(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - We're in the TOP 850!!!

systematic ^ | 1-2-2006 | systematic

[systematic]

New thread for this week.

Congrats to all new members who joined this week!

We've made excellent progress so far and have smoked the DUmmies and Kossacks. Let's keep folding!

[dfwddr]

GOC sounds like a good name

I like it, fits me to a T. Apologies to those who either aren't, or don't want to admit to it.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Don't ask my kids, and I can deny it, :-).

[dfwddr]

Don't ask my kids, and I can deny it, :-).

Your kids been talking to mine ????????? LOL

When they really try to rub it in, I play it back on them, and they usually shut up. They refuse to play any trivia game with me.

[kingu]

I started to put together the graphical instructions, but I made a mess of them (what else is new?) Best suggestion I have is to copy the client into a new directory (just the FAH504-console.exe file) off of the C:\ (such as Folding @ Home) and run the client from a cmd screen (start->run, cmd, cd c:\folding @ home, FAH504-console.exe,) and re-inputting your name and team number. If you install it as a service, next time you restart windows, it will automatically load the software in the background.

Or get the graphical client, but I don't like it because it doesn't fold as fast (but makes pretty pictures...)

Sorry. :( Getting the old workunit to work is a maybe at best, and it'd be better if you're folding during that time instead of messing around.

[Paladin2]

I'd just like to point out that the FAHstats website still has much better team member info than the Extremeoverclocker web site, even in the face of those who proclaimed that the EOC site was vastly superior.

For a good reading on the current situation [at least for a couple of days until EOC gets some detailed history built up] go to:

fahstats

and poke around.

The team is still crusin' though I'll point out that we are passing through the burnt-out remainders of former supernovas. Lots of teams seem to have had many active members, but interest waned and only a few continue to try to move the old hulks.

[Petronski]

Grumpy Old Conservatives is a terrible name, certainly has nothing to do with Ronald Reagan: probably the most genial President we've ever had.


In fact, grumpy conservative is an unfavorable stereotype and a really terrible idea.

[Paladin2]

The first time you run the console use the -local and -config switches. Then after that, only the -local is required.

[Petronski]

Anyone asking about why Stanford might need help with CPU time should explain where they can get 203 Teraflops for nothing.

Client statistics by OS

OS Type	Current TFLOPS	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	173	182011	1299961
Mac OS X	6	10576	82419
Linux	24	19716	162075
Other	0	0	0
Total	203	212303	1544455

Total number of donators = 521319

Last updated at Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:48:55

DB date 2006-01-03 16:09:08

Active CPUS have returned WUs within 50 days.

TFLOPS is actual flops from MD, not the peak values from CPU specs.

[processing please hold]

Understood. I would like to thank you and all the other fellows who offered me instructions.

I'll give it a go with my fingers crossed. :-)

[dfwddr]

Please accept my apologies for trying to inject a little humor into what otherwise has been an otherwise miserable thread. I will use the <-sarcasm > tags next time.

[Petronski]

Well, sometimes I'm dumb as a post. Chalk this one up with all the rest.

[Stentor]

In fact, grumpy conservative is an unfavorable stereotype and a really terrible idea.

LOL.

[Senator Bedfellow]

Best suggestion I have is to copy the client into a new directory (just the FAH504-console.exe file) off of the C:\ (such as Folding @ Home) and run the client from a cmd screen (start->run, cmd, cd c:\folding @ home, FAH504-console.exe,) and re-inputting your name and team number. If you install it as a service, next time you restart windows, it will automatically load the software in the background.

That is my suggestion as well. On the plus side, once you put your username and team name in again, it will download the same work unit you started on before and start on it again. Definitely say YES when asked if you want to run it as a service - that way, if your power goes on the fritz again or you shut down your machine for any reason, it'll automatically restart itself with no intervention from you - in fact, you won't even know it's there, since it won't show the DOS window the next time it starts up.

[Klutz Dohanger]

In fact, grumpy conservative is an unfavorable stereotype and a really terrible idea. That's why I've conceded, and stated in another post, that I support whatever the consensus is. It was put forth in a joking context, and was certainly never meant to be a serious contender for the final name. The only thing that is certain right now, is that in a very short time, we'll be known as something besides the Free Republic Folders... which, I might remind you, also is an unfavorable stereotype on the home boards, of at least two of our competitors... :)

[Petronski]

Roger that!

[papasmurf]

Two things I have always wanted to do on FR. One is post THIS...

This is hugh...I'm series. We stuned their beebers!!!


The other will have to wait. :O-)


"O)

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[kingu]

Well, sometimes I'm dumb as a post. Chalk this one up with all the rest.

Chaking it up to you being a grumpy old conservative. :) (I still like the Reagan idea. Fold one for the Gipper!)

[Petronski]

As I understand it, if I run the graphical version, but I close the window that does all the drawing, it runs as fast as the command line version. Is that true?

[Petronski]

Actually, I have a long history of being cranky. Somehow that feels more abrasive than mere grumpiness.

[Paladin2]

Interesting...

Looking at the average performance of the computers running the three operating systems shows the following relative performances:

Apple OSX = 1

Windoze = 1.67

Linux = 2.15

Donning fire suit for the potential ensuing firefight.