Posted on 01/03/2006 7:46:46 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger
Welcome to the folding at home thread. The previous thread has gotten too large, so we move on to yet another.
While this folding@home team is not officially sanctioned by Free Republic, it's members, or it's founders, it is comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing, who have banded together, to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via Distributed computing, millions of computers around the world, contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimers, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).
Currently, the team is in 777th place, having moved up from 1200th place, a week earlier, and is now in the top 100 teams, for daily contributions.
This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, links are provided to the program, or it is easily googled by "folding@home".
Ahhhh ok, thanks!
Is that all you can do? Grin???
Good to see ya. We broke 700 and are in 695th place now!!!
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Woo hoo! I have 3 WUs done, and a big one finishing tomorrow. I didn't think I'd ever get past "1 WU completed."
WELCOME
I know how you feel, I didn't realize how slow my PC is. I have completed 2 WUs in the time my son's PC has completed 6. I guess I shouldn't be upset, I did't buy it for heavy gaming or multimedia. It's mainly a word proc, spreadsheet and web browsing machine.
| Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan |
| Date of last work unit | 2006-01-06 05:18:17 |
| Active CPUs within 50 days | 359 |
| Team Id | 36120 |
| Grand Score | 379382 (certificate) |
| Work Unit Count | 3202 (certificate) |
| Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) | 689 of 42056 |
| Home Page | http://www.freerepublic.com |
| Fast Teampage URL | http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html |
When taking my computer repair classes, my instructor taught us that the damage comes from turning the computer on and off. The surge of power is very destructive to the 'puter. Think of a light bulb. When does it fail? When you first turn it on and the rush of electricity frys the filament. Same concept in a computer.
Many geeks and many large corporations leave the 'puter on for that reason. Of course they pay more for electricity if you leave it on, but that is insignificant compared to the cost of the equipment.
I've always left my 'puter on 24x7 and just power down the monitor to save on electricity.
Thanks for the info--makes me feel better about leaving it on. I've been turning off the monitor during the work day, so I guess I'm doing things right. I've also been disabling my internet connection for security reasons.
Same here. The only time it gets turned off is when our elec. goes off. (which happens frequently with our company)
Interesting...it gave my laptop the same work unit to do again. It's p2305 mutant. That's good-- it will go quickly.
I'm so far down the totem poll it ain't funny.
Every contribution is valuable - work that might otherwise not be done, or done much more slowly. Besides, who's to say which unit will have the key to some major breakthrough? Maybe it's yours, in which case, even if that one golden unit is the only one you've ever done, who cares? ;)
How true. :-)
We're up to 360 computers.
Do I hear 370? 380? 390?
400???????????
Hmmm. Can I put those extra 40 boxes on my "sign and travel"? lol
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You were dead spot on, on that. I went to bed last night and I was at 102 frames. I woke up this morning to see my 8th unit posted and my computer was OFF. I almost fainted. I called out the Lord's name a couple of times when I saw that. After the panic left I just hit the red cog, I think, I was so upset I don't know what I did. Anyhow, It started back on no. 134 frame. I didn't lose it. Thank you, thank you.
I forgot, it said---restarting from checkedpointed files.
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