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FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're in the Top 75 of all teams with 9.75 Million points
Stanford University's Folding@Home Stats page ^ | 08/02/2006 | Texas Booster

Posted on 08/02/2006 5:16:19 PM PDT by texas booster

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

Our FreeRepublic team of 358 members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing have banded together to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via distributed computing, millions of computers around the world, contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).

Currently, the team is in 75th place (with 1009 active CPUs - 55,700 completed Work Units and 9.75 million points).

This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 20 folding threads)


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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 does it work?: 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 do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?:
1.) Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (Folding@home Client Download). 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 team FreeRepublic!
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.

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List of Relevant Folding Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!


Another Folding Clip


Folding@home Client Download


FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats


Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic


Another Stats Page


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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos


Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11 #12


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Other Useful Stuff - Links


How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits


Stat Image Generator


Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software

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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads


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1 posted on 08/02/2006 5:16:25 PM PDT by texas booster
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To: 1066AD; 11Bush; A.Hun; abner; AbsoluteGrace; Advil; aft_lizard; ahayes; Alexander Rubin; ...
New thread so we can watch the clock tick down to 10,000,000 points produced by the newest big team on the server!

Go Team Ronaldus Maximus!

2 posted on 08/02/2006 5:19:10 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster

Wow!


BTTT!


3 posted on 08/02/2006 5:21:48 PM PDT by fanfan (WAW - Women Against Weenification!)
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To: texas booster; Dr. Scarpetta

Check out this thread by Dr. Scarpetta on the role of vitamin B6 on protein folding:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1676666/posts




"Vitamin B6 is essential for metabolism of protein and proper immune and nervous system function, and is found in both meat and vegetables.

There is evidence that high levels of the amino acid homocysteine could cause damage to brain cells. To see whether higher intake of folate and vitamins B6 and B12, which can reduce homocysteine levels, would also reduce Parkinson's risk, researchers followed 5,289 men and women aged 55 and older who were free of the disease at the study's outset.

During nearly 10 years of follow up, 72 people developed Parkinson's disease, Dr. Monique M. B. Breteler of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam and colleagues report in the journal Neurology.

The researchers found no association between consumption of B12 or folic acid and risk of developing the disease. However, the more B6 people consumed, the lower their risk."




Bump to eating more veggies and meat!


4 posted on 08/02/2006 5:23:24 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster

We finally passed those Tasmanians!


5 posted on 08/02/2006 5:24:13 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: All
My shameless self-promotion for this thread:

If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.

Available features include:

Beware. It's addictive.
6 posted on 08/02/2006 5:26:26 PM PDT by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
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To: HKMk23

You're ahead by 7 places!

:-)


7 posted on 08/02/2006 5:27:21 PM PDT by fanfan (WAW - Women Against Weenification!)
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To: All

I finally managed to get off my butt and write a stats page for the projects.

Instead of being taken to FAH's project summary page when you click on a project, you're taken to a project page showing stats based on our team's experiences with that project.

I'll be adding some more in depth analysis as I think of some, and get more ambitious.


8 posted on 08/02/2006 5:30:56 PM PDT by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
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To: texas booster

Folding for the Gipper!


9 posted on 08/02/2006 5:31:15 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Drango

Congrats on breaking 50,000 points. That is great using only three systems.


10 posted on 08/02/2006 5:33:44 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: Straight Vermonter

Good eyes. I didn't even notice that they dropped off our radar screen.

I am hoping that we can add enough active (and fast) systems to break into the Top 20 of daily folding team production. With Klutz coming back to life, just a couple of new folders would secure 60,000 points each day.


11 posted on 08/02/2006 5:38:09 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster
My favorite DU folding@home post:

"FREEPers team losing CPUs -- they lost 25 CPUs since May 4--The wheels are coming off the FRmobile." .

12 posted on 08/02/2006 5:41:22 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: texas booster
That is great using only three systems

And slow systems they are! Just goes to show that you don't need the latest and greatest to "fold". Most of our team points come from people with just one rig "folding" 24/7. Thanks gang!

13 posted on 08/02/2006 5:42:14 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: texas booster; All
After several week of fighting with an issue, I'm about to drop my laptop from Folding.

When it finishes a WU, it seems to be able to transmit the results back with no problem... but it sometimes sits for days trying to download a new WU to work on.

I've tried an uninsall and reinstall several times to no effect. I can ping the server that shows up in the log file, but it still refuses to download a new WU.

Any ideas??? or else I'll just pull it from this machine. Normal wireless access works fine, but for some reason, it now refuses to download new work.

14 posted on 08/02/2006 5:43:57 PM PDT by ken in texas (come fold with us.... team #36120)
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To: JCEccles; soccer_maniac; SC Swamp Fox

I loved that!

CorporateMike seems to be laying low since that little comment.

BTW, the last DU thread listed about is not visible.

"This topic is archived."

Maybe someone here might happen to know why ...


15 posted on 08/02/2006 5:46:30 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster

Thanks for the ping. I'll have another box up soon, hopefully. My only problem with F@H, thus far, has been being assigned outrageous WUs and a little bit of a heating problem, which was corrected by adjusting CPU max usage.

And the "display" doesn't really convey any useful info. What the heck am I doing?


16 posted on 08/02/2006 5:47:42 PM PDT by IslandJeff
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To: ken in texas

I have three laptops folding for the cause, and none have any major issues. I do have one laptop (#130 on the charts) that is very sporadic about finishing WUs and reporting them, but I blame that on the user.

Are you folding GUI or service?


17 posted on 08/02/2006 5:51:51 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: JCEccles


While Klutz is the big offender there(school break), I'm partially to blame as well. At least 10 of mine have been shunted. I'll get everything back up by september and add in at least another 15 or so.


18 posted on 08/02/2006 5:53:53 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: IslandJeff

I use the display showing "Ball and Stick" to new users so they can better understand what we mean by folding - a three to six foot protein has to fit in a cell and still accomplish work.

Otherwise I set systems to run F@H as a service so that I get a few more points.


19 posted on 08/02/2006 5:55:12 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster

Not sure I really even need the display - any way to run it as a TSR in a text environment? Not sure what you meant by "service" (as opposed to System App?)


20 posted on 08/02/2006 5:57:50 PM PDT by IslandJeff
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