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)

[Egon]

Hah! Life is good.

[JosephW]

I enjoy seeing the Dummies show themselves to be fools (not an uncommon occurance), however this is one of the few areas where we have something in common.

Usually they are too self-centered to use their own resources for the good of others, rather relying on everyone else's tax dollars. Here however they are doing good (although on a limited scale). While they are using the bandwidth of one of us, they are doing so to encourage other DUmmyRATS to do good on this rare shared goal.

The reaction of one of them is hilarious, but let's not use this noble folding project to harrass each other. Maybe by having them work on something for the good of others with their own resources they will come to an understanding of self-sacrifice and realize the value of doing things themselves.

We can be the role-model of what our President (Ronald Wilson Reagan) encouraged, the charitable giving from one's self. It is obvious how much more conservatives really do care with the graph that they stole and we should let them see how fall short their socialist policies are when put into reality.

[Egon]

It takes a big man to admit that you're right. ...and I am NOT a big man.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Well, I just checked here at midnight on the Left Coast, and it's still up there. One lonely DUmmie noticed it at 9:00, and asked about it (as somone posted above), but 3 hours later, no response, and the map is still there. They really are DUmmies!!!!

[BreitbartSentMe]

I wish I had a copy of the infamous "All Your Senate Are Belong To Us" DU hack of 2004 - that was a classic!!!

[Craigon]

Well, I made it to #9 and was on the verge of overtaking #8 in a few 100 more points! However, I'm about to take off on a 13day family vacation in a few min. So after about 6 months of non stop folding, I've decided to give the 'ol overclocked gal (and her diskless sisters being hosted by her) a break. So Andrewksu at #8 you're position is saved by the vacation! LOL :) I'm hoping I don't drop past 20th while offline from 6/9 - 6/21. Sarasota bound...Later

[SC Swamp Fox]

...let's not use this noble folding project to harass each other.

I considered this and several of your other points when I switched the graphic on them. In the end I decided that:
1) I want them to stop using my band-width.
2) Competition is good. The folks at Stanford realized this or they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of assigning points and encouraging "folding teams".
3) The DU team is slowly dying, their daily point totals have been slowly dropping since February. Maybe a little FReeper "smack talk" will wake them up. I know that our largest growth occurred back in December when the DU team was first created; they were growing and were closing the gap with our team. We used their growth to rally our troops and recruit more members, the rest is history.

The weak minded DUds don't realize it now, but I am doing this for their own good. This hurts me more then it hurts them. They will thank me for this when they grow up. </tough love></sarcasm>

If it's still up when I get home tonight I'll pull the graphic and leave them with a broken link.

[Egon]

I'm hoping I don't drop past 20th...

I'm hoping you drop past 14th.

;-)

[SC Swamp Fox]

Geez. The Bush Country graphic was up at DU for over 24 (8 business) hours. Only one of them noticed and he didn't understand what he was looking at. Sad.

[SC Swamp Fox]

The graphs will be updated periodically. You may have to refresh to see the updates.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Working on getting one more processor folding.

If I can get it going I will have three folding full time and a fourth folding as possible.

[SC Swamp Fox]

At your current rate you will pass me in about a month.
Ya'll are just gonna force me to buy desktops for my wife and daughter.

[SC Swamp Fox]

do NOT google it.

Thankfully, I just checked the wikipedia listing and did not google an image.

You are right, I don't think they would be at all shocked by such an image.

[BreitbartSentMe]

OMG, your edit to the graph is hysterical - and now some other clueless DUmmie has seen the comment about the Bush Country Map, but since you've replaced it again, and he doesn't see it, now the new guy's even more confused? I wish I could post over there...

[Drango]

and now some other clueless DUmmie has seen the comment about the Bush Country Map

LOL...they really have no clue.

[Klutz Dohanger]

I just sent "Alfredo" a little message.

I've had a user account over there for quite awhile, just never used it.

Let's see how long it takes for them to ban me, now that I've
"advised" alfredo and NY_Liberal personally, about hotlinking.

*sheesh*... all they would have had to do, is come over, and check out our thread, to find out, what was going on, on theirs... :)

[SC Swamp Fox]

You hit the nail on the head. Check out this DU post.

[Third Order]

All class.

[generally]

I'm hoping someone can help me with sending results. I've been folding for several months and haven't had (or noticed) this problem before.

[16:44:24] + Attempting to send results
[16:45:39] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[16:45:39] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[16:45:39] (171.65.103.100:8080)
[16:45:39] Could not transmit unit 04 to Collection server; keeping in queue.

I keep getting this message on one of my computers (Mac). It has successfully sent results in the past, and my other systems seem fine.

Any ideas? Does this mean that the Stanford server is busy? Or is it my system that is having a problem? Or is it the IP service provider (different from the one used by my other systems)?

Thanks for any help.

[Klutz Dohanger]

If the ISP for the MAC is different than for the others,
someone may have blocked the ports/IP addresses.

Try pinging the 171.65.103.100, and some of the other
servers listed in the points summary link, and then something
like yahoo.com