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!
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Here is what the villin protein looks like:
Kinda cute, for a protein.
Notice how curly the protein is? All proteins are rolled up inside the cell and must be uncurled to actually do anything. Stanford is doing detailed studies of this folding and unfolding, usually in the presense of water, sometimes with urea or or other molecules.
It is when these protein do NOT fold correctly that diseases can be manifested.
For the last couple days my folding@home protein says "Could not connect to Work Server." My husband is connected on two other computers and his says the same. Is this a problem with our computers or is everyone else getting the same message? It has been working well up until a couple days ago when my protein finished.
Are you using the GUI client or the Console? Do all three boxes have team 36120 and name "mschalock"?
The most common problem is that the client has "Use IE Settings". Make sure that that box is unchecked.
Also, if you have upgraded to IE 7 then consider IE 7 evil. Make sure that the client is not using IE Settings or a proxy.
One work unit was uploaded (p2124) to server 171.65.103.160 last Wednesday. Which computer could that be, and what do the logs say?
You can also track your stats here:
http://fahstats.com/usum.php?u=887886
Thanks. Shoot, there must be a large group of p3301 and they gave them all to me. I've got two more. My numbers will never go up if I keep getting 47 pointers. Oh well, luck of the draw I guess.
Lately most of my WUs have been 20K frame units, with some up to 50K. Today the new one is 25 frames. Hmmm
Oops! My bad. I just read through my log. It was 11 hours 55 minutes. {blush-blush}
:O)
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I would dare say, our progress is a testimony to the power of the wonderful people on FR.
You mean 2005, right?
;-)
p3301: These projects take advantage of the double precision core FahCore_79.exe. They examine the interaction of small molecules with the ribosome, using an explicit water model.
Doesn't that make you feel better now that you know what your baby is doing?
These are small cores (even if they are modeling 24,802 molecules) and should only take 5 to 8 hours.
If you or one of your talented family has time, ping Egon and get his monitor installed. He is a very good programmer and it will watch your systems for you.
Mail at ya!
It looks like you are getting bunches of small WUs. You'll get a big'un, then pop out 47 pointers every couple of hours.
Do you only have one machine crunching on these? Must be a nice system.
http://fahstats.com/usum.php?u=809533
Woohoo!! 48 points!
That screenshot was from the days when I used one name unique name for each system. If one stopped reporting I could go over and reboot the system.
From 48 points to 200,000 in just over a year. you have done quite well!
Whoops.... maybe I'll lay off the eggnog till a little later... LOL
As has everybody !!!! A big thanks to you for starting this team, and systematic for bringing it to our attention. I've had a lot of fun with this over the past year.
We're smack in the middle of the twelve days of Christmas wine here!
I need more nog to get rid of those sugarplums dancin' in my head.
One machine until recently. Now three.
Main system is my CAD workstation in the office.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thanks for the invite many moons ago. Thanks for all your (and others) hard work on this program. I'd name them all but, alas, I've had too much eggnog this night.
Shameless self-promotion my achin' behinney. I use your wonderful program almost every single day! Thanks Egon!!
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