Posted on 08/02/2006 5:16:19 PM PDT by texas booster
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
Our FreeRepublic team of 358 members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing 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 Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).
Currently, the team is in 75th place (with 1009 active CPUs - 55,700 completed Work Units and 9.75 million points).
This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 20 folding threads)
That'd be the way to do it. The problem with that is it necessitates a web interface to input those. By definition, that means that I have to open the entire 'security' can of worms. I'm getting closer to doing that anyway, though.
(And I sure wouldn't want to tick off Klutz with all the systems he would need to reconfigure.)
That's exactly whom I was thinking of! Although, a lot of his machines have fallen off the monitor (hint, hint!)
Thank you for your help. We are trying to pop 75,000 points consistantly, which will make us in the Top 20 of producers for Folding@Home. Pretty good for a team that was mostly dormant until systematic started a one man promo committee last November.
I recommend Egon's monitor if you have remote systems. It works well and allows to to keep track of folding, with the added benefit that you can see whenever a Windows systems needs to be rebooted.
WOW....New members all over the place. Welcome!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=36120
Ping for 10,000,000 points for the FReepers!
Thanks to one and all for contributing electrons, but especially to systematic and soccer_maniac for promoting the FReeper team way back in November. We went from #2000 to #74 in less than 9 months.
Our next goal is 75,000 points and 100,000 points in a day, but the real goal is to help find cures for diseases that cripple, maim and cut short productive and promising lives.
That the goal that even DUmmies and FReepers can agree on.
The charts in reply #30 have been updated.
After showing a bit of a surge recently, the DUmmies have again fallen under 10K points per day.
SoftballMom in.....
What's a WU? and is it good?
And they are good. Some are small, soft, and gossamer and melt away overnight. Others are large, hard and extra chewy and may take more than a month to finish.
Any advice?
Hi SoftballMominVa,
After crunching WU from the Seti@home program for 7 years, I decided to throw in with the fine FReeper folks instead.
If you're having video driver issues, you may want to try the "console" version of F@H, which runs silently in the background. I had pretty good luck with that.
Hope this helps,
SOTG
Bump for the team.
Join. Fold. Contribute.
Just be sure you delete all instances of FAH before installing the console version.
So-o-o-o-o-o close.
Great milestone bump!
I blame Windows for most ills. Normally if one keeps their Windows updated and their video drivers updated most problems solve themselves.
If you are still locking up then delete the F@H installation and reload the "no nonsense" XP console installation. Just make sure that you spell your folding name correctly and enter Team 36120.
We've passed another milestone. Thanks guys and gals!
Cowabanga! Delta-21 is on the big board! Welcome to the world of "folding". Also hello to David_Thompson whose Freeper name I don't know.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
HEAR, HEAR!!!
Let's think BIG and muster the CPU base to bump the Frogs out of that number 4 slot.
I had video problems also when I first began Folding. Although the "GUI" version of the software has really neat graphics, it needs "OpenGL" to run (OpenGL is a graphics resource; Google it if you want the gory details). The big problem is that OpenGL cannot be used by more than one program at a time; if you try, your computer will either bomb out or seize up. Well, that's not an option because I've got kids who use the machine to play games that need to use OpenGL.
So, much as I liked the graphics on my screen of proteins being worked over by my CPU, I had to bag the GUI version of the software and use the "console" version, instead.
I uninstalled the GUI version, then downloaded the .EXE file for the console version into the folder I had created for the GUI version. I read a bunch of the entires in the forums and on the FR folding threads and concluded that running the console version as a service was the most simple, "hands free" way to do this. If you do not run the .exe as a service, you will have to do something else (like put a link in your "Startup" folder) to make sure that it starts every time you log in, and it will stop whenever you log out. Running as a service, no link in your "Startup" folder is necessary, and the program will continue to fold as long as your computer is turned on -- even if your are not logged in.
There's really no "install" to the console client; just make sure that you put it in the folder where the GUI client was so that it can find the work folder the GUI client was using. That way the console client will pick right up where the GUI client left off. When you run the .EXE and answere the questions, just make sure that you get your username and team number entered correctly so you and our team get proper credit for your completed work.
If you get hung up at any point, post back; there's a wealth of knowledge in the FR folding community and you'll certainly get whatever support you need to get on-track.
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