How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.
Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.
How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?:
1.) Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (Folding@home Client Download). Type in your desired username.
2.) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic!
3.) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.
How can my computer help? Even if he were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Standford still wouldn't have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people's desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.
There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.
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List of Relevant Folding Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!
Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic
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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos
Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11 #12
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Other Useful Stuff - Links
How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits
Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software
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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads
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SoftballMom in.....
What's a WU? and is it good?
Any advice?
Congrats to davemaher for breaking 200,000 points !!!!!!
WTG !!!
I think Stanford has become the premier university in the US...they have given us Google, employed Condi Rice and recently acquired the Ampex collection - and now this
Help!!! How does one restart the console version of F@H. I accidently closed the DOS window, and now I'm at a loss.....Colin
Well, YEEE-HAAHH!
I took down my 2.26G P4 over the weekend and vacuumed out it's innards. I found all kinds of lint and dust in the CPU heatsink, so I tore that all down and cleaned it thoroughly. I reinstalled the heatsink with some of Antec's "Formula5" thermal compund and did the same for the support chip heatsink, as well. Also, I also reversed one case fan in the lower front so it now functions as an intake rather than an exhaust, a move that has really increased airflow through the case.
WOW! What a difference.
In the wake of all that, I was able to bump my CPU Demand all the way back up to 100% and the machine just posted its highest to-date 24hr Average: 118.
A clean machine is a fast machine.
Whoo Hoo
first to hit 90k
For those of you not watching me and Uriah have been swaping places for about a month we are at 13 and 14 now thought he would beat me to 90 k but i slipped by.
And now to race on to 100k Good luck Uriah
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120
Hah! Take that!
...although I'm sure it'll be short-lived.
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