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

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!

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

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.

re: Lost WU's

I lost about a week's work once when my computer spontaneously rebooted when I plugged in a USB camera. I did some research over at the FAH forum. It appears lots of people have the problem of bad checksums from time to time. The most common solution offered is to get a more stable system (easy for you to say).

Why the program can't just go back to a previous save isn't clear to me, surely all of the prior saves can't be corrupted at once. It appears to me the program must overwrite the previous save each time it writes checkpoint files.

If you have a network and one particular machine tends to be unstable, FAH suggests you install the program to a more reliable network drive and run it from there.

Also there is a 3rd party program (FAHBS) that is supposed to back up the checkpoint files to make job recovery fairly easy. This is apparently a DOS batch file and needs to run manually or set up in the task manager to run at preset times. I started to look into this, but haven't gotten around to it (i.e. my computer is pretty stable and hasn't crashed again, so far).

In researching the above I an across a page of links to lots of programs that may be of interest to other folders F@H links. Also, the forum where these are posted is an excellent source of info on all aspects of the project, scoring, running the software, etc.

Folding for the Gipper (hmmm - The FR spell checker thinks Gipper is a mispelling and suggested Gypper as an alternative. This ain't right!)

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

Date of last work unit	2006-01-14 22:15:35
Active CPUs within 50 days	451
Team Id	36120
Grand Score	602080 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	4946 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	499 of 42204
Home Page	http://www.freerepublic.com
Fast Teampage URL	http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Klutz_dohanger	114706	952
2	Malsua	39628	319
3	Texas_Booster	29598	234
4	Compaq_Owner	22136	172
5	Dads_AMD3000	18445	64
6	Ken_in_Texas	15663	91
7	Compaq_Owner3	12490	105
8	Andrewksu	11354	80
9	LSimpson	11018	66
10	Kingu	10238	68
11	Uriah	9784	91
12	rach_FR	8314	84
13	arderenne	8181	31
14	umbagi	8073	74
15	bubba_sales	7846	64
16	FRpapasmurf	6953	65
17	T_Admin	6796	53
18	Jim	6192	48
19	Chesterbelloc	6033	57
20	Senator_Bedfellow	5779	24
21	mediamole	5732	49
22	dfwddr	5236	102
23	VICI	4612	38
24	mouser	4374	19
25	Tony1	4331	31
26	ValorDaus	4169	47
27	vidi	4150	39
28	Seamoth	4066	43
29	greenbo	4003	33
30	Veni	3986	37
31	Hawkeyes_Girl	3972	23
32	stylin19a	3845	27
33	Professional_Engineer	3744	30
34	Jinx	3613	38
35	Mount_Athos	3563	22
36	A.Hun	3551	41
37	Weasel	3364	28
38	Steve_Wilson_1	3326	29
39	TheMightyQuinn	3249	15
40	ezsmoke	2918	13
41	VeniVidiVici	2877	20
42	Vern_1	2822	28
43	FrogMom	2797	14
44	InfraRed	2744	23
45	BoT	2648	116
46	FReeper_Dundee	2645	12
47	Compaq_Owner_David	2594	24
48	DocRock	2445	19
49	Craigon69	2354	16
50	Tigermoth	2309	18
51	ENDUSER_Michael	2298	16
52	VAcharonD1	2278	13
53	ewg	2229	18
54	MarkeyD	2219	22
55	Drango1	2188	19
56	FourtySeven	2170	19
57	colinhester	2128	15
58	kenth	2097	23
59	freeper_krb	2076	16
60	Klutza_dohanger	2064	11
61	walkerk	2028	14
62	Flyer_FR	1928	19
63	smith288	1920	17
64	Slothful1	1892	19
65	JohninWAGL	1890	14
66	dangermouse	1740	13
67	KGJ1	1732	14
68	Bush_Democrat	1697	17
69	Petronski	1675	18
70	Brian_Admin	1649	12
71	ShakeNJake	1629	8
72	RebelTex	1573	26
73	Treb	1533	14
74	KJC1	1525	11
75	non-anonymous	1495	14
76	Happy_Babymoon	1463	13
77	hessian	1458	16
78	houeto	1448	16
79	susan	1412	14
80	cgk	1408	17
81	Hiredhand	1407	15
82	KGJ2	1401	12
83	SilentServiceCPO	1398	7
84	1066AD	1387	13
85	placerville9	1373	14
86	Drachenfels	1362	11
87	FRstentor	1342	12
88	zeugma	1340	9
89	rodneymatlock	1337	14
90	Tactical	1322	9
91	fzx12345	1317	13
92	doc11355	1317	19
93	Jacy	1312	10
94	patricia_bell	1309	11
95	pbrown	1305	13
96	Pusterfuss	1274	9
97	bbarr	1220	12
98	paengineer	1214	19
99	RedWing9	1213	7
100	Mississippi_Freeper	1167	9
101	sshultz460	1114	9
102	Kevin_Inspiron	1088	7
103	Regina_Plumm	1088	8
104	BitDrifter	1087	9
105	mombrown1	1084	6
106	PCBMan	1056	7
107	hoping2help2	1043	7
108	Brian_Allen	1038	8
109	Katya	1032	8
110	Cody	1021	9
111	Cralic	1020	8
112	Hoplite	1017	8
113	David_G_1	990	8
114	_MontanaDal	951	11
115	bpolhemus	918	6
116	Freeper_Drago	914	10
117	Incredulous	911	6
118	brityank	907	7
119	gl_terri	903	7
120	oblomov_1	901	5
121	Cementjungle	872	7
122	LynnHam	867	8
123	idiots_will_catch	866	10
124	William_Helvig	865	9
125	Trax_Admin	848	7
126	RetroSexual	839	14
127	SamFromLivingston	839	11
128	j_tull	838	4
129	Swordmaker	803	14
130	BigBro1	803	10
131	Yokiepoo	797	5
132	David_White	792	7
133	xeniast	767	4
134	sales_don	749	5
135	PureSolace	733	4
136	hoping2help	699	5
137	SC_Swamp_Fox	697	7
138	MyMacMini	662	8
139	Tatze	649	5
140	HangnJudge	625	7
141	HangThemHigh	616	4
142	feefee	615	7
143	Where_are_my_marbles,_Nancy?	600	1
144	aaiken	600	1
145	Tami	594	4
146	GaltMeister	594	4
147	Clara_Lou	586	8
148	ArgentCent	559	4
149	Big_Bobs_FTW_1	549	3
150	Linda_Geiger	547	3
151	GL-Bartaholic	542	6
152	TChad	517	3
153	FReeper_Marie	502	6
154	Suzy_Que	498	4
155	Westlake	476	5
156	G_Thomas_Wilson	472	3
157	David_Griffith	453	4
158	uglybiker	445	4
159	DTwistedSisterS	433	5
160	GLDoug	398	4
161	Bobibutu	398	4
162	Jeff_Musselman	394	3
163	twinzmommy	380	5
164	SoCalRocket	374	2
165	Suzzee	364	2
166	mastercylinder	333	3
167	WESTPALMSENIOR	333	3
168	greedo	333	3
169	Sunshine55	325	3
170	paulat2	291	4
171	Vladimir_F	287	10
172	Becky1	282	2
173	HBAR223	258	3
174	manwiththehands	257	2
175	dblevins	241	1
176	MathyKathy	241	1
177	NonValueAdded	241	1
178	jimfree	241	1
179	bgalbreath	226	3
180	Incorrigible	214	2
181	evilC	199	2
182	CPQ_1700	197	2
183	rrapson	194	2
184	Tonystransportation	191	5
185	geritol	190	1
186	MONTANADAL	187	3
187	Michael_K	182	1
188	FRpapasmurf_client	181	1
189	Tax_Government	179	2
190	Kosst_Amojan	177	3
191	Heil_Dad	171	3
192	ChadGore	168	4
193	eyespysomething	166	1
194	SoDak	139	2
195	Roger__Heidt	131	2
196	Shadow_Deamon	128	1
197	Anonymous	92	2
198	BellStar	92	2
199	Pitcherfan19	48	1
200	Klurz_dohanger	46	1
201	linda_gei	46	1
202	greenbo__	46	1
203	DocRock_2	46	1
204	ARubin	46	1
205	unruly.human	46	1
206	Foldspace	46	1
207	jarod_1	19	1

"re: Lost WU's"

Here's what works for me:

I have two W98SE machines that like to crash frequently. What I do is copy the whole Folding@Home directory (and subdirectories) to another part of the HD (daily or so and just before it is finished). This way, if the FAH wants to start over from zero after an "event", it can be stopped and a copy of the backup files put back in the original location. Then restart it and not nearly as much is lost. I don't seem to have much trouble with other O/S's, so don't bother to do backups on those.

Thanks for the info, this is the first time I have had any trouble resuming a wu after a reboot. We had thunderstorms rolling through early Saturday morning so there is no telling what happened.

There might be differnces in the stability of different work packages. My previous wu's used used FAH_core7A. This project caused FAH_core79 to be downloaded and used. I'm not sure what the differences are, but if those are version numbers, 9 would be older then A.

I'm not going to worry about it unless it starts happening frequently.

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