FR Folding@Home Project Update - We're in the Top 165 teams (A Tribute to Ronald Reagan)

Folding@Home Official Stats ^ | 3-13-2006 | soccer_maniac

[soccer_maniac]

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

Our FreeRepublic team of 300+ 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 164th place (with 992 CPUs - nearly 19,000 completed Work Units and 2,982,241 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)

[soccer_maniac]

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 does it work?: 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 do I get started 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.

List of Updated Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!

Another Folding Clip

Folding@home Client Download

FreeRepublic.com Folder Stats

Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic

Another Stats Page

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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos

Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9

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Other Useful Stuff - Links

How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits

Stat Image Generator

Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software

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Past FreeRepublic Folding threads

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14

[soccer_maniac]

Folding@Home ping

[soccer_maniac]

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

Rank Overall	Change 24hr	Change 7days	Points 24hr Avg	Points Last 24hr	Points Last 7days	Points Update	Points Today	Points Week	Points Total	WUs Total
162	+4	+10	43,723	39,292	306,059	5,074	14,840	53,338	2,977,948	18,942

Top 5 Conquests and Threats!

Team Name	Rank Diff	Points Diff	Gain Daily	Date Overtake
OSNN + SP	1	-17,683	38,340	03.13.06, 9pm / 11.1 Hours
Icrontic	2	-59,468	40,768	03.14.06, 9pm / 1.5 Days
AMD Developer Center	4	-163,708	43,703	03.17.06, 3am / 3.7 Days
Amalgamated Folders Inc. and K-State Folders United	5	-218,881	38,224	03.19.06, 3am / 5.7 Days
SISD	3	-87,758	11,456	03.21.06, 1am / 1.1 Weeks

Last 7 Months Production
Month	Points	WUs
03.06	542,071	2,752
02.06	1,292,680	7,378
01.06	894,120	6,690
12.05	154,578	1,449
11.05	12,451	128
10.05	0	0
09.05	0	0
08.05	0	0

Last 7 Weeks Production
Week	Points	WUs
03.12.06	53,338	259
03.05.06	308,210	1,600
02.26.06	359,378	1,691
02.19.06	367,590	1,850
02.12.06	297,280	1,788
02.05.06	294,882	1,897
01.29.06	277,792	1,940
01.22.06	218,951	1,521

Last 7 Days Production
Day	Points	WUs
03.13.06	14,840	76
03.12.06	38,498	183
03.11.06	35,629	185
03.10.06	39,694	223
03.09.06	49,591	256
03.08.06	52,148	271
03.07.06	42,804	213
03.06.06	49,530	246

Last 24 Hours Production
Time	Points	WUs
03.13, 9am	5,074	24
03.13, 6am	5,120	28
03.13, 3am	4,646	24
03.13, 12am	6,493	27
03.12, 9pm	5,098	25
03.12, 6pm	4,362	17
03.12, 3pm	3,808	17
03.12, 12pm	4,691	26

Users are color coded based on 24 hour average production.
Color codes are as follows: 0 / 1+ / 100+ / 200+ / 400+ / 800+ / 1.2k+ / 1.6k+

Top 20 Producers
Rank Team	User Name	Points 24hr Avg	Points Total
	Klutz_dohanger	11,913	868,142
	lrenh	4,287	125,063
	Malsua	3,404	161,964
	davemaher	1,150	31,067
	Andrewksu	930	43,203
	Texas_Booster	909	70,445
	TheMightyQuinn	650	27,418
	Advil000	619	25,731
	VeniVidiVici	506	52,687
	Derllak	490	21,580
	Craigon69	466	37,364
	walkerk	459	28,310
	Egon	410	17,989
	farsighted	410	16,719
	abner	384	5,378
	AndyKaz	354	2,883
	dfwddr	342	20,410
	zeugma	333	20,141
	Chris_Primavera	304	2,786
	stylin19a	292	20,408

Team User Info
New	12 (-9 )
Active
Inactive
Total	298 (+12 )
Avg PPD	235.1
Production Group Totals
1.6k+
1.2k+
800+
400+
200+
100+
1+

Milestone Group	Active Users	New 7days
800,000	1	+1
100,000	2	+1

Milestone Group	Active Users	New 7days
70,000	1	+1
50,000	1	+1
40,000	3	+1
30,000	4	+1
20,000	12	+5
10,000	19	+1

Milestone Group	Active Users	New 7days
9,000	9	+8
8,000	10	+7
7,000	7	+7
6,000	19	+11
5,000	17	+11
4,000	11	+3
3,000	13	+8
2,000	21	+9
1,000	17	+7

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[gondramB]

Question: I read that the Enigma distributed computing project created a security problem by making a windows account with a known password. Are there any similar concerns with the folding project?

[knews_hound]

Just added a second machine BTTT.

CHeers,

knewshound

http://knewshound.blogspot.com/

[SerpentDove]

What a great idea! Kudos.

P.S. None to donate at present.

[zeugma]

WooHoo! I made the top 20!

[andyk]

Top 20 producer bump :)

[soccer_maniac]

No.

Folding@Home is run by Stanford University and they made sure their program is as safe as can be. All large technology companies participate in the project (Intel, Apple, IBM, HP, Google, etc.). Rest assured these tech companies would not participate if there was a security risk.

[soccer_maniac]

Just added a second machine BTTT.

Terrific! We need 7 more to reach 1,000 CPUs!

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

Date of last work unit	2006-03-13 10:09:52
Active CPUs within 50 days	991
Team Id	36120
Grand Score	2984682 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	18975 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	164 of 43229
Home Page	http://www.freerepublic.com

[soccer_maniac]

Today's challenge: Find 7 more CPUs!

C'mon FR, we can do it!

[Malsua]

Well, 7 CPUs today would mean they started _yesterday_ ;).

I'll pony up 2. They'll clock in probably by wednesday.

[gondramB]

Cool, thank you.

[soccer_maniac]

Terrific, Malsua.

With your 2 additional CPUs, we should be around 995 active (when they all complete their first WU.)

5 more to 1,000!

[Malsua]

With your 2 additional CPUs, we should be around 995 active

Make it 3. That particular cell has 3 decent machines.

[soccer_maniac]

Even better!

We are closing in on the 3,000,000 points milestone.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=&p=2

[Route66]

[Please join the team bump.]

It's easy. It's safe. It's very worthwhile.

In addition to that, we are seriously annoying a lot of liberals as we work our way up the list. :-)

[andyk]

Find 7 more CPUs!

I've got two more that will be finishing their first work units sometime early tomorrow.

[soccer_maniac]

Great! With your 2 CPUs, we only need 2 more to reach 1,000 CPUs!!