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)
LMAO!
This is fun. We can welcome Abner into our personal race. My immediate goal is to break 100. It is cool that we have a team that has 100 people with 5,000 points.
It looks like we soon need 10,000 to break into the top 50, and then 20,000 to get into the top 20.
I am not even dreaming about getting into the top 10. That would currently take 30,000!
We do have a great group!
Thank you... I have 4 machines running... This one is a 2.6 Ghz.. The one at home is a powerhouse but I can't remember what that one is now. My other half is running our oldest machine. Both of the machines here are running 404 pointers. This one is supposed to finish on the 5th and the other (since he shuts it off at night) should finish in a week or so. The 2 machines at home are running 153 pointers at the moment... I try to keep them running 24/7...
And, she is going to pull something out of her sleeve! Sneaky broads.
arrgh, where am I going to get more cpu power?!?!
If it were just dusting, not an issue. You have to open the box, vacuum out the the handfuls of bunnies, then gently use an air nozzle to blow in while you vacuum, and you use more and more air pressure till you can finally go all out and nothing more comes of it. It's a stinky nasty mess and takes a good 5-10 minutes a machine. Within 3-4 months, it's back to the same condition.
Since most machines lope along barely above idle, it's not a biggie to let it get packed in with dust. Throttled up while folding, it makes a huge difference. Had two 3.0ghz machines thermal shutdown today. They were purchased in August. I did the nasty and they're back, but it's a problem I can't ignore. Fortunately they weren't in use at the time.
I did have a Gunga Din. I told him that the 36k he was getting paid(and I had no control over that btw) was chump change for a guy with a masters in Computer Science(he was 3 credit hours away at the time) and in his own best interest, he should get another job. It wasn't because I didn't want him around, I wanted him to do better. When a layoff came around, they asked for volunteers, he took it. Now he's making double that and thanked me for the advice. Not bad for a 27YO kid who moved here from India with his family in 1994.
Mwah-hah-hah! Sneaky indeed--I'm female too.
abner, I suggest you and I start crediting our WU under the name "Sneaky Broads." We will soon leave FreeAtlanta in the dust!
Actually, I think either of you - especially abner after reading about the equipment she has - can pass me in short order. If you convince your husband to leave his computer on, then you will be real trouble. sigh.
I doubt I can get him to keep that computer on at night.. But I just looked at what this one is... Ready? Pentium 4 3.60 GHZ with 2 megs of RAM... and its water cooled... This is the coolest computer on the planet.. I love my Vaio...
LOL! Sounds like it could be a plan if they were to make us mad.. :-)
Yeah, I've had a good run for the last 5 days, but I can only convince them to let me run 24x7 over holidays, etc, while I do updates, etc. My stats are going to take a dip, until mid march, when spring break comes up, but hopefully, I can remain ahead of that team, that shall remain nameless....
Heh. I don't think you've got much to worry about.
After running the first 17 for a month I didn't expect much issue, then today to have 2 thermal out on me was disheartening. I'm putting it down as dust, but to be safe, I throttled them(the ones in the "breach") to 90%. In the process of doing that, I found one folding anonymously for team 0, on it's 5th. I have NO idea how I managed that one, heh.
We're still going up. That's a good sign.
Based on a post earlier, it occured to me that some folks on our team could potentially band together to knock Me, Klutz, etc. of our perches. Just make a common FR team name, like "Bob, George, Jimmy". While you'd start back in a hole(and it wouldn't hurt the FR rank whatsoever), you'd rise up in the FR ranks and in my opinion it'd be fun to see "sub teams" competing. Heh, just a thought, we're getting enough member, consolidation seems like something inevitable.
Well, I've hit a bit of a snag. I've had some electrical problems for a while now, but, this weekend I started losing wall outlets and, late yesterday about 25% of my panel just went dead. No sparks, no flames, no pops, just dead. So far, I've lost three cpu's, a printer and, worst of all, the pump and air compressor for my whitewater system.
So, I got an electrician in and he says it's bad. New panel and, at least, re-wire for half the house, maybe all of it.
Today he got most of the supplies needed and tomorrow am, sometime, he'll take the house off the utilities and put about half of it on my generator and I won't have power to the other half. This could last for a week or more.
So papasmurf is going dark for awhile. At least I hit 30k, had some fun and, hopefully, helped science a bit.
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That's an interesting idea. I could start a sub-team of math geeks that happen to have really lame computers...
Are you the producer of "Survivor"?
Do you trust his opinion? How old is your house?
Hey, when I get tired of competing with the ladies, you all might inspire me to go get a job where I can control a gazillion lab computers.
BTW, did you read what abner is running at home? That sounds like a bad little machine. I have never been so brave as to have water cooling. Electronics and water have always given me the shakes.
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