(Vanity) Free Republic Folders Search for a Cure for Cancer, Alzheimer's (and beat down DU!)

Stanford University ^ | 01/29/2006 | 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 550 processors and 232 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over a 40 computers now from GetLoaded.com, a trucking support website, all contributing while their owners ply our freeways keeping the nation moving.

New members of the week include:

Mike_Medved (Thank you very much for your support)
Zach_Erskine
Route66
OldsDon'tFloat (who is this!? - can't link to a FR screen name. Must be from MA)
glockrocks
Mrs_1066AD (thanks for the family involvement)
Thom_Pain
Dplowdude
Egon
holly_go_rightly
c505ber
Derllak (award for the fastest new folder, streaking up the boards)(Fastest Folding Streaker Award?)

Even more impressive, our team now boasts 145 members who have folded at least 1,000 points. That is more than the entire number of folders for our erstwhile left-wing environazi competitors!

Free Republic Folding@Home Stats Page

On the global front, Free Republic Folders is now listed at # 326. We will be in the Top 300 on Wednesday!

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 1,000,000 points so far and have folded over 8,030 WU. We will soon 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

[texas booster]

WooHoo!!! ONE MILLION points!. That is a spectacular milestone for such a new team as ours. Many of the teams we are passing have been folding for a couple of years. We accomplished the goal only TWO Months after systematic started pinging everyone to join!

[texas booster]

Pinging the BIG list of FReeper Folders!

[Drango]

Newbies....Want to know more about "folding"?
WATCH THIS

http://short-media.com/files/thraxfoldingflash/

Then JOIN us!

[Drango]

Wanna start folding? It's VERY EASY. Download the software here. http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

For most people it will be the XP 5.03 version. Put in a name, which can be your FReeper handle. Put in our team number 36120. It's as easy as that.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Can I buy a clue?

[A.Hun]

Makes you proud to be a freeper! Whoo-hoo!

[Flyer]

A bump for my computer doing something useful. I knew there had to be something other than hanging out at FR and deleting spam that this thing was good for.

Flyer - A SETI Boinc-ing Folder!

[texas booster]

I have decided to keep a couple of systems folding for other users. My points won't increase as fast, but for those with only one system I hope it will be encouraging.

Last weeks' winners are David_G_1 and MathyKathy. I wanted David_G_1 to get over 1,000 points, and I chose MathyKathy for a great folding name.

I know that David_G_1 is not a FReeper, and I can't find MathyKathy as a screen name.

Whoever you are, ENJOY!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[texas booster]

Folding@Home is a small program that only runs when your computer is idle. It uses these waste CPU cycles to accomplish something more than pretty fish screen savers.

Folding@Home helps researchers discover more about proteins to enable better treatments of diseases such as cancer, BSE and Alzheimer's.

Surf the net and cure cancer. Makes for a winning combo!

[kAcknor]

First I've heard of this. Used to be on the SETI@Home team until they went Bionic only, that thing screwed with my system.

I'm in.

[HangnJudge]

I guess this is as good a place to ask a question as any

I had got out of folding for a while
When I restarted recently, although my user name didn't change
We were reset back to zero

Any idea how to get re-integrated?

...............................credit........units........team
1 HangnJudge.....240282.......4917............18
2 HangnJudge.........2612...........15......36120

Not That I want to take away credits from any team
I'd just like to get my personal unit counts "re-integrated"

[Alexander Rubin]

You really should get the ping lists involved in this, guys. :D

Come on! Roll up those virtual sleeves!

[texas booster]

We have requested to have names in a single team changed, corrected or moved. Won't be done.

In short, the team at Stanford is way too busy to move points from one team to another.

Thank you for restarting and joining us.

[Thom Pain]

Unable to get new work packet this AM. and presume completed WU can't be sent. Anyone know what's going on? (The home page was inop earlier also)

[Drango]

Welcome...the F@H team here is a lot more active than the old SETI group. It's a lot of fun and rather addictive as you watch your points and the team points climb. Check out a few of the links above and here is a link to the old thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1562606/posts

[MarkeyD]

Sure it's not your computer? Did you reboot. I was having the same problem and it ended up being network issues on my end.

[Drango]

It might be the servers...hard to tell. Can you get out to other sites?

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/serverstat.html

[Thom Pain]

It appears to have resolved itself (car to the mechanic syndrome). Thanks for taking the time to help.

[Egon]

This is fun! Been going a week and I'm closing in on the top 100!

You're right-- it's definitely addictive, but it's a pain-in-the-butt to see what your processors are doing. Strictly for the geek factor, I felt compelled to write this page to keep track of what my processors are doing.