Posted on 04/03/2006 11:04:01 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
Our FreeRepublic team of 300+ 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 144th place (with 1,045 CPUs - 24,200 completed Work Units and nearly 4,000,000 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 8 folding threads)
Tomorrow might be my greatest day of folding, ever! I am using Egon's tool to monitor, and it looks like 6 of my 7 CPUs are scheduled to come into port! That last batch of 2106 and 2107's really hurt production.
InCrease sez: WU Name p1163_p1136_p Tinker 241 points.
Takes my PowerBook G4 667 11 days to do it.
Presently @ 53.5% and 6 more days to go.
I have thot of somehow dumping these when i get them and see what comes next but I figure everyone else is getting them so it evens out over time - and take my lumps.
Someone has to fold it eventually and I'll catch up later.
I feel your pain ... Arrrggggggg One of my DT specials I found SHUT OFF this afternoon. Probably been shut off for 3 days ... I could have Kil ... no - tortured my buddy ...
Ah it's his machine .. so i let it go and quietly booted it up before we had dinner and said nothing... now folding again.
So Im spinning wheels again for a bit.
God this is so much fun!
Yes - Arrrgggggggg - is that an echo?
"Tomorrow might be my greatest day of folding, ever! I am using Egon's tool to monitor, and it looks like 6 of my 7 CPUs are scheduled to come into port!"
YeeHaa - Lookin forward to seein those numbers -
If I have offended thee dear abner I do repent.
I wish there was a client for OS 9 - I know it would be slow but i had a 80mhz box pop out for seti once a week or so. It still does WP, email and surfing just fine. Another 300mhz box just waiting for something to do.
I'll give it to Macs - they last a long time - damn my PowerBook 145 is still running (when I turn it on) - not to often anymore - probably ought to donate it to a museum.
I found a work-araound for getting my Linux (Mepis) box to show up on Egon's FAHUpload page - YEEAAA
I made another copy of the Windows FAHUpload.vbs script & put it in the 'folding' directory on the Linux Box. Then I edited it and used my local network path to indicate the path for the unitinfo.txt file (even though it's in the same folder).
Then on my Windows box, I browsed to the script on the Linux box and ran it - voila, my Linux Box now shows up. I also scheduled it to run in Windows scheduler (had to use a task name showing the box because scheduler already had a task named FAHUpload.vbs which is the one scheduled for the Windows box.
If anyone's got a Linux box and a Windows box (on their local SECURE network - like a home based lan with router) and can't get the Linux PHP script to work, you might want to give this a try. :-)
Good Luck.
RT
FreeAtlanta - if you have a Linux box, you might want to take a look at my post # 107 re:'a work-around for Egon's script'.
Sorry I left you off the ping to that post.
RT
The "rocketing north" gets a lot tougher as you get into the top 30.
Checkin' in bump.
:0)
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I miss that team.
I miss that team.
Yea, they were hanging right up there with us for a while, but they've really dropped recently.......
Any idea what this sucker is, and how many points it's worth?
p1163_p1136_p1130_L939_K12M_355K
My laptop is chewing away on it, seems to take a while...
It's not on their table, unfortunately. Quin just finished it, though. Seem to remember it was like 256 points.
You remember, Quin?
Take it back, I think it was 241 points.
Tell me! I've been strugglin' from about 55 - oh gosh - it's gonna get worse? ":^)
Way to pass that 100K barrier!
Rules! We don't need no stinkin rules!
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