Did you guys scare DU with this??
Posted on 05/28/2007 8:53:40 AM PDT by texas booster
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
Our FreeRepublic team of 460 members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing have banded together to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via distributed computing, millions of computers around the world, contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).
Currently, the team is in 54th place (with 1050 active CPUs - 123,500 completed Work Units and 24.75 million points).
Please take the time this Memorial Day weekend to run the F@H program and contribute to the basic research that may one day save YOUR life.
This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want more details, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 30+ folding threads)
Finally. As in I FINALLY got my home box back on-stream with a new 2.4G P4. The old CPU still works, but can no longer withstand high demand for more than a few minutes. Running FAH for 3 minutes at 100% will cause it to stop processing. Running FAH at 50% demand for five minutes does likewise. So, it’s out, and the 2.4G CPU is in.
All that from a duck bridging a pair of 40kV lines out front. Had I known it wouldl be this much trouble, I’d have at least collected the dead duck, dressed it out and eaten it. That danged bird’s errant flight plan has cost me a $150!
Hello. I am trying to keep four computers working on the project, although my wife’s old HP Pavilion 734n is not too happy with the load and sometimes stalls out (makes my wife cranky if it interferes with her computer time so sometimes I just run it overnight).
Ah the joys of electronics.
An old roommate was chief engineer for KVTT radio in Dallas, and later a Tv station in Dallas.
He had a lightning strike jump their professional grade lightning arrestor, flow into the equipment room zapping things at random and finally killed an expensive piece of equipment. Nothing else was killed, just weakened.
They were replacing weakened components for months after that. Blew their entire equipment budget in six months.
I recently brought a 734n back to life. If the system is clean (no dust), then load it up with RAM. It will take 2 GBs if you want to spend that much.
Faster video and a better hard drive are also nice. The HD is only 5400 rpm, and now 7200 rpm is standard. A new ATI video card will run the GPU core well and speed up the system a lot.
This type of system will run very well with 1 Gb of RAM after a thourough defrag of the drive.
I also set slower systems down to 60% to 80%, and set breakpoints to 30 minutes. F@H is not supposed to slow systems down much, but in real life the hard drive writes can take a while (20 seconds).
I am running the ATI X1650 AGP card with 512 MB. Not the fastest, but I didn’t need a new power supply just for the video card. It gets about 150 ppd by itself.
Thanks... it’s been fun. I lost several WUs a few weeks back when the AC decided to stop running. The study is hot enough as it is, but I kept the primary machine running (have to email and FReep), but everything else was shut down.
Check out this article about a possible immune-based vaccine therapy against Alzheimer's. It would go a long way to delivering the medicines and treatments directly to neurons.
This is a level or two above the molecular research that we do. If promising, then F@H could work well to tailor a regimen against Alzheimer's.
I just gave my system some new innards and more, faster memory. Should be pumping them out at least twice as fast for the FR team now.
How FUnnie that the DU’ers most recent F@H thread is deleted, and their second most recent thread was from over one year ago. sure have a short attention span, don’t they. And to think they wree bragging about how they were ‘catching up!...
Congrats for hitting the 200,000 point mark. You have faithfully plowed through every work unit for a long time and now are in the BIG leagues!
Way to go!
Unfortunately, my contributions are dropping for a few months anyway.
The team however is cranking, that’s great!
Go team!
Thanks to all for your folding contributions. Every little bit helps.
And thanks, texas booster, for posting this new thread.
Keep on foldin’.
Actually they got flustered when a DUmmie deep linked to a FReeper graphic. The FReeper switched the graphic with a map of the US showing Bush Country (I think). Wow, they had some foul language on that thread!
After listening to the DUmmies berate FReepers for not sticking to folding, and how they were going to run us down, we just stuck to folding. Last I checked we were about 20,000,000 points ahead of them.
Can’t you schedule a trip to some exotic port-of-call, like China, and borg systems over there?
Hey, we will keep a spot open for you!
Very glad to see your smiling fingers on one of our threads!
Did you guys scare DU with this??
Not China you silly goose.
Honduras. We’ve moved there, it’s a stable country with a reasonable labor pool. We’re seeing others go there.
I will fix more cpus in July on my next trip. I’ll add up 20+, but for now, it’s going to lag.
Unrelated, you’re going to see companies pulling out of China and moving to central America. Lead times drop from many weeks to a few days.
Thanks for the recognition...
For those of us with new multi-processor computers, F@H has new versions of the Folding @ Home software that will take advantage of the second, third, fourth or what have you cores. It is called Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP). It is still in Beta but could increase our productivity!
Check it out:
Thanks for blazing the trail... I appreciate the ropes, pitons and clamps...
Most welcome! Congrats!
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