FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're in the Top 100 of all teams with 7 Million points

Stanford University's Folding@Home Stats page ^ | 06-08-2006 | soccer_maniac

[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)

[HKMk23]

Are you running it as a service or with a link in your Start Up folder?
IOW, is it operating all the time or only when you're logged in?

[JosephW]

I'm folding on a laptop that has a hyper-threaded P4. I looked at processor utilization and noticed that only one (yes I know there's only one actual processor, but the O/S thinks there's two) processor was doing the work. Will multiple instances run with affinity set, or is there a way to allow what the O/S considers two instances to both run?

[ahayes]

It's running all the time.

[JCEccles]

I've got three machines on task and will add a fourth tomorrow.

One of my machines was assigned a large 50 million step project a few days ago. It seems to be taking forever to finish but should be done today. I expect a big boost in points.

[HKMk23]

What project number/name is that?

You can look it up on this page to see how many points it's going to be worth.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html

[JCEccles]

Project No. 2108, worth 449 points. I'm currently at step 49500000. Just 500000 to go.

Anyway, thanks. I wasn't aware of that table.

[Egon]

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:

• Timely snapshot of each machine's progress on it's current project
• Point values for project
• Estimated completion dates/times
• Warning indicators for machines that appear to have stopped communicating or folding
• Warnings for machines that won't make their deadline
• Team ranking status box (courtesy of EOC)
• It's free-- and always will be
• ...other features as time permits, and people request

Beware. It's addictive.

[Route66]

Join the Team Bump.

[BreitbartSentMe]

You have FReepMail

[Paladin2]

Run a second console instance from its own directory and give it a different machine # during configuration. It looks like one can run up to eight instances simultaneously under one OS instance.

[Paladin2]

I'd just point out that some members are running folding machines that are 100% dedicated 24/7 to folding and hence aren't really contributing just "unused" cpu cycles.

[SC Swamp Fox]

I can't believe that one of those bozos over at DU is again stealing my bandwidth by hot-linking one of my graphics. DU thread #12.

Well, I just replaced that graphic with the one below. I wonder how long it will take the DUmmies to pull it down?

[Paladin2]

We still need to flip the colors on that map to make the "progressives" accept the commie color that they represent.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Here ya' go!

[Klutz Dohanger]

damn. Every time you do that, they fall for it, hook line and sinker.

gotta wonder, they went from May 21, to June 3rd, without a single post, started thread 12, and immediately got suckered again.

What's this, the 3rd or 4th time in a row now?

[SC Swamp Fox]

This is only the second time, but the DUer that did it was around for the first one.

I probably shouldn't have cluttered up our thread with all those graphics, but it's just too fun. Since their thread is virtually dead, I wonder how long it will stay that way?

[GRRRRR]

Yep, I just loaded and started the ole' Toshiba laptop...it has just been sitting there, blinking...

Now it's FOLDING!

[DocRock]

They're dumb as a box of rocks!

[Third Order]

heh, good choice. That'd probably disturb them more than Goatse (if you don't know what that is, do NOT google it. You don't want to know).

[smith288]

What is the point of the big Bush Country map? - some idiotic DUmmy