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The Overclockers Australia Folding@Home team has strongly maintained it's place at the top of the table for at least the past month or so, and I congratulate every team member on their fine efforts. However, our place is far from guaranteed with teams like [H]ard|OCP dwarfing our daily production levels meaning that soon we'll be pushed back unless we take the fight to them.
If you flick over to the StatsMan Folding@Home 2.0 Stats page you'll notice that their Estimated Future Total's graph shows the [H]ard|OCP team passing us before the end of February! We can't have that!
To all the people that are not already Folding for the OCAU team, I urge you to head over to the Team OCAU forum, read the HOW TO guide and start folding immediately! Don't limit yourself to just your computer either, I'm sure your parents wont mind, and nor your will your friends or neighbours :) Just make sure you have permission first.
If you need a bit more convincing than that, you can head over and read their FAQ or the Project Goals and Scientific Background to find out what protein folding really is. Be warned though, lots of scientific jargon to be found. Put simply, Folding is a good scientific cause that through it's results may directly lead to advances in the treatment of genetic diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's disease or even Mad Cow disease and it is a worthy recipient of your spare CPU cycles. It runs purely in the background of your computer and you won't notice any performance degradation at all (Hell, we even run it on Loki, the backup OCAU server). Data wise, if you run it day-in day-out on your beastie 1.2Ghz Athlon you can expect to do around 1Mb per day of Folding traffic. I run it as a service and I don't even notice it, it is no hassle at all. You should at least give it a try, even if you don't keep it up full time afterwards.
And to all those people already running Folding@Home, keep on slogging away! Add a few more computers to your cluster and see if you can pass the person in front of you. I'm position 62 and the only system that runs Folding for my name is a Duron 750! You can do better than that. Especially to all those people down the bottom of the table who haven’t submitted more than 5 point-scores worth of data get your act together and keep it moving! (yes, all 107 of you, including Agg's Mum!)
We need you Australia ;)
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