FR Folding@Home Project Update - We're in the Top 190 teams (A Tribute to Ronald Reagan)

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[soccer_maniac]

Folding@Home FAQ for new users:

What is Folding@Home? A Stanford University project to find out how proteins fold.

Why it's important: Proteins folding wrong causes all kinds of diseases, like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and forms of cancer. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. Through Folding@home, scientists now have the horsepower to study the mechanics of protein folding. With its ability to share the workload among hundred of thousands of computers economically, Folding@home can help scientists understand how proteins snap, or don’t, into their predestined shapes — and may help to explain the origins of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and apparently unrelated diseases. We're fueling research that could end all that.

How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.

Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.

How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?: 1.)Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (see link below). Type in your desired username. 2) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic! 3) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.

How can my computer help? Even if he were given exclusive access to all of the world’s supercomputers, Standford still wouldn’t have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people’s desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.

There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.

[soccer_maniac]

List of Updated Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!

Another Folding Clip

Folding@home Client Download

FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats

Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic

Another Stats Page

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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos

Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8

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Other Useful Stuff - Links

How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits

Stat Image Generator

Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software

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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #current

[soccer_maniac]

Last 7 Months Production
Month	Points	WUs
02.06	1,177,836	6,877
01.06	894,120	6,690
12.05	154,578	1,449
11.05	12,451	128
10.05	0	0
09.05	0	0
08.05	0	0
07.05	0	0

Last 7 Weeks Production
Week	Points	WUs
02.26.06	64,011	297
02.19.06	367,590	1,850
02.12.06	297,280	1,788
02.05.06	294,882	1,897
01.29.06	277,792	1,940
01.22.06	218,951	1,521
01.15.06	200,818	1,467
01.08.06	183,009	1,410

Last 7 Days Production
Day	Points	WUs
02.27.06	14,684	69
02.26.06	49,327	228
02.25.06	66,461	298
02.24.06	55,343	264
02.23.06	50,103	227
02.22.06	47,104	243
02.21.06	53,996	284
02.20.06	48,595	286

Last 24 Hours Production
Time	Points	WUs
02.27, 6am	7,485	37
02.27, 3am	7,199	32
02.27, 12am	5,698	26
02.26, 9pm	7,336	32
02.26, 6pm	7,980	34
02.26, 3pm	7,268	34
02.26, 12pm	5,429	26
02.26, 9am	4,891	24

Users are color coded based on 24 hour average production.
Color codes are as follows: 0 / 1+ / 100+ / 200+ / 400+ / 800+ / 1.2k+ / 1.6k+

Top 20 Producers
Rank Team	User Name	Points 24hr Avg	Points Total
	Klutz_dohanger	19,726	680,341
	lrenh	4,008	61,297
	Malsua	2,214	113,132
	davemaher	1,013	13,445
	Craigon69	903	30,734
	Texas_Booster	811	56,987
	LSimpson	774	35,323
	VeniVidiVici	750	44,960
	Kingu	740	35,742
	TheMightyQuinn	652	18,800
	walkerk	591	21,194
	Advil000	507	17,068
	farsighted	479	10,981
	Senator_Bedfellow	456	24,442
	Andrewksu	432	31,121
	zeugma	418	14,644
	Derllak	416	14,277
	Egon	414	12,320
	FRpapasmurf	409	29,471
	TChad	390	12,523

[soccer_maniac]

9AM update - 6,263 points (2 more teams overtaken)

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[DocRock]

Monday/New Thread Bookmark

[soccer_maniac]

We need more FR members to join our team.

C'mon FR! Let's reach 1,000 computers!

[zeugma]

I seem to be stuck right around #30. I suspect I'm amongst the hardcore folders now, so moving up ranking is getting difficult.

[soccer_maniac]

Based on Post#3 above you have the 16th highest daily point average on the team, so over time you should be able to get up to #16.

[processing please hold]

bttt

[soccer_maniac]

Past FreeRepublic Folding threads (for those wishing to read up on team history):

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 (current thread)

[Malsua]

Gotta love people who do exactly the opposite of what you tell them.

Had 5 machines off over the weekend. GRR.

-Mal

[texas booster]

Congrats to oblomov, moving into the Top 20 for the FReeper folders, and breaking 10,000 points as well.

Way to go!

[texas booster]

BTW, oblomov is only running two systems and he is one of our top folders.

They must be fast ones, 'cause he is certainly popping the numbers.

[zeugma]

I've seen that, but I've been at #28 before, then dropped back down to #30, then back up to #28. I'm just saying that the quick leapfrogging is over. Now we're in "grind it out" mode. :-)

[soccer_maniac]

We're on track to be #100 in 82 days

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

[BreitbartSentMe]

Yep, you and me both. I guess my dreams of getting out of the low-30's / high-20's means I have to co-opt more than my measly 4 CPU's....

[abner]

Over the weekend, my machine here at work locked the program up... So, even though I should have been done with a 202 pointer, it was at 9600/10000 instead. It should be done in a couple of hours though.

[soccer_maniac]

12PM update - 6,457 points

We're #186 now.

[Stentor]

p2107 20000 frame it'll never be finished bump.