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

self ^ | 01/08/2005 | self

[texas booster]

OK, new thread for the next week.

First, a big shout out to the SETI and BOINC members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0.

Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 384 processors and 192 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with nearly a dozen folders now from GetLoaded.com all popping onto the hit list this week.

Special mention to Klutz Dohanger, who has quietly volunteered 80 systems to fold. That is 20% of all of the Free Republic Folders systems actively engaged in research. He is on a pace to pop 100,000 points personally before the end of January.

Malsua, uriah, Ken in Texas and Andrewksu are solidly in the top 10. Malsua is continuing to add (fast) systems and is now the number two folder on the team. Andrewksu will be the next member to hit 10,000 points. Great job!

Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page

On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 624. We are poised to overtake (today):

Flowers of Happiness (awww, ain’t that sweet)
SpongeZone
Team Redneck Beatdown
Go Navy!
French-Krew
and the Rochester Institute of Technology

As we continue to grow there are a number of milestones coming around the bend:

Top 600 by Monday
Top 500 within eight days
Top 400 within three weeks

We have 430,000 points so far. We will reach:

500,000 points by Thursday
750,000 points by Jan 24
1,000,000 points in early February

Thanks again to all that are helping us advance science and promote the peaceful use of computers.

Extreme Overclockers Stats for Free Republic

[kingu]

For what it is worth, Paulat2 is showing 4 workunits now. Not sure what happened to the other two work units.

You can go to http://forum.folding-community.org and request a search for the missing workunits, blips do occasionally happen, and the time for correction is on a as can be done basis, it appears.

Going by their troubleshooting technique, they're going to want you to post the FAHlog.txt information that shows a) your username/teamnumber for the work unit in question, and the portion of the log where the results are sent.

If you want to e-mail me that, send me a mail on here and I'll pass on my e-mail and look for you, if you'd like.

[texas booster]

I show that you have been credited for (1) P1808 and (3) P2305 proteins.

What proteins does your log record as being finished?

[houeto]

Hey, TB, what is the team name for the DUmmies? I haven't been able to find it.

[houeto]

[DUmmies: Now go take a bong hit..you've had a rough day..FReepers mocking you and all.]

Cost of desktop unit: $1500.00

Donations to FreeRepublic: $5.00/mo.

Getting up early one beautiful Saturday morning to discover a bonafide Swamp Fox Smackdown of the DUmmies: PRICELESS!!

[Sunshine55]

ok, I had a power outage this morning, and here is the log. I started my job over at zero again, damnit.

[14:16:40] - Ask before connecting: No
[14:16:40] - Use IE connection settings: Yes
[14:16:40] - User name: Sunshine55 (Team 36120)
[14:16:40] - User ID = 25D5D4C43823EB89
[14:16:40] - Machine ID: 1
[14:16:40]
[14:16:41] Loaded queue successfully.
[14:16:41] Initialization complete
[14:16:41] + Benchmarking ...
[14:16:57]
[14:16:57] + Processing work unit
[14:16:58] Core required: FahCore_7a.exe
[14:16:58] Core found.
[14:16:58] Working on Unit 04 [January 14 14:16:58]
[14:16:58] + Working ...
[14:16:58] + Working...
[14:17:10]
[14:17:10]

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[14:17:10] Folding@Home GB Gromacs Core
[14:17:10] Version 1.86 (August 28, 2005)
[14:17:12]
[14:17:12] Preparing to commence simulation
[14:17:18] - Ensuring status. Please wait.
[14:17:35] - Looking at optimizations...
[14:17:35] - Working with standard loops on this execution.
[14:17:35] - Previous termination of core was improper.
[14:17:35] - Going to use standard loops.
[14:17:35] - Files status OK
[14:17:36] - Expanded 16280 -> 142699 (decompressed 876.5 percent)
[14:17:36] - Checksums don't match (work/wudata_04.xtc)
[14:17:36] - Starting from initial work packet
[14:17:36]
[14:17:36] Project: 2071 (Run 108, Clone 87, Gen 4)
[14:17:36]
[14:17:36] Entering M.D.
[14:17:47] Protein: p2071_A21_agbnp_amber99
[14:17:47]
[14:17:48] Writing local files
[14:17:49] GB activated
[14:17:54] Writing local files
[14:17:55] Completed 0 out of 3750000 steps (0)
[14:51:29] Writing local files
[14:51:29] Completed 37500 out of 3750000 steps (1)

[SC Swamp Fox]

The stats page has you at 4 WUs now.

Date of last work unit: 2006-01-13 22:14:18

[SC Swamp Fox]

Hey, TB, what is the team name for the DUmmies? I haven't been able to find it.

Here is a link to the post with all of the links.

[SC Swamp Fox]

[14:17:36] - Checksums don't match (work/wudata_04.xtc)
[14:17:36] - Starting from initial work packet

It looks like it tried to pick-up from the last "save" point but the data was corrupted. It had to start over.

[SC Swamp Fox]

PRICELESS!!

Basic Math for DUmmies. Doh!

[Sunshine55]

I saw that. This is the 2nd time I have lost a job that way. Is there any way to prevent this?

[Drango]

It looks like it tried to pick-up from the last "save" point but the data was corrupted. It had to start over.

Yeah I had the "bad check sum" error too. Frustrating. I now run the GUI version. With the console version I was always opening it, changing settings, trying to optimize it with a tweek here or there. I think I corrupted it.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Software isn't my area of expertise...

Since I'm a hardware type, all I could recommend is a UPS to prevent the power outage from shutting down the computer.

[Sunshine55]

Is it possible to run the GUI version using Win 98? I have no idea which version is which, I just downloaded something and started folding.

[Drango]

'98 works. Do you have a little red "flower" at the bottom right in your system tray? And when you click on it something that looks like post #219 above?...That's the GUI version, and what almost everyone except a power user should be folding with (IMHO)

[ezsmoke]

According to http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html the only version that is available for Win98 is the gui version 4.00. If you have a client other than the one approved to work on your OS that may cause the corruption.

[Sunshine55]

That's the one I'm using. I'll have to sit down later and see what other kinks I might have that could be causing this. Thanks!

[SC Swamp Fox]

I had to switch to the console version because I am running multiple user profiles for the different members of my family. The GUI version would not restart until someone was logged in.

The console version can be setup to run as a service which will run no matter who is logged in or even if no one is logged in (like after a power failure, reboot).

[Drango]

I had a power outage this morning,

I gotta think this is your main problem. It MAY help to save your work more often. Right click on the "flower" > configure > advanced. Slide the "checkpoint freguency" bar to the left. I have mine set a 3 min.

[Sunshine55]

ahhhh....bless your heart. I hadn't configured ANYTHING.

[Drango]

You do have your name and team # in right? Most people DON'T need to configure anything. It just runs as is and unless there are problems I wouln't recommend people twiddling with tabs and such.