(Vanity) Folding@Home FReepers - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

self ^ | 01/08/2005 | self

[texas booster]

Another week, another burst of new folders. The most important stat of all that we talk about is this:

The more protiens that we fold, the more likely we are to help find a cure for the ailments that cripple and kill us.

Good job everyone!

[texas booster]

Laundry bump out to the Folding@Home ping list!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off the list.

Have a terrific week.

[Drango]

Want to start folding? It's VERY easy.

1.)Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html . 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.

Remember: 36120 is our number

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Drango]

[ken in texas]

Thanks for the stats summary in your post... it's amazing how far this team has moved in such a short time.

I have one more machine that I might be able to use but I'm fighting some network issues right now. Plus, after taking two weeks vacation at the end of December, I'm now back at my day job.

[ken in texas]

Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.

Not quite true... the GUI version sets itself up to start when you log on to Windows (XP, at least). If you stay logged on it keeps running. Plus, if you're going to advise people to run as a service, please at least mention which of the various Windows versions should be downloaded.

I personally find the GUI version to be quite suitable where only one instance is to be run: it's stable and permits one to readily check on the progress. I fear that in the interest of trying to squeeze an extra per-cent or so of progress each day, some people have been talked into running the console version and now find that they are in over their head when trying to find out information about the progress of the Work Unit.

Other's opinions and mileage may vary.

[uglybiker]

Ya think we'll ever find the mis-folded protein that causes liberalism?

[ken in texas]

LOL. We'll need quantum computing to handle that problem!!

[Drango]

Ken I agree. Although I posted the words, they aren't really mine. (said in my best Clinton weasel speak). They are a cut & paste repost from earlier threads.

For people just starting off and have a Windoze box, the NT/2000/XP 5.03 version is the way to go IMHO. http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

[Flyer]

Laundry bump

Hey, that's my line!

Bump!

[brityank]

Got a 400 Frame 241 Pointer that should hit by 02:00EST Monday.

Fold On Bump.

[TAdams8591]

The above computerese is Greek to me. Can anyone explain it in English?

[texas booster]

I liked it so much I added it to my repertoire.

[Stentor]

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[texas booster]

http://folding.stanford.edu/science.html

The above link describes what doctors are looking for and the science of protein folding.

There are certain types of scientific problems that require huge numbers of processors to computer. Folding@Home is a project that works to advance medicine by borrowing unused time on normal computers to fold proteins.

Diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cystic fibrosis, BSE (Mad Cow disease), an inherited form of emphysema, and even many cancers are believed to result from protein misfolding.

Many folks from FR have banded together to donate our computers to advancing science. Our team is advancing through the rankings and now is about #600 of 43,000 teams.

Some people like pretty goldfish for a screen saver or a Microsoft logo prancing across the screen. We prefer pictures of proteins dancing during down time.

[ezsmoke]

Going along well but my laptop(AMD Athlon 4 Palomino 1.2GHz) hates it. It is very hot! I had to add an external fan on the back. I added an old AMD K7 700MHz and Intel P3 500MHz this past week. I was going to add an old AMD Athlon Thunderbird C 1.1GHz but the motherboard (Asus A7V133) and power supply(Antec 300w) is fried.

I may be able to add some newer faster computers later on.

[TAdams8591]

Thank you kindly for the explanation.

What is protein folding?

[texas booster]

Each of your cells contains about 2 meters of DNA, all folded into the tiny space inside the nucleus, which is a million times smaller. As you might imagine, these long, thin strands can get tangled very easily in the busy environment of the nucleus. To make things even more complicated, DNA is a double helix, which must be unwound to access the genetic information. If you have ever tried to unravel the individual fibers in a piece of rope, you will understand the knotty problems that this can cause. To help with these problems, your cells build several different enzymes that untangle and relax DNA strands. DNA, RNA and over 50,000 protiens all unfold in the process of keeping you alive every heartbeat.

http://folding.stanford.edu/education/protfold.html

Check the link out. It doesn't bite.

[Clara Lou]

Regarding our drop in production, I wonder if a lot of folders might not be turning off their computers.

Here's something that's affected my statistics. For some reason, FAH opts to send my not-so-powerful home PC 400-frame workunits. The first one took nearly two weeks--but it finally gave me a burst of 239 pts. [I did turn it off a few times and also lost a night's work when my PC froze for reasons unknown to me.] Now FAH has sent me a new 400-framer, which will cause my PC-processor to have no points for about 10 days. So, it seems like I'm not producing.

On the other hand, FAH sends my G4 laptop 100-frame WU's that are only worth between 50 and 100 pts. that finish faster. I'd have thought my laptop would get the high-pt. value WUs and my PC would get the smaller pt. value. Whatever.