6th Annual FAH challenge (2025)

[[H]Coleslaw]

I dropped the link in Discord but figured I would also drop it here. If any of your team wishes to partake again this year. https://hardforum.com/threads/2025-6th-annual-folding-challenge-jan-24-31.2038812/

 

[Markfw]

Since you can do both, I am in for both. 160 mil pd at the moment.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Currently contacted teams
overclockers.com - confirmed
EVGA - pending confirmation
TAAT - confirmed
ExtremeHW - possibly disbanding
OcUK - cannot log into their forum. DM'd PDW @ WUProp

 

[TennesseeTony]

EVGA confirmed

 

[pututu]

We created a monitoring stat site to track teams and individuals progress over the 7-day challenge. Please visit this announcement in our [H]ard|OCP thread here.
Any questions, please post it in that thread Thanks.

 

[Ken g6]

A preliminary test is underway. And we're...third!

It's not the real challenge yet, but we're so close to second.

 

[Markfw]

A preliminary test is underway. And we're...third!

It's not the real challenge yet, but we're so close to second.

when is the real contest ?

 

[StefanR5R]

when is the real contest ?

01/24 - 01/31 10:00 (PST) 6th Annual Folding Challenge hosted by [H]ard|OCP

 

[Ken g6]

when is the real contest ?

January 24-31 starting and ending at noon central time.

 

[Markfw]

on the 24th I was going to shut down most of my fllet after I got the over $1000 power bill, but I will see if I can keep the CPU part alive for the 8 4xxx series cards I have.

 

[Assimilator1]

I'm in 👍

 

[Markfw]

A preliminary test is underway. And we're...third!

It's not the real challenge yet, but we're so close to second.

Now we are 2nd. I added 2 more video cards (just 2060's, but everything helps)

 

[pututu]

Realtime monitoring stat added (every 5 or 10 mins): https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com/26 for tomorrow's challenge.
No fancy graphs, just tabulated cumulative total points since the start of the race. Final team standing will be determined using EOC team stat.
Race starts in less than a day per this countdown timer.
Please visit [H]ard|OCP challenge thread and post any comments, questions or discussions. Good luck and have fun!

 

[TennesseeTony]

And we are off! The first stats are in!

 

[TennesseeTony]

Our starting point.​

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Team AnandTech​

Rank Overall Change 24hr Change 7days Points 24hr Avg Points Last 24hr Points Last 7days Points Update Points Today Points Week Points Total WUs Total 14​ ​ ​ 740,123,670​ 765,554,571​ 5,180,865,692​ 97,212,919​ 393,821,866​ 4,110,009,963​ 399,516,826,185​ 5,744,392​

 

[StefanR5R]

For posterity, here is a copy of EOC's data from 01.24.25, 12pm CST.

rank overall	team name	points total
5​	folding@evga	1,137,545,476,776​
6​	www.overclockers.com	760,472,340,934​
14​	Team AnandTech	399,516,826,185​
16​	[H]ardOCP	374,950,325,525​
49​	TechPowerup!	100,723,324,130​

 

[Markfw]

Thea team is up to 2nd, and I am up to 3rd overall. I know its early, but this is a good start !

Team Ranking

	Team ID	Name	Score	WUs
1	32	www.overclockers.com	143,922,514	183
2	198	Team AnandTech	74,944,236	97
3	111065	folding@evga	72,703,294	104
4	33	[H]ardOCP	44,907,205	80
5	50711	TechPowerup!	14,358,159	27

Individual Ranking

	Team ID	Name	Score	WUs
1	32	HayesK_GRC_724e7c4546744e3441b763e5d15d1247	27,461,660	60
2	32	Holdolin	26,815,626	24
3	198	Mark_F_Williams	20,589,056	17
4	32	folding_monkeys	20,002,582	16
5	32	WhitehawkEQ	13,826,451	12
6	111065	SmookinJoe	12,771,957	10
7	111065	CoolGTX	11,106,105	12
8	198	10esseetony	10,706,538	7
9	32	Farwalker	9,662,518	4
10	32	DeputyKovacs	9,187,300	10

 

[StefanR5R]

Woops, TechPowerup! was missing in #16. Added.
(And it's of course all identical with race thread post #42.)

 

[Markfw]

Well, my average was 198 mill ppd, now its down to 197. I am in that range at least. We are still 2nd place, I dropped to 4th.

 

[StefanR5R]

A check on the current stats:

team name	points total, EOC 01/24 12pm CST (18:00 UTC)	points total, EOC 01/26 12pm CST (18:00 UTC)	race points, EOC based	web API based race points 01/26 10:25am CST (17:25 UTC)	deviation of the web API based points from EOC points
www.overclockers.com	760,472,340,934​	763,193,833,385​	2,721,492,451​	2,706,297,138​	−0.6%​
Team AnandTech	399,516,826,185​	401,432,390,554​	1,915,564,369​	1,890,195,527​	−1.3%​
folding@evga	1,137,545,476,776​	1,139,162,743,907​	1,617,267,131​	1,691,605,687​	+4.6%​
[H]ardOCP	374,950,325,525​	376,468,523,882​	1,518,198,357​	1,554,567,278​	+2.4%​
TechPowerup!	100,723,324,130​	101,292,356,486​	569,032,356​	562,719,163​	−1.1%​

Note, foldingathome.org's latest team list file export before 01/26 12pm CST (18:00 UTC) was almost two hours earlier, at 16:19 UTC. From what I understand, this file export is what EOC feed into their database. My choice to make a snapshot of the web API based stats a little earlier than 18:00 UTC was a rather arbitrary one.

The few percents of deviations seem reasonable to me. After all, even the stats propagation within the foldingathome.org network with several campuses can't be instantaneous.

[H]ard|OCP overtook TSC! Russia today in the overall F@H ranking. Congrats!

TechPowerup! overtook MST-RSS at some point during past week.

 

[StefanR5R]

<53 hours left.
Current number of participants, according to https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com/26:

276 ....... total
46 ......... www.overclockers.com
58 ......... Team AnandTech
81 ......... [H]ardOCP
62 ......... folding@evga
29 ......... TechPowerup!
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Next year, techpowerup.com needs to put up a frontpage article that their readership will be competitively folding for a week... :-)
Thumbs up to [H]'s recruitment department.

 

[StefanR5R]

[H]ard@OCP doubled their output.
Will they catch us during these last few hours? Certainly looks like it.

 

[Markfw]

[H]ard@OCP doubled their output.
Will they catch us during these last few hours? Certainly looks like it.

They passed us. We are 3rd now. Firefly is flying. I will probably lose 4th overall and go to 5th.

 

[firedfly]

They passed us. We are 3rd now. Firefly is flying. I will probably lose 4th overall and go to 5th.

Your production is still more impressive to me. You consistently put up a lot of points every day--not just during competitions.

 

[Markfw]

Your production is still more impressive to me. You consistently put up a lot of points every day--not just during competitions.

My production is 8 4xxx series cards. All in-house.