Posted on 06/19/2007 5:26:05 AM PDT by texas booster
Time for awards to be passed out for the FReepers who have pushed the team past 25 Million points.
For the old timers, you never thought we wuld see the day, huh? We had threads when we topped a million points as a team and threads when we blew the doors off the DUmmies team and silenced their boasting (what ever happened to them?).
In this thread if you have seen a huge contribution to the team then please recognize the poster and let us know so we can all shout out to them.
Cheering and noisemakers to all!
Hey, thanks for the ping.
Still trundling along and hanging onto the #71 position by the skin of my teeth.
The office box is chewing on Work Unit #144, right now, and the Home box has it’s 179th in-process.
Still bashing the bugs out of the home PC after my power problem over a month ago. I’ve replaced the power supply, and the CPU, and brought an APC Back-UPS ES on stream to condition the incoming A/C and prevent any future power problems.
With all of that, though, the machine is still freezing, on occasion, wholly without warning. I’ve got a sensor between my CPU heatsink and the back wall of my case that sounds a piercing tone if it gets above 110F (43C). With that installed, I’ve continued to operate the computer, and I note that the “seizures” seem independent of CPU temperature, so the cause is something I haven’t changed, yet.
At this point I’m not sure whether I’d rather replace my ECC RDRAM or my motherboard. Replacing the RAM would not disrupt my XP Pro installation as much, but would cost more. Replacing the motherboard might make the O/S refuse to boot, something I’m not really ready to tackle. XP Pro CAN be “fooled” into “fixing” itself, even if you’ve made hardware changes that affect the HAL, but it’s not 100% and not a risk I want to take.
Know any utilities that can sucessfully test ECC type memory without getting false positive results; that is reporting things are okay, when they’re not?
I'm about 20-30 miles north of Dallas, depending on how you measure it.
Only three machines running right now... sometimes I'll have one or two others available for a week or two and I'll crank them up.
Looks like I'll lose my #16 slot very soon. Thanks to all of the rest of you that have joined in.
Download the Memtest86 iso from http://www.memtest.org/ and burn it to a cd. Boot from the cd and let it run for a couple of passes. It tests memory by writing a value to the memory location and then reading that location to see if it is the same value. If it finds an error it will tell you the value written to memory and the value read. I use it almost daily in my job.
While I always read the Fry’s ad, I have just about given up buying at the stores in Dallas/Fort Worth.
Too many boomerangs that require too much time to return and replace. I spend $12 on gas and two hours of my time (three last Monday). Just gets old.
OTOH, I still like brick and mortar retailers. The Frys ad is very useful in getting local merchants to price match.
I hate it when the intermittent gremlins show up. I have a system that runs great until I need to do something important, then it locks up.
Sometimes I hate computers.
But I still love Folding. Spent 5 hours Monday night cleaning up Winders for a friend who has no job. Just asked him to keep the systems running F@H for at least a month while he job searches.
I’ll second memtest.
Seems to do a very good job in testing memory.
BTW, that’s amazing that you have done over 300 work units in about a year. Just two boxes chugging along.
Love it.
I’m 4741 miles from Dallas....
and 2,470th in the world rankings (as I fold for OcUK) so I’m chasing TB but he’s 100k ahead and pulling away :o)
As ever thanks to egon for the FahMonitor and TB for the ping.
Thanks for the recommendation for Memtest86; I’ll give that a shot.
On the one hand, I hope it finds something, because that’ll mean I’ve pinned down my actual problem. On the other hand, I hope it finds nothing, because motehrboards are cheaper than ECC RDRAM.
Ahh, those fabulous folding machines and the men who maintain them...
I expected that you would hold the hat for the furthest folding, unless we could find a laptop in Iraq or Afghanistan that would volunteer.
Did you use Google maps to find the closest way to drive here? Every now and then someone at Google will insert a spoof of the driving directions.
I didn’t realize that I broke into the top 2,000 worldwide. You should be there soon it seems.
Did you ever toss a system onto Team 36120 just we could track you better?? ;’)
Fry’s is a mixed deal; they chew their employees up and spit out their bleached bones (my pastor’s Father got canned by them years ago because he had the timerity to prioritize his family above his job there), but they have some of the best prices, but they’re a “big box” kind of atmosphere where getting really competent help can be a longshot, but they’ll haggle with you and cut pricing in certain circumstances, but you’ve got to go in knowing what you want or you can get “Fried”.
I found a book on Photoshop (”1001 Photoshop Tips and Tricks”, IIRC) that had obviously been on their shelf for a very long time; had a tear in the cover and actually looked like it had gone home with someone and come back. I pulled it down and said I wouldn’t pay the sticker price for it ($60) owing to its condition, but would gladly buy it for $20 less. They found the guy who had authority to make that deal and I got the book for my price.
I most always check out http://pricewatch.com/ before I go buy at a brick-and-mortar establishment. I look at the pricing shown there for reputable brands of the item(s) I’m considering and use that as a baseline for my shopping.
When I know a certain manufacturer is top-tier in their market, I’ll often pay more for their product, and I usually try to buy directly from them. I did that with the power supply I just got from PC Power & Cooling. Those guys know their stuff; I highly recommend their products.
I’ve actually got something of an advantage because I work in Silicon Valley and commute through Milpitas/Fremont, and there are several hardware distributors in the area. More than once I’ve checked pricing on-line, then driven to the distributor’s location and bought what I wanted at their “Will Call” desk.
Try that in central Nebraska.
Well, I’ll be managing mine from Okinawa in a few weeks. Is that far enough? The systems are in Kansas.
Okinawa!
Maybe you could trade a dinner for a civilian system that could help?
Probably going to be on base the whole time. Will try to get a few new folding freepers though (won’t be the first time).
After all it doesn’t really matter if they fold in my name, rather that they fold for us and make the DUmmies look bad.
More proof that liberals don’t know real charity.
Hey... I just noticed that I passed 100,000 points!
I guess I have not checked in a while.
It would be nice to add some more active folders to the team and increase our momentum.
Lurkers.... Sign up. :-)
My good friend Jeff died June 12, 2007 from Huntingtons.
I’m bumping this thread in hopes that there will be others that can help us by using their spare cpu cycles to help find a cure or treatment for these terrible diseases.
Here is the national website for Huntingtons: http://www.hdsa.org/site/PageServer
Here is my State of Wisconsin chapter: http://www.hdsawi.org/
Both sites will accept donations
Please help us find a cure.
A big part of Folding@home research has been geared toward Huntington’s Disease. Many of the proteins we fold are geared to finding the minute changes in a protein that causes it to clump.
It is very easy to run the Folding program. Just follow the links above. Ping this thread if you need help.
From the Folding Education page:
HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE (HD) is caused by the aggregation of a different type of proteins. Some proteins have a repeat of a single amino acid (glutamine, often abbreviated as “Q”). These poly-Q repeats, if long enough, form aggregates which cause HD.
We are studying the structure of poly-Q aggregates as well as predicting the pathway by which they form. Similar to AD, these HD studies, if successful, would be useful for rational drug design approaches as well as further insight into how HD aggregates form kinetically (hopefully paving the way for a method to stop the HD aggregate formation).
Click here to view the molecule in a Java applet, moving and spinning:
Most of the simulations that we run consist of 40,000 atoms, all the way up to 90,000 atoms.
The PS/3 and the GPU folders get subslices of these molecules and will focus on how water molecules, for example, change the dynamics of protein folding.
You know, I wonder why they can do all this chemistry, and all this programming, but they can't even get a help sentence correct on the page.
(You do NOT use "alt-click" on a Mac - the option key is only labeled "alt" for use with Windows, and it's the CONTROL key that brings up a context menu, and it's been that way for 15+ years...).
Bump from Nashville, 673 miles away.
Lurkers, please see post 36 as to why we do this.
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