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Please click on the above link to learn more about Alzheimer's Disease and its formation.

Abour 270 current FReepers make up the FRee Republic Folding Team # 36120. We have enrolled about 1,200 computers into a distributed computing effort dedicated to finding a cure for Alzheimer's Disease and other diseases that have their genesis in misfolded proteins.

FReepers are now one of the largest teams in terms of members, and in less than a year have climbed up to # 56 in the world in our contribution to the efforts.

Join us to help the basic research into a terrible disease.

Please ping us here when you sign on and PLEASE ping us if you have any questions!

1 posted on 07/07/2007 8:39:43 PM PDT by texas booster
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To: 1066AD; 11Bush; A.Hun; abner; AbsoluteGrace; Advil; aft_lizard; ahayes; aliquando; ambrose; AMD; ...

New FReeper Folding@home thread.

Please ping if you want on or off the list.


2 posted on 07/07/2007 8:40:58 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: kracker; krb; Ladypixel; LandJ; LanPB01; LearnsFromMistakes; Leofl; leow; LibWhacker; ...

New FReeper Folding@home thread.

Please ping if you want on or off the list.


3 posted on 07/07/2007 8:42:07 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

So what is it, you register with them, and you allow them to use part of your hard drive to store information, or what?

I’m extremely confused


4 posted on 07/07/2007 8:43:02 PM PDT by wastedyears (Freedom is the right of all sentient beings - Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime)
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To: 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?
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Stat Image Generator


Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software

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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads


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5 posted on 07/07/2007 8:44:02 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

pinged for when I’ve got a chance to look.


8 posted on 07/07/2007 9:03:48 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: texas booster
I lost my mom to that nasty disease last November
9 posted on 07/07/2007 9:05:25 PM PDT by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: texas booster

Reference bump.


11 posted on 07/07/2007 9:15:16 PM PDT by RhoTheta
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To: texas booster
"Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan"

Current production chart of our team, #36120.

13 posted on 07/07/2007 9:19:20 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster
I’ve got a few old ,functional, boxes lying around. How can they help?
21 posted on 07/07/2007 11:00:27 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: All
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:

Links

Please Freepmail me with any questions.

25 posted on 07/08/2007 5:35:29 AM PDT by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: 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.


29 posted on 07/08/2007 7:19:42 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster
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!
34 posted on 07/08/2007 6:07:30 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (Multiple Sclerosis may not kill me, but it's trying to annoy me to death! <><)
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To: texas booster

For the first time ever, I have a completed unit sitting in a queue. It was completed yesterday but couldn’t be turned in “to work server.” Same thing today.
Anybody else having this problem?


44 posted on 08/07/2007 5:33:10 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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