Posted on 06/08/2006 11:17:52 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
Our FreeRepublic team of 342 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 99th place (with 985 active CPUs - 39,500 completed Work Units and nearly 7 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 18 folding threads)
(Excerpt) Read more at vspx27.stanford.edu ...
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 !!
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 #12
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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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Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan |
Date of last work unit | 2006-06-08 10:20:01 |
Active CPUs within 50 days | 985 |
Team Id | 36120 |
Grand Score | 6958178 (certificate) |
Work Unit Count | 39482 (certificate) |
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) | 101 of 44291 |
Home Page | http://www.freerepublic.com |
Bump for later read.
thanks for the info.
I've joined the team and have my pc at home folding as I type this.
I'm setting it up on my 2 'idle' server, too...
so I should have 2 running 24/7/365 at least
Cool, this is a milestone I've been looking forward to: Being able to see our name in the top 100 list on the Donor Stats page (Team Statistics page).
Yes, we're in the Top 100 (currently at #99 and moving up)
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teamstats
We are where we belong, ON TOP!!
Terrific! Welcome to the team!!
Awesome! Every new computer helps!! Please invite your friends/famility to join as well. Our goal is to be in the Top 10 teams eventually!
You prolly have this all sussed out, yourself, but my install and operating experience (XP PRo) has demonstrated that the preferred methodology is to install the Console version and run it as a service.
The Graphical client is pretty to watch, but: a) you're NOT going to be watching it all the time, anyway; b) it monopolizes your OpenGL pipeline so no otehr app that needs OpenGL can execute.
Just my two-bits for anyone looking to get their Wintel box into this gig as painlessly as possible.
BTTT
running console version on a 2k3 server as a service... works well!
Thanks for the ping. My main processor is down today due to thunder storms in the forecast, but I'll have it up and running again this evening!
I replaced the GUI with the console version because I had to shut it down to play my OpenGl games and I would forget to restart it. With the console version I never even know it's there unless I open the task manager to check on it.
Yay! Welcome!
Big Folding Bump!
Stuck in the middle of a 50K WU - BUMP
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