(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - We're in the TOP 850!!!

systematic ^ | 1-2-2006 | systematic

[systematic]

New thread for this week.

Congrats to all new members who joined this week!

We've made excellent progress so far and have smoked the DUmmies and Kossacks. Let's keep folding!

[systematic]

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 (see link below) 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 (see link below). 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.

[systematic]

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

[apackof2]

Bump for the home team

[Glenn]

Our Competition

They aren't competition.

[DocRock]

I'm new to this, (as you can tell, I signed up different processors with different screenames at first), but I have a question about project sizes.

Is a 5000 frame WU unusual?

[systematic]

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

(Vanity) Free Republic Folding@Home Project update - TOP 900!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1550060/posts

[jdm]

Lookin' good! Nice trend.

FreeRepublic.com

[systematic]

Thanks - we need as many computers as we can get!

Our goal is to be in the Top 100 of all teams!!!!

[apackof2]

bump for the goal

[MarkeyD]

Mine have all been 500.

[systematic]

Welcome all new members!!

Pls contact your friends/family & ask them to join as well

[systematic]

Is a 5000 frame WU unusual?

It means you have a powerful computer. You'll get a lot of points for that WU.

[Drango]

Bump for fun!

[Malsua]

Is a 5000 frame WU unusual?

Nope.

Off the top of my head, the largest I recall seeing has been 13,500, but frames were ticking by every 4 seconds or so. Something like that. I've seen a 250 framer that was taking like 25 minutes a frame(on a high end machine).

[systematic]

Team members

Rank (within team)	User	Score	WU
1	Klutz_dohanger	30942	301
2	Texas_Booster	23742	186
3	Malsua	21249	160
4	Compaq_Owner	21057	156
5	Dads_AMD3000	18445	64
6	Compaq_Owner3	12397	104
7	Ken_in_Texas	10719	48
8	umbagi	7963	70
9	Uriah	7396	69
10	bubba_sales	7014	58
11	T_Admin	6796	53
12	Jim	5799	44
13	Andrewksu	5109	35
14	Chesterbelloc	4888	44
15	Tony1	4103	29
16	rach_FR	3924	42
17	Kingu	3643	35
18	dfwddr	3568	57
19	Jinx	3467	37
20	LSimpson	3401	20
21	mediamole	2920	20
22	Steve_Wilson_1	2884	26
23	Weasel	2512	22
24	Hawkeyes_Girl	2445	11
25	Vern_1	2359	20
26	ENDUSER_Michael	2298	16
27	BoT	2165	93
28	Seamoth	2136	25
29	A.Hun	2087	16
30	kenth	2007	21
31	Mount_Athos	1886	15
32	Professional_Engineer	1832	18
33	Compaq_Owner_David	1782	17
34	Brian_Admin	1649	12
35	mouser	1622	8
36	susan	1412	14
37	Tactical	1322	9
38	VICI	1261	12
39	FRpapasmurf	1180	14
40	vidi	1064	9
41	Slothful1	1009	11
42	dangermouse	1008	7
43	ezsmoke	994	5
44	David_G_1	990	8
45	Kevin_Inspiron	952	6
46	FourtySeven	895	8
47	cgk	879	9
48	Flyer_FR	875	10
49	Senator_Bedfellow	868	4
50	Trax_Admin	848	7
51	FReeper_Dundee	806	2
52	Veni	710	12
53	KGJ2	698	7
54	KGJ1	689	7
55	FrogMom	646	2
56	VAcharonD1	639	2
57	sales_don	616	4
58	RetroSexual	598	13
59	Tami	594	4
60	Big_Bobs_FTW_1	549	3
61	ValorDaus	546	7
62	xeniast	526	3
63	houeto	526	6
64	doc11355	506	12
65	David_Griffith	453	4
66	fzx12345	443	6
67	Treb	436	6
68	MarkeyD	430	6
69	Happy_Babymoon	423	2
70	SamFromLivingston	415	8
71	hessian	412	6
72	RebelTex	400	5
73	ArgentCent	377	2
74	non-anonymous	363	4
75	arderenne	349	7
76	BitDrifter	338	4
77	ewg	321	3
78	Hiredhand	320	4
79	brityank	304	4
80	TheMightyQuinn	295	2
81	_MontanaDal	292	3
82	Vladimir_F	287	10
83	VeniVidiVici	287	4
84	FRstentor	280	4
85	patricia_bell	269	2
86	manwiththehands	257	2
87	Suzy_Que	246	2
88	Tigermoth	245	3
89	stylin19a	245	3
90	dblevins	241	1
91	Cementjungle	227	2
92	greenbo	227	2
93	Regina_Plumm	225	3
94	ShakeNJake	221	2
95	sshultz460	206	1
96	Drachenfels	206	1
97	DocRock	201	2
98	Jacy	199	2
99	Craigon69	199	2
100	smith288	199	2
101	CPQ_1700	197	2
102	Pusterfuss	190	1
103	MONTANADAL	187	3
104	Hoplite	184	4
105	William_Helvig	184	4
106	Michael_K	182	1
107	HangThemHigh	182	1
108	Jeff_Musselman	182	1
109	Tax_Government	179	2
110	Klutza_dohanger	177	3
111	Cralic	173	2
112	Heil_Dad	171	3
113	Cody	153	1
114	placerville9	140	3
115	pbrown	138	3
116	Swordmaker	138	3
117	Mississippi_Freeper	133	3
118	Roger__Heidt	131	2
119	gl_terri	129	1
120	ChadGore	94	2
121	Clara_Lou	93	1
122	Petronski	93	1
123	paulat2	92	2
124	rodneymatlock	92	2
125	Katya	92	2
126	feefee	92	2
127	SC_Swamp_Fox	92	2
128	1066AD	92	2
129	uglybiker	86	1
130	GL-Bartaholic	48	1
131	Pitcherfan19	48	1
132	RedWing9	48	1
133	Klurz_dohanger	46	1
134	paengineer	46	1
135	PureSolace	46	1
136	mastercylinder	46	1
137	GLDoug	46	1
138	linda_gei	46	1
139	greenbo__	46	1
140	DocRock_2	46	1
141	WESTPALMSENIOR	46	1
142	Becky1	41	1
143	freeper_krb	30	1
144	jarod_1	19	1

[DocRock]

"Off the top of my head, the largest I recall seeing has been 13,500, but frames were ticking by every 4 seconds or so. Something like that. I've seen a 250 framer that was taking like 25 minutes a frame(on a high end machine)."

Thanks for the info. That makes sense as this machine is not running as fast as my gaming rig which gets 600 frame WU's. Speed of frame completion makes all the difference in the world.

[hiredhand]

Whoo-HOO! I'm moving up in the rankings! :-)

[zeugma]

Does anyone know what this means? I've been folding@home for some time now under team Zeugma and was attempting to bring up a new system under the FreeRepublic team. Here's what the console prints when I try to start FAH...

[12:22:36] - Ask before connecting: No
[12:22:36] - User name: zeugma (Team 36120)
[12:22:36] - User ID not found locally
[12:22:36] + Requesting User ID from server
[12:22:36] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[12:22:36] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[12:22:36]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...
[12:22:55] + Could not connect to Primary Assignment Server for ID
[12:22:55] + Could not connect to Secondary Assignment Server for ID
[12:22:55]
+ Could not get ID from server. Retrying...

Any assistance would be appreciated. I'll be converting from Zeugma to FR team on my other boxes.

[papasmurf]

Cool, thanks.

Looks like my helpers that made it on the board so far are:

Patricia_bell
greenbo
Regina_Plumm
Jacy
gl_Terri
GL_Bartaholic
GLDoug
greenbo_(Son)
WESTPALMSENIOR

...and me FRpapasmurf.

There are more, just don't know for sure how they posted their names. :)


:O)

P

[fzx12345]

The frames don't mean anything, as different projects take different times to run a frame. A better measure of your progress is the number of points you receive. The largest WUs are worth 600 points; the smallest I've seen are worth 46. Your project 2052 is worth 166 points, which is around the upper end in the midrange. Stanford has a table of the point levels for the various projects at this link.

[KJC1]

I just completed my first WU, on to #2!

[Incorrigible]

I'm in.

[processing please hold]

bttt

[processing please hold]

How do you find out information like that?

[colinhester]

Just joined the team. I've got two 'puters that have been sitting idle after SET Classic went down. Glad to have them back up and running full time.

[Paladin2]

I'd suggest the most relevant stats for a given computer and WU are points/hour [or day] and then kilowatt hours/day to get to points per kwh. Both of these stats make the junkyard computers I have look bad, but they are good for comparison among WUs and computers.

[Paladin2]

That information seems to be available in the windows client that runs on W2k and XP [not sure about Mac and *nix]. It doesn't show up on Win98 or in the command/console clients.

[eyespysomething]

OK, I'm in now.

[Paladin2]

I think if you add a local & -config to the command to start line and answer the config questions, things will work out. Then for future starts, just use the -local switch.

[processing please hold]

Thanks, I have xp.

[Paladin2]

"-local" & "-config" seperated by spaces.

[Paladin2]

There are some variations in exactly what is displayed depending on what the client has been doing lately, but those stats should show up sooner or later in the open window.

[DocRock]

"How do you find out information like that?"

I just double clicked the small red circle icon in my sys tray and the info was on the left.

[Paladin2]

Single click for some. ;-)

[systematic]

[12:22:36] - User ID not found locally

I think you need to select a userID as well

[Drango]

Folding laundry is fun. Thanks to FR I can now fold all day and night.

[DocRock]

"Thanks - we need as many computers as we can get! "

I hooked up my oc'd 3.1 Ghz on Saturday, (first time I actually read one of these threads)... Sat PM, I hooked up my daughter's 1.6 Ghz and this AM fired up my other daughter's 2.6 Ghz. *smile* Freepers Rock!

[Drango]

I swear these threads give me computer envey and it's gonna hurt my walet...Let's see if I get in the car now I can get back from Fry's in an hour and replace that 1.6 ghz dog that is causin' me to lose face here.

[SamFromLivingston]

Just added another CPU, but it will take a few days for it to start posting WUs.

[Alexander Rubin]

My name isn't showing up on the teamlist. Username ARubin.

[systematic]

We're up to 290 CPUs.

Let's break 300 CPUs today!!

[systematic]

Have you completed your first WU?

If yes, make sure you're part of team 36120

[Alexander Rubin]

No, haven't complete my first WU. That explains it.

[Paladin2]

There could easily be a four day delay between adding a computer and having it recognized/counted [based on personal experience].

[FrogMom]

I finished my second WU this AM - it only had 250 Frames but gave me 600 points. It took 3 days.

Woohoo!

[Daus]

I just put my Dell Poweredge 1800 with dual 3.2 Xeons on the job running three processes.

I have 5 machines at home.... so I should be climbing the charts pretty quick. :)

[FrogMom]

The 3rd WU they sent me is another 600 pointer! They must like my 'puter.

[systematic]

You're partially right.

See full list of competition
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&p=9

[systematic]

The 3rd WU they sent me is another 600 pointer! They must like my 'puter.

They sure do. However, those 600 pointer WUs are a lot better than my 46 pointers :)

[Drango]

(first time I actually read one of these threads)

Indeed...there seem to be a lot of so called "tech" people who may not be reading. A polite request to N3WBI3if he could ping his tech list.