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 worlds supercomputers, Standford still wouldnt have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of peoples 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.
Whoo hoooo! I finally broke the 220 barrier. It's worth Folding if only to confound the DUmmies! (Oh, yeah, benefits to science and medicine are nice, too!)
Bump for more volunteers.
(the last one only gave me 200 points...b@st@rds!)
I broke a 100! wooohoo!
Bump
We won't pass any teams today but we will pass 3 teams tomorrow. We pass 3 more the next day and then 3 more in the next 2 days. Then 3 more teams the next day.
It's nice when we hit these "clusters".
If you'd like to be able to track multiple folding PCs via the web, and be able to tell when individual PCs stop folding for one reason or another, I've devised a system to do this.
I won't post the link here for obvious reasons, but Freepmail me if you're interested.
20K Bump
Congrats to Chris_Primavera for going over 20k!
Check in bump.
Arrrggggggggg.
I just noticed one of the machines I duct taped back together after last weeks storms finished its second WU this morning, but I never got the points for it. Turns out it was folding for Team 0.
Arrrggggggggg.
Team 0 owes me 478 points !!!!!
(one more time): Arrrggggggggg.
Update to the FAH Monitor: clicking on a machine's status (even when it's blank) will display information specific to that machine including the last transmission timestamp, and the status file timestamp.
This should help (at least a little) in the analysis of communication/folding problems.
One of my servers isn't visible to the outside world right now. Of course, Murphy dictates that it will be the one that FAH Monitor is running on.
I'm working on the problem, and hope to have it resolved quickly.
Sorry for any inconvenience!
1.) Congrats to Malsua for reaching the 300,000 points milestone
2.) Congrats to lrenh for breaking the daily 5,000 average
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
3.) Congrats to Klutz_dohanger for making the Top 300 overall folders
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=168162
DISCUSSION CONTINUED ON THE FOLLOWING THREAD:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621107/posts