/09/03

• 1 million: 319 days

• 2 million: 133 days

• 3 million: 58 days

• 4 million: 34 days

• 5 million: 24 days

• 6 million: 20 days

• 7 million: 18 days

• 8 million: 15 days

• 9 million: 14 days

• 10 million: 11 days

• 11 million: 11 days

• 12 million: 11 days

• 13 million: 10 days

• 14 million: 9 days

Saturday 06/09/03

The [H]orde have made a move in the past 24hrs and stalled the inevitable by one day. For the past 60 days we have outscored the [H]ardOCP by 24,819 points (on average) each day. Our daily score has gone from an average of 71,500 to 110,700 points a day an increase of 39,200, the [H] team have gone from 54,000 to 81,300 points a day an increase of 27,300 points.

Since the news item midweek we have had another 40 members sign up for the giveaway making a total of 388 nominations with 263 reaching the qualification target of 300 points.

Sunday 07/09/03

I will be away for a few days, I will be back on Wednesday with hopefully "Just 3 days to go".

Wednesday 10/09/03

Halfway through the Giveaway and we have had 399 nominations with 308 making it to qualification status.

In any battle the point man takes the heat, but remember we're on the same side. [H] had point for a while, now OCAU will. Let's make sure we cover their asses as well as they covered ours.

We'll take point again, I'm sure...but it will be because we worked for it, not because we demoralized our friends.

Not to sure about the last bit though.

This weeks xylus 500 is here.

Thursday 11/09/03

There are a couple of interesting and popular polls running at the moment in the forums. The first is regarding what you do in the real world.

The second is concerned with ready made folding boxes and who you buy one to sit in the corner and fold for the cause.

Friday 12/09/03

Finally FBOX9 (aka Bradman) has a place to call home and the XP2400 is batting away at 2380MHz its batting partners are FBOX10 (Phar Lap) with a XP1800TBredA@1789Mhz and FBOX11 (O'Conner) with a XP1800Pal@1610MHz are up and running to. We still have a 12th man waiting in the pavilion a XP2100TBredB waiting for its turn at the crease once we get a motherboard and some RAM for it. The FBOX page is here and the FBOX donation thread is here

Congratulations goes out to the big fella DG who has just hit the 2 million point milestone, well done mate.

Saturday 13/09/03

As of 22:00 WST we had 15,369 points left to knock off. As usual the weekend slow down has come into play and the last few points are proving tough to get through.

Sunday 14/09/03

Tomorrow's BtB draw will be in the evening around 19:00 WST.

Today we passed the 15 million point milestone the same day that the [H]ardOCP team did. We have caught up 1.6 million points in just 2 short months and the last million took just over 8 days to get.

Forum threads....

• you the Folder, are in real life a xxxxx-
• How many of you would buy a box purely for folding- [Poll]
• For all those -NOT- using the 3.25 Beta Client...
• Race to catch [H] <10,000 points now!
• Giveaway4- Nomination thread
• No1 Overall User
• Any Shuttle X-PC Folders in'da'house-
• FAH LogStats 0.67 Released
• FBOX Donation Thread

Stats

• Highest day total: 122,143 points (24hrs to 07:00 on the 12th of September).
• Week total: 806,525 points. (Another record high)
• Members: 3905 up 27.
• Active: 819 up 20.
• Weekly gain on [H]: 151,947 points
• Days till OCAU becomes No1: <1
• Out produced oc.com by 363,498 points for the week.
• 58 members changed Folding Clubs up 4.
• 10 members reached the Top 1000.
• Rising Star herby
• $1057.45 in the FFF
• OCAU Active CPUs: 3616 down 15
• [H] Active CPUs: 2939 up 174
• Quote of the Week: "There's a folder born every minute."- PT Barnum.
   

This weeks xylus 500 is here.

It looks like a new client will be released soon possibly as early as next week. We have had 3.25 beta for a while now and the guys at Stanford are close to releasing a new client with no doubt a few more changes then we have in the beta.

To celebrate the forth coming conquest of the [H]ardOCP team I would like to introduce FLOGOMETER II for your viewing pleasure. It is a more advanced model of the original FLOGOMETER we had when the oc.com team were threatening us. FLOGOMETER II combines the best features of STATOMETER ULTRA and the original FLOGOMETER to give you a simple to read at a glance that meets today's demanding standards for a OOTBRTUD (Out Of The Box Ready To Use Device).

Anyway on with the show and with less than 10,000 points to go its just a matter of time.

Monday 15/09/03

Well we finally did it, the summit has been reached and what a feeling it is. Congratulations to every member of the Overclockers Australia Folding@Home team, your contributions have helped this team reach the pinnacle of the Folding world. Well done to the [H]ardOCP team for proving the target and inspiration we needed to get to the top, I have no doubt this tussle to be the top team will continue for a long time to come. The overall winner out of this is of course the Folding@Home project and may it continue to prosper for many a year to come.

Quotes from the #1 thread

• Nice. Andy

• Congrats OCAU from [OC] NiTrO_bOiE

• Congratulations!!! (From PC Abusers )

• Congrats guys, you certainly earned the #1 spot! nikhsub1

• Congratulations! Excellent effort, great work! [H]SoL

• Congrats ya'll. Way to go.vonkaar

• congrats from a folder from 2CPU.com ayt999

• Well done Team OCAU. Little_Kenny[H]

• Hey guys, great going. Congratz and all. Hinton

• Congrats guys... very impressive and no team deserves first place more. OC-AMD

• Congratulations, you've certainly earned it Gaiden[H]

• "Congrats" on your teams move into first place. NascarFool

• Congrats on the hard fought Victory.Whilden @ Ars Technica

• Congrats from here too - very impressive production! pointwood

• Congrats! theseum

• Many congrats to you guys.. its been a [h]ard fought battle! walaka7

and a little something from Invictus

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A disturbance in the force?
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Funny or weird as it was, I woke up very early this morning for no apparent reason.
I was somewhat confused as to why I had woken, and decided to have a drink of water.
No sooner had I picked up the glass, my hands seem to cease functioning and my head swam as I struggled to take hold of the glass before it struck the floor and shattered. I stood looking at the glass on the floor, feeling more confused and fully awake as the short panic of attempting to catch the falling glass had shaken off all lethargic feelings.
I shook my head in chastisement and disbelief, and casually glanced at my watch. A little after 4am.
After meticulously cleaning up the shards of glass, and finally achieving my goal of having a drink of water, I returned to bed, and promptly fell asleep again.
About midday, I checked the OCAU website, for an update on the race to reach the number position in the team ranks, and found that OCAU had overtaken its rival [H]ardOCP during the night.
The first posts made by people reporting that OCAU had indeed moved into the number one position, were made .... a little after 4am.

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Invictus
2003-09-15
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Wednesday 17/09/03

You have just 7 days left to get the 300 points required to qualify for the draw of Giveaway4. So far over 350 have qualified with another 53 nearly there. So if you are around next Wednesday at approx 08:00 WST drop by the forums or check back here for the announcement of the 4 lucky prize winners.

There is another update to EM3 grab it here.

Released version 2.4.2 of EM III
Auto Run a program at specified interval.
New Queue.dat display feature.
Retry bad network connection every 5 minutes.

Since the Extreme stats are down so are the Folding Club promotions unfortunately. Hopefully they will be back up in the next day or so.

We continue to stretch the lead over the [H]orde and as I type this it is over 51,000 points and growing at a rate of approximately 20,000 points a day.

Statsman has resurrected his stats at a new location www.statsman.info, here is the thread over at the [H] forums and one over at the Folding-Community and here is the reason for the change of domains. Its great to have your stats back we sure did miss them.

Friday 19/09/03

Bort has decided not to accept FBOX5 because he wasn't sure that he could guarantee that it would be folding 24/7 for the long term. I think we should congratulate Bort for being so honest and thinking about the team ahead of his own needs.

So back into the ring it goes and...

The winner of the FBOX5 is

Forum name moray
Folding name Moray (575)


Send me a PM and we can sort out delivery of FBOX5 with the understanding that you must agree to run the machine 24/7 and pay for postage.

Yesterday we had our highest every 24 hour production with 124,030 points. We also gave the oc.com team their worst ever day flogging of 57,974 points. On the [H]ardOCP side of things they were flogged to the tune of 23,037 points which takes us to a lead of 78,142 points after 4 days. Welcome to all the new members that have joined us in the past few days. We have 41 new faces on the team and what is very pleasing is the increase in active members which has rocketed up to 880 this morning from less than 800 two weeks ago.

The stats came back up this morning for a short period of time, long enough for me to do about 50 Folding Club promotions. Lets hope they get back up again soon.

Monday 22/09/03

This weeks xylus 500 is here.

FBOX6 is at the crease for a turn at bat, its a Duron 1000 (Morgan core) currently running at 1177Mhz.

Tuesday 23/09/03

Due to technical difficulties this round of Beat the Box started this morning at 07:00 WST instead of yesterday morning. The finish time will also be put back one day. The management apologises for any inconvenience that this delay may cause to some members.

Just a few more hrs and your time will be up to get the required 300 points to qualify for the draw. 398 of the 459 nominees have qualified for the draw tomorrow, which should be in the afternoon sometime. Check back here and the DC forum for news of the winners.

Forum threads....

• #1
• Race to catch [H] (We caught them already!)
• Congrats from Ars
• Statsman is back....
• BEAT the BOX giveaway....and the winner is for FBOX5
• BEAT the BOX giveaway....redraw for FBOX5
• DG HIT 2Mil

Stats

• Highest day total: 124,030 points (24hrs to 07:00 on the 19th of September: Record high).
• Week total: 782,003 points.
• Members: 3964 up 59.
• Active: 892 up 73.
• Out produced [H] by: 124,156 points
• Days OCAU at No1: 6
• Out produced oc.com by 361,251 points for the week.
• 32 members changed Folding Clubs.
• 11 members reached the Top 1000.
• Rising Star Pilot6
• $1157.45 in the FFF
• OCAU Active CPUs (last 50 days): 6374
• [H] Active CPUs (last 50 days): 4685
• Quote of the Week: "I have found the paradox, that if you Fold until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more Folding."- Mother Theresa.

Wednesday 24/09/03

Sunday 28/09/03

This weeks xylus 500 is here.

We had a couple of power fluctuations here today in the house of FBOXes and FBOX6 lost a WU at 91% and about 40% complete. So unfortunately this week FBOX6 should be an easy beat.

Forum threads....

• Giveaway4- ....and the winners are
• Heat hits Sydney.. things go wrong
• im a genius
• Top 10,000
• FBOX Donation Thread
• Gromacs on the decrease -
• Folding Achievements & Milestones

Stats

• Highest day total: 111,453 points (24hrs to 07:00 on the 25th of September).
• Week total: 736,169 points.
• Members: 3998 up 34.
• Active: 854 down 38.
• Out produced [H] by: 91,123 points
• Days OCAU at No1: 13
• Out produced oc.com by 333,282 points for the week.
• 121 members changed Folding Clubs.
• 14 members reached the Top 1000.
• Rising Star FaTs
• $1289.70 in the FFF
• OCAU Active CPUs (last 50 days): 6349
• [H] Active CPUs (last 50 days): 4659
• Quote of the Week: "IssUes, ReForce and AERO - you've got 50$ each to spend at: www.lownoisepc.com"- leonard.