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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: SC Swamp Fox

I'm co-opting my husband's PC. Won't he be surprised!


41 posted on 02/12/2006 5:04:16 PM PST by ahayes
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To: Drango
He joined our team back in December, but he keeps shutting off the GUI while doing other things and forgets to turn it back on. He is one of our team's "inactive" members.

I unistalled the GUI version, installed the console version as a service (with my user name) and shared the directory to my home network so I can monitor it from my main desktop.

42 posted on 02/12/2006 5:12:05 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Bush lied, people dyed....their fingers.)
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To: ahayes
I'm co-opting my husband's PC. Won't he be surprised!

If done correctly, he won't even know. : )

43 posted on 02/12/2006 5:19:43 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Bush lied, people dyed....their fingers.)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

Unfortunately he's pretty computer-savvy so I think he'd notice! Besides, he'd be wondering why it's even on. He's mostly using his Mac laptop lately--my next target!


44 posted on 02/12/2006 5:30:26 PM PST by ahayes
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To: dfwddr
Game away !!! F@H will back off so it won't interfere

Not necessarily, I just discovered.

I don't do a lot of game playing, but I just tried to play Total Annihilation. The game kept minimizing after only a couple of full-screen sessions. I finally narrowed it down to F@H (the GUI version). Even pausing work didn't do it. I actually had to quit the utility before the game would operate correctly.

Might be bacause it's an older game. Might be because I'm not using the console version of F@H on this machine. Who knows. Just thought I'd bring it up, though, just in case someone else experiences it.

Done playing now-- F@H is back up and running...

45 posted on 02/12/2006 5:51:17 PM PST by Egon (I don't want edible meat, I want edible animals. - CygnusXI)
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To: Egon

Try the console. I think that OpenGL display really kills some video cards.


46 posted on 02/12/2006 6:13:05 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: soccer_maniac

I've got two clients online now. I should have a third in the next month or two.


47 posted on 02/12/2006 6:16:12 PM PST by Reactionary (The Moonbats Need an Enema)
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To: soccer_maniac

What's a good monitoring program?


48 posted on 02/12/2006 6:29:59 PM PST by PCBMan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: soccer_maniac

Ok, I joined. Please add me to your ping list!


49 posted on 02/12/2006 6:39:39 PM PST by StrictTime (You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em.)
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To: PCBMan

FahMon is very good for monitoring one or more machines over a local network. It gives you % done, estimated finish time, project name & number, points available, and other useful stuff.

http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/index.php/Main/HomePage


50 posted on 02/12/2006 7:07:45 PM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: soccer_maniac
just added another cpu....
in the immortal word of Ric Flair ( or is it in the words of the immortal Ric Flair ?)


WOOOOOOO !
51 posted on 02/12/2006 8:03:09 PM PST by stylin19a (God does not apply to your alloted time, the hours spent playing golf.)
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To: Egon

I also noticed that on older games my display jumps between the game and the desktop when running the GUI version. While the game runs OK F@H cannot adjust the PixelFormat and abends.

I now turn it off before older games, and run the console version on another system.


52 posted on 02/12/2006 8:27:49 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: ahayes

All your co-opters are belong to us.


53 posted on 02/12/2006 9:18:08 PM PST by Bobibutu
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To: soccer_maniac

BTTT


54 posted on 02/13/2006 3:07:51 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: soccer_maniac

I just realized that there is another Team Ronald Reagan

http://fahstats.com/tr.php?t=616


55 posted on 02/13/2006 6:53:49 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: SC Swamp Fox
Our growth rate has turned negative :( We need more new members


56 posted on 02/13/2006 7:02:07 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: soccer_maniac

Just looked at the team. Consists of two active folders and 7 total.

Its nice to have folders other than FReepers helping the cause.


57 posted on 02/13/2006 7:04:28 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster
"I now turn it off before older games, and run the console version on another system."

I have the GUI client running on all three of my computers and it also interferes with BF2, which is a newer game. My daughter has the same issue when using Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor. We simply close the F@H program and reopen them when we are done.
58 posted on 02/13/2006 7:27:40 AM PST by DocRock
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To: DocRock

I keep the console version on most systems and the GUI on my fastest system. Maybe I need another fast system to play solitaire on ...


59 posted on 02/13/2006 7:53:22 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster; Egon; ahayes; DocRock
Game away !!! F@H will back off so it won't interfere

Sorry to all for the misinformation. My daughter and my wife both play a few games om their computers, and I haven't heard any complaints, so I assumed there would be no problems. The only game I play is MOHAA, and I haven't played it in months. I guess I'll dig it out and try it to see what happens. Sorry all.

60 posted on 02/13/2006 7:56:16 AM PST by dfwddr (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword:folding.)
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