2026 7th Annual Folding Challenge

[[H]Coleslaw]

I had posted in the team's Discord but hadn't gotten a response. I wanted to extend the invitation like years prior for those interested. Let us know if your team would like to partake again this year.

https://hardforum.com/threads/2026-7th-annual-folding-challenge-jan-25-31-2026.2045313/

 

[TennesseeTony]

We would love to! Thanks!

 

[TennesseeTony]

For anyone without an account at [H]:

Yes it is that time of year again. We are gathering teams and putting things in motion. Get those boxen cleaned out, upgraded, stress tested, and heating your homes. It is time to do some Folding@home to commemorate the ending of the bigadv work units that ended a dynasty of some of the best distributed computing competitions. This year will be like previous. It will be the last week of January.

When: The event will be Jan 24 10AM PST - 31st 10AM PST. This should allow us to avoid any conflict with PrimeGrid's month long challenge through February.
Whom: Any team wanting to partake merely need to let us know.
Rules: Pretty simple. Fire up what you can afford and let it ride. We aren't judging people based on their wallets. Its all for a good cause. The most points earned within the event timeline wins the race.
What stats will be used: Real time updates via https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com/ maintained by @firedfly for monitoring purposes. It will only show the top 1,000 or so members of each team. Final stats will be the stats before and at the end of the event based on EOC's stats reporting. https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/

Current confirmed teams List:
[H]ard|OCP (Team 33)
Alliance Francophone - confirmed by @empirehell (Team 51)
EVGA - confirmed by @Bill1024 (Team 111065)
TAAT - (Team 198) confirmed by @10esseeTony
Ukraine - (Team 2164) confirmed by rilian
ExtremeHW - (Team 239902) confirmed by @firedfly
Overclockers.com - (Team 32) confirmed by @don256us

Past events:
6th - https://hardforum.com/threads/2025-6th-annual-folding-challenge-jan-24-31.2038812/
5th - https://hardforum.com/threads/annual-folding-home-bigadv-eol-5th-anniversary-challenge.2032553/
4th - https://hardforum.com/threads/folding-home-bigadv-eol-4th-anniversary-challenge-h-vs-taat.2024483/
3rd - https://hardforum.com/threads/folding-home-bigadv-eol-3rd-anniversary-challenge-h-vs-taat.2016630/
2nd - https://hardforum.com/threads/foldi...niversary-challenge-the-race-is-over.2006043/
1st - https://hardforum.com/threads/foldi...n-31st-feb-7th-the-race-has-finished.1992071/

 

[StefanR5R]

The hardforum thread title reads "(Jan 25-31 2026)". Rounding error?

 

[Markfw]

I am in if it does not conflict with a PG event,.

 

[Ken g6]

I am in if it does not conflict with a PG event,.

It doesn't...mostly. It shouldn't conflict at all with any official PG challenges. February is Tour de Primes, where we try to find primes as individuals. Team stats for that are unofficial. But it can be bunkered for. A little. Looks like 4 days for the likely projects.

I'm likely to switch CPUs to bunkering for TdP before the end of the folding challenge.

 

[Markfw]

It doesn't...mostly. It shouldn't conflict at all with any official PG challenges. February is Tour de Primes, where we try to find primes as individuals. Team stats for that are unofficial. But it can be bunkered for. A little. Looks like 4 days for the likely projects.

I'm likely to switch CPUs to bunkering for TdP before the end of the folding challenge.

Is tour-de-primes a CPU event ? if so, no problem. I will only do GPU for F@H and CPU for PG most likely.

 

[Ken g6]

TdP is an everything event. I just think my CPUs would be better at TdP than F@H, for those last four days when WUs I run won't expire before the event actually starts.

 

[Assimilator1]

I'm in.

 

[Icecold]

Bumping this thread since it starts tomorrow at 1PM E/T. Go to this link to see the start time in your local time and also view the stats once it starts - https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com/33

Competition is looking to be fiercer than ever with several new teams added to the mix. While in recent years we've dominated most BOINC competitions, Folding@home is another story and in this challenge last year we were 3rd place out of 5 teams. To have any chance at a high position we're going to need to really bring it and anybody that can contribute to the cause is much appreciated. I'm currently working on getting more of my machines added to Folding@home now since the Primegrid challenge just finished. If anybody needs any help setting up Folding@home or has any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

 

[Markfw]

Bumping this thread since it starts tomorrow at 1PM E/T. Go to this link to see the start time in your local time and also view the stats once it starts - https://ehwfoldingstats.lazypenguin.com/33

Competition is looking to be fiercer than ever with several new times added to the mix. While in recent years we've dominated most BOINC competitions, Folding@home is another story and in this challenge last year we were 3rd place out of 5 teams. To have any chance at a high position we're going to need to really bring it and anybody that can contribute to the cause is much appreciated. I'm currently working on getting more of my machines added to Folding@home now since the Primegrid challenge just finished. If anybody needs any help setting up Folding@home or has any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

and I am sorry, but I will have over 100 mill ppd idle, as I have the machines off. I am doing this for safety reasons, as I just replaced my 4th outlets with burned wires and outlet blew.

I will have about 100 mil ppd online though

 

[TennesseeTony]

And we are off to the races.

 

[pututu]

The race is on. Good luck to all participating teams.

I'll try to update the daily team stat and will post this in the [H]ardForum site: https://hardforum.com/threads/2026-...llenge-jan-24-31-2026.2045313/post-1046266102

 

[StefanR5R]

Unofficial team stats and individual stats are also tracked at The FPS Review forum, planned to be updated twice a day: At 12am CST (0600 UTC) and 12pm CST (1800 UTC).

Deviations between these stats and the official ones from [H]ard|OCP may happen if EOC and I end up fetching different database dumps from foldingathome.org. Which should be a rare occurrence because these dumps are updated once per hour, but the exact time of their updating is drifting a little.

[H]ard|OCP's and my stats will always differ from the lazypenguin live stats however, because the latter uses a different API at foldingathome.org. As a result, I actually have a little more active members listed in the individual ranking than lazypenguin has (e.g. 403 versus 386 today at 12pm CST).

 

[Ken g6]

Somebody going by Piledriver just showed up with 137M points in six hours.

 

[Ken g6]

I just want to say howdy to @Howdy who I just passed.

 

[StefanR5R]

I am observing that @TennesseeTony should pass 8 Billion total about now. . . . . (Just sayin', because I went by there several hours earlier, inheriting 11th rank by overall points in the team from Tony.) :-)

 

[TennesseeTony]

Good run everyone! Thanks [H] ! And thanks piledriver for the assist.

And special thanks to overclockers for ticking off elco67/Rollo/piledriver/Riptide62/(and Aurum, maybe?) Lol, it has been quite the show.

 

[pututu]

Challenge has ended. Official result is published here: 2026 FAH Challenge Result - Final

Good work everyone. See you all again next year.

 

[Rollo]

Good run everyone! Thanks [H] ! And thanks piledriver for the assist.

And special thanks to overclockers for ticking off elco67/Rollo/piledriver/Riptide62/(and Aurum, maybe?) Lol, it has been quite the show.

This is Rollo...it's the name I will be using for the duration. It has been great fun and I'm sure there will be more to come in the future.