Posted on 01/29/2006 8:39:58 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 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
But you did it so well!
Were you using a Pentium? I can't remember which model, but one specific make of (I think it was) Pentium II, but maybe III had a finite life span, measured (roughly) in usage, due to a design flaw. Of course, that was quickly fixed in the newer models once discovered. The circuits had been too close together, and generated heat which damaged the comp with high usage.
Desktop computers normally don't have a finite lifetime, beyond becoming obsolete in terms of system prereqs. I have a Mac plus from the mid or late 1980s in my house that I still use for kicks and giggles sometimes. Laptops too, assuming you take proper care of the battery (running it down and reloading it when you should; my comp sci friends tell me once a month is more than adequate).
This shouldn't affect the (non-existent) lifespan of your comp in any way, as far as I know. But ask a hardcore tech-geek here, and you can get a better answer, if that doesn't satisfy you. ;)
--> All your folds are belong to us! <--
Why, thank you!
Always looking for any excuse to geek out.
I don't know how to do a screen cap, but I have ...
Donator Fanfan
Team number 36120
Finished WU's 0
Waiting for core step# 58
This is another "Please consider joining the team" bump.
Feel free to put it on all of your home computers.
Neato!
DU: Reason to be (very) optomistic, re: catching and bypassing freepers
In otherwords, we are off to a better start than the freepers and they know it. Their number of new members and particpants has leveled out and ours are still climbing.
These guys continue to grasp at any metric that shows that they have a chance. "The exit polls are more accurate then actual results!" lol
I use FahMon and really like it, but is there a way to check it over the Internet? I'd love to be able to check Folding progress on my home computers from work or on the road - like Egon obviously can with his web page (nice work!).
Sorry, I was a little overzealous. Egon's method definitely works over the internet. FahMon probably could be rigged to run over the internet, but I wouldn't know how to attempt it.
I meant "anywhere" on my home network.
The easiest way is to share the F@H folder on each machine, then mount those folders as network shares from your "main" machine. Point FahMon at those shared folders, and you're in bidness. ;)
But would you open all that to the internet so FahMon would work from outside your home network? I wouldn't.
Date of last work unit | 2006-01-29 18:14:34 |
Active CPUs within 50 days | 591 |
Team Id | 36120 |
Grand Score | 1054269 (certificate) |
Work Unit Count | 8167 (certificate) |
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) | 325 of 42456 |
Home Page | http://www.freerepublic.com |
Fast Teampage URL | http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html Team members |
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I wouldn't open it up, but aren't we talking about monitoring from inside the network?
Hangemhigh wanted something outside the home network, like Egon's solution.
Mine's a pretty simple ASP/VB solution. I can make the code available if anyone's interested.
Sounds like a plan :)
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