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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

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 ...


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To: SC Swamp Fox

~awk~ I wish that I hadn't even Wikipediaed it. Reminds me of the old saying, "Ignorance is bliss." ~whew~


61 posted on 06/10/2006 12:33:17 PM PDT by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: soccer_maniac

Well, I'm back. A storm took all wires to the house down Tuesday night, and Comcast finally got to me today (the byotch of being last on a dead end street). Got juice back Thursday, so hopefully all the boxes will dump some points today. What a b*tch, I get to the top ten, we break the top 100, and I'm sitting here with my thumb up my a$$ !!!.


62 posted on 06/10/2006 12:35:49 PM PDT by dfwddr (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword:folding.)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

Well, as a indicator of just how LITTLE traffic the folding threads receive on DU, you haven't been tombstoned yet...


63 posted on 06/10/2006 6:25:43 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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To: Bush_Democrat

But the thread has been pulled!


64 posted on 06/10/2006 11:28:04 PM PDT by walkerk
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To: walkerk

Hah - I wonder when that happened - they must have been looking here to see what we're talking about - Hi DUmmies - Aren't you up late, past your bedtime??


65 posted on 06/10/2006 11:53:01 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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To: walkerk

Not only has it been pulled, but apparently it's gone through some type of time machine - I went to the link to see when it was deleted and here's what I saw:

(0 posts) Wed Dec-31-69 07:00 PM
Original message


66 posted on 06/10/2006 11:58:38 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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To: Bush_Democrat; All

Well, that didn't take long.

*sob* My posting priveledges on DU have been revoked. :)


67 posted on 06/11/2006 7:25:33 AM PDT by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

many thanks!

Keep on Foldin'


68 posted on 06/11/2006 1:30:33 PM PDT by generally (Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
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To: Klutz Dohanger
*sob* My posting priveledges on DU have been revoked. :)

Ha ha. You seem surprised :) Did they say anything as to the reason for banning?

69 posted on 06/11/2006 6:23:13 PM PDT by soccer_maniac (Fine employers $100,000 for every illegal employee they hire-> millions of illegals will self-deport)
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To: generally

We should move up 2 spots tomorrow

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120


70 posted on 06/11/2006 6:23:53 PM PDT by soccer_maniac (Fine employers $100,000 for every illegal employee they hire-> millions of illegals will self-deport)
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To: soccer_maniac

Super! My 2 units that finally downloaded should help a little.


71 posted on 06/12/2006 7:16:27 AM PDT by generally (Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
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To: soccer_maniac; All

we'll hit #97 at the 9pm update it looks like.

For all, in case anyone else is running windows Vista Beta,
FAH console version, works just fine. Just uploaded a Workunit.

Haven't tested the GUI version yet.

Re: DU, and my *sob* *banning*, the mods haven't answered me back, and probably never will.


72 posted on 06/12/2006 4:15:38 PM PDT by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: generally
My 2 units that finally downloaded should help a little.

It helps a lot! While the super folders get all the glory for making the top 20 list, we get a tremendous amount of points from average FReepers who have one (or two) box folding on slow machines. EVERY CPU folding helps. So thank you!

73 posted on 06/12/2006 7:05:35 PM PDT by Drango (No electrons were harmed in this posting. Several however, were inconvenienced.)
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To: Drango; generally; All

To put things in context, 2/3 of the team points, have been generated by #25 and below.

To view it from a different perspective, vs our "competition", if our top 25 folders ceased folding tonight, the Free republic team would still be producing twice as many points as "that other team". That's the power of the "little guy". Without the 600lb gorillas, the FR team would still be around #131, instead of at 97.....

So yep, every work unit counts, every point counts, not only for the team score, but for the purpose of the program, and that's to advance science.

You never know. 99,999,999 work units might get produced, but yours may be the last one, that puts that final piece of the puzzle in place, that produces the cure, or at least gives the researchers, a good clue, as to which direction to take, to look for it.





74 posted on 06/12/2006 7:42:28 PM PDT by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: soccer_maniac

Twofer ping bump.


75 posted on 06/12/2006 8:04:10 PM PDT by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Klutz Dohanger; All

Interesting article, came across it tonight, by accident

http://techreport.com/etc/2002q4/foldingimpact/index.x?pg=1

some comprehensive tests, done using benchmark programs, to guage the performance hit, of folding at home.

end result, unless you've got an already screwed up machine, no performance hit, other than the obvious heat factor, from running the CPU at full tilt.

(which, btw, Is a factor of how well designed/built your computer is. .... I've got a lab full of dell optiplex GX 240's, that have been running at 100%, other than a few reboots due to electrical outages, since December 27th, 2005, A/C is off unless the lab is being used, and they're still going strong, and 3rd part utilities show them only about 20 degrees F above normal on the hottest days, which is about 90deg ambient temperature, right about now. )

I've now got my boss curious, and we're taking bets, as to when the first one will fail. These are 5 year old dells, with 1.8ghz processors, and odds are, 1 or more, SHOULD have failed since last December, but haven't had a single hiccup.

** note, the lab gets used about 18 hrs a week, and not a single person has noticed FAH, or any performance hit. And for those worried about electric bills jumping, My boss and I have pulled the bills for that side of the building, for the five months prior to Jan 1, 2006, and the five months after, and the lab with 32 computers, running at 100% capacity, has increased the electric bill by a whopping $8.35 cents per month. Net increase is about 25 cents per month, per computer.

A small price to pay.




76 posted on 06/12/2006 8:13:38 PM PDT by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: Klutz Dohanger
Net increase is about 25 cents per month, per computer.

Now if we can get your boss to leave 'em on 24/7. Turning those things on and off shortens their life. Bigtime.

77 posted on 06/12/2006 8:53:36 PM PDT by Drango (No electrons were harmed in this posting. Several however, were inconvenienced.)
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To: Klutz Dohanger; All

We're up to #97!!!!

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=


78 posted on 06/13/2006 7:01:03 AM PDT by soccer_maniac (Fine employers $100,000 for every illegal employee they hire-> millions of illegals will self-deport)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

Nice to see you back over 10,000 points/day :)

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=168162


79 posted on 06/13/2006 11:23:08 AM PDT by soccer_maniac (Fine employers $100,000 for every illegal employee they hire-> millions of illegals will self-deport)
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To: soccer_maniac

Something seems to have changed with the client. I'm running XP Media Center Edition. I no longer have the icon in the systray so cannot check status, alter parameters etc. I'm using 5.03.

If I bring up Task Manager sometimes I see it running as an Application, other times it's running as a service. Anyone seen anything similar or is this just the swapping "time sharing" ? How can I get the icon back ? Rebooting doesn't help.


80 posted on 06/14/2006 6:08:22 AM PDT by 1066AD
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