Posted on 03/25/2013 12:13:00 AM PDT by thatsmyshin
Edited on 03/25/2013 12:38:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Maybe a veteran Freerepublic.com member who folds can chime in with links and extra information for curious readers.
I joined the Free Republic Folders for the Gipper....and because I wanted to help a team that was slipping off of the top 100 page. I wasn't even aware of Freerepublic.com until I noticed the folding team...therefore, staying on the top 100 page is beneficial to this site.
If you search for, and start folding@home on your own, kudos! Our team number is 36120.....get to it!
Someone help me out here!
Update with additional information from Texas Booster's thread here:
It has been a while since our last Free Republic Folding@Home update.
The team has seen growth in the past couple of years as contributors have added high performance GPUs from NVidia and AMD/ATI, and same consoles such as the PS3.
The team started in 2001 with a few volunteers, and grew dramatically in 2005 as we started actually posting regular threads.
As we grew from a Top 2000 team to a Top 100 team, we attracted the attention of DU. After a couple of years of name calling, they realized that merely boasting that you can beat the opposition means nothing if you can't back it up. They float in the Top 300 due to the strength of two primary folders. Still, they have folded for nearly 8 years and we thank them for that.
Today the FR team 36120 folds about 330 individual computers, down from our peak of about 1,800 systems. However, the team is currently averaging 250,000 ppd, many times greater than we have ever accomplished.
If you have a computer running Windows, Linux or OS X, or a PS3, then you can start folding very quickly. Look here for starting instructions:
Why would you fold? There are multiple distributed computing groups searching for everything from cryptography to SETI. I started folding after helping in the original Genome@Home project, as scientists worked to complete the first sequencing of the human genome.
Now I fold to advance the science of treating diseases. A partial list of diseases that the project has worked on include:
Alzheimer's Disease
Mad Cow (BSE)
CJD
ALS
Huntington's Disease
Parkinson's Disease
and many cancers
Read the thread and PLEASE ask questions. I will try to answer all questions that are posted.
If we could reach 100 active folders and 1000 systems, we would see our output double. While we fold to cure diseases, a race to the top is always fun.
bump...
Still at 102 but lots of “dead” accounts.
For some reason I quit in 2009 and only recently started again.
Looks as if it may be down to just you ‘n’ me, brother; nobody on the team has put up any numbers this week.
All of my CPU’s got shuffled offline about three years ago, so I got derailed short of my first million points, although I did punch out over 5,100 Work Units.
This evening I pointed my browser to the Folding At Home website, which has been completely renovated, and saw that there’s now a browser app for Chrome that enables users to run folding in a browser tab, even if they don’t have any of the FAH software installed.
In just the last hour my CPU pounded out a whole Work Unit. Not bad!
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