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Free Republic has a voluntary team of folks who donate their computers towards the basic research of protein folding to find a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Huntingdon's Disease and many, many others.

This thread will discuss the updates to Folding@home that have been published this summer.

We strongly encourage you to look at your old computers to make sure they are still folding, and to install the newest clients on your new computers so that you can be a part of a brighter future for us all.

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Pings out to the folding team.

Please check your systems and the folding logs to ensure that they are still folding PING.

If you paid for your kids computer and sent them off to school, be sure that these shiny new systems are Folding for Team Reagan!

Young people may not see a time when they are older, but we sure do.

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Pings out to the folding team.

Please check your systems and the folding logs to ensure that they are still folding PING.

If you paid for your kids computer and sent them off to school, be sure that these shiny new systems are Folding for Team Reagan!

Young people may not see a time when they are older, but we sure do.

[Ancient Drive]

I want to join! what’s Fr’s folding team name?

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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

Folding@home New Forum

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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

#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 #48 #49

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Did you know that your new fancy and FAST video cards can now benefit F@H? Check it out:

From the Pande blog:

GPU2 WU's in "production mode"

As of last Monday, the GPU2 projects (both NVIDIA and ATI) have been in production mode, which means that we've moved on from testing to direct research on them. The ATI cards have bee in production for a while (more than one month before) and we're starting to write our first peer reviewed scientific paper deriving from the results.

We're very excited about the GPU2 possibilities right now, since we are getting incredible production from GPU2 clients. Once the first paper has been formally accepted by peer review, I'll talk more about the results.

BTW, the 512 MB nVidia 8800 GT+ seems to be the best folding per $$ video card available today.

I am hoping that the new ATI announcements will spur additional price decreases and allow us to really increase our performance.

[Straight Vermonter]

BTTT

[Straight Vermonter]

With the 6.20 (classic & GPU) and 6.22 (SMP) clients out...

I'm still using 5.03, is the 6.20 much faster?

[Fire_on_High]

I can kick it up a notch on my second machine as soon as they add a client that isn’t so bloody confusing. Right now I’m just running the basic one so SOMETHING gets done, but it’s capable of a lot more.

[ThomasThomas]

891 of my 1336 WUs came from my PS3 Sony Play Station.

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Just a ping to let you know about our latest F@H thread.

[Drango]

Well I’ve got a lot of reading to do...my NEW system is a Dell XPS One with a core 2 duo E6550 (2.33 ghz)and an ATI 2400, but only 256mb, which may be too small to fold with the GPU. Not the fastest machine around but it should do OK, if I download the right client and configure it correctly.

[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.

[BellStar]

FOLDING PING!

[houeto]

Bump.

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Your first folding point are now posted:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=369959

Thank you for helping out!

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Your first folding point are now posted:

Karmal:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=369959

Nik Naym:

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=369713

Thank you for helping out!

[EasySt]

Congrats to andyk, who should pass the TWO MILLION points mark by early next week!

Free Republic Folders


With a little luck, perhaps I'll be there in four months or so...

Free Republic Folders

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Thanks for donating the PS3.

The unit will run 24/7 without heat damage, will crank out an amazing amount of points, and will slightly raise your power bill.

Worth it if we get a cure.

[papasmurf]

I just traded into a Dell Inspiron 530. It has a GeForce 8600GT w/256mb on it, with a 1.80mhz dual core processor.

How would you advise setting it up?

Thanks,

papa

[EasySt]

Congrats to NAPA_Laurel_MS on passing One Million Points!

Laurel was the closest Freeper name I could find.
Apologies if NAPA_Laurel_MS != laurel...