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
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #17 #18 #19
(I'll be in the FReeper top 100 within the next five days)
| Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan |
| Date of last work unit | 2006-07-07 17:20:45 |
| Active CPUs within 50 days | 908 |
| Team Id | 36120 |
| Grand Score | 8337187 (certificate) |
| Work Unit Count | 47413 (certificate) |
| Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) | 87 of 44542 |
| Home Page | http://www.freerepublic.com |
I'm in. My CPU runs nonstop.
Their #12 ended badly....</snigger>
How come my Toshiba laptop is locking up? It is running pretty warm...I also got an out of RAM warning a week ago...This Toshiba is a puny weakling or sumpin'? It's an A15-S129...so the MB shares lots of duties...
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.
Available features include:
Can anyone help me out with a folding issue?
My kids have a problem with running games on the computer while the folding client is running. Consequently they shut off the folding client and NEVER remember to turn it back on.
Other than selling my kids to the highest biddder, is there a way I can stop the conflict between folding and games so they will not have to stop folding?
Thanks in advance.
I just put 2 PC's online doing this, and have 7 more that I could use, except no place to set them all up. I'll probably set up 1 or 2 more for this project.
Whoo! Good timing thread-wise, as I just hit the top 100 (currently #96) yesterday or today! Woulda been higher, except josephw (pinged b/c of etiquette) claimed to have a failed box but still ran way ahead of me that same day :-P
I have basically 6 boxes running FAH 24/7. I'd like to have a seventh, except it's an ancient 566mhz machine, and it wants something like 40 days to finish its current WU. It gets used maybe 3 hours a month, so it has plenty of time to work, but it seems it's too old to accomplish anything. Anyone have a suggestion for it to work through small WUs so it can actually contribute something the 99% of the time it's not being used?
Bump to install when I get home...
What's up with EOC?
To all:
Just put 2 Pentium D (Dual Core) 2.6 machines online and they are kicking the stuffing out of FAH.
Top 30 50k Bump
Lookout Andyk - I am going to pass you in about 15,000 days!
Help!
I'm running the XP console version of folding, 504b.
It is accessing my hard disk twice a second, reading c:/Folding/work/logfile_03.txt
Is there any way I can reduce disk activity? Would really help me out if I could stop this.
[FANFARE]
Woo-Hoo!
I'm in the Top 200 on our team!
(Hey, sometimes ya gotta too your own horn; nobody else will.)
TECHNICAL NOTE:
My CPU was shutting down for what I thought were heat-related reasons until it did it at about 3:00am. I throttled back the CPU demand on the FAH service to 95%, and raised the process priority to "low". I haven't had any shutdowns since, and we've just come through five days of 105F+ weather.
Now, my experiment, going forward, is to bump the CPU demand percentage up one point at a time until I see another failure, then I can back it off one percent and be relatively sure I'm folding at optimum speed.
An epic milestone is rapidly approaching.
We will be bypassing the Tasmanian Department of Education.
Time for a new thread. This one has been silent for a little while now, and a new one is likely to pull in new blood.
Besides we are in the top 75 (and I've gotten in below 50 and ltcj is still below that number). We don't need to get ahead of Tasmania to do this.
LTCJ, the above comment was just in fun. As I've climbed the positions list you have given me more of a challenge than anyone else. The next two weeks when I'm in Germany, I'll have two machines with me and not connected. Also I won't be able to reboot any machines that go down due to power failures (isn't St. Louis grand). So there is a chance that you may catch me and pass me yet again.
Joseph