Posted on 02/21/2006 10:13:18 AM PST by soccer_maniac
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
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 204th place, having reached more than 2,000,000 points!
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)
"Speaking of protein, did you know that every day your fellow FReepers are contributing freely to medical research"...
Now, that was a segue!
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Anything to broaden our user base.
Of course, we might get a few ne'er do wells, but I remember Groucho's words:
I wouldn't be a part of any club that would have me.
What to talk about?....Scratches head...drums fingers on table...furrows brow...flicks lint off 'puter screen. What to talk about?...(small light bulb goes on overhead)
Hey, we are about to soon make the artifical 50,000 24hr average on overclockers http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&srt=3 This will turn us a different shade of red.
We also reached 1,000,000 points for the month of February!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
Well, that might attract some more folders to our F@H team.
Congrats to "davemaher" for moving up to 4th place based on avg. daily production.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=175583
9AM update - 8,473 points!
Well, I just figured out why I've gone flat for the last couple of days; hubby's laptop had an error message that locked up the whole works and F@H was unable to deliver/get a new WU for the last couple of days. Having 1 out of my 4 CPUs take a mini-vacation means I was down to 75% of normal capacity. Now I have a hard climb back under 30th place. Oh well.....
"Carry on..."
/ tim gunn
"Speaking of big secrets, check out the trouble I caused over here ..."
hmmm - idle hands are the tools in the devil's workshop.
Seems like some scientists have too much idle time (and proteins) on their hands.
On the other hand, idle CPU's cure disease by folding proteins, proving idle computers are better for humanity than idle scientists, LOL.
;^D
RT
Didn't read the link, just the above. I'm thinking "He went to DUmmieLand and told the something like we're all quitting or something....". Then I clicked the link.... ROFLMAO !!! Made my day. Thanks for the laugh !!!!
Well, that's a list I'll never see my name on. lolol
That's terrific!
That's terrific!
Oh sure, make me add yet ANOTHER 20. ;)
The latest should be kicking in within the next 18 hours or so.
I feel so inadequate :(
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I feel so inadequate :(
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Eh, look at it this way. Each one is a problem child and while it's nice they are folding, each needs updates(that I write), each has issues, crashes, hardware failures. I look at it this way, at LEAST these damn things can do something for me in a small way. They make my company millions every year. I've just got environmental issues with dust particals(primarily cardboard) so I don't need to taunt that grizzly bear.
I want the group of 20 or so I added thursday to "bake" as it were, then I'll toss more in. The first group of 17 were successful(5 of which are personal use machines), but those weren't in the worst of it. The ones just added are, so I have to be cautious, that's all. I also have to deal with operators shutting them off, which last night, they shut off 8 of them. I corrected that behavior today.
I know how you feel. I've found, except for the lab that I control (I'm the head instructor), my personal machines, and the servers, that I've got to crank CPU down to around 60-70% so there isn't any noticeable lag, when shifting from F@H to real world stuff.
I've got a big sign on the door to the lab - DO NOT TURN COMPUTERS OFF - running Distributed computing simulation, and guest instructors still turn them off. *aaaaarrrrggghhh*
While I've not seen that particular issue, it's been on equipment that is really so much slower than the computer, you'd be hard to notice. I've only added FAH to one of my most high-tech machines that drive Yag lasers this week. There's another 45 of those if it comes to that, but seconds of lag per minute per hour over years turns into dollars in lost productivity that becomes big dollars. We have rates of production that must be met, any loss won't be tolerated so I've got to watch that one like a hawk. I've got it at 100%,we'll see how it goes. I'm sorta hoping there's no change but it's not something I'm willing to try just to boost my numbers.
There's bazillions of calculations in figuring out the vectors for a laser scan head for a particular imprint. Pausing even a little will be a bad thing. I probably will settle on those at 50% ultimately, we'll see. I'm not going to have your numbers of CPUs though. I try :)
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