Posted on 07/07/2006 5:58:24 PM PDT by 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)
It didn't help any, that the helpful freeper who pointed out their gaffe, was the one that they hated the most, the king of the borgs, co-opter of labs, evil computing genius of corporate america, and the discoverer of the enhanced work unit hacking ray, which sends coded signals up to Stanford, crediting us with thousands of points, that we never earned.
Whoo! Good timing thread-wise, as I just hit the top 100 (currently #96) yesterday or today! Woulda been higher, except josephw (pinged b/c of etiquette) claimed to have a failed box but still ran way ahead of me that same day :-P
I have basically 6 boxes running FAH 24/7. I'd like to have a seventh, except it's an ancient 566mhz machine, and it wants something like 40 days to finish its current WU. It gets used maybe 3 hours a month, so it has plenty of time to work, but it seems it's too old to accomplish anything. Anyone have a suggestion for it to work through small WUs so it can actually contribute something the 99% of the time it's not being used?
Congrats!
You can install it without the graphic interface and it will not interfere with games, but if you do that it's harder to keep track of how your jobs are doing.
Thanks for the ping. My productions down a bit because we've had thunderstorms lately and my main computer has spent a lot of time turned off. Looks like we're going to be back up regularly now though.
OK, I was here during the 2 hot link cases, LOL. They seem to learn rather slowly.
I didn't see the rest of the 2nd incident. It figures they would tombstone any suspected Freeper, even one trying to do them a favor. And they clim to be more tolerant than us, that's about as accurate as the 'Religion of Peace'.
As long as it finishes it's work units before the deadline, it will be helping, regardless of the size of those WU's. It's just more frustrating to have to wait for the WU's to finish. If it is missing the deadlines, you can request units without deadlines. I don't know if those are smaller, or not.
That's something this experience has taught me: machines have to be constantly monitored and programs rebooted for a variety of reasons. It was happening before but I didn't really notice it.
Four of my machines are on UPSs, but the other four are only on surge protectors. Whenever the power goes out (three times this summer so far) I have to do a whip around and reboot. Then for no explanation at all, the FAH program itself will crash on this machine or that machine and I get to choose whether to send Bill Gates & Co. a message. Then my wife or one of my kids will shut down a computer after using it and I won't notice for six or eight hours.
I feel like that guy whose schtick is to keep ten plates spinning atop ten long sticks.
I think most of us, once we take a full accounting of our old CPU inventories, are a bit surprised by how many machines we have collected over the the years. I know I was. By simply adding a cheap wireless access point to the end of a broadband connection, and cheap WLAN cards or USB units to the old machines, many if not most of the old machines can be put to profitable use folding protein.
Congratulations!!!
Will be replacing the HDD on either Tuesday or Thursday
2389 = 529 pts.
place holder bump
Thanks! I added it.
I also finished rewriting the function that grabs project information. It's now a non-destructive process: Once projects are gleaned from FAH's site, they're in the database. If FAH pulls the project from the site, it'll still be in our system. Likewise, if we've got an unconfirmed project in the database, and they subsequently add it, the database will be updated.
Saturday night bump.
p2504_A21_agbnp_amber99 = 195
p2505_A21_agbnp_amber99 = 200
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