Posted on 12/31/2005 8:43:40 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger
A continuation of the Freeper Folder Thread
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 it works:
You download a safe, tested program 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 to starting folding for Team FreeRepublic:
1.)Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page. Type in your desired username. 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 he were given exclusive access to all of the world’s supercomputers, Standford 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.
Summary - Folding Links of Interest (as compiled by Klutz Dohanger on the previous thread)
1. Where to get the Folding@home client
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
2. FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120
3. Extreme Overclockers stats for FreeRepublic.com
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
NOTE:
Only the top 2000 teams are included on Overclockers, and when a team reaches the top 800, individual stats are included.
4. Our Competition:
a. Democratic Underground
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157
b. Daily Kos
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48083
5. Another Statistics Page
a. Sortable Team Member Stats
http://fahstats.com/t.php?t=36120
b. Team Production
http://fahstats.com/tp.php?t=36120
c. Teams on the Radar Scope
http://fahstats.com/tr.php?t=36120
6. Third Party monitoring software
http://fahmon.silent-blade.org/
7. DU Folding Thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5672092
8. How much are those work units worth?
a. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/allprojects
b. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html
8. Stat Image Generator
a.Link http://www.statgfx.com/statgfx/getlink.cgi?service=folding
Dad won't let me join, :-(.
Previous threads (for those who wish to catch up):
(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (#1700)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1537549/posts
(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,550)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1541538/posts
(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,450)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542884/posts
(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update (We're in the Top 1,200!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547014/posts
(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@HOme Project Update - top 1000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1549077/posts
Awww... tell dad, it's harmless fun, and for a good cause. :)
Ping for later perusal
I'm in, 80% of my 2.875ghz P4 w/1GB of memory.... Holding back the throttle because of my O/C... Username is of course my handle...
Question:
Okay, first a description:
My kids have a separate logon on one of the computers. It looks like the FaH client wasn't running when the kids were playing their LOTR game on the other profile. Clear as mud? We set up a restricted profile for them.
Anyway, do I need to get rid of the graphical client and use the console dealie? Is there a way for me to have it run on all instances for all users (hmm, that is ringing a bell) without having to start all over and use scary DOS? LOL
And Happy New Year to all you folders!
I've been running something similar for almost two years. It's run by United Devices and is currently working on a "folding" project too. In the past it was searching for cures for smallpox and cancer. Who knows what's next!
bump!
PING to new thread!
In your case, I would uninstall the graphical client...
1. Right click on your red Protein O, and select quit.
2. Start-Run-Programs-Folding@home - select uninstall.
3. Download the console client for your flavor of windows, and put it in a separate folder on your hard drive. Creating something like C:\fah usually works the best.
4. Run the console client by browsing to that folder, and doubleclicking on the red O.
5. Put in your username, and teamnumber 36120.
6. IMPORTANT - When it asks you if you want to run FAH as a service, type in YES, and hit enter. Continue on, using the defaults, until the program launches.
7. At this point, when the CMD box is open the service is running. But when you close it out, the FAH client quits. You can either:
a. Reboot
b. Open up Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Administrative Tools, and then find services.
c. Once you've opened services, find the entry for FAH...
d. Right Click it, and select start.
The FAH client will run automatically whenever the computer is running, regardless of who is logged in, and will continue to run, even if all users are logged out.
You can manually stop it, by again opening up services, right clicking, and selecting stop. You can also set it to manual, or disable it, via the right click/properties option.
And welcome to the team !!!
bttt
[04:42:43] Completed 335000 out of 500000 steps (67)
Grunt groan - don't know if I'm gonna make it for the new year - sys hung while watching a movie - didn't like the restart and now is not using altivec which slows it down 100% ..
P'book 667 G4
Not too familar with altivec... I know it's an enhancer for Mac, like SSE2 and SSE3 is for the PC, but after that, it's *shrug*
Perhaps one of the others on the team, know of Mac peculiarities....
I do know, in the brief period that I had a G4, OSx, there were a few programs that did not play well when they were started up in console mode, from a cold start. Perhaps shutting it down, making sure Altivec is running ok, and then restarting... and then giving it 10 minutes or so to adjust to the system clock...
Other than that... *shrug*
Good info. As soon as I finish the current work unit, I'm going to switch to the console version.
Thx - I'll just let it crunch 'n see what happens.
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