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FR Folding@Home Project Update - We're in the Top 190 teams (A Tribute to Ronald Reagan)
soccer_maniac ^ | soccer_maniac

Posted on 02/27/2006 6:44:55 AM PST by soccer_maniac

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

Our FreeRepublic team of 250+ 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 188th place (with 940 CPUs - 15,725 completed Work Units and 2,330,000 points)

This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 8 folding threads)


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To: Malsua
Just make a common FR team name, like "Bob, George, Jimmy"...

Hey, that's a great idea! Everybody change their name to Derllak.
121 posted on 03/01/2006 10:07:50 PM PST by derllak
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To: derllak

Thursday mornin' bump


122 posted on 03/01/2006 10:59:06 PM PST by RebelTex (Help cure diseases: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548372/posts)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

Most cars and trucks have liquid cooled engines. The air cooled fraction continues to drop.


123 posted on 03/02/2006 5:00:50 AM PST by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Malsua

Tell me where you live so I can come steal your computer. I'm looking forward to Oblivion too, but I'm going to have to crank down the options to get it to run. I have a 2 GHz processor with 1 GHz RAM--not too bad, but then I've got a Radeon 9600SE. Poor me!


124 posted on 03/02/2006 6:59:38 AM PST by ahayes
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To: ahayes
Tell me where you live so I can come steal your computer. I'm looking forward to Oblivion too, but I'm going to have to crank down the options to get it to run. I have a 2 GHz processor with 1 GHz RAM--not too bad, but then I've got a Radeon 9600SE. Poor me!

Oblivion will be the first real test of it. 2.4ghz AMD 4000 64+, 2gb ram, Geforce 7800GTX 256, 250gb Sata 3G/Sec drive. I suspect I can run Oblivion just about at max. I may have to trim shadows back, but I think I'll be able to go full Anti Aliasing and anisotropic filtering at 1280 without much trouble. The rumor is March 20, but I think it'll push just a week or two beyond that. Say April 1 to be safe.

It really looks like an exceptional game!

125 posted on 03/02/2006 7:22:18 AM PST by Malsua
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To: Malsua

Our production has been dropping since yesterday morning.

We're down to the 4,000 points/update range now

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120


126 posted on 03/02/2006 7:55:36 AM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: soccer_maniac

I'm bogged down with long jobs, estimated completion 3, 4, 5 and 8 days from now. Please don't hit me--I'm folding as fast as I can! ;-)


127 posted on 03/02/2006 8:16:49 AM PST by ahayes
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To: soccer_maniac

"Our production has been dropping since yesterday morning."

Probably because the 500-800 pt Double Gromacs Cores have stopped or slowed down (a least for me... I haven't had one in a few days on any of my 5 nodes).


128 posted on 03/02/2006 10:23:39 AM PST by Craigon
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To: Craigon

12pm update - 7,872 points :)


129 posted on 03/02/2006 11:08:48 AM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: SC Swamp Fox; All

3pm update - 8,179 points


130 posted on 03/02/2006 2:49:14 PM PST by soccer_maniac (Do some good while browsing FR --> Join our Folding@Home Team# 36120: keyword: folding@home)
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To: Craigon; soccer_maniac
"Our production has been dropping since yesterday morning."

So has our postings. Is this usual for the middle of the week?

131 posted on 03/02/2006 3:53:51 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join FR Team 36120 at http://folding.stanford.edu {Protein Folding Project})
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To: soccer_maniac
Our production has been dropping since yesterday morning.

I think it's just that we're on about an average of 36 hour completion times or longer. I'm bouncing like a Yo-Yo.

132 posted on 03/02/2006 3:53:59 PM PST by Malsua
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To: Malsua

Ok... on 3 of 4 computers, I've got 20,000 frames... Yikes!


133 posted on 03/02/2006 6:26:28 PM PST by abner (Looking for a new tagline- Next outrage please!- Got it! PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS LOST IN THE USA!)
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To: abner
The graphs in reply #37 have been updated.
134 posted on 03/02/2006 6:43:29 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Is this usual for the middle of the week?

I've noticed that our production on weekends is usually a little lower. I attribute this to some office computers being off over weekends. Some home PCs might see higher usage during weekends, I know mine does.

The theads do slow down a bit during the week.

135 posted on 03/02/2006 6:48:00 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: SC Swamp Fox; Malsua

Any thoughts as to why our daily points fluctuate so much more than theirs? With more members - most of whom have more machines (a few many more) it would seem our output would be much smoother, not more irregular. Puzzling.


136 posted on 03/02/2006 6:53:23 PM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: HangThemHigh
Any thoughts as to why our daily points fluctuate so much more than theirs?

High end machines draw tougher units that last longer. We flop up, then down, then up, etc.

That's my case anyway. Pretty much, with the exception of my three thoroughbreds that drop a unit per day, my 2-3ghz machines seem to be in a 36 hour schedule.

137 posted on 03/02/2006 6:59:30 PM PST by Malsua
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To: HangThemHigh
Any thoughts as to why our daily points fluctuate so much more than theirs?

It's actually somewhat of an illusion caused by the scale of the graph. As a percentage, their fluctuations are just as large.

Our average is 55k, a 15% variation is 8,250.
Their average is 17k, a 15% variation is 2,550.

138 posted on 03/02/2006 7:11:10 PM PST by SC Swamp Fox (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
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To: abner
Ok... on 3 of 4 computers, I've got 20,000 frames... Yikes!

The upside on those big frame numbers...you complete a frame in like 10 seconds or so. It's not as dire as it appears :)

139 posted on 03/02/2006 7:16:32 PM PST by Malsua
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To: SC Swamp Fox

Good analysis. Looks can be deceiving, so it seems.


140 posted on 03/02/2006 7:22:55 PM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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