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FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're in the Top105 of all teams with 6.4 Million points
Stanford University's Folding@Home Stats page ^ | 5-26-06 | soccer_maniac

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)


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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 (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 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.

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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


Another Stats Page


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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


Stat Image Generator


Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software

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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads

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1 posted on 05/26/2006 9:12:52 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
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To: 1066AD; 11Bush; A.Hun; abner; AbsoluteGrace; Advil; aft_lizard; ahayes; Alexander Rubin; ...
FR Folding Ping (FRmail me to get on/off ping list) -- we have 299 people on the FR folding ping list!


2 posted on 05/26/2006 9:14:12 AM PDT 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

Seems like it's taking forever to break 20,000! I keep getting these itsy-bitsy 100 pt DGromacs.


3 posted on 05/26/2006 9:15:35 AM PDT by ahayes (Yes, I have a devious plot. No, you may not know what it is.)
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To: soccer_maniac

BTTT


4 posted on 05/26/2006 9:18:32 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: soccer_maniac
I do a little parttime work as system admin. for a small local company with 86 boxes, nearly all (all but 4) of which are idle after 6 PM and networked with T-1 internet access.

I'm going to try to talk the owner into allowing "folding at home" to make good use of all the idle time.

5 posted on 05/26/2006 9:18:33 AM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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To: capt. norm

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.


6 posted on 05/26/2006 9:21:22 AM PDT by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: E.G.C.

I just noticed that DUmmies have a username "Monica_Lewinsky"

Which one of you did that? LOL!


7 posted on 05/26/2006 9:23:05 AM PDT 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

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


8 posted on 05/26/2006 9:24:04 AM PDT by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: capt. norm

Great!!!


9 posted on 05/26/2006 9:24:12 AM PDT by Uriah_lost (http://www.wingercomics.com/d/20051205.html)
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To: soccer_maniac

Folding@Home Bump!


10 posted on 05/26/2006 9:25:16 AM PDT by auboy
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To: soccer_maniac

lol I should put one of these processors to work folding for DU under the name "LOUSY FREEPER TROLL!"


11 posted on 05/26/2006 9:39:55 AM PDT by ahayes (Yes, I have a devious plot. No, you may not know what it is.)
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To: soccer_maniac

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


12 posted on 05/26/2006 10:33:26 AM PDT by knews_hound (Driving Liberals nuts since 1975 !)
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To: ahayes
Don't feel bad. I keep getting these 20,000 frame w/u's that only give me 200 points. Right now I'm crunching a 50k w/u.

Of course, I mught get more done if I ditched my SETI program.

13 posted on 05/26/2006 10:39:48 AM PDT by uglybiker (Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
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To: All
My shameless self-promotion for this thread:

If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.

Available features include:

Beware. It's addictive.

14 posted on 05/26/2006 12:27:20 PM PDT by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
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To: Egon

It's a great tool. Don't feel that it's a shameless self promotion. You're doing us all a favor.


15 posted on 05/26/2006 12:58:25 PM PDT 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

Thanks for the ping!

:O)

P


16 posted on 05/26/2006 2:34:48 PM PDT by papasmurf (Join Team 36120 Free Republic Folders. Folding@Home Enter Name:FRpapasmurf)
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To: All

BTTT


17 posted on 05/26/2006 4:24:04 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (The Stations of the Cross in Poetry ---> http://www.wayoftears.com)
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To: soccer_maniac

Big Bump!


18 posted on 05/26/2006 4:53:57 PM PDT by DocRock
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To: knews_hound
"Is there someone who knows this program well who might give me some ideas on how to get it to run? "

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.

19 posted on 05/26/2006 5:04:17 PM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: soccer_maniac

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!


20 posted on 05/26/2006 5:04:30 PM PDT by DTwistedSisterS
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