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Folding@home - Make a Diffrence With Those New Computers
Folding@home at Stanford University ^
| 11/23/2007
| Texas Booster
Posted on 11/23/2007 4:47:21 AM PST by texas booster
A plea to all owners of new computers and PS3s this weekend to strongly consider adding the Folding@home program to your new system to run in the background.
Why? Because Alzheimer's Disease, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes are partially or wholly caused by mid-folded proteins.
You can help by simply running a piece of software.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.
To start, link over here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
and download the version that best corresponds to your new workhorse. Our team number is 36120 and use your FReepname as your folding user name.
Most folks will use 5.04 console version for Windows, but you may want to start with F@H 5.03 GUI version to watch it fold.
PS3 users will go to the PS3 store and get the latest firmware update, then download the program. Team 36120 and FReepname for the user.
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KEYWORDS: alzheimers; fah; fh; foldinghome
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To: Drango
Looks to be someone playing during Thanksgiving. Check it out now.
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posted on
12/02/2007 4:25:28 PM PST
by
dfwddr
(Duncan Hunter '08 -- the real thing.)
To: dfwddr
Yeah....the boss came back and said...WTF???
22
posted on
12/02/2007 4:48:23 PM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Egon
Well, I’m within 15,000 of you again, for about the fourth time.
I must be due for a tornado, lightning strike, and/or a fried board.
I’ll send you the bill. :p
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posted on
12/03/2007 4:51:00 PM PST
by
dfwddr
(Duncan Hunter '08 -- the real thing.)
To: dfwddr
Hah!
Yeah, I’ve fallen off my high of 8th place, down to 12th, and I’m falling fast. Nice to be on a project where, even when I lose we win!
Need to find some more Macs...
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posted on
12/04/2007 5:36:33 AM PST
by
Egon
("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
To: Egon; dfwddr; Klutz Dohanger; XeniaSt; JosephW; SunkenCiv; LonePalm; wastedyears; zeugma; ...
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posted on
12/07/2007 9:12:12 AM PST
by
texas booster
(Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
To: texas booster
Top 20 Producers |
Rank Team |
User Name |
Points 24hr Avg |
Points Total |
|
Klutz_dohanger |
945,059 |
13,112,349 |
|
lrenh |
560,595 |
7,654,195 |
|
Malsua |
316,272 |
4,390,068 |
|
andyk |
228,165 |
3,166,234 |
|
josephw |
190,911 |
2,630,829 |
|
Texas_Booster |
144,831 |
1,985,279 |
|
Chris_Primavera |
125,364 |
1,734,191 |
|
mouser |
79,038 |
1,073,370 |
|
GOPBiker |
72,047 |
976,722 |
|
NAPA_Laurel_MS |
65,720 |
898,529 |
|
LanPB01 |
58,899 |
794,555 |
|
EasySt |
56,665 |
724,188 |
|
Egon |
56,575 |
783,798 |
|
dfwddr |
54,735 |
752,842 |
|
dbender5555 |
49,930 |
642,012 |
|
zeugma |
46,039 |
636,050 |
|
davemaher |
45,113 |
631,582 |
|
Dr_Quin |
42,825 |
591,654 |
|
Linda_Geiger |
41,599 |
574,472 |
|
LSimpson |
39,694 |
553,722 |
|
|
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posted on
12/07/2007 9:18:32 AM PST
by
texas booster
(Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
To: texas booster
Geeez! I asked them to double ME up, not everyone !!
LOL. I do notice I didn't move up the ladder any.
Looks as if they've added the total points and WUs into the 24Hr add-on, giving us all double points. I'm sure there are lots of emails slamming them about it, so it will probably get corrected by tomorrow.
My real stat:
To see when it matches:
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posted on
12/07/2007 10:32:33 AM PST
by
brityank
(The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
To: brityank
BTW, I really like your F@H signature.
Where is the code for that, and how do you store it for easy access on the web?
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posted on
12/07/2007 12:33:01 PM PST
by
texas booster
(Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
To: texas booster
Thanks.
Made it up on my own, using Mr. Robinson’s Preview sandbox. I’ll send you the info in FReepmail. :^)
29
posted on
12/07/2007 2:12:40 PM PST
by
brityank
(The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
To: brityank; texas booster
...or you could just right-click and pick "View Source" (yeah, I know that's IESpeak, but Firefox has similar capabilities).
But here it is "in the clear":
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/" target="new"><img height="70" src="http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/FAHlogoML.jpg" width="468" /></a>
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posted on
12/07/2007 2:21:04 PM PST
by
HKMk23
(HOW TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING: 1001 WAYS TO FEEL SELF-RIGHTEOUS DESPITE YOUR UTTER IMPOTENCE)
To: HKMk23; texas booster
Thanks; I always get screwed up putting the & lt; in for the <.
Also, I just C&P it from a Notepad off my desktop, somewhere buried under all the rest of the clutter! Enjoy.
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posted on
12/07/2007 2:54:02 PM PST
by
brityank
(The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
To: brityank
I’m just enough of a bitHead that I actually USE the documentation from the guys at W3C. Discussion is now underway concerning HTML5.0, but the current “stable” implementation is 4.01 It’s interesting stuff.
Here’s a document that outlines the guiding principles philosophies that underlie the development of HTML 5.0:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-html-design-principles-20071126/
The Site Index reads like a bibliography of web development:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/siteindex
All kinds of pertinent documents are referenced here, as well as hardcopy-published books on related topics. From this page, you can either navigate to an on-line document for further reading, or link to a page where you can buy a book; like this page, for instance:
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/
(That one will simply CRUSH Algore, so don’t tell him it’s in print.)
To kick off with, though, if you’ve the interest, I’d recommend simply downloading the PDF version of the HTML 4.01 sepcification document, here (right-click, Save target As...):
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/html40.pdf.gz
[You’ll need WinZip or a similar GZip decompression tool]
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posted on
12/07/2007 3:28:02 PM PST
by
HKMk23
(HOW TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING: 1001 WAYS TO FEEL SELF-RIGHTEOUS DESPITE YOUR UTTER IMPOTENCE)
To: EasySt
Thanks for the sig code also the eye catchers in the code
33
posted on
12/12/2007 12:29:27 PM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
To: XeniaSt; brityank
Thanks, I stole it from brityank... ;-)
By the way, that’s a nice “About” page you have there!
34
posted on
12/12/2007 5:28:34 PM PST
by
EasySt
(Life is precious. Live it well...)
To: EasySt
By the way, thats a nice About page you have there!Thanks ! Been working on it for a couple of years.
35
posted on
12/12/2007 5:31:51 PM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
To: texas booster
I'm charging ahead!
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posted on
12/13/2007 6:17:08 PM PST
by
twntaipan
(To say someone is a liar and a Democrat is to be redundant.)
To: twntaipan
I saw that you have some huge points the first couple of days. Is that from running SMP work units?
SMP units have shorter times to return them so turn the monitor off and just let the system crunch the WU.
Don’t worry about the small points on occasion. Those are Early Unit Ends and happen to all work units. If it happens to often there may be an overclocking issue or a memory problem.
Or you could have just all the luck!
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posted on
12/14/2007 7:07:29 AM PST
by
texas booster
(Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
To: texas booster; twntaipan; XeniaSt; EasySt
Hey All =
Found a couple of good articles in the December issue of Economist.com:
Spreading the Load ^
Another development that is boosting volunteer computing is the use of devices other than PCs, in particular games consoles and the powerful processors they contain (see article). This has been demonstrated most spectacularly by a project called Folding@home, run by Vijay Pande and his team at Stanford University, which simulates protein folding and mis-foldinga cause of diseases such as Alzheimer's. In September the combined computing capacity of the project passed one petaflopa quadrillion mathematical operations per secondsomething supercomputer designers have dreamed of for several years. With just over 40,000 PlayStation 3 volunteers, Folding@home entered the record books as the most powerful distributed-computing network on Earth.
Playing or processing? ^
The next logical step for the Stanford team was to adapt their software for the hugely powerful Cell processor used in Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. This chip, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, also turns out to work well for the Stanford protein-folding program. With Sony solidly behind this projecteven preloading Folding@home on to some PlayStationsadoption has taken off fast. Sony's motivation is not just philanthropic: for some young gamers, the fact that their machine will do serious science in its spare time is a useful argument to convince reluctant parents. Such is the power of the Cell chip that in less than a year the PlayStation has become the dominant source of processing power for the project, despite much larger numbers of contributing PCs.
Both are very good reports on the overall health of F&H and other distributed projects. Enjoy, and keep folding!
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posted on
12/14/2007 5:52:55 PM PST
by
brityank
(The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
To: texas booster
Congratulation of joining the seven figure club tb, Looks like we both got their at the same time :o)
Keep ‘em folding
S
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posted on
12/17/2007 1:50:23 AM PST
by
shadowscotland
(London, UK (pro-lurker))
To: nina0113; Steve0113
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posted on
03/18/2008 1:58:39 AM PDT
by
nina0113
(If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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