Posted on 12/23/2006 12:24:32 PM PST by texas booster
Merry Christmas to all of the folders among the ranks of Free Republic!
We have reached #57 on the list of teams worldwide, 3 FReepers are in the Top 1,000 of all folders and we are stomping the bejebers out of the DUmmies and Daily Kos.
A year ago we were just beginning to expand. Now we have about 170 regular contributors with nearly 1,050 computers using F@H as their screensaver.
Folding@Home makes a real difference in basic research into such diseases as Alheimer's, Parkinson's and BSE.
All it takes is a little free time to download the core, which runs in the background. Safe, clean and effective!
Currently, the team is in 57th place (with 1,050 active CPUs - 89,000 completed Work Units and 17.10 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 20+ folding threads).
Thank you and a very Merry Christmas to you and your families!
Pinging over to a new thread. We will be looking back at what we have accomplished the last year and Howdying out to friends that we have made.
Keep on folding!
Pinging over to a new thread. We will be looking back at what we have accomplished the last year and Howdying out to friends that we have made.
Keep on folding!
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 !!
Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic
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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
Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software
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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #17 #18 #19 #20#21#22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27
While the nature of the fold is determined by the sequence, it is encoded in a very complicated manner. Thus, protein folding can be seen as a connection between the genome (sequence) and what the proteins actually do (their function).
There has been a lot of discussion on results of genetic research. The Folding@Home project is an excellent way to contribute to the research!
Thank you very much for joining the team.
Your system is folding away. Please ping us if you have any questions or need configuration help.
BTTT
Team # 36120 bump
Bumpity bump.
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.
Available features include:
http://jmol.sourceforge.net/fah/
Here is a link to a library of the molecules that we solve.
Grab a protein, right click and you can set the spin. Will rotate so you can see all sides.
Fun to play with!
OK, I joined and I guess it's working because I got pictures of silver, blue and pink popcorn balls on my screen that keep changing shape.
Which work unit are you folding?
I am working on p_2125_lambda_5way_melt. It takes about a week to finish.
Great to have you on board!
I'm down one machine at the moment but still chugging along.
Every little bit helps.
Join the FReeper team and Fold @ Home!!!
...thanks for your posts, TX!!
Merry Christmas Folding Bump!
I got a little p3301_ribcomp. It's going by increments of two. It says 50 frames, But, I'm up to 56 frames already. Could that be a messup somewhere?
p2138_ww2138 says it will be finished on 31 Dec 06....whatever that means...
No, one frame "clock" increments by even numbers (50 or 100) and the other frame clock is exact.
A detailed explanation is found here:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/allprojects#2127
and scroll down to p2138.
"The villin headpiece is a fragment of the protein villin, and is formed from three helices which are packed together. Villin is a protein that helps maintain a mesh of fibers (made from the protein actin) that serves as a sort of skeleton for the cell."
In particular, p2138 is using an improved treatment for the electrostatic forces.
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