[texas booster]

If anyone is buying a new ATI X1900 (R580 core) and is running the Folding@Home project, please let us know how it is running.

The X1900 and X1950 series is supposed to increase computation by 20x to 30x. This is accomplished using the 48 pixel shaders in the R580 GPU. That will make an enormous difference in folding times for F@H.

If Santa leaves one of these video cards on your fireplace, please pop a F@H core onto it and tell us what results you experience.

Tech support is available on this thread for users wanting to begin folding for Team 36120 Free Republic Folders!

[texas booster]

Pinging the F@H group. With Wild Wednesday and Black Friday upon us, surely someone will have the pleasure of a new toy!

[texas booster]

Pinging the F@H group. With Wild Wednesday and Black Friday upon us, surely someone will have the pleasure of a new toy!

[texas booster]

Folding@Home FAQ for new users:

What is Folding@Home? A Stanford University project to find out how proteins fold.

Why it's important: Proteins folding wrong causes all kinds of diseases, like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and forms of cancer. Folding@Home uses novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. Through Folding@home, scientists now have the horsepower to study the mechanics of protein folding. With its ability to share the workload among hundred of thousands of computers economically, Folding@home can help scientists understand how proteins snap, or don't, into their predestined shapes - and may help to explain the origins of diseases such as Alzheimer's and apparently unrelated diseases. We're fueling research that could end all that.

How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.

Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.

How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?:
1.) Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (Folding@home Client Download). Type in your desired username.
2.) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic!
3.) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.

How can my computer help? Even if they were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Stanford still wouldn't have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people's desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.

There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.

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List of Relevant Folding Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!

Another Folding Clip

Folding@home Client Download

FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats

Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic

Another Stats Page

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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos

Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11 #12

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Other Useful Stuff - Links

How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits

Stat Image Generator

Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software

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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads

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[IslandJeff]

Type I Diabetes Ping List
FR mail me to add yourself! (Type IIs welcome, too.)

Research ping for the "Shooter's Gallery".

Seriously, Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

[prophetic]

well I've just upgraded one of my machines from a Athlon 3400+ to an Opteron 170 (dual core) running at 2.5ghz and have the 502 console running 2 sessions at 95%.

[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)
• Machine stats like PPD (points per day)
• Project comparison stats: PPD, average time taken to completion, etc.
• It's free-- and always will be
• ...other features as time permits, and people request

[zeugma]

I've heard about the new GPU folding client. Sounds like it really rocks. I wonder if they could be used for doing crypto as well.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Stanford University is using ATI’s GPUs (Graphics Processor Units) to run Folding@Home....

Question Tex...

If one of the new ATI units gets installed, will the running F@H app auto-sense the new hardware, or does a different version need to be downloaded???

Thanx ~GCR~

p.s. still folding between 91st-95th place since mis summer :)

[SoftballMominVA]

Just so I have an idea how my procesor is doing--I'm folding at about 13s to 15s per frame (unless a child is running a high graphics game, then it slows to about 30s a frame).

Is that good? bad? normal?

[papasmurf]

Thanks for the ping, oh wise one. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

BTW, I still have a Veg-O-Matic, if anyone wants to buy one, it's up in the attic next to my Buttoneer and Magic Lint remover.

:O)


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[texas booster]

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=168262

pbrown is now over 10,000 points!! 5 days, 4 competed work units.

How many systems are running to pop these work units?

[texas booster]

Thanks for joining the team. It looks like you got a pretty big work unit your first time out.

Please ping us if you have any questions!

[Egon]

Just noticed something interesting:

I run FAH on my desktop workstation, which runs Ubuntu Linux. If I have Mozilla Thunderbird open (not minimized-- haven't checked minimized), it's taking 96% of the CPU cycles, leaving F@H with only 1- 2%.

So, regardless of the OS you're running, you might want to check periodically against "top", or Windows Task Manager and see if any of the applications you leave running on a regular basis are hogging the CPU.

[processing please hold]

Can you explain this?

Donator Rank 78693 of 593298
WU 68 (certificate)
Date of last work unit
2006-12-09 12:18:54
Active processors (within 50 days) 2
Active processors (within 7 days) 1

It shows my 2nd processor accepting, folding and sending back the wu. But, that doesn't jive with it now showing only 1 processor. That's 3wu's we're not getting credit for.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Can anyone help me? My graphic version stopped being able to connect with the server, so I tried the console one only to have the same problem after a few days. I'm stuck on what to do now.