[texas booster]

We often wonder what we are folding, and the pretty pictures of molecules don't really tell us much.

Dr. Kasson discusses the art of computer modeling as it relates to proteins and drug interaction.

Please consider joining the Free Republic folding team #36120 to use your idle computer time helping to advance medical research.

Remember the research that you contribute today may result in the cure that extends your life tomorrow!

[texas booster]

What better time to join the Free Republic Folding@home effort than a FReepathon during the Presidential election season!

Please consider donating to keep Free Republic running strong!

After donating, follow this thread and install the F@H kernal, or just check your systems to ensure that they are all folding for you and team 36120!

BTW, the update for ATI graphics cards should be out within a month.

[texas booster]

What better time to join the Free Republic Folding@home effort than a FReepathon during the Presidential election season!

Please consider donating to keep Free Republic running strong!

After donating, follow this thread and install the F@H kernal, or just check your systems to ensure that they are all folding for you and team 36120!

BTW, the update for ATI graphics cards should be out within a month.

[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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[1066AD]

I stopped running it because it won’t let the screen saver activate, tho’ it used to.

[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.

[agooga]

I fold for my parents, and all those who suffer. We can win!

[antiRepublicrat]

Think we can goad DU into producing more? Their rank is down at 192, with us at 54. Rub their noses in their failure to help their fellow man as opposed to the uncaring conservatives who are contributing about three times as much every day, seven times as much total.

It’ll only mean more towards curing disease if they take on the challenge.

[Drango]

Fold one for the Gipper bump.

[EasySt]

Warner goes Blu-ray exclusive!
This means the Blu-Ray versus HD-DVD format war is all but over.

HD-DVD fanboy meltdown, imminent... PS3 Folders rejoice!

Probably the best way to do Blu-Ray right now is with a Sony PlayStation 3.

$399 buys a 40GB PlayStation 3 with a built in Blu-Ray player. (This model uses the new low power consumption chip set.) The PS3 is Internet connected via Ethernet or wireless, can stream movies and music from your PC, plays games at up to 1080P, upscales and upconverts your existing DVDs nicely and its Internet network is free. (Unlike X-Box Live...)

The PlayStation 3's Operating System, along with its Blu-Ray player’s firmware, are easily updated from the Internet so the player is, and will remain, up to date with the current Blu-Ray Specification.

Also included as an option in the PlayStation 3 Operating System is Stanford’s “Folding at Home” application for performing distributed computing protein folding science to find cures for misfolded protein deseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s, etc. when your PS3 isn’t being used to play movies or games. (Good for around 900+ F@H points per day...)

[Freedom2specul8]

Marked to read...

[Bellflower]

ping

[DocRock]

According to Extreme Overclocking stats... we have achieved the status of the 50th most productive team in the world!

[HKMk23]

I posted my first WU exactly 20 months ago, and just broke the 100,000 mark TODAY!

WOO HOO!!

Next target is 500WU!

P-ding!!

[dfwddr]

BTTT

[colinhester]

Anyone know if an Intel P4 Hyper-thread chip can run two F@H programs? I picked up an old IBM for next to nothin’ and loaded F@H. Everything works fine, except I’m only at 50% CPU usage.

Should be getting WU sent back for this and two new systems within a few days. Got to get my numbers back up!

Thanks......Colin

[EasySt]

If you are folding on a PlayStation 3, and have not stopped and started your client in the last week or two, you might wish to do so now. There is a client update out for the PS3 folding application to V. 1.31, which fixes some network issues...

[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.

*******************************************

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

*******************************************
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?

**************************************************
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

**************************************
Past FreeRepublic Folding threads

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39 #40 #41 #42 #43 #44 #45 #46 #47

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Next month looks like a 3-way horse race to be the next “millionaire”.