FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're Now # 55 of all teams with 20,000,000 Points

Stanford University Folding@Home Distributed Computing Project ^ | 03/03/2007 | Stanford University

[texas booster]

Time for a new Free Republic Folding@home thread.

Our Free Republic team of 428 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 55th place (with 1,025 active CPUs - 106,120 completed Work Units and 20.25 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 30+ folding threads)

[papasmurf]

Bump for a Hello all!

:O)

P

[Drango]

Bump back to you and happy ides of March.

[Drango]

I'm getting a pop-up authentication/password request from a "udrive4us" site? Anyone got an idea what that is?

[Mount Athos]

i just got same thing. Very odd. Only when displaying this particular page, never anywhere else.

[papasmurf]

My apologies for the pop up. My webhost decided to change the authentication process for my site and ftp. I'm in the process of correcting the resulting mess.

I'm really very sorry for the inconvience.

:O)

P

[Drango]

My apologies...

Not needed...We are all in the same boat. WE THANK YOU for folding and bringing others in to fold with us. Fold on.

[texas booster]

Sorry for being away for the past several days.

Folding@Home has finally released a BETA SMP client for Windows. This is great news for anyone that has a dual core chip and is running Windows, not Linux or OS/X.

It means better utilization of your CPU to fold and advance science. It might also mean more points for you, not that any of us fold for points ... ;')

I will not be able to touch this for at least a week. If any of the gurus out there have time to install into a fresh dual core system please help us by experimenting with F@H SMP.

Chips that work are any Intel Core 2 Duo chips and any AMD X2 chip.

Remember, this is a beta and there will be work unit failures. The payback is potentially hundreds of points per day from one system, and the full potential of new chips in Windows running F@H.

THANK YOU ALL!

[texas booster]

Sorry for being away for the past several days.

Folding@Home has finally released a BETA SMP client for Windows. This is great news for anyone that has a dual core chip and is running Windows, not Linux or OS/X.

It means better utilization of your CPU to fold and advance science. It might also mean more points for you, not that any of us fold for points ... ;')

I will not be able to touch this for at least a week. If any of the gurus out there have time to install into a fresh dual core system please help us by experimenting with F@H SMP.

Chips that work are any Intel Core 2 Duo chips and any AMD X2 chip.

Remember, this is a beta and there will be work unit failures. The payback is potentially hundreds of points per day from one system, and the full potential of new chips in Windows running F@H.

THANK YOU ALL!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Quix]

Thanks.

Better not risk the beta on my tricky system.

Please let me know when it's debugged.

Blessings,

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks TB for the ping. I've been considering learning Linux to make use of one of these moldy old PC's in this effort. How has the team ranking been? Stable, gaining ground, losing ground, fluctuating...

[texas booster]

http://forum.folding-community.org/forum60,smp-for-windows-beta.html

Here is the link to the Pande group's "SMP for Windows" forum. All the links to the SMP beta that you will need are there, plus lots of threads about getting the clients running smoothly.

[HKMk23]

I spent a few moments dorking around and found that FR doesn't seem to recognize many of the listed topics. Tried to add "vanity; culture; misc" and got an error stating that vanity and culture were unknown topics. This despite the fact that they're listed as valid topics here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/topics

I did finally get misc to work, so we've advanced from nonexistence to miscellaneous; an improvement of degree if not actual substance.

[texas booster]

We have passed around 50,000 teams so far, and are intruding into the domain of the old teams that have been around forever.

#55 this week, #54 next week.

We have learned to live with the ups and downs of Klutz's systems. They are mostly turned off on the weekends, so we see a tremendous pop on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

The only teams that are gaining on us are those teams full of Linux systems running SMP on multiple cores. One user is gathering almost 50,000 ppd on 51 systems, thanks to the Linux SMP work units.

We have really done well, considering that the team was mostly dormant until December 2005. Over 400 user names have contributed, and we have about 200 regular contributors.

As always, we are donating time and energy towards making a real difference in medical research.

[Mount Athos]

I went from rank 100+ to 60 since upgrading to dual core on my one machine.

I'm going to have to kick the plug a month and a half though

[texas booster]

Nah, these systems don't generate THAT much heat!

[brityank]

We're in 'General/Chat', so the Topic list is limited.

I added 'Reference' and 'Science' for it; 'Miscellaneous' was already there.

Fold on.

[HKMk23]

Thanks.

I see, now, how the whole "Add Topic" function works; if your thread isn't posted in a forum that contains a specific topic, you cannot add that topic to the thread. Being in General/Chat, the topics available are listed here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/topics

But that list isn't the same as the topic list available for News/Activism threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/topics

Look at both pages and compare the items under "General Interest". "Vanity" is listed as a News/Activism topic, but not a "General/Chat" topic, so it cannot be added to this thread. OTOH, I was able to add "Miscellaneous" because it appears in both lists.

Maybe what's most confusing about this is that the "Topics" link on the FR homepage doesn't navigate to a "master list" of topics, but links to the "News/Activism" topics list, instead, which are only applicable to threads poted in "News/Activism".

BKM (sorry for the corporatespeak) is to navigate to the "Forums" page, and pick the "topics" link displayed to the right of the forum in which the thread is posted to which you want topics added. Then, all of the topics on the displayed list will be valid for the thread you're targeting.

[brityank]

Yes, it depends on which master list you're under.

Browse by Forum
Bloggers & Personal
General/Chat
GOP Club
News/Activism
Religion
RLC Liberty Caucus
Smoky Backroom
VetsCoR

I have my forum page set to 'All of the above' so I get to see everything. If you pick one then hit the "Post Article" link at the top, you can then see which topics that thread will list by hitting the button next to "Topics". You have to select one to four for the News forum; not sure that you have to in the others.

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, 51 systems... I guess I'll have to learn something new. Just a guess, the Linux systems are such low overhead they're probably the best choice for this. And it isn't as if I need the machines for anything else.