FR Folding@Home Project Update - Congratulations to the New Leaders!

Stanford University's Folding@Home Stats page ^ | 06/20/2007 | Texas Booster

[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!

[texas booster]

First, what is up with Malsua? He lets us know production is going to be down then he explodes with 28,000 points in a day! Wow, keep this up and we will give you the Klutz Big Kahuna award!

Check it out:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=168164

Now which FReeper has the systems furthest from, say, DALLAS TX? Central to the USA, where most of our CPUs are located.

I'll start - I am 30 miles away and have systems that live as far away as 120 miles (lappies excluded).

Please fill the thread with all the WOW! factor that we felt when we first hit 5,000 ppd, and then to have Klutz start folding that many by himself.

[texas booster]

Pinging the mighty masses to the new Folding thread!

[texas booster]

Pinging the mighty masses to the new Folding thread!

On or off the Ping list, let me know.

[Drango]

Malsua b on steroids?

I’m folding from the San Francisco Bay Area.

[texas booster]

Really, I haven’t seen that kind of movement, since Thompson’s poll results in the last three months. Up, up, up.

Congrats to JosephW to climbing to #5 on the big chart, and #1 producer of points!

Check out your individual points here:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=36120

Lets see, at this rate JosephW will pass Klutz in only 13 years.

I thought of using Stanford as the center of the folding map, but didn’t want to diss the Californians who are folding in the middle of the Left Coast.

[Izzy Dunne]

I am right at 2,000 miles from Dallas.
# 163 on the whodunnit list.

[Malsua]

First, what is up with Malsua? He lets us know production is going to be down then he explodes with 28,000 points in a day!

Heh, nothing so sinister. I suspect it's that a number of machines have been offline for so long and they all popped in. Either that or it's just wrong. I should be ramping up slowly, not like that.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[JosephW]

Well this week I’m home, but I’m normally more than a thousand miles away (quite often further as I travel overseas alot). Keeping the systems up while away is quite a chore.

[texas booster]

2,000 miles? Gotta help us out by putting a flag on your FR home page.

You are #130 on the points produced page.

How long have you been folding for FR? Over a year now?

[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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[LonePalm]

My system is on the Jersey Shore.

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)

[LanPB01]

I have five to seven machines folding at any given time in Greensboro, NC, and usually two machines (including one PS3) in Gibsonville, NC.

[Egon]

My shameless self-promotion for this thread:

If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me or follow the links below.

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

Links

• Team Page
• Instructions

Please Freepmail me with any questions.

[Egon]

Irk. Sorry. That was meant for “All”.

[Incorrigible]

I’m just psyched to be staying in the top 100 consistently!

[Professional Engineer]

0 miles from Dallas

[Professional Engineer]

I’m just psyched to be staying in the top 100 consistently!

RedWing9 and I have been playing tag for #62 for a while now. LOL

[Straight Vermonter]

I’m folding 1,769 miles from Dallas.

Only 7,730 points in about a year and a half but I keep chugging.

[JosephW]

Every bit helps (and helps to bury DU as a contender)