1.5 BILLION PPD.... One user

[Demmers]

I fold with Team Atto now with my piddly GTX 1650. About 600,000 PPD.
I thought i'd have a look at the team numbers.
Looks like a couple of users have invested their entire lives savings into renting GPU's in the cloud. I say GPU's. More like, they rented a supercomputer.

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com ... &t=1066107

[pcwolf]

Just saw this yesterday, that 1.7 billion player came out of nowhere about to overtake my five years plus thirty billion in a couple of days.

Ouch

[BobWilliams757]

Yeah, I noticed it the other day. I think it's fairly insane to invest so much in cloud folding unless it's profitable. Even then it seems like a big chunk of money to throw at something all at once.

Being that most of these extreme cases are those on the crypto or coin based teams I can only assume they are hoping to cash in at some point and actually profit. But some people on other teams already fold some fairly insane numbers as well.

[enroscado]

I was also very curious, so I did some rough numbers (more like I went down the rabbit hole)...

At some point, that user was folding with 37 clients, averaging slightly over 40m PPD per client, therefore likely 37 5090s.

Cheapest 16 x 5090 I've found online go for ~$10/hour. 2 clusters = 32 => ~$20/hour.
Cheapest 4 x 5090 ~$1.5/hour.

So, 36 5090s would be ~$516 per day (best case scenario).

The user was getting ~3,000,000 Atto coins per day on his best days (~2billion+ PPD).

Atto was trading at around $0.0001 (now it's a bit lower). Traded at $0.0002 for a very brief period of time.

So, best case scenario, the user made $300 per day. Basically, not close to braking even.

Finally, the user's folding power varied significantly over time (not constantly folding).

Ergo, my conclusion, it is someone with access to a lot of GPUs for other tasks (AI/Machine learning), and put them to fold whenever the GPUs were idling.

As a side piece of knowledge gained, I learnt about Atto (and banano, etc.), which I knew nothing about before, and I think those crypto projects are pretty cool (distributing / rewarding with coins by f@h), as they end up adding folding power instead of just wasting electricity.

[toTOW]

Don't worry too much, it will be another shooting star ...

[Joe_H]

They have already stopped folding, at least for now. Possibly someone with access to a new bank of servers and was running folding to stress test them.

[Joe_H]

As a side piece of knowledge gained, I learnt about Atto (and banano, etc.), which I knew nothing about before, and I think those crypto projects are pretty cool (distributing / rewarding with coins by f@h), as they end up adding folding power instead of just wasting electricity.

Just a clarification, they do not get coins for folding by or from F@h. Those are strictly team awards, Folding@home neither provides, supports, nor endorses any cryptocurrency as part of folding. The project just awards points. There is a statement on this posted by the director of the project - https://foldingathome.org/2019/01/14/fo ... urrencies/

[Breach]

Oh man, 1.5 B... and here I am, ecstatic that I'm about to enter top 1k

[appepi]

another shooting star

Back there in March last year, team "Hewlett Packard Enterprise" jumped from a respectable but unremarkable ~150-200 MP/month to 2.74 Bn, 5.15 Bn, 6.0 Bn. and 7.1 Bn (June 24). Thereafter it dropped to 3.9Bn, 2.4Bn, 2.1 Bn, (September 24) and then reverted to 132M, 164M before it jumped back to 3.6Bn (Dec24) and 1.8BBn in Jan 2025. Thereafter it reverted to business as usual and generally turns in less work per month than my own mothball flotilla of HP workstations (or rather their GPUs). FaH was presumably being used as a convenient test load. Not ideal for planning, I suppose, but presumably harmless.

I have a short list of Teams with Corporate names that I follow just for fun, with all-time totals and monthly rank for September 2025:

"Amazon" 6,231 M (#421) not in top 1000 currently
"Apple Computer, Inc." 7,505M (#385) not in top 1000 currently
"Dell Computer Corporation" 31,154M (#132) 90M in Sep 2025
"Hewlett Packard Enterprise" 49,283M (#90) 105M in Sep 2025
"IBM" 14,464M (#235) 103M in Sep 2025

[toTOW]

There's a nVidia team too : https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/259918

[Joe_H]

There have been many more in the past. For example HP Cloud Services used F@h during the burnin of their server farm back in 2011 when they started up. That caused some temporary shortages of CPU project WUs.