Folding@Home January TeAm record run 2026

Honestly.. if our old ESXI hosts... (dual 18 core systems with 512 or was it 784 gigs of ram) had actual hard drives and not compact flash boot drives I'd think about them finding a path to running this stuff.
 
Grimlakin said:
Honestly.. if our old ESXI hosts... (dual 18 core systems with 512 or was it 784 gigs of ram) had actual hard drives and not compact flash boot drives I'd think about them finding a path to running this stuff.
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With that much RAM you could run most things in a RAM drive so it doesn't add wear to the flash drives.
 
Skillz said:
With that much RAM you could run most things in a RAM drive so it doesn't add wear to the flash drives.
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Oh that's not the issue... it's that the Compact flash drives are like 16 gig. So not enough space for most OS's. So not worth the PITA it would be to get it running right.
 
I had a failed NVME drive on a dual EPYC setup once. Ended up using a USB thumb drive running a live Linux distro for longer than I care to admit off it.

Everything worked fine until it rebooted or lost power 😂
 
StefanR5R said:
If we can maintain an average of ~900 M/day during the whole month, we shall outdo our previous best month by points.
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Precisely we need >868 M/day as average of all 31 days. Our daily average of January 1…21 is 913 M, but the output of the last three days was a little below the desired average. I hope it gets back up after the PrimeGrid challenge ends (that's 1½ days from now) and when Hard|OCP's Folding Challenge starts (2½ days from now).

day __ team total __ active members __ team rank for daily output
18 _____ 909,225,210 ________ 41 _________ 7
19 _____ 866,555,541 ________ 40 _________ 6
20 _____ 864,580,726 ________ 40 _________ 7
21 _____ 841,463,951 ________ 40 _________ 7

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Total race points so far:

Folding@Home overall position - 14
TeAm total for 1/1 - 1/22 (12am CST) - 19,177,096,039
TeAm rank for 1/1 - 1/22 production - 8

______ points 1/1 - 1/22 ___ user name
1_______2,937,835,720_____Pokey_TA
2_______2,356,364,466_____IEC
3_______1,603,713,117_____crashtech
4_______1,569,296,531_____xii5ku
5_______1,419,949,386_____Icecold
6_______1,368,581,612_____Mark_F_Williams
7_______1,264,611,724_____biodoc
8_______1,090,443,575_____mmonnin
9_______1,033,071,625_____ChelseaOilman_GRC_7aac529d73a2ad65d9dd1b893fccf532
10______824,433,475_______Oneto
11______539,577,282_______10esseetony
12______407,186,543_______cellarnoise2
13______331,293,366_______Endgame124
14______326,785,918_______DrNickRiviera
15______297,990,924_______mazzmond
16______266,665,163_______fhonyotski
17______180,953,265_______Cliff_Taylor
18______171,705,744_______underwriter
19______139,469,693_______Mihryazd
20______135,129,313_______Dexter
21______130,413,236_______Hostile
22______129,341,419_______TiO2
23______87,573,553___Ron_Michener
24______78,793,155___[TA]Assimilator1
25______70,343,014___Lord-Vale3
26______70,078,309___JohnnyWong1213
27______64,661,678___Daniel_Trudeau
28______59,595,770___kai'sa001
29______29,392,515___creed3020
30______27,776,874___LOL_Wut_Axel
31______26,439,826___RK
32______22,678,169___Paul_McAvinney
33______20,029,930___mondrasek
34______19,320,584___DainBramaged
35______12,186,102___Mickulty
36______12,043,167___salvorhardin
37______12,035,237___TurtleBlue10475
38______9,645,671____Brazos
39______5,826,489____Michael_Chin
40______4,433,579____davidm103
41______3,356,101____sduguid
42______2,167,243____slowbones
43______2,090,083____TA_JC
44______1,963,557____Hippo Droid
45______1,727,916____Spungo
46______1,305,642____Balzams
47______1,227,061____Familyman_19
48______1,209,391____Karetaker
49______813,450______2StepBlack
50______809,748______shabs42
51______766,719______Viperoni
52______606,540______Saftfert
53______423,222______J7_DirtyMan
54______363,076______saah
55______238,171______Athlex
56______224,917______dkm2350
57______53,000_______Shadow_Grimsby
58______50,180_______Ricky67*
59______25,104_______QuietDad
60______5,466________Gp03
61______2,733________jlinfitt

New active member since my previous post: dkm2350
 
We here in USA are facing a huge winter storm the next few days with large areas looking at ice accumulations, and extreme cold temps. So don’t be surprised if we have some complete drop outs. I have a generator to keep well and refrigerator going for a while and a kerosine heater, but I am still hoping for the best.
 
Thumbs up — not to the winter storm, but to you being prepared.
I hope all of you who get caught up in this stay safe.

Here in Germany pretty much all winters are mild, thanks to the Gulf Stream which moderates the local climate of the little peninsula which is Europe. But the downside of a society being used to mild climate is that it tends to be ill prepared to the occasional few days with more severe weather. For instance, when we had a couple of days with snow earlier this month, much of the railway traffic was simply shut down because trains and infrastructure and staff are no longer well prepared for snow in Germany, because of penny pinching. This used to be very different in the 1960s/70s/80s at least.

I think the last really severe winter in Germany was in 1978/79. There were two events of very fast and severe drop of temperature coupled with heavy snowfall and snow drifts, first at the end of 12.1978 and then again mid 02.1979 when snow of the first event was still around. At that time, energy generation was of course predominantly by coal power plants, and they got into severe trouble to get the coal out of the open pit mines, out of the freight trains, even out of the power plants' bunkers, as the coal was deeply frozen. There were emergency power cuts all over the country due to insufficient power generation, often without advance warning of the population. Other industry ran out of coal (bakeries for instance, which was bad obviously), traffic largely broke down etc.. — Except for the brownouts I don't recall any of this myself though because I was a little kid back then. Besides, I lived in that part of Germany in which press was subject to censorship, hence I guess much of what went on in this particular winter became more widely publicized only much later. This winter caused deaths in both parts of Germany. Denmark and parts of Sweden and Poland were affected too.

On another note, right now, some EU countries are sending hundreds of diesel generators to Ukraine — again, on top of the many thousand generators which were sent during the past four years. That's good, but I keep wishing that we removed the need for such supplies, by enabling Ukraine to bring an end to the air raids. IOW to take out the facilities were these raids originate. I have no idea why it doesn't happen; it's obviously easier said than done, but still.
 
So I wanted to find out in which particular scientific experiments my computers have been involved so far during our record run.

Step 1: Look up the project IDs from the FAHClient log. That's easy:
grep 'Project.*Run.*Clone.*Gen' /var/lib/fahclient/log.txt /var/lib/fahclient/logs/log-2026*.txt | cut -f2 -d' ' | sort -u
I combined the outputs of all F@H hosts of mine and ended up with 63 unique project IDs.

Step 2: Fetch project descriptions from foldingathome.org. I thought that I could do this with very simple web requests. But it seems I was mistaken. So far I only found links which require a javascript enabled web browser to evaluate, but not as I hoped something which I can access with the likes of wget. Here are "my" 63 project IDs, linkyfied:
12134, 12135, 12136, 12294, 12295, 12475, 12476, 12477, 12478, 12479, 12485, 12486, 12701, 12703, 12704, 15000, 15300, 15301, 15302, 15303, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15308, 15309, 15310, 15311, 15312, 15313, 15314, 15315, 15316, 15320, 16525, 16773, 16774, 16775, 16815, 16959, 16969, 16978, 17636, 17640, 17649, 17650, 17651, 17652, 17653, 17654, 17655, 18223, 18228, 18235, 18236, 18237, 18238, 18240, 18245, 18260, 18261, 18262, 18263, 18490

I clicked through a random selection of these and what can I say — I'm a bit dizzy now. :-)
 
Stef, are you not using the new v8.5.5 client?

If so, I recommend using it. It will display all your work units on the web control panel and you can click on each work unit to see what it does.

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it keeps a huge history of everything all your hosts connected to the web client has done. just click the "i" on them and see what they're about.
 
Indeed, I was unaware of this v8 client/control feature because I still have v7 everywhere.

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As to be expected, our PPD are going up as we enter the final week of January:

day __ team total __ active members __ team rank for daily output
22 _____ 888,193,187 ________ 42 _________ 7
23 _____ 956,315,419 ________ 44 _________ 6
24 ____1,444,354,444 ________ 41 _________ 6

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Total race points so far:

Folding@Home overall position - 14
TeAm total for 1/1 - 1/25 (12am CST) - 22,465,959,089
TeAm rank for 1/1 - 1/25 production - 8

______ points 1/1 - 1/25 ___ user name
1_______3,367,755,005_____Pokey_TA
2_______2,675,427,691_____IEC
3_______1,934,090,594_____crashtech
4_______1,818,733,425_____xii5ku
5_______1,647,400,373_____Icecold
6_______1,490,758,352_____Mark_F_Williams
7_______1,465,012,749_____biodoc
8_______1,310,074,697_____ChelseaOilman_GRC_7aac529d73a2ad65d9dd1b893fccf532
9_______1,208,440,716_____mmonnin
10______922,337,792_______Oneto
11______786,513,912_______10esseetony
12______462,394,807_______cellarnoise2
13______384,726,467_______Endgame124
14______350,002,492_______DrNickRiviera
15______321,665,394_______mazzmond
16______321,252,775_______fhonyotski
17______196,804,710_______Cliff_Taylor
18______191,233,664_______Skillz
19______172,069,739_______Dexter
20______171,705,744_______underwriter
21______158,397,594_______Mihryazd
22______151,207,311_______Hostile
23______145,821,970_______TiO2
24______100,705,743_______Ron_Michener
25______89,290,208___[TA]Assimilator1
26______88,462,887___Daniel_Trudeau
27______86,513,139___JohnnyWong1213
28______82,520,212___Lord-Vale3
29______72,341,238___kai'sa001
30______40,228,825___creed3020
31______31,172,259___LOL_Wut_Axel
32______30,247,128___Spungo
33______26,439,826___RK
34______25,972,647___Paul_McAvinney
35______22,303,292___mondrasek
36______19,320,584___DainBramaged
37______18,345,581___Mickulty
38______13,918,545___salvorhardin
39______12,035,237___TurtleBlue10475
40______11,250,433___Brazos
41______8,115,729____Ken_g6
42______6,413,535____Michael_Chin
43______5,202,607____davidm103
44______3,778,709____sduguid
45______3,684,790____Hippo Droid
46______2,201,056____TA_JC
47______2,167,243____slowbones
48______1,437,729____Balzams
49______1,420,069____Karetaker
50______1,227,061____Familyman_19
51______1,046,679____2StepBlack
52______907,382______shabs42
53______766,719______Viperoni
54______656,732______johnnevermind
55______606,540______Saftfert
56______423,222______J7_DirtyMan
57______363,076______saah
58______238,171______Athlex
59______224,917______dkm2350
60______53,000_______Shadow_Grimsby
61______50,180_______Ricky67*
62______41,840_______QuietDad
63______28,147_______droffungus
64______5,466________Gp03
65______2,733________jlinfitt

New active members since my previous post: droffungus, johnnevermind, Ken_g6, and Skillz
 
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Given your past issues with network connectivity and the F@H servers. I would probably test this before full deployment. It requires a constant connection to the server that handles this remote web control panel from each host its watching. I don't think it's sending much data, but an unstable/bad Internet connection could potentially pose issues with it.
 
StefanR5R said:
Our previous records, previously tracked by Endgame124:
daily peak — 1,666,901,932 points on 1/25/2024
week peak — 7,654,446,4125 points in the week of 1/21/2024
monthly peak — 26,898,347,599 points in January 2024
active users, daily peak — 1481 on 4/19/2020
active users, peak month — 83 in January 2024 (as of 1/23)
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New records:
daily peak — 1,975,283,015 points on 1/25/2026
monthly peak — 27,399,282,677 points in January 2026 but with 4½ days still to go
 
Somehow it feels to me like ages ago that I last posted a report here. And indeed, quite a bit happened since then:

day __ team total __ active members __ team rank for daily output
25 ____1,975,283,015 ________ 46 _________ 6
26 ____1,936,361,383 ________ 44 _________ 6
27 ____2,264,866,851 ________ 50 _________ 3
28 ____2,708,400,764 ________ 48 _________ 3

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Total race points so far:

Folding@Home overall position - 14
TeAm total for 1/1 - 1/29 (12am CST) - 31,350,871,102
TeAm rank for 1/1 - 1/29 production - 5

______ points 1/1 - 1/29 ___ user name
1_______3,910,284,148_____Pokey_TA
2_______3,305,144,233_____IEC
3_______2,788,039,569_____crashtech
4_______2,343,017,320_____xii5ku
5_______2,329,359,720_____Skillz
6_______2,285,716,474_____Icecold
7_______1,995,011,060_____Mark_F_Williams
8_______1,721,102,940_____biodoc
9_______1,682,504,750_____ChelseaOilman_GRC_7aac529d73a2ad65d9dd1b893fccf532
10______1,358,930,335_____mmonnin
11______1,161,966,261_____10esseetony
12______1,052,094,716_____Oneto
13______972,032,203_______piledriver
14______599,160,096_______cellarnoise2
15______568,442,704_______Endgame124
16______416,027,594_______DrNickRiviera
17______387,895,737_______fhonyotski
18______347,760,212_______mazzmond
19______219,592,182_______Dexter
20______197,985,782_______Cliff_Taylor
21______183,519,084_______Mihryazd
22______176,879,493_______Hostile
23______171,705,744_______underwriter
24______147,111,128_______TiO2
25______118,837,713_______Ron_Michener
26______107,978,580_______Daniel_Trudeau
27______104,248,102_______[TA]Assimilator1
28______98,629,122___Lord-Vale3
29______92,770,593___kai'sa001
30______91,598,819___JohnnyWong1213
31______61,090,442___Spungo
32______53,055,713___creed3020
33______46,326,924___Ken_g6
34______33,829,932___LOL_Wut_Axel
35______29,327,851___Paul_McAvinney
36______27,637,038___RK
37______26,455,486___Mickulty
38______25,418,072___mondrasek
39______19,320,584___DainBramaged
40______19,158,559___salvorhardin
41______13,001,825___Brazos
42______12,035,237___TurtleBlue10475
43______8,309,234____Hippo Droid
44______7,623,867____Michael_Chin
45______5,864,231____davidm103
46______4,432,215____sduguid
47______3,673,760____droffungus
48______3,370,116____LetsGo!
49______2,524,861____TA_JC
50______2,167,243____slowbones
51______1,722,401____Balzams
52______1,675,728____Karetaker
53______1,227,061____Familyman_19
54______1,154,866____2StepBlack
55______1,016,131____shabs42
56______939,858______johnnevermind
57______828,087______Viperoni
58______606,540______Saftfert
59______480,089______Athlex
60______423,222______J7_DirtyMan
61______363,076______saah
62______224,917______dkm2350
63______108,733______Shadow_Grimsby
64______66,944_______QuietDad
65______55,646_______Ricky67*
66______5,466________Gp03
67______2,733________jlinfitt

New active members since my previous post: LetsGo! and piledriver
 
...and here come the final stats of January 2026:

day ____ team total __ active members __ team rank for daily output
29 ____2,122,281,380 ________ 46 _________ 3
30 ____1,894,488,720 ________ 47 _________ 4
31 ____2,141,574,969 ________ 47 _________ 3

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________ week _________________ team total __ active members __ team rank for weekly output
12/28 - 1/4 (12am CST) _____ 3,652,421,092 ________ ?? _________ ?
1/4 - 1/11 (12am CST) ______ 6,847,839,552 ________ 54 _________ 7
1/11 - 1/18 (12am CST) _____ 6,246,936,553 ________ 48 _________ 8
1/18 - 1/25 (12am CST) _____ 6,770,688,478 ________ 52 _________ 6
1/25 - 2/1 (12am CST) _____ 15,043,257,082 ________ 58 _________ 3

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Final total race points:

Folding@Home overall position - 14
TeAm total for 1/1 - 2/1 (12am CST) - 37,509,216,171
TeAm rank for 1/1 - 2/1 production - 5
active members - 68

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Thank you to all who made this happen:

10esseetony, 2StepBlack, Athlex, Balzams, biodoc, Brazos, cellarnoise2, ChelseaOilman_GRC_…, Cliff_Taylor, crashtech, creed3020, DainBramaged, Daniel_Trudeau, davidm103, Dexter, dkm2350, DrNickRiviera, droffungus, Endgame124, Familyman_19, fhonyotski, Gp03, Hippo Droid, Hostile, Icecold, IEC, J7_DirtyMan, jlinfitt, johnnevermind, JohnnyWong1213, kai'sa001, Karetaker, Ken_g6, LetsGo!, LOL_Wut_Axel, Lord-Vale3, Mark_F_Williams, mazzmond, Michael_Chin, Mickulty, Mihryazd, mmonnin, mondrasek, Oneto, Paul_McAvinney, piledriver, Pokey_TA, QuietDad, Ricky67*, RK, Ron_Michener, saah, Saftfert, salvorhardin, sduguid, shabs42, Shadow_Grimsby, Sheckmonster, Skillz, slowbones, Spungo, [TA]Assimilator1, TA_JC, TiO2, TurtleBlue10475, underwriter, Viperoni, xii5ku

1_______4,282,715,276_____Pokey_TA
2_______3,807,785,088_____IEC
3_______3,338,360,400_____crashtech
4_______2,906,793,061_____Icecold
5_______2,860,357,131_____Skillz
6_______2,743,672,677_____xii5ku
7_______2,516,807,572_____Mark_F_Williams
8_______2,233,393,177_____piledriver
9_______1,938,024,224_____ChelseaOilman_GRC_7aac529d73a2ad65d9dd1b893fccf532
10______1,913,390,167_____biodoc
11______1,397,844,355_____10esseetony
12______1,358,930,335_____mmonnin
13______1,157,527,504_____Oneto
14______733,510,759_______Endgame124
15______715,951,636_______cellarnoise2
16______460,790,140_______DrNickRiviera
17______429,083,330_______fhonyotski
18______386,957,930_______mazzmond
19______222,608,006_______Dexter
20______220,173,288_______Cliff_Taylor
21______201,853,959_______Mihryazd
22______195,193,917_______Hostile
23______171,705,744_______underwriter
24______147,111,128_______TiO2
25______130,679,844_______Ron_Michener
26______122,520,789_______Daniel_Trudeau
27______115,329,722_______[TA]Assimilator1
28______110,514,372_______Lord-Vale3
29______102,515,533_______JohnnyWong1213
30______92,770,593___kai'sa001
31______82,226,823___Spungo
32______70,637,001___Ken_g6
33______55,991,651___creed3020
34______37,894,954___LOL_Wut_Axel
35______32,820,723___Mickulty
36______31,149,263___RK
37______30,712,654___Paul_McAvinney
38______29,238,819___mondrasek
39______20,962,258___salvorhardin
40______19,320,584___DainBramaged
41______13,001,825___Brazos
42______12,035,237___TurtleBlue10475
43______10,403,421___Hippo Droid
44______8,238,882____Michael_Chin
45______7,083,364____droffungus
46______6,625,270____davidm103
47______4,956,516____sduguid
48______3,370,116____LetsGo!
49______3,316,447____TA_JC
50______2,167,243____slowbones
51______1,936,181____Karetaker
52______1,913,726____Balzams
53______1,433,650____2StepBlack
54______1,227,061____Familyman_19
55______1,125,831____shabs42
56______973,327______Viperoni
57______939,858______johnnevermind
58______606,540______Saftfert
59______550,350______Athlex
60______423,222______J7_DirtyMan
61______363,076______saah
62______224,917______dkm2350
63______164,466______Shadow_Grimsby
64______159,000______Sheckmonster
65______83,680_______QuietDad
66______55,646_______Ricky67*
67______8,199________Gp03
68______2,733________jlinfitt

New active member since my previous post: Sheckmonster

Our current records (previously tracked by Endgame124):
daily peak — 2,708,400,764 points on 1/28/2026
week peak — 15,043,257,082 points in the week of 1/25/2026
monthly peak — 37,509,216,171 points in January 2026
active users, daily peak — 1481 on 4/19/2020
active users, peak month — 83 in January 2024 (as of 1/23)

Total team points of the 13th…17th Annual Folding@Home Holiday Races and of the 2024 and 2026 record runs:
January 2026 — 37,509,216,171
January 2025 — 26,116,935,661
January 2024 — 26,898,347,599
1/1 2023 - 1/21 2023 — 8,645,799,517
December 2021 — 9,812,355,444
December 2020 — 8,022,546,283
December 2019 — 3,062,473,110
December 2018 — 1,864,317,276
 
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