Posted on 05/26/2006 9:12:44 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
Our FreeRepublic team of 337 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 103th place (with 988 active CPUs - 36,400 completed Work Units and more than 6,4 million 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 17 folding threads)
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 (Folding@home Client Download). 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 worlds supercomputers, Standford still wouldnt have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of peoples 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.
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List of Relevant Folding Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!
Another Folding Clip
Folding@home Client Download
FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats
Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic
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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos
Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11
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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
Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software
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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads
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Seems like it's taking forever to break 20,000! I keep getting these itsy-bitsy 100 pt DGromacs.
BTTT
I'm going to try to talk the owner into allowing "folding at home" to make good use of all the idle time.
That would be terrific!
Even if you got some of them to fold part-time, it would be a tremendous help.
We need more members as we're trying to break into the Top 50.
I just noticed that DUmmies have a username "Monica_Lewinsky"
Which one of you did that? LOL!
Here is the link to Team DUmmy stats
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157
# 214 Monica_Lewinsky
That's really funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great!!!
Folding@Home Bump!
lol I should put one of these processors to work folding for DU under the name "LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!"
I'm having trouble getting it to run on one of my machines.
Is there someone who knows this program well who might give me some ideas on how to get it to run?
Cheers,
knewshound
Of course, I mught get more done if I ditched my SETI program.
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.
Available features include:
Beware. It's addictive.
It's a great tool. Don't feel that it's a shameless self promotion. You're doing us all a favor.
Thanks for the ping!
:O)
P
BTTT
Big Bump!
Most here, including myself, will be glad to help, anyway we can. I suggest you post some details on the trouble you are having and then we can figure out if we know enough about your situation to help.
Thanks to who ever publicized this.
The benefits so far:
1) It occupies my time when I'm not doing anything
2) It's really cool to think that something might possibly help someone
3) It's helped heat my room for the past few weeks. I say this because when i close my door, the room gets hotter. I attribute this to the fact that the fan has to run. If this isn't the case, too bad, because i like the explanation!
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