FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're in the Top 85 of all teams with 8.3 Million points

Stanford University's Folding@Home Stats page ^ | 7-7-06 | soccer_maniac

[soccer_maniac]

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

Our FreeRepublic team of 351 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 85th place (with 908 active CPUs - 47,400 completed Work Units and nearly 8.5 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 19 folding threads)

[JCEccles]

I've been coasting for about a week, with four of my eight machines off line. However, I got one upgraded, and far more powerful, folder back online just last night. And I have replaced the motherboard and CPU of my father's old 1.8 GHz Pentium machine with a very cheap but relatively fast Gigabyte mobo/Pentium 805 D dual core combo. I'm going to download Novell's snazzy new SuSE enterprise linux desktop package onto it tonight and get it back on line folding.

Finally, I'll take my father's old 1.8 MHz Pentium 4 CPU and use it to replace the 1.2 MHz Celeron CPU in one of my other folders.

I hope to be cranking in fourth gear again soon.

[JCEccles]

LOL... bad news... the energy cops are starting to see through my transparent excuses for keeping cpu's on 24x7.

In my case the "energy cop" would be my wife. She said last night, "Dear, on the news they said that there is terrific strain on the energy grid and that people should turn off things that don't need to be on. Like extra computers."

I don't watch the news. And all my computers are on robust backup power systems that will get them through 99% of all power outages.

I told her I'd keep the screens off when I'm not using the computers. I hope that'll keep her. ;-)

[soccer_maniac]

2 of those 10 are schools, so their production will pick up starting in August/Sept

[soccer_maniac]

Thanks Andrew. Every CPU helps and as you pointed out, it didn't cost you anything on the other team either.

[soccer_maniac]

Being in the Top 50 teams would firmly establish FR as one of the leading online communities.

Competition is fun, tough :) Too bad DUmmies can't keep up with us. Eventually, they may make it into the Top 100, which is more than what they deserve :)

[Hurricane Andrew]

Actually, it's amazing how well FR is doing. Most of the other top sites tend to be hardcore tech sites, and many folks there are either enthusiasts with multiple PC's who like to overclock and push the limits of performance, or students/tech professionals with access to multiple PC's.

For a "non-technical" community like FR to be competing with them is quite impressive, and along with the Tribute to Reagan is why I decided to add some of my CPU cycles to the effort.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Shouldn't the Tasmanian Dept of Education take their summer break December-February?

[soccer_maniac]

Frendly reminder to all members on the ping list:

[soccer_maniac]

friendly, that is :)

[Professional Engineer]

I'm crunching a 50,000 frame WU right now.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[IslandJeff]

Thanks for the ping. Had to cut back for a few days because of the heat up here. We'll get it back up again this weekend.

[ezsmoke]

I have a new system due to arrive on Wed next week:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4GHz Dual Core 512KB x 2 L2
Asus A8N SLI Premium Motherboard
OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 2x1024MB Dual Channel Platinum XTC CL 2-3-2-5
GeForce 7600GS for now, 7900 series or better, later
WD 150GB 10K(delayed)
WD 500GB (DOA & RMA)
Antec Case and Power Supply
Plextor DVDRW

I have alot of the parts already. Was going to buy a better system but decided to wait.

Next an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600 AM2. ASAP (I was going to buy it now but could not)
I will buy an Intel Core 2 Duo also.

[Incorrigible]

I've been keeping my machines up 100% and it's showing as I move up the ranks!

[ezsmoke]

Heat has prevented my laptop from doing much. It was working on a p2124 and died halfway through. It now has a p2096 due in tomorrow.

[houeto]

I have a new system due to arrive on Wed next week:

I might, MIGHT, pass you briefly before you shift gears on me.

[Professional Engineer]

Dude, that must be some machine to be drawing enough power to pull the grid down so far! LOL

[ezsmoke]

Quite possibly. My laptop refuses to do some WU. So I lost about 100ppd from that. The laptop will deliver the first WU in over a week tomorrow.
And I was not able to buy 2-3 as planned, just one for now.

[Flyer]

Still doing laundry at home.

[IslandJeff]

I just have a crappy, noisy fan. I'm afraid to try and replace it myself, and the PC was getting hot to the touch when the thermometer outside was hitting mid-nineties.