Posted on 06/10/2012 9:00:28 PM PDT by texas booster
It has been a while since our last Free Republic Folding@Home update.
The team has seen growth in the past couple of years as contributors have added high performance GPUs from NVidia and AMD/ATI, and same consoles such as the PS3.
The team started in 2001 with a few volunteers, and grew dramatically in 2005 as we started actually posting regular threads.
As we grew from a Top 2000 team to a Top 100 team, we attracted the attention of DU. After a couple of years of name calling, they realized that merely boasting that you can beat the opposition means nothing if you can't back it up. They float in the Top 300 due to the strength of two primary folders. Still, they have folded for nearly 8 years and we thank them for that.
Today the FR team 36120 folds about 330 individual computers, down from our peak of about 1,800 systems. However, the team is currently averaging 250,000 ppd, many times greater than we have ever accomplished.
If you have a computer running Windows, Linux or OS X, or a PS3, then you can start folding very quickly. Look here for starting instructions:
Why would you fold? There are multiple distributed computing groups searching for everything from cryptography to SETI. I started folding after helping in the original Genome@Home project, as scientists worked to complete the first sequencing of the human genome.
Now I fold to advance the science of treating diseases. A partial list of diseases that the project has worked on include:
Alzheimer's Disease
Mad Cow (BSE)
CJD
ALS
Huntington's Disease
Parkinson's Disease
and many cancers
When I was younger I thought that I could help find a cure for my parents' diseases. Now I fold to find a cure for the diseases that currently or may inflict me, and one day may inflict my children.
Read the thread and PLEASE ask questions. I will try to answer all questions that are posted.
Tuesday I head over to InfoCOMM 2012, so if some of the other folders can help out I would really appreciate it.
If we could reach 100 active folders and 1000 systems, we would see our output double. While we fold to cure diseases, a race to the top is always fun.
Sigh...
I can tell I’ve been away for too long when I catch myself looking for a “like” button on your comment.
The town was originally named Proctorknott, after Proctor Knott, a one-time governor of Kentucky...
Cheers!
Self ping to DL this again. Is it possible to change a username and still keep the points from the old username?
I hope you can help me with this, or refer me to someone who can:
Having trouble running FAH version 7.1.52 on my AMD X64 dual core. 3 years ago, on this same rig (running XP), I had no problem running FAH, so I’m going to assume that this FAH version is responsible for bogging my computer (now Win 7) down in a major way. Is there another version of FAH that I might have better luck with?
I tried setting the CPU usage to 90% (slightly noticeable improvement) and then 60% (no help at all). Are there any other settings that I might change?
Oops: X86
I’m backing up to a pre-version 7.
If you change your folding name or your team, the counter is treated as a new folder.
When you look down the list of 600+ FReeper folders, you will notice a few folders that look like they just misspelled their name when setting up a new folding system. That's exactly what happened.
I would do what you did - erase the v.7 core and then reinstall a previous, non-beta version.
Keep us posted if it works.
The previous version worked OK, but I uninstalled it and put 7 back. It’s working fine, except I bog down again. I just pause FAH while I’m browsing.
Hi Clara and TB =
I tried to upgrade from my WinXP F@H client ver. 6.23 to the new ver. 7 and found the same problem - everything slows down, and F@H doesn’t release when I’m active on the system. Did a lot of digging around the F@H Forum, and determined that the problem is the GPU portion of the folding client. Unlike the CPU, the GPU doesn’t allow for interrupts in a timely fashion, so anything that needs to update or re-paint the screen bogs down severely. You can adjust the CPU portion of the client to use less than 95-100% of the cycles if you want to, but there is no such adjustment for the GPU. Both Nvidia and AMS are aware of this and working on getting it resolved, but until then it flat sucks on a desktop/laptop system.
I took the ver. 7 out, and reverted back to the ver. 6.23. I won’t get as many points as the GPU folks will, but the science needs those projects too, so it’s all good. You can get the ver. 6.23 under the older version section of the F@H Download page. Good luck, and keep folding!
Hi! Thanks for the information about ver 7. I decided to pause FAH when I surf and then start it up again when I’m not. It works find.
Need another front page call to fold! I’d do it if I could...heck I don’t think I know how to put links in a message without screwing it up really good. And you did such a great job with this one.....
I don’t know if you actively check our status, but we’ve fallen off of the top 100, Team Brony passed us! We need some new blood.
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