(Vanity) Make a Difference! Free Republic Folders Search for a Cure for Cancer, Alzheimer's Disease

Stanford University ^ | 01/22/2006 | Texas Booster

[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 512 processors and 220 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over a dozen folders now from GetLoaded.com all popping onto the hit list this week.

We now have ten members who have contributed at least 10,000 points each. Klutz Dohanger, Malsua, Ken in Texas, Andrewksu, LSimpson, kingu, Uriah, arderenne and rach_FR have all reached this milestone. Papasmurf and Senator Bedfellow will join them this next week. Great job!

Even more impressive, our team now boasts 132 members who have folded at least 1,000 points. That is more than the entire number of CPUs folding for our erstwhile left-wing environazi competitors!

Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page

On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 401. We will be in the Top 400 on Sunday!

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

Top 300 by February
Top 250 by the end of the February

We have 800,000 points so far and have folded over 6,400 WU. We will reach an exalted mark of folding a million points per month, each and every month! Fantastic!

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

Extreme Overclockers Stats for Free Republic

Want to see why we fold?

Papasmurf: Think you don't make a difference?

[MNJohnnie]

I just started doing this. I usually just leave my system up but I need to reboot since I installed new software. Will the Folding restart automatically or do I need to restart it?

[Drango]

http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
For the people who don't understand post #141 (or should I say post # 10001101 )

[Drango]

I am going to have to turn in my current iBook...Will I get partial credit?

Sorry no. But you will get a faster 'puter!

[Drango]

Ooooppppssss I see you posted a translator earlier. I gotta read ALL the thread before I post :-)

[Klutz Dohanger]

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[Drango]

Hey! No smacktalk about us liberal arts grads! (After getting an MBA, I found going back to my local CC and taking A+, and CCNA classes as beneficial as my 6 years of college)

[Drango]

Your results are on the bigboard! Also welcome to Mrs_1066AD, Thom_Pain, Dplowdude. Happy foldin'

[SC Swamp Fox]

I need to restart it?

If you selected the option to "Run F@H as a Service" when you installed, you will not have to restart the program manually, it will start by itself. If you are running Windows you will see the icon appear in your system tray near the clock.

[MNJohnnie]

Thanks for the info Mr Marion! :-)

[BreitbartSentMe]

Sorry about the margins guys, I just hit abuse on myself.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Here's what I was trying to say...
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[Drango]

Yeah I just asked for my post 141 to be removed 'cause it went toooooooo long.

[BreitbartSentMe]

...I just hit abuse on myself.

This just sounds wrong...

[Drango]

Felt good...

[SC Swamp Fox]

It is obvious that the knuckle-draggers over at DU can't understand even basic math so I decide to draw them a couple of pictures. Since they are whining that we had a HUGH head-start, I plotted both team's point totals since creation. 32 days for DU, 56 days for FR. I have to give the DUers a bit of credit, they are growing at a good pace, but just barely better then our team founders were doing before our big Christmas expansion. They will have to pick up the pace if they hope to take a run at us.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Use the link in #135.

[ken in texas]

I'm not clear on the point that Pande was trying to make. Sometimes overclocking, and hyperthreading can cause errors in the results files, causing those workunits to be rejected, BUT, if you have a hyperthreaded CPU turning out two good workunits in 3 days, as opposed to that same CPU turning out one good workunit in 2.5 days, which is better for science?

Pande's first point was that Hyperthreading does not give you two full CPUs. From his observations, running two consoles on a HT processor provides you about 20% greater throughput versus running one folding program.

I think his issue was more predicated on the fact that running two consoles on an HT machine slows down the progress for an individual WU.

Suppose they release 10,000 new WUs for processing, which will average 2 to 4 days to get the results back. The WUs that are grabbed by HT machines running two consoles will be returned over 3-6 days, delaying their work in evaluating the results. His goal is to get the results sent back as soon as possible. But, he also understands that teams are trying to get points, so he won't complain if the results are delayed a bit because you're exploiting Hyper-Threading.

[VeniVidiVici]

Hyperthreading is still a single cpu.

If we have one program using the cpu 100%, hyperthreading gains us very little. There is little idle time for the logical cpu to spend executing.

Since Folding is a single-threaded process, it wouldn't matter. Two consoles would be tough to gain anything on a HT box. I would think 20% is very optimistic. But they know how their program executes :-)