Talk of nanotubes to deliver medicines may be the future, but there is a lot of hard work learning how to make it happen. How to pack the medicine inside the tube, how a protein may fold inside a tube and the effect of water molecules on such a small scale will all need to be examined before an effective delivery system utilizing nanotubes can be implemented.
To those not familiar with the Folding@Home distributed project please read on. We are here to help you get started!
We have reached #57 on the list of teams worldwide, 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!
We have reached #57 on the list of teams worldwide, 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!
We have reached #57 on the list of teams worldwide, 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!
Proud to b foldin' 4 the "Gipper"
If you have ever folded a p2061, p2066, p2067, p2071, p2074, p2076, p2094, p2097 or a p2098 assignment then you participated in this work.
One day we will have nanotube delivery of medicines and genetics. This is the hard work plowing new ground that needs to be done.
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?
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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads
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At #57, the climb is steep.
AoA Forum: 1/30/07
MozillaZine: 4/3/07
Linux: 4/9/07
Team 2ch: 6/27/07
Unfortunately we get passed by Team xtremesystems.org on 9/27/07.
The good news is that these dates are heavily weighted against us because it covers Christmas-New Year's week when many of Klutz_dohanger's servers are down.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
My head hurts, I gotta get me some aspirins. :(
Please Join the FR Team Bump
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.
Available features include:
[12:35:30] Writing local files
[12:35:31] Completed 21500 out of 25000 steps (86)
[12:37:56] Quit 101 - Fatal error: Box exploding.
[12:37:56]
[12:37:56] Simulation instability has been encountered. The run has entered a
[12:37:56] state from which no further progress can be made.
[12:37:56] This may be the correct result of the simulation, however if you
[12:37:56] often see other project units terminating early like this
[12:37:56] too, you may wish to check the stability of your computer (issues
[12:37:56] such as high temperature, overclocking, etc.).
[12:37:56] Going to send back what have done.
[12:37:56] logfile size: 8556
[12:37:56] - Writing 9109 bytes of core data to disk...
[12:37:56] ... Done.
[12:37:56]
[12:37:56] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END
[12:38:00] CoreStatus = 72 (114)
[12:38:00] Sending work to server
[12:38:00] + Attempting to send results
[12:38:03] + Results successfully sent
[12:38:03] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[12:38:07] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[12:38:07] + Attempting to get work packet
[12:38:07] - Connecting to assignment server
[12:38:08] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.65.83).
[12:38:08] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[12:38:08] Loaded queue successfully.
[12:45:39] + Closed connections
[12:45:44] [12:45:44] + Processing work unit
[12:45:44] Core required: FahCore_79.exe
[12:45:44] Core found.
[12:45:44] Working on Unit 07 [January 3 12:45:44]
[12:45:44] + Working ...
[12:45:44]
[12:45:44] *------------------------------*
[12:45:44] Folding@Home Double Gromacs Core
[12:45:44] Version 1.91 (April 11, 2006)
[12:45:44]
[12:45:44] Preparing to commence simulation
[12:45:44] - Looking at optimizations...
[12:45:44] - Created dyn
[12:45:44] - Files status OK
[12:45:45] - Expanded 1381063 -> 5334069 (decompressed 386.2 percent)
[12:45:45] - Starting from initial work packet
[12:45:45]
[12:45:45] Project: 3301 (Run 3645, Clone 0, Gen 1)
[12:45:45]
[12:45:46] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[12:45:46] Entering M.D.
[12:45:52] Protein: p3301_ribcomp
[12:45:52]
[12:45:52] Writing local files
[12:45:53] Extra SSE2 boost OK.
[12:45:55] Writing local files
[12:45:55] Completed 0 out of 25000 steps (0)
[14:00:41] Writing local files
[14:00:41] Completed 6000 out of 25000 steps (24)
[14:08:30] Quit 101 - Fatal error: Box exploding.
[14:08:30]
[14:08:30] Simulation instability has been encountered. The run has entered a
[14:08:30] state from which no further progress can be made.
[14:08:30] This may be the correct result of the simulation, however if you
[14:08:30] often see other project units terminating early like this
[14:08:30] too, you may wish to check the stability of your computer (issues
[14:08:30] such as high temperature, overclocking, etc.).
[14:08:30] Going to send back what have done.
[14:08:30] logfile size: 8454
[14:08:30] - Writing 9007 bytes of core data to disk...
[14:08:30] ... Done.
[14:08:31]
[14:08:31] Folding@home Core Shutdown: EARLY_UNIT_END
[14:08:33] CoreStatus = 72 (114)
[14:08:33] Sending work to server
Ok, there was one more that did the same thing, I didn't post it because too much space. I deleted the steps between the first and last numbered steps to save space. By looking at it can you tell what happened?
Almost done building my new rig - AMD3800+X2 / ATI X1900
Should smoke those little proteins.
I got a new dual core CPU installed and running with a folding process assigned to each one.
Just as an FYI:
The FAHMonitor will be offline for awhile tomorrow (Saturday) as I move my servers into a new rack.
You may see some red machines for a bit.
I am running Vista on an AMD machine with a dual core processor. Which version should I download?