If we're looking for a name, may I suggest: "Friends of Free Republic".
You know I'm with you on this project, right?
I believe one new thread a week will be plenty. The post count easily goes to (2^16)-1.
Freeper Folders?
Folding@Home FAQ for new users:
What is Folding@Home? A Stanford University project to find out how proteins fold.
Why it's important: Proteins folding wrong causes all kinds of diseases, like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and forms of cancer. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. Through Folding@home, scientists now have the horsepower to study the mechanics of protein folding. With its ability to share the workload among hundred of thousands of computers economically, Folding@home can help scientists understand how proteins snap, or don’t, into their predestined shapes — and may help to explain the origins of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and apparently unrelated diseases. We're fueling research that could end all that.
How it works: 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 to starting folding for the team: 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 our FreeRepublic member team! 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 world’s supercomputers, Standford still wouldn’t have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people’s 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.
777??!!
(runs out to buy a lotto ticket)
Now that we are in the top 800, our stats at extreme overclocking get more detailed with individual user stats.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=36120
Folding in Our Pajamas?
I'm new to this folding stuff, and I've only been on FR for just over a year and this hooplah sucks.
For whatever it's worth, my late father was a Stanford graduate just like most of my family and my family would be hard-pressed to qualify as libtards! They support Stanford with large endowments as well; my father even left a big chunk of money to Stanford in his will. Let's face it, libtards seem to infiltrate most institutions of higher learning, but this project does not appear to be one of those situations. If it was good enough for generations of my conservative family, it's good enough for me to donate CPU time.
Oh well. I'll continue to participate in this project. I also respect Jim Robinson's position, and this is my favorite website. There is no place on the internet like FR, and Mr. Robinson has clearly done well exercising the judgment he has to have built what he has. I will also continue to support Free Republic.
Aloha. Still part of Team #36120 and still part of FR.
Can you explain to me in simple terms what this is all about?
To paraphrase Mr. Burns:
"Patience, Dundee... climb the ladder."
"pokey" is still poking along, 106 of 400 frames completed. At this rate, I should show up as a team member sometime on the 9th.
I'm happy with just about anything the group chooses for a new name. "Team Gipper" seems appropriate in so many ways, conveying the conservative leanings of the group, and working toward a cure for Alzheimer's from which he suffered. "Folding in Pajamas" and its variants are my second choice.
Now up to #748!
Kossacks and DUmmies are talking about merging their teams, LOL
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=38723&mesg_id=48794
Ok, did I miss the explanation as to why JR nixed the use of the name for the team?? It is a collection of Freepers banding together, and I think brings good PR to the site. Why would he nix it??
I never seem to get above 50% CPU for the fahCore_65.exe process. System Idle process hovers around 50. I have the CPU Usage slider in configuration all the way to the right. Is it XP-Home that keeps the process from using more cycles? I have a P4 3Ghz and 1G mem, and a nVidia 6600Gt graphics card. I don’t mind FAH using all the CPU’s it can grab while I am not using this box.
Laundry bump!