[texas booster]

We will see lots of benchmarks hit this next week.

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan, will hit 25,000,000 points. Keep in mind that we have been publicized in just the last 18 months, so our growth is phenomenal.

On a personal front, the race is on to see if josephw will pass Texas Booster before TB hits 600,000 points. Lets just say that I have more faith in a Tony Romo field goal hold, than in my chances.

This weekend may be the one that shows Folding@home with over 1 petaflop in current production. Currently F@H is at 905 teraflops. The linky is here:

Worldwide Folding Stats by OS

Swordmaker and Route66_FreeRepublic will both break the 100,000 points barrier this week!

Both G&HLowry and LanPB01 will also hit 100,000 points in the next week! Next to lrenh, Malsua and Klutz these two have hit the 100,000 mark faster than anyone else on the team.

[texas booster]

Finally, a new Folding thread.

Please drop by and say Hello, especially if you are one of the new members!

On or off the ping list, let me know!

[texas booster]

Finally, a new Folding thread.

Please drop by and say Hello, especially if you are one of the new members!

On or off the ping list, let me know!

[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 user-name.
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

The Inner Life of a Cell

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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[Andyman]

Signed up! Thanks for organizing this.

[Drango]

Proud to b foldin’ for the Gipper.

[FrogMom]

Swordmaker and Route66_FreeRepublic will both break the 100,000 points barrier this week!

BAH! I hit it last week (or the week before ;).

Thx for your help!

[LanPB01]

If I could find a way around the Deep Freeze program in the computer lab where I work, I could have 26 more computers folding at all times. Still, I’m happy with the six processors I have running.

[FairWitness]

Hello. I am trying to keep four computers working on the project, although my wife’s old HP Pavilion 734n is not too happy with the load and sometimes stalls out (makes my wife cranky if it interferes with her computer time so sometimes I just run it overnight).

[antiRepublicrat]

I just gave my system some new innards and more, faster memory. Should be pumping them out at least twice as fast for the FR team now.

[Malsua]

Unfortunately, my contributions are dropping for a few months anyway.

The team however is cranking, that’s great!

[generally]

Go team!

Thanks to all for your folding contributions. Every little bit helps.
And thanks, texas booster, for posting this new thread.

Keep on foldin’.

[Swordmaker]

Swordmaker and Route66_FreeRepublic will both break the 100,000 points barrier this week!

Thanks for the recognition...

For those of us with new multi-processor computers, F@H has new versions of the Folding @ Home software that will take advantage of the second, third, fourth or what have you cores. It is called Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP). It is still in Beta but could increase our productivity!

Check it out:

F@H SMP FAQ

F@H SMP Downloads

[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

[JosephW]

I’ve had too many systems down for too long due to a bad circuit.

Since I’m traveling extensively at this time of year, I won’t have a chance to replace the breaker and have another circuit added until probably September at the earliest.

Brought up a minimal number of high value systems and should overtake you by about 650,000 I hope.

[IoCaster]

I’m on the road right now, so all of my systems are dormant. I’ll be back home in early July and should have 5 or so procs folding shortly thereafter.