[texas booster]

Everyone heap congrats to Klutz_Dohanger, the first FReeper with over a million points of production donated to the Folding@Home project.

Read on and learn more how you to can be a big star in the Folding@Home sky. You start out small, and becomes amazingly addictive to watch your points grow.

All that and an opportunity to tweak the noses of DU!

[texas booster]

Let me be the first to congratulate Klutz for hitting 1,000,000 points. That's more than the entire DU team!

A big ole protein shout out to all participating FReepers. Congratulate Klutz before he gets a chance to read this thread!

[manwiththehands]

Thanks for the ping. Just what kind of super-PC are your running, Klutz?

I'm glad to be a part of this. And my PC thanks you, too. She thinks it's more fun folding proteins while I sleep than doting on me surfing FR.

[RebelTex]

Hey, Klutz - people are talking about you, heheh.

;^D

[Route66]

Congrats and thanks to Klutz D.

[Malsua]

For a hoot, look at the DUmmies trend chart. That's about a Triple Diamond downslope.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=48157

[Incorrigible]

w00t!

[FrogMom]

Congrats!

[soccer_maniac]

Folding@Home FAQ for new users:

What is Folding@Home? A Stanford University project to find out how proteins fold.

Why it's important: Proteins folding wrong causes all kinds of diseases, like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and forms of cancer. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. Through Folding@home, scientists now have the horsepower to study the mechanics of protein folding. With its ability to share the workload among hundred of thousands of computers economically, Folding@home can help scientists understand how proteins snap, or don’t, into their predestined shapes — and may help to explain the origins of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and apparently unrelated diseases. We're fueling research that could end all that.

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 (see link below). 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.

List of Updated Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!

Another Folding Clip

Folding@home Client Download

FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats

Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic

Another Stats Page

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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos

Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9

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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

Stat Image Generator

Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software

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[abner]

Wow! 1 MILLION! Incredible.

[stylin19a]

Folden 'em over here, boss.

[Egon]

Based on a few comments over the past few months, I've been working on a way to track the progress of individual machines. I know there are a couple of packages available to do this, but each of them seemed to have some drawbacks, at least as far as my own situation.

I've developed an alternative method to track progress on multiple machines with the following features:

• Tracking is available by the web
• Flags are raised if a machine stops folding or communicating, or a deadline is coming due
• Machines are easy to add
• Large amounts of machines can be monitored, and separated into logical groupings
• Low overhead on the machine
• It's free

Please Freepmail me if you're interested, and I'll send you the link to the Help page, which explains how to set it up.

[Bobibutu]

Congrats Klutz. You da man and the Big Dog.

Being inspired by all of you I approached an aquaintance of mine who uses 7 computers in his biz. A couple new - most old. Short of the long - finally got them assimilated this evening. ( I learned a lot )

His only gripe - "OK now go talk to your team mates and find out how to get this stuff off of my desktop!"

So what is the cleanest way to gather up all the files and work folder and hide them without a problem for FAH? XP on the systems in question.

Anxiously waiting for the afterburners to kick in -

FreeAtlanta - we have been leap frogging each other while you are blowing everyones doors off - congrats to us for passing the 10K milestone - now I think we will rise together - gotta find more CPU's.

Too much fun - hey DU - what's your problem?

B

[SC Swamp Fox]

[SW6906]

Just signed up my second computer under SW6906_2!

[soccer_maniac]

Next team we'll overtake:

LAN Party Association of New England
TITS ----> ( . Y . ) <---- TITS
YoshiForums

[soccer_maniac]

At this rate, we'll be in the Top 100 teams in 68 days:

http://fahstats.com/tr.php?t=36120

[houeto]

Bump

[paulat]

Did you do a new thread this week? Looks like we're at 150!!!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I tried to sign up but had to uninstall the software when it made it impossible for any other program to run.

Has this happened to others and if so what can do to prevent this from happening so that I may help.