FR Folding@Home Project Update - Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour

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[kinoxi]

I’ve got a few old ,functional, boxes lying around. How can they help?

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Thank you very much for adding your systems to the team.

Fire up the systems running at least Win XP and as much memory as you have. Video card speed doesn’t mean much. Nothing less than a 500 mhz chip makes sense any more.

Check out the instructions in post 5 for links.

Download F@H 5.04 into a new folder (I use F@H). Run it from there and answer a few questions:

Name - kinoxi
Team - 36120
Launch automatically? - Yes
Ask before fetching? - no
Use IE settings? - no
Use proxy? - no (few use a proxy server to get to the Internet)

These are the most common settings. Here is a wiki detailing additional settings for the console:

http://fahwiki.net/index.php/How_do_I_reconfigure_the_console_client_options%3F

You will be able to follow your points here:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=36120

More tomorrow!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[dfwddr]

Hi Al.
LMK if you have any questions, or need any help setting it up.

dfwddr

[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.

[Republican Babe]

ping

[texas booster]

Folding@home is easy to get started. Please look here for the download and ping us if you have any questions!

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html

I hope that you are dry finally. We keep getting rain every day. The horses have mudded up the barn beyond belief.

[texas booster]

My bad. Folding@home is still running on Windows 98/Me systems using the version 4.00 GUI client. You should have 128 MB of RAM.

Instructions are located here:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/winstructions.html

The older systems you have will live to fold another day, even with 98.

[texas booster]

BTW, anyone can also get their Playstaion 3 to fold when not playing games.

F@H uses the cell processor to rip through the dynamics of water molecule interaction on these proteins.

About 30,000 of these babies are working for F@H now, and getting a tremendous amount of work accomplished.

It is at the Sony Store menu.

[Route66]

Bump for new folders.
Please join the team. It’s easy and rewarding.

[Drango]

Proud to be foldin’ bump.

[ken in texas]

Thanks for the new thread and your effort in keeping this going.

I noticed that I've now been pushed out of 16th place... congrats to all of you helping the cause!!!

[texas booster]

I almost have the wife talked into a new Playstation 3.

For games for the kids, you know....

Even my kids know that it is for me to run F@H on.

Lotsa points from that baby!

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

I came across the F@H site after following a link on a Neurology forum on which I got a crash course in Multiple Sclerosis after my dx and joined F@H under the team based on that website.

Would you know if it is possible to switch/transfer my (ID/work unit count or anything else, especially points)from the original group to the FR folding team?
Just curoius, thank you very much!

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F@H realized early on that folks wanting to change teams would happen. The answer is no.

I can’t even get them to delete a couple of users from DU that are obviously Reagan haters, and posted only to embarrass us. Well, we keep the names and we keep the points.

If you are running the GUI F@H then you can change your team on the control panel. (Team 36120) I prefer that folks use their FReepname on our team, just so we can ping them to new threads and FReepmail when we see a problem.

If you are running the console F@H let me know and I will send you instructions. If you have a Playstaion 3 or a Mac then post here for help.

Your name is up to you, your team is your choice (36120!) and I will help you as best I can wherever you fold.

We would be honored to have you join our humble band.

[texas booster]

Well, your first work unit has completed for the FReeper team.

You will still have your points from the Braintalk team. It looks like they are fairly quiet over there.

Check out your points here:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=260675

Please ping us if you have any questions, or if you just want to talk. ;)

[texas booster]

I have been playing with 3 Vista systems this weekend and am having trouble setting up F@H under Vista.

I am being told bt Vista that I can’t run F@H as a service since I am not logged in as the administrator. However, my profile lists me as the administrator!

To make matters worse, on one dual core system I have core 2 running F@H as a service, thank you very much M$. The other core keeps complaining that I must be logged in as administrator, and won’t run after restart.

What in the world I am doing wrong? It’s probably pretty easy, but I must not be thinking well at after an all nighter. I have one Vista Bland and two Vista premiums.

Many thanks and a donation to the FReepathon if we can get this solved. Plus three more folding systems.

[zeugma]

Why should F@H need to be administrator? Weird.

[shadowscotland]

Two post from my teams forum should help:

You have to run the console with administrative provledges. Start -> Accessories -> Command Prompt Right click on the icon and select run with administrative privileges. cd to your FAH directory and run the client. You will then be able to install the service.

Vista caused me lots of problems until I found “Run as administrator” and “Run in compatibility mode.” Either/of of those two solve most of my headaches.

[shadowscotland]

PS3 ‘upgrade’

Quad core upgrade to a C2D system beats the PS3 in PPD.
A new mobo/ram/E6320 running SMP also beats the PS3 in production at only half the price.
Especially when the end of the month price cuts arrive :o)

If F@H is all it’s going to do - I’d spend my money on something that give best bang-for-buck on F@H imho