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

Posted on 02/27/2006 6:44:55 AM PST by soccer_maniac

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

Our FreeRepublic team of 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 188th place (with 940 CPUs - 15,725 completed Work Units and 2,330,000 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)


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To: ken in texas
It's kind of like a digital roller-coaster ride... they come out smiling and ready to move on. :-)

Yes, but do they buy the cotton candy ????????

181 posted on 03/04/2006 2:29:42 PM PST by dfwddr (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword:folding.)
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To: dfwddr
Yes, but do they buy the cotton candy ????????

Only if their parents, the Bytes, trust them with money.

182 posted on 03/04/2006 3:17:22 PM PST by ken in texas (folding yesterday, folding today, folding tomorrow..... team #36120)
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To: ken in texas
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world...

Those who know binary, and those who don't.

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I heard an good one at work...I don't know if it's true...

One of the IT geeks told the VP of Marketing that the problem with his network connection was that the network cable was twisted up and bent under his desk. He explained that the "zeros" don't have problems with this, but the "ones" can jam in a sharp corner and cause the connection to clog up.

183 posted on 03/04/2006 3:29:15 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: soccer_maniac
The graphs in reply #37 have been updated.

The DUmpers will probably have them copied and posted in 20 minutes.

184 posted on 03/04/2006 4:51:56 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

LOL... I know some people that would fall for that.


185 posted on 03/04/2006 5:29:03 PM PST by ken in texas (folding yesterday, folding today, folding tomorrow..... team #36120)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

binary joke is one of my favorites

a similar one you might like....

There are 3 kinds of people in the world...
Those who can count and those who can't.

Keep on foldin'!


186 posted on 03/04/2006 5:36:23 PM PST by generally (Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
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To: generally

Saturday night crawler bump


187 posted on 03/04/2006 7:37:42 PM PST by RebelTex (Help cure diseases: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548372/posts)
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To: pbrown

We're only 7 spots behind SISD

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&p=2


188 posted on 03/04/2006 8:32:40 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: soccer_maniac
Just looking ahead, we will pass by several prominent teams that we have glanced at a lot.

We pass SISD in two weeks or less.

We pass the Vampire Piggy Hunters in less than a week.

We will pass the International High IQ Society in less than a week.

And we will pass Totally In To Science in less than two weeks. Their output has really been sagging as members flop out of the team.

Everyone please give them a pat on the ... back, not just lip service, as we blow right on by.
189 posted on 03/04/2006 8:59:41 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: texas booster

We dropped to 35,664 today :(

Hopefully tomorrow's gonna be a better day.


190 posted on 03/04/2006 10:23:49 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: soccer_maniac

Don't get discouraged, this drop is really meaningless. Go look at the top 25 teams--heck, look at team default. Everyone's output is down right now (with the exception of 2 or 3 teams out of 25), which tells me either Stanford's released an unusual proportion of big jobs that we're waiting to wrap up (like my two 400-pointers) or the Stanford servers aren't answering correctly. Since I haven't heard anything about the servers, I think it's the first.

Don't try to compare DU to us here, they're putzing along still spitting out the smaller jobs. I expect in the next couple days they will enter a point slump even more extreme and long-lasting than this, since they have fewer computers and my guess is generally slower computers.


191 posted on 03/05/2006 4:52:47 AM PST by ahayes
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To: soccer_maniac; MontanaBeth; Recovering Hermit; IoCaster; SirTaurus; Clintons Are White Trash

Speaking of good news, we have several new folders that have joined us this week or have posted their first work units.

Thanks to MontanaBeth, Recovering_Hermit, IoCaster, sirtaurus and Clintons_Are_White_Trash for joining our merry little band of folders.

Also, if anyone knows the folders Chris_Primavera or AndyKaz would you ping them to see if he wants on our FReepers ping list?


192 posted on 03/05/2006 7:14:49 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120))
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To: ahayes

I suspect that most of the DU guys and gals don't have jobs and are working off of computers their parents bought them.


193 posted on 03/05/2006 7:52:59 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join FR Team 36120 at http://folding.stanford.edu {Protein Folding Project})
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To: All
Something happened and I lost a work unit that was 81% complete. The odd thing is that I had an IP address conflict on my home network that was coincident with this work unit loss. This is the second time this has happened.

I believe the random method my router uses to assign network addresses might be causing a conflict if I reboot my router and the address assigned to a folding PC changes while F@H is running.

I rebooted everything, the network conflict disappeared and everything started working again. The PC that caused the problem downloaded a new WU and started working on it.

I believe I can force the network address assignment that occurs by connecting the PCs to the router in a specific order, but I can't do that if the router reboot occurs when I'm not around. (Power failure.)

[22:31:43] Writing local files
[22:31:43] Completed 3240000 out of 4000000 steps (81)
[22:46:55] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[22:46:55] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[22:46:55] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[22:47:15] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[22:47:15] + Attempting to get work packet
[22:47:15] - Connecting to assignment server
[22:47:17] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[22:47:17] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[22:47:17] Couldn't send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[22:47:17] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[22:47:17] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[22:47:17] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

194 posted on 03/05/2006 7:56:59 AM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

Did you try using a shorter cord?


195 posted on 03/05/2006 8:41:43 AM PST by Drango (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: texas booster
Welcome new members


196 posted on 03/05/2006 9:05:22 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: Drango
Did you try using a shorter cord?

</rinsing off keyboard>

I don't need to use short cords. The 19 year-old Technical Sales Genius at Best Buy told me that the 6' premium monster-cable with gold plated contacts is the optimum choice for my system....and it only costs $12 more then the standard 6' cable.

197 posted on 03/05/2006 10:59:37 AM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: soccer_maniac
Welcome new members

Thanks! - AndyKaz

I originally installed it on my machine at work. I just added it to my machine at home now - I think there were 968 active CPUs on our team when I checked this morning!
198 posted on 03/05/2006 1:36:16 PM PST by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

Have you tried using static IPs?


199 posted on 03/05/2006 1:37:49 PM PST by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: texas booster
Also, if anyone knows the folders Chris_Primavera or AndyKaz would you ping them to see if he wants on our FReepers ping list?

Feel free to add me (AndyKaz) to the ping list!
200 posted on 03/05/2006 1:44:02 PM PST by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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