Folding Challenges, Incentives and Awards

Overclockers Australia & Folding@Home

While Overclockers Australia (OCAU) has a strong presence in many Distributed Computing projects, one of the most active and sucessful projects over time has been Folding@Home (F@H). Part of this sucess is due to incentives such as challenges, competitions and awards. Challenges and awards bring bragging rights for the victors or maybe a digital trophy...quack! Competitions give members the chance to win items such as PC hardware that can in turn increase folding output. These competitions are made possible by hardware or financial donations.

Competitions

• Monthly Folding Competitions - Giving away hardware such as a GPU. "Raffle" with tickets awarded according to folding output for the month.
  • March 2011 | February 2011

Challenges

• Chimp Challenge - A handicap based inter-team challenge where each team races to a unique target total.
• The Relic Trophy Born out of OCAU's intense battle against the The Horde (Picture)

Awards

• Folding Total Points Milestones
• Folding Points per Week Milestones
• Folder of the Month
• Folding Dedication Hall of Fame

Folding Milestones

Almost every member of the OCAU F@H team is able to qualify for a folding milestone. There are two types of milestone - total points and points per week. The minimum needed to get a milestone is 10,000 points in total. This would take less than a week to achive with even a basic system. Awards are available in the form of forum signatures and avatars (badges).

• Total Points (Forum Signature|Forum Badge)
• Points per Week (Forum Signature|Forum Badge)

Folder of the Month

Members are nominated in the distributed computing forums and later in the month a vote is cast. The winner gets the forum title "Iron Folder" for 1 month.

• March 2011 Nominations | February Poll

Folding Dedication Hall of Fame

Some members just put more into the team than others, the Folding Dedication Hall of Fame was created to acknowledge those members. As part of the old OCAU F@H site, the Hall of Fame has not been added to for many years. As such, there are many current members who would most definatley have been inducted into the Hall of Fame were it still in service. The Folder of the Month award above is the closest thing we now have to recognising individual member's efforts for the good of the team. A discussion about the Folding Dedication Hall of Fame can be found on the OCAU Distributed Computing forums HERE.

Inductees - details to follow...

• Lombers
• VooDoo
• Lucus Maximus
• Leachy
• chestRcopRpot
• Wing
• Bravo
• Amran
• Bollocks
• Corbin
• DGROMS.com
• zzsstt
• Norgs
• EazyduzIt
• badg3er
• leonard
• javascripterror

The above list was taken from the old OCAU F@H site, there is a second list in existance (FBOX donations) that will be added shortly.