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(Vanity) Folding@Home FReepers - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan
self ^ | 01/08/2005 | self

Posted on 01/08/2006 7:41:43 AM PST by 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


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Science
KEYWORDS: fah; folding; foldingathome; foldinghome; laundry
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To: soccer_maniac

A quick look at some numbers:

F@H FReepers***** DUmmies




Users -- 198 ****** 64
Processers -- 396 ****** 89

Points Total -- 453,321 ******* 49,614
Points last week -- 177,497 ******* 33,278
Points last 24 hrs -- 23,296 ******* 5,354

Projected rank in 30 days -- 297 ******* 1,199


While they may be closing on ranking numbers, they actually fall further and further behind us every day in points.

They think they are going to pass us "in a couple weeks", yet we're out producing them at a rate of over 5 to 1.
They keep looking at their rank numbers (which mean squat in their position), and are not considering production.
I guess that the word "production" sounds too close to "work" for them.


61 posted on 01/09/2006 11:57:34 AM PST by dfwddr (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword:folding.)
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To: dfwddr
They keep looking at their rank numbers (which mean squat in their position), and are not considering production. I guess that the word "production" sounds too close to "work" for them.

hahahahahahahahaha

62 posted on 01/09/2006 12:35:49 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: dfwddr

Yeah.

They do rise faster in the rankings but that is misleading. The real indicator is total number of points and they are falling behind every single day.

They will be in the Top 1000 in less than 30 days if they keep adding CPUs at this rate.


63 posted on 01/09/2006 12:46:49 PM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: Paladin2

grrrr.... I discovered today, that due to a power outage at work, my lab with 32 folders in it had rebooted around 11am Saturday morning. Almost 48 hrs worth of folding, halted in mid-stream.


Say what you will about the differences between the console and gui version, the gui version doesn't launch until a user is logged in. All of my pretty folders were just sitting there, begging for some keystrokes. (the console version would have been folding away at that point)

So... unless you have free and easy access to all of your cpu's, beware of the fickle finger of your electric company :(


64 posted on 01/09/2006 1:10:53 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger; All

Summary - Folding Links of Interest

1. Where to get the Folding@home client
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

2. FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120

3. Extreme Overclockers stats for FreeRepublic.com
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120

NOTE:
Only the top 2000 teams are included on Overclockers, and when a team reaches the top 800, individual stats are included.

4. Our Competition:
a. Democratic Underground
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157
b. Daily Kos
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48083

5. Another Statistics Page
a. Sortable Team Member Stats
http://fahstats.com/t.php?t=36120
b. Team Production
http://fahstats.com/tp.php?t=36120
c. Teams on the Radar Scope
http://fahstats.com/tr.php?t=36120

6. Third Party monitoring software
http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/

7. DU Folding Thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x38723

8. How much are those work units worth?
a. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/allprojects
b. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html

8. Stat Image Generator
a.Link http://www.statgfx.com/statgfx/getlink.cgi?service=folding


Previous threads (for those who wish to catch up):

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (#1700)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1537549/posts

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,550)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1541538/posts

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,450)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542884/posts

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,200!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547014/posts

(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@HOme Project Update - top 1000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1549077/posts

(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - TOP 900!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1550060/posts

(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - We're in the TOP 850!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1550656/posts?q=1&&page=1

(Vanity) Searching for a name and at #777
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1551486/posts


65 posted on 01/09/2006 1:15:55 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

Bookmark


66 posted on 01/09/2006 4:14:36 PM PST by DocRock
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To: Klutz Dohanger

399 CPUs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


67 posted on 01/09/2006 5:01:26 PM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: papasmurf
If Tony (Tonystransportation) can get the time, he's gonna' put on more machines, he's got 40, then he'll eat our lunch!

Bring it on Tony (grin).

68 posted on 01/09/2006 6:48:56 PM PST by Drango ("Complico, ergo sum")
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To: Drango
As long as we are talkin' smack. Who is laying claim to the single fastest CPU rig? Overclocked? We need to hear some cool descriptions of some high powered rigs so I can drool on the local Fry's ads and convince Mrs Drango how badly I need to upgrade.
69 posted on 01/09/2006 7:06:42 PM PST by Drango ("Complico, ergo sum")
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To: Drango

I was speaking to us Truckers. I Shoulda' made that clear, sorry.

:O)

P


70 posted on 01/09/2006 7:08:06 PM PST by papasmurf (Join Free Republic Folders. Folding@Home Team # 36120)
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To: papasmurf
No need to apologies, none at all...I welcome Tony's participation. Bigtime. It's I who need to apologies, my post was all in friendly jest and it now appears some took it as snarky. Me Culpa, for using the wrong tone..
71 posted on 01/09/2006 7:14:44 PM PST by Drango ("Complico, ergo sum")
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To: Drango
"As long as we are talkin' smack. Who is laying claim to the single fastest CPU rig? Overclocked"

Yea I want to hear some OverClock stats too. For any other geeks out there who care...

I dropped out of folding for a day while I tried my hand at overclocking for the first time. Spent half the day at ExtremeOverclockers forums learning about it. Then another half day trouble shooting. Turns out my Albatron 865PE ProII MB has a bug (confirmed while googling the topic) that prevents you from Overclocking while using SATA drives (I have 2 SATA, 2 IDE). The BIOS’s AGP//PCI/SRC frequency lock does not work correctly. Grrr...! The rig would hanging at POST screen when I went over FSB of 202Mhz. I had to rearrange my 4 drives which included moving my c: (XP home) from the SATA to one of the IDE’s. Thanks to Norton Ghost, that was not a big deal. So when overclocking, I can’t use my SATA drives…have to unplug them or it hangs at POST screen even with the XP system on the IDE drive. Have to save up for a new MB!

Since it’s my first try, I am overclocking the 3.0Ghz at a conservative 3.495Ghz. Just enough to fully utilize my DDR466 Corsair 1Gig ram. I’ll let it run like this for a week before seeing how close I can get to 4Ghz! Doubt I can get there with my current fan since I already run at at 58-deg with the below settings.

- CPU is an old P4 Northwood 3.0C. (3.0Ghz).

- FSB=233Mhz. 33Mhz over default 200Mhz FSB. That's 233Mhz*2=466 to utilize the DDR466 PC3700 RAM.

- Memory timing at 3-4-4-8 (don’t fully understand this part, but that's what the mem specs say it can do and many at the forums run this setting)

- Bumped vcore voltage up 1 notch from default (I think it is 1.52??)

- Per a freeware utility (SpeedFan), CPU seems stay at 58-deg while folding. The unloaded CPU temp is 46-47. - Aftermarket CPU Sync/Fan is a Zalman NPS7000B

I stopped the fold that was running before overclocking. It was taking about 20min/frame. This should be a big point Fold, as most only take 3-6min/frame. Anyway, after Overclocking to 3.4+Ghz, that same fold is taking 13min/frame..woohoo! I learned a lot yesterday thanks to this Folding project. I probably would not have messed with overclocking if not for this project and my new found need for speed.

72 posted on 01/09/2006 8:58:48 PM PST by Craigon
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To: Drango; papasmurf
Ok. Since Papa asked me for this the other day and I procrastinated y'all can look at mine first.

I had brought up the other day that my dualcore amd/Intel boxes were running neck-and-neck. They are back that way again right now at 27 and 28 with the Intel box ahead by 100 pts.

Specs:
AMD BOX
========
Proc AMD64 X2 4400
Asus A8N-SLI
Memory
Phys 1GB
Virt 2.41GB
Avail Virtual 1.47
Video:

Single GPU NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6800 Ultra
pci-x
Bus Type AGP
Memory 256MB GDDR3
Core Clock 425MHz (vs. 400MHZ standrd)
Memory Clock 1100MHz (effective)
RAMDAC Dual 400MHz

Storage:
Maxtor 6B250S0
250GB 16mb buffer
===========
Intel
CPU EM64T P4D 3Ghz
Memory 2GB
Tot Vir Mem 3.85GB
Avail Vir Mem 3.51GB

Motherboard:
Gigabyte GA-I955X Royal

Video

BFG GeForceT 6600 GT OC
pci-x
Memory 128MB GDDR3
Core Clock 525MHz
Memory Clock 1050MHz
RAMDAC Dual 400MHz

Storage:
Maxtor 200GB IDE

Both nodes share a Cheetah 36GB x 4 External Scsi array

At this point, I think that processor speed matters probably more than anything. I have a few other machines on there (including one named "MyMacMini" that got a late start but still has only finished 2 WU) but another named Veni has four machines behind it. Two are single cpu P4s, one running at 2.4Ghz and the other at 3.0Ghz. Another one is a PIII two-proc Xeon running at 550Mhz, 2GB of ram and a console assigned to each, with the last machine is a PIII 4-way 500Mhz with 4GB of ram and a console assigned to each processor.

The old Xeon's appear to be processing this painfully slow. However, the 4-way was only added a week ago and, last I looked, still had yet to complete its assigned projects. BUT it will still finish them before the deadline.

73 posted on 01/09/2006 9:08:20 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: Craigon
It was taking about 20min/frame... after Overclocking to 3.4+Ghz, that same fold is taking 13min/frame.

Sweeeeeeeet. 7min a frame savings! WU-hooooo

Have to save up for a new MB!

Word up!

Spent half the day at ExtremeOverclockers forums learning about it.

Yeah, when I need a serious geek fix, Extremoverclockers is perfect. Then I'm over to Anandtech costing everything out. However, I've got a serious case of the lazies right now. To start my next rig, I need Linux and well, the geek skills...they be rusty.

Thanks for the inspiration!!!

74 posted on 01/09/2006 9:16:39 PM PST by Drango ("Complico, ergo sum")
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To: Klutz Dohanger

I'm running the console on this one, our power blipped yesterday and it started over again on the protein!! It was nearly finished! (Did I mention we are now looking at UPS so this doesn't happen again?) What do I do? On a previous thread, I think this happened to pbrown.

WHere do I find this wu?

Help!


75 posted on 01/10/2006 5:28:54 AM PST by Marie Antoinette (Welcome to my little Rosemary Anne, born 10/24)
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To: Drango; All
Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

Date of last work unit 2006-01-10 06:08:04
Active CPUs within 50 days 400
Team Id 36120
Grand Score 471556 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 3927 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 583 of 42136
Home Page http://www.freerepublic.com
Fast Teampage URL http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html

76 posted on 01/10/2006 6:08:22 AM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: soccer_maniac

400 CPUs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

198 folding members (although they may be a few duplicates)!!!

Can we get 500 CPUs???????


77 posted on 01/10/2006 6:09:45 AM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: texas booster

I downloaded the software and started running it last weekend but I have only gotten about 40% through the 1st WU. Does that sound right?

I guess I should say I have it running on an old 533mhz machine.


78 posted on 01/10/2006 7:08:35 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (John 6: 31-69)
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To: Straight Vermonter
If it is a big WU then yes. One of the machines I have running is a Pentium 3 500MHz running F@H and it takes about 9 days. I have it set to get deadlineless WUs.


79 posted on 01/10/2006 7:19:31 AM PST by ezsmoke
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To: Straight Vermonter

I have the same 533 mhz. I had a unit that took nearly 13 days [240+ pts.]. Now I have a unit that will take about 10 days, also 240+ pts.


80 posted on 01/10/2006 9:48:22 AM PST by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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