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)
Hey Tex, is there any way to dump a project and start on a new one?
Sorta like divorce court? I've been thinking of dumping my wife and starting with a 20 year old. (not)
Oh, the horrors of raising another child.
Well, I'm losing a box. My daughter went off to college last year, and her computer screwed up around Christmas. She brought it back, and I have been "working" on it since. ( it needed a reboot). She has now demanded that I fix it. I loaded XP SP2 and changed AV & sw FW, and told her I totally rebuilt her system. Hey, these things take time !!!!
Anyway, I've instructed her to let it go 24/7, and not to touch any file named F@H, but I fear the worst. LOL
Egon, this should make you happy, but be forewarned, I'm dumpster-diving for the next couple weeks, and if I can't come up with a couple, then I'm creating another viper.
Don't feel bad: One of the dual-processor machines that I borg'd... turns out the guy removed one of the processors. I've been folding twice on one CPU. Just took one of them offline until we can figure out what's going on.
I searched a couple of forums and found a few command line instructions that may work. I also found a more direct way to cancel a WU.
From the folding directory, go inside the Work folder. Delete the file WUresults_xx.dat. This should cause the core to stop executing the same WU. You may need to stop the service from running is you have a file lock.
The command lines that I have found are here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/console-userguide.html
and seems to be a very useful guide. May be worthy of posting to the new thread.
I'm going to stick it out 'cause I'm so deep into it but I think I'll delete them in the future and leave them to the more powerful processors.
I know that Stanford will occasionally revalue WUs, but most of the time WYSIWYG. I have a couple of fast systems that will take a couple of weeks to complete their WU, so no points for a while.
I hope that means I'll have a great weekend, when they finally post their points.
Welcome to the "fold".
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
Whoo Hoo! I made it into the top 20 producers! :)
...Now I have to think about other systems I can nefariously Borg. heh
"All your WU's are belong to us."
Nice graphic. Other than the washboard, it sure looks like home!
Wonder how many folks would like to go back to hand washing clothes? BRRRRR...
hmmm.... I submitted 2 p1487s @ 1161 pts each, but only the one submitted today has shown up. The unit submitted yesterday is not in my stats. I am not amused.
As some of you may know, Vulcan is the server on which the FAHMonitor resides. This morning, for whatever reason, the OS on Vulcan was acting extremely flakey. Fortunately, Vulcan's "Kattra" is transferred to Romulus for safe-keeping. I'm not sure how that deal-from-hell was made, but it was.
So... I rebuilt Vulcan, and attempted to transfer its "Kattra" back in from Romulus. However, Romulus no longer knew where Vulcan was because Vulcan was incorrectly reporting its location to Terra, the center of all knowledge in the known universe, and keeper of the registry for the Federation.
After sending an envoy from Vulcan to Terra with the correct registration information, Terra relayed the changes to Romulus who, after some brief confusion ("it's an older code, sir, but it checks out...") successfully handed Vulcan's "Kattra" back.
During all of this, Qo'nos decided it was going to take yet another break from folding, because it's hub, Praxis decided it was tired of relaying information from the Klingon home world to the Federation, who were a bunch of freaks anyway, without honor. Whenever Praxis acts up, Qo'nos freezes, and restarting folding always fails checksums and starts from zero. Great. Friggin' Klingons.
As of right now, there is a fragile peace again in the Federation, with even some possibility of Borg'ing some additional machines in the near future.
On a semi-related note, Ferengi, once a Windows machine, and now a Linux workstation, refuses to have anything to do with folding. I'm convinced it's because Ferengi feels there's no profit in it.
Sigh.
Dude...Always invert your flux capacitor before you try that.
Hah! Another genre heard from.
My servers all have ridiculously common names.
The AS/400's are all S names, Sarah, Sally, Samantha, and Sandy...
The Novell servers are all N names... Noel, Nick, Nora, Nancy, etc ...
The Windows servers are all W names, Wendy, Willy, Wanda, Winkie, Wormy, etc...
The Linux servers are all L names, Linus, Larry, Lynn, etc.
and if any of them step out of line, I have no need of puny intergalactic treaties, to deal with them, I just pick up an 8in plumbers wrench and a pair of wire cutters, and they all fall in line.
Sorry my numbers have fallen off, but the energy gods have spoken, and my 24x7 days are up, and I'm back to a M-F routine, with Wednesday nights being my only overnights...
Alas... but at least I'm still 60K points ahead of DU, and still on track to beat them to 3 million. It will slow down my quest for the top 100 folders, but small victories, mean a lot.
Next big push will be over Christmas vacation, where I'll have 2 weeks of 24x7 to crunch some major numbers, and I might be able to sneak in a week or two, here or there, when ever major windows updates come down the pike.
We are very glad when the energy czars allow you to do your primary job, folding for FR, and occasionally dealing with teachers and students.
As a sign of how we have grown, you had a very good day on Wednesday, 21,115 points, but nowhere near your best day. Our team as a whole put up 71,389 points on Wednesday, one of our best days ever (if not the highest daily total ever).
If we can continue to average 50,000 ppd (without Klutz's contribution) then we are well on our way to the Top 20 of all teams.
Now to get 100,000 points in a single day ...
I saw where DU broke into the Top 200 this week. Has anyone soiled their monitor by going over there to see if they even congratulated themselves?
Their folding team sure has been quiet lately ...
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