Posted on 03/03/2007 3:26:29 PM PST by texas booster
Time for a new Free Republic Folding@home thread.
Our Free Republic team of 428 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 55th place (with 1,025 active CPUs - 106,120 completed Work Units and 20.25 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 30+ folding threads)
I run mine at about 85% capacity, and I switched to a 550 watt power supply after my 400 died. Much better.
You could always run it in non-graphical and see waht happens.
Not sure what you're saying about nongraphical.
Am not using the GUI on F@H.
But appreciate the suggestion.
I have a very over necessary power supply. Very hefty. I ordered the computer built that way in Taipei.
We have five new folders showing up on the boards now:
Cindi Domino
MrNovi
GLClaudine
rocky and
GLjen
and a few more that are still new:
antiRepublicrat
Bernie638
FreedomGuru
FAQ
helper2
Thanks papasmurf for keeping folks aware of the team on the GetLoaded.com boards. I think we have well over a dozen active GL folders now, and some of them are now FReepers!
If you know the FReeper names of these folders, FReepmail me and I'll put them on the ping list.
Thanks to all of you for providing support and encouragement to the newcomers.
We have a lot of new folks who are making a difference in medical research!
How can a corporate entity, specifically a vc firm, have a have a political identity - are corporations now registering party affiliation?
We're for less government involvement in our personal lives, right
Now that the enemy is in our midst, should we throw "Trust but verify" out with the bathwater? This is September 10 thinking.
= = = =
INDEED
ESPECIALLY THANKS TO EGON FOR HIS TIRELESS PATIENCE.
OOOOPS, WRONG COPY/PASTE IN THE BUFFER
YES, SUPER THANKS TO EGON FOR HIS TIRELESS PATIENCE
A decent case is designed to flow the air over the parts that need it and out of the box. Leaving the case open can leave hot spots. Getting a power supply with a big, high-capacity fan can help (some put the fan on the bottom of the power supply where there's room for a much bigger one), as well as replacing any case fans with better ones.
Thanks.
Appreciate the input.
I had a WU finish up at home about 8:30 last evening. It showed up on the F@H site by 10:00 but still hasn't shown up on Overclocking.
Evidently I have made it into the top 10% of all folders in less than 5 months. Sounds like a lot on inactivity to me.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Extremeoverclocking.com gets their stats directly from the Stanford data servers. Based on the number of posts on the F@H forum there may have been a hiccup in verifying the completed work units. I do not know why a credited WU would appear on the F@H site but not on EOC.
Folding Freepers has about 430 folders who have posted a work unit. Many of the names are my old carcasses from a couple of years ago.
In many cases you will see typos in names that are not caught for a while (see kluta_dohanger, etc). Another number are folks that folded for a while, got a new computer and never reinstalled F@H. A few have joined other groups or BOINCed themselves.
Then you have the small group that has been banned from FR, and they drop off. Hey, it happens both ways. Sometimes folks are banned and they keep on folding for the FReepers.
EOC and other stats sites get their numbers from a comma delimited text file that Stanford puts out several times a day.
Sometimes the stats on Stanford's site will be accurate, but the script they use to produce the text file won't update. I used to do private stats for another team (don't ask me, it is a lot of work and EOC is better) and there could be days where there were no updates.
Here's the FR team's text file link...
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.txt
your article has no topics assigned
Strange. We can't post an article without Topics, and when I tried to add one it came back unknown.
Probably a bad DB link in John's world.
it pretty much makes the article invisible here on FR, without an explicit search for it. Oh well! We don't exist. :)
Really maybe you should just repost this one
Yeah, still can't add topics. Bummer.
We will pass another team in 10 days, so I will start that countdown early.
bttt
Bump
Finally made it to the top 4000 of all folders.
Would have pinged Dave Maher but don't know his freeper name.
Slipping past dave, and slowly gaining on you texas.
Just got rid of two of my machines, but replaced them with another. One of my fast systems has been down for the better part of a week and won't be up until this weekend (assuming it's not too serious).
I should be adding another at the very end of this month (but it will probably replace two others), so probably not much if any of a gain.
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