[texas booster]

Ping to a new F@H thread, highlighting new PS3 software for all those $399 Blu-Ray players that we purchased for delivery on Tuesday.

[texas booster]

Ping to a new F@H thread, highlighting new PS3 software for all those $399 Blu-Ray players that we purchased for delivery on Tuesday.

[upchuck]

Ping. I think.

[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
Hey DUmmies, can't ya'll post a new thread at least once a year?

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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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[Drango]

Bump

Fold one for the Gipper.

[Company Man]

It speaks volumes about the PS3 that this is its most successful application.

[darkwing104]

The more I learn about the PS3 the more I am amazed at it's capability,

[agooga]

Yo, I downloaded the folding software and it’s running (for the Gipper), but the little window just says working and I’ve got 0.00% complete. When am I going to start seeing some results?

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Thanks TexasB. Nice development! Thanks again for telling me about the project in the first place.

Sony Might Have Gotten It Right with the PS3 from the Beginning
Softpedia | November 5th, 2007 | Filip Truta
Posted on 11/25/2007 1:38:14 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1930299/posts

[Egon]

FAHMonitor is currently offline. The server it sits on is in pieces in my shop. I was hoping to have the application converted to a new platform, and running on a different server (ASP conversion to RubyOnRails), but the new version is not yet ready for prime time.

My apologies to those of you who use the tool on a regular basis!

[brityank]

Found a great quote from Vijay Pande in Chicago Tribune - "Bit by bit, home computers aid science":

Yet not every scientific question lends itself to being solved by thousands of computers, each working on one tiny piece of the problem, Pande said.

"A pregnancy takes nine months, but you can't get nine women together and get it done in a month," he said. "Some problems can't be divided."

Can you imagine the PMS quotient in that operation?       :^)

[ThomasThomas]

I added one of my computers yesterday and a second the today, I used the same login name on both. Will this work?