(Vanity) FreeRepublic Folding@Home Project Update

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120 ^

[systematic]

FR Team ranking up to number 1782 of 41608

[systematic]

[tallhappy]

Cool, what protein are you working on?

[systematic]

Previous thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1528658/posts

FR stats:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120

[ChadGore]

How do I join ?

[A.Hun]

Yea, I'm with him. Is it like SETI?

[systematic]

To get started download the software and sign up on the Folding@Home website: http://folding.stanford.edu

FreeRepublic's team number is 36120

[systematic]

Yes, much like SETI@Home (except this is run by Stanford U for a worthy cause :)

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow

[A.Hun]

Yea, I hadn't found an alien yet. Might be time to move on.

[systematic]

Free Republic Folders

Date of last work unit	2005-12-09 18:08:51
Active CPUs within 50 days	27
Team Id	36120
Grand Score	103595 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	757 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	1782 of 41608
Home Page	http://www.freerepublic.com
Fast Teampage URL	http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team36120.html

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Compaq_Owner	19066	132
2	Dads_AMD3000	18445	64
3	Texas_Booster	16091	132
4	Compaq_Owner3	11841	101
5	T_Admin	6286	50
6	bubba_sales	6041	49
7	Jim	4631	36
8	Tony1	2934	20
9	Uriah	2368	23
10	ENDUSER_Michael	2298	16
11	Brian_Admin	1649	12
12	Steve_Wilson_1	1646	16
13	kenth	1574	16
14	Weasel	1251	12
15	Vern_1	1071	10
16	Kevin_Inspiron	952	6
17	susan	911	8
18	Trax_Admin	848	7
19	dfwddr	845	12
20	Compaq_Owner_David	789	7
21	Big_Bobs_FTW_1	549	3
22	David_Griffith	453	4
23	CPQ_1700	197	2
24	David_G_1	187	3
25	Michael_K	182	1
26	Heil_Dad	171	3
27	BoT	107	1
28	Vladimir_F	106	8
29	xeniast	46	1
30	Becky1	41	1
31	jarod_1	19	1

[ChadGore]

OK . . I'm in!

[MissyMa]

Ping to look at later

[A.Hun]

I just checked it out. Looks good, I just have to decide if I want to leave SETI. I've been doing that for quite a while.

Helping freepers does carry a lot of weight though!

Thanks for calling it to our attention.

[systematic]

See some of the actual results from this project

http://folding.stanford.edu/news.html

scroll down to -> 1/15/2005

[Paladin2]

Folding seems much more useful than SETI. That said, now that I have to pay heating bills, I had to turn off the six 'puters running 24/7. Saves $30/mo in electricity. I got to >50k points though.

[A.Hun]

Now thats alot. I was more slow and steady. I had 19242 hours with 489 units.

Yes, I have to agree cancer research is more important.

This is timely, SETI is changing its servers or something and I have to upgrade anyway.

[systematic]

See Apple's reason for their support of the project
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/proteinfolding/

[ken in texas]

Looks interesting... I'm up and running it now.

[A.Hun]

You convinced me. Actually I just installed it and its running.

[A.Hun]

Thanks for the head's up!

[Malsua]

Cool, I just put my extra machine in there. It's an AMD4000+ 64 with 2gb of ram. That should help some.

[systematic]

Cool.

The first WU (work unit) may take a few hours to complete.

[Nita Nupress]

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<selfabasement>::=[<selfabasement2>,<selfabasement2><selfabasement2>]
<selfabasement2>::=(cap)<selfabasement3>+". "
<selfabasement3>::=[<iamslime>+".  "+(cap)<pleasedonthurtme>,<iamslime>,<pleasedonthurtme>]

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<petkind>::=["dog","cat","goldfish","ferret","llama"]

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<wrathtype>::=["wrath","anger","hate","bad attitute"]

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<hurtverb>::=["harm","bruise","tarnish","damage","dirty"]
<hurtme>::=<hurtmeverb><wrathobject>
<hurtmeverb>::=["smiting","destroying","striking","mangling","killing","revenging yourself on"]
<wastetime>::=<wastetimeverb><hurtme>
<wastetimeverb>::=["waste your time","stoop to","interrupt your busy schedule by","work up a sweat"]

<iamslime>::="I am"[<lowerthan><uglything>,<uglything>]
<lowerthan>::=["smellier","uglier","more unworthy","more insignificant","lower","stupider","nothing more"]"than"
<uglything>::="a"<uglyadjectives><uglynoun>
<uglyadjectives>::=[2<uglyadjective>,<uglyadjective>+<comma>+" "+<uglyadjectives>]
<uglyadjective>::=["smelly","dirty","day-old","century-old","purple","green","rusty","polka-dotted","stinky"]
<uglynoun>::=[<uglynounsingle>,"pile of"<uglynounsingle>+"s"]
<uglynounsingle>::=["sock","rock","sneaker","gnu","beetle","doorknob",2<petkind>]

<start>::=<startrek>
<startrek>::=(eatws)<startrek2>
<startrek2>::=<adjective><particle>[<thingamabob>,<thingamabob><machine>,<machine>,<thingamabob2>]
<adjective>::=["inverse"<adjective3>,19<adjective2>]
<adjective2>::=[5"",<adjective3>]
<adjective3>::=["phased","temporal",<phasic>,"holographic"]
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<particle>::=["warp","antimatter",18<particleroot>+<particlesuffix>]
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<machine>::=["generator","emitter","projector","anomaly"]
<thingamabob2>::=["shield","core","container","crystal"]

<start>::=[<hundreds>,<thousands>,<millions>,<billions>,<trillions>]
<comma>::=","
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<trillions>::=<hundreds>"trillion"+[90<comma><billions>,9"",<comma><millions>]

[Malsua]

The first WU (work unit) may take a few hours to complete.

Mine says 28 minutes for the first one. I figure that's a function of CPU speed.

[A.Hun]

Well, there is now a hun at Stanford!

[systematic]

The project, called Folding@home, is a distributed computing project which was launched on October 1, 2000 by Stanford University

"Distributed computing" allows the computing power of thousands of anonymous users to speed up scientific projects.The Stanford University team makes a list of calculations (mathematical simulations) to be worked out and a server allocates these calculations to different users who have previously downloaded a tiny software. Stanford thus benefits from a huge computing power (equivalent to a few thousand expensive supercomputers), power which is donated freely by the project members.

Users simply download an application that runs protein-folding simulations on their desktop computers when the systems are idle.

[Chode]

UP...

[Nita Nupress]

Wow, that's pretty cool. Thanks for the explanation. (and for not getting mad at my sarcasm. :-)

[systematic]

With a little help, Team FreeRepublic can move into the Top 1000 teams.

[HangThemHigh]

I have been using Folding for a while. How do I join? The FAQ says to add the team number on the configuration page, but I don't see any place to enter it.

Will FR get my existing work units?

[Malsua]

I just added a machine.

It adds an icon to the system tray. I right click it, it comes up with a configure option. That allows you change your name and team. I added 36120 and I'm part of the FR team.

[HangThemHigh]

No tray icon here, only the Google toolbar config choice.

[Beelzebubba]

That said, now that I have to pay heating bills, I had to turn off the six 'puters running 24/7. Saves $30/mo in electricity.

---

The computers are electric heat, if you keep them indoors.

[Malsua]

Here's an image of what I got.

See the tray Icon and options.

Also realize, I just loaded this on my new computer about an hour ago. heh.

[HangThemHigh]

Maybe I need to download a new compute client, I've had this one a year or two. I have nothing like your screen. Have to wait til morning now.

Thanks

[Malsua]

I got the client from http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html which is linked up thread.

As a note, it spikes your CPU to max. I put a Zalman http://stores.tomshardware.com/rating_getprodrev.php/product_id=5049939/id_type=M//
cooler on my CPU, which is a giant copper brick. heh. Running this client jacks the temp up to 41C which, all things considerd is low, but compared to idle temp of 29c, folks need to make sure their CPU cooler can handle a hot CPU. The latest INTEL machines need a tremendous amount of ooling.

[Coleus]

what's the team #

[japaneseghost]

OK, I downloaded it, now what?

[Malsua]

36120

[Malsua]

refer to my picture above...in the configure section it has team option.

36120

[japaneseghost]

I haven't seen the 'foldingathome control panel" - how do I find it?

[paulat]

Sorry to be anal...but is there a security risk to a machine doing this? (I didn't see a FAQ...but I'm pretty dense.)

[Malsua]

I installed what I showed at that link. It appeared in my system tray. Do you not see it in the system tray? If you do see it, right click it.

[Malsua]

Sorry to be anal...but is there a security risk to a machine doing this? (I didn't see a FAQ...but I'm pretty dense.)

While I'm certainly not the definitave authority on this, there probabaly isn't a security issue related to this client. There is a heat issue however. Your CPU will be running at max when idle. This mean that you won't notice any speed problems doing your normal work, but the computer is going to be hammering itself at max. It's not inconceivable that you may hit a thermal problem if you have insufficient cpu cooling. -Mal

[cgk]

Does the program need to be open to be "working" or is the icon in the system tray sufficient for it to run?

[cgk]

Sorry, "open" as in what's pictured in post #33... ;)

[systematic]

It doesn't have to be open - it works in the background.

[texas booster]

Glad I found this thread.

I started the FR F@H group over a year ago. All of the (old) computers listed are friends of mine that let me maintain their systems.

Uriah has one screaming machine. He has already broken top 10 in only a couple of weeks.

[texas booster]

Sorry to be anal...but is there a security risk to a machine doing this? (I didn't see a FAQ...but I'm pretty dense.)

I have had F@H running for over a year. There is no security breach that I have ever noticed, and I have installed it on about 20 of the systems listed.

Sometimes I'll notice a slow response on a slower system. In that case right-click on the F@H tray icon and click on Configuration. Move the slide bar down to between 50% and 70%.

F@H uses a tight kernal that runs when System Idle is normally high. Some of the systems at work will be slow to respond so I throttle them down to get a better response.

[paulat]

Thank you. Very informative.

[Uriah_lost]

Go go us!!! Install it on work comps if you can get away with it and any friend's spares etc!