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FR Folding@Home Project Update - We're are in the TOP250 teams and still climbing!!
soccer_maniac | 2-12-2006 | soccer_maniac

Posted on 02/12/2006 1:46:32 PM PST by soccer_maniac

Welcome to the new FreeRepublic folding@home thread. The previous thread has gotten too large, so we move on to yet another.

While this folding@home team is not officially sanctioned by Free Republic, it's 250+ 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 241st place, having moved up from 1200th place, a week earlier, and is now in the top 100 teams, for daily contributions.

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 8 folding threads)


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KEYWORDS: boinc; competition; computers; computing; cpu; cpus; dc; distributed; folding; foldingathome; foldinghome; folds; laundry; mutants; mutations; proteins; seti; setihome; standord; supercomputers; workunits; xmen
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To: texas booster; All
Welcome new team members!


141 posted on 02/15/2006 5:52:11 PM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I just bought a P4-3000HT, 200 GB SATA, dual layer DVDRW etc for 299.98, from the CompUSA business site. Deals like that come and go all the time, but this is better than most.

I have to turn it over to a friend who needs one, but only after I understand F@H on a dual core P4HT. I run mostly AMDs and need to learn the ways of Pentium.

And since the console version only reports the CPU usage as 50%, I will just leave it borged for the new owners.


142 posted on 02/15/2006 6:25:26 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: Senator Bedfellow; soccer_maniac
there are other teams ahead of us that will also overtake them

The Senator is right, it is mathematically possible.

Unfortunately, the maniac is right as well....I DU'd the numbers.

143 posted on 02/15/2006 6:28:11 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Bush lied, people dyed....their fingers.)
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To: texas booster

Thanks!


144 posted on 02/15/2006 7:09:17 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (John 6: 31-69)
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To: SC Swamp Fox
The graphs in reply #16 have been updated.
145 posted on 02/15/2006 7:10:03 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Bush lied, people dyed....their fingers.)
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To: StrictTime

Welcome aboard!


146 posted on 02/15/2006 7:24:36 PM PST by Uriah_lost (http://www.wingercomics.com/d/20051205.html)
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To: soccer_maniac

I wonder how many of those "inactive" folders are just real slow machines?

Some machines are taking 2 weeks to fold one wu.

:O)

P


147 posted on 02/15/2006 7:58:30 PM PST by papasmurf (Join Free Republic Folders. Folding@Home Team # 36120)
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To: Malsua


not that I'll read this. Wake up brother, put more machines in.


148 posted on 02/15/2006 8:00:47 PM PST by Malsua
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To: Malsua
Wake up brother, put more machines in.

Dude? Are you haranguing yourself?

149 posted on 02/15/2006 9:04:40 PM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: papasmurf
I wonder how many of those "inactive" folders are just real slow machines?

You could be right. If you look at the chart for active folders you'll see a spike on 2/15, another on 2/5, and another on 1/26, which is every ten days. So maybe we have a bunch of machines that happen to be completing 10-day WUs at the same time? I have some machines that are doing the same thing--they just spiked a couple of days ago.

150 posted on 02/16/2006 12:05:25 AM PST by TheMightyQuinn
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To: TheMightyQuinn

Every 10 days--that would be my processors, to name a couple. That comes to about 500 pts. Tinker core units take forever.


151 posted on 02/16/2006 4:52:33 AM PST by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: Clara Lou

I'm doing a tinker core unit right now. 7.5 minutes per frame! I was getting 3.5 minutes per frame on the other two I completed last week!


152 posted on 02/16/2006 4:54:58 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Join the FR folding team!! http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120)
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To: ovrtaxt

Well, to say "I'm jeaous" would be an understatement. Were they 400-frame units?


153 posted on 02/16/2006 5:01:23 AM PST by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: Clara Lou

No, 500. They were some sort of collagen molecule. I just checked the display, I'm getting 7mins 40 secs per frame.

I have a 6 month old Dell XPS 400. Not really a blazing speed demon, but it's a decent computer.


154 posted on 02/16/2006 5:04:00 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Join the FR folding team!! http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Great. So, you gonna help us whip the snot out of the Democratic Underground?


155 posted on 02/16/2006 5:16:19 AM PST by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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To: Drango
Dude? Are you haranguing yourself?

Yeah, I was sending a note to my future self, which now, is my past self.

156 posted on 02/16/2006 5:30:29 AM PST by Malsua
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To: Malsua; All

Congrats on all achieved member milestones:

http://fahstats.com/tm.php?t=36120


157 posted on 02/16/2006 7:10:41 AM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: Malsua

If you've got access to additional rigs, plug them in :)


158 posted on 02/16/2006 7:11:34 AM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: houeto

Sorry, my home computer, connected by a single phone line through the trees, is not going to be of any use to you all.

Good Folding though!

SS


159 posted on 02/16/2006 8:00:21 AM PST by SwinneySwitch (FReepers-beyond your expectations!)
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To: soccer_maniac
Hey, I'm thinking of upgrading my motherboard/chip. I don't play games on my computers, so I never really considered any type of high-power hardware.

However, with this folding taking so long on my machine, I'm thinking I should get something with a little more zots.

I was thinking of a AMD Althon X2 3800+ 2.0 Ghz combined with a Asus motherboard. I'm not going to overclock - just don't have time of an extra hobby. But, any recommendations on bang-for-the-buck cpu/mobo upgrades?

Anybody know what F@H compares best to with classic benchmarks; CPU Whetstone, CPU Drystone, Sandra-integer or floating? As found on www.tomshardware.com.

Thanks,
160 posted on 02/16/2006 8:54:36 AM PST by Rate_Determining_Step (US Military - Draining the Swamp of Terrorism since 2001!)
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