Keyword: fh
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Time for awards to be passed out for the FReepers who have pushed the team past 25 Million points. For the old timers, you never thought we wuld see the day, huh? We had threads when we topped a million points as a team and threads when we blew the doors off the DUmmies team and silenced their boasting (what ever happened to them?). In this thread if you have seen a huge contribution to the team then please recognize the poster and let us know so we can all shout out to them. Cheering and noisemakers to all!
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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...
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Inner Life of a CellInner Life of the Cell: Animation conception and scientific content by Alain Viel and Robert A. Lue. Animation by John Liebler/XVIVO. SIGGRAPH Award Winning Video
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Time for a new Free Republic Folding@home thread. Our Free Republic team of 428 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 55th place (with 1,025 active CPUs - 106,120 completed Work Units and 20.25 million points). This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn...
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Several folks have asked to learn more about the Folding@Home project. I will provide information here that talks about the science and the math behind F@H. Above all, remember that F@H is about finding a cure to the diseases that take the live and minds of our loved ones. Basic research is generated concerning the causes of Alzheimers, Parkinsons and BSE, among others. F@H is an outgrowth out the Genone@Home project started back in the 90's. That project ended April 14, 2004 and Folding@Home is its offspring. Folding@Home is a combination of Distributed Computing and Serious Math, sent out all...
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From a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society concerning nanotubes: The folding of proteins in confined spaces is a ubiquitous theme in biological and biomaterial applications, including folding in chaperones and pores, nanotube-based drug delivery, and cotranslational folding of nascent peptides in the ribosomal exit tunnel. The role of confinement on peptide conformational equilibrium has thus gained much interest in recent years, and a natural first hypothesis to investigate is the role of confinement alone in protein conformational preferences. ... Still, there exists a growing body of evidence to suggest that molecular water plays a role in...
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Merry Christmas to all of the folders among the ranks of Free Republic! We have reached #57 on the list of teams worldwide, 3 FReepers are in the Top 1,000 of all folders and we are stomping the bejebers out of the DUmmies and Daily Kos. A year ago we were just beginning to expand. Now we have about 170 regular contributors with nearly 1,050 computers using F@H as their screensaver. Folding@Home makes a real difference in basic research into such diseases as Alheimer's, Parkinson's and BSE. All it takes is a little free time to download the core, which...
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"Think you don't make a difference?" Those are the words that our very own FReeper/trucker papasmurf started out on a thread for one of his friends, almost a year ago. The subject of the thread, a young man named Dylan and his mother Smile, had successfully battled cancer. Papasmurf emailed me to let us know that Dylan is having some new problems, and has gone to the hospital several times while doctors work to discover the source of his problems. Here is Dylan during his fight with cancer and again after being diagnosed healthy:
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Today ATI's graphics processors help accelerate complex computations in stream computing applications used in scientific research. ATI is supporting bio-medical research to help scientists understand disease at the genetic level. With a strong understanding of how diseases form, it will become possible to develop diagnostic methods, and preventative treatment and medicine for many acute diseases in humans. Stanford University is using ATI’s GPUs (Graphics Processor Units) to run Folding@Home, a distributed computing project designed by its chemistry department. This application performs computationally intensive simulations of protein folding, using the stream computing capabilities of ATI’s Radeon® 1900 and 1950 Series processors,...
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OK, new thread for the next week. First, a big shout out to the SETI and BOINC members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0. Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 512 processors and 220 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over a dozen folders now from GetLoaded.com all popping onto the hit list this week. We now have ten members who have contributed at least 10,000 points each. Klutz Dohanger, Malsua, Ken in Texas, Andrewksu, LSimpson, kingu, Uriah, arderenne and rach_FR...
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OK, new thread to celebrate reaching a major milestone! Within a few hours Team FreeRepublic will be in the Top1000!!!! We should pass Dean for America, around noon tommorrow. Other liberal teams want to challenge us (DUmmies and Kos) but we're humiliating them beyond description.
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OK, new thread for the next week. First, a big shout out to the SETI members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0. Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 104 processors and 76 users. We have a number of new users in the team, with Clara Lou, fzx12345, SamfromLivingston, brityank, manwiththehands and Tami all popping onto the hit list this week. Malsua, uriah and Ken in Texas are solidly in the top 10. Malsua is continuing to add systems and now accounts for 10% of the FR total. Great...
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OK, new thread for the next week. First, a big shout out to the SETI members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0. Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 65 processors. ArgentCent is the latest to have joined our happy band of folders and jumps in at # 36 with his first completed WU. We now have 51 members in the team, and about 45 active participants. Malsua, uriah and Ken in Texas are solidly in the top 10. One of these will probably be the new Numero Uno...
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FreeRepublic Team Ranked #1,550 (of 41,708 teams)
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FR Team ranking up to number 1782 of 41608
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Folding@Home update: 3 Work Units completed, 2 computers, 138 points, overall team rank #15,162
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Any Freepers "folding@home"???? For those not familiar with F@H -> some diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer and even "mad cow" disease are believed to be linked to protein (mis)folding. A scientist team from Stanford University studies this phenomenon to try and find a cure to these diseases. To do this, they have designed a software (folding@home) which enables people to donate unused power from their computer to speed up medical research!
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