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FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're in the Top 85 of all teams with 8.3 Million points
Stanford University's Folding@Home Stats page ^ | 7-7-06 | soccer_maniac

Posted on 07/07/2006 5:58:24 PM PDT by soccer_maniac

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

Our FreeRepublic team of 351 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 85th place (with 908 active CPUs - 47,400 completed Work Units and nearly 8.5 million 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 19 folding threads)


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 100orless; 85; ateam; boinc; competition; computers; computing; cpu; cpus; dc; distributed; du; dummies; fah; folders; folding; foldingathome; foldinghome; foldingteam; folds; fteam; kos; laundry; mutants; mutations; proteam; proteins; protien; reagan; ronald; seti; setihome; standord; stanford; supercomputers; top; top85; workunits; xmen
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To: dfwddr; All
Dang.... their #2 guy just hit 100,000 points. I'll be there in the coming week, and I'm clawing just to stay at #10. The saddest part is, by mid September, one of our guys will have more points than their entire team. I beat them to their first million points, then had to shut down for the summer, so they beat me to 2 million. I got a reprieve, early, and am back in business. Will beat them to 3 million, easily, even though they have a head start of around 250,000 points. Woo Hoo...hit 2 million on the 12am Update, and gaining...
41 posted on 07/07/2006 10:31:25 PM PDT by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: SC Swamp Fox; All
Hey, I was only trying to be helpful. Little did I know, it would miff the powers that be over there, that I did screen captures of their shameful behavior and lack of etiquette, and hosted them where they had to delete the entire thread, to rid themselves of the evidence. But speaking of their latest thread, no entries since July 2nd... over 5 days, with no activity. That place is DEAD, jim....
42 posted on 07/07/2006 10:36:13 PM PDT by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

It didn't help any, that the helpful freeper who pointed out their gaffe, was the one that they hated the most, the king of the borgs, co-opter of labs, evil computing genius of corporate america, and the discoverer of the enhanced work unit hacking ray, which sends coded signals up to Stanford, crediting us with thousands of points, that we never earned.


43 posted on 07/07/2006 10:44:35 PM PDT by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: soccer_maniac; JosephW

Whoo! Good timing thread-wise, as I just hit the top 100 (currently #96) yesterday or today! Woulda been higher, except josephw (pinged b/c of etiquette) claimed to have a failed box but still ran way ahead of me that same day :-P

I have basically 6 boxes running FAH 24/7. I'd like to have a seventh, except it's an ancient 566mhz machine, and it wants something like 40 days to finish its current WU. It gets used maybe 3 hours a month, so it has plenty of time to work, but it seems it's too old to accomplish anything. Anyone have a suggestion for it to work through small WUs so it can actually contribute something the 99% of the time it's not being used?


44 posted on 07/08/2006 12:46:28 AM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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To: Klutz Dohanger; All
Congrats to Klutz !

2 MILLION POINTS !!!

45 posted on 07/08/2006 3:41:58 AM PDT by dfwddr (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword:folding.)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

Congrats!


46 posted on 07/08/2006 4:34:51 AM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9 (DR #1692 Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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To: Straight Vermonter

You can install it without the graphic interface and it will not interfere with games, but if you do that it's harder to keep track of how your jobs are doing.


47 posted on 07/08/2006 5:19:00 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: soccer_maniac

Thanks for the ping. My productions down a bit because we've had thunderstorms lately and my main computer has spent a lot of time turned off. Looks like we're going to be back up regularly now though.


48 posted on 07/08/2006 5:19:50 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: SC Swamp Fox

OK, I was here during the 2 hot link cases, LOL. They seem to learn rather slowly.

I didn't see the rest of the 2nd incident. It figures they would tombstone any suspected Freeper, even one trying to do them a favor. And they clim to be more tolerant than us, that's about as accurate as the 'Religion of Peace'.


49 posted on 07/08/2006 5:44:37 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: Turbopilot
"Anyone have a suggestion for it to work through small WUs so it can actually contribute something the 99% of the time it's not being used?"

As long as it finishes it's work units before the deadline, it will be helping, regardless of the size of those WU's. It's just more frustrating to have to wait for the WU's to finish. If it is missing the deadlines, you can request units without deadlines. I don't know if those are smaller, or not.

50 posted on 07/08/2006 5:52:56 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: ahayes
Thanks for the ping. My productions down a bit because we've had thunderstorms lately and my main computer has spent a lot of time turned off. Looks like we're going to be back up regularly now though.

That's something this experience has taught me: machines have to be constantly monitored and programs rebooted for a variety of reasons. It was happening before but I didn't really notice it.

Four of my machines are on UPSs, but the other four are only on surge protectors. Whenever the power goes out (three times this summer so far) I have to do a whip around and reboot. Then for no explanation at all, the FAH program itself will crash on this machine or that machine and I get to choose whether to send Bill Gates & Co. a message. Then my wife or one of my kids will shut down a computer after using it and I won't notice for six or eight hours.

I feel like that guy whose schtick is to keep ten plates spinning atop ten long sticks.

51 posted on 07/08/2006 6:22:19 AM PDT by JCEccles
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To: Dumpster Baby
I just put 2 PC's online doing this, and have 7 more that I could use, except no place to set them all up.

I think most of us, once we take a full accounting of our old CPU inventories, are a bit surprised by how many machines we have collected over the the years. I know I was. By simply adding a cheap wireless access point to the end of a broadband connection, and cheap WLAN cards or USB units to the old machines, many if not most of the old machines can be put to profitable use folding protein.

52 posted on 07/08/2006 6:31:22 AM PDT by JCEccles
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To: Klutz Dohanger

53 posted on 07/08/2006 8:01:51 AM PDT by soccer_maniac (Fine employers $100,000 for every illegal employee they hire-> millions of illegals will self-deport)
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To: Klutz Dohanger

Congratulations!!!


54 posted on 07/08/2006 8:05:13 AM PDT by houeto
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To: Turbopilot

Will be replacing the HDD on either Tuesday or Thursday


55 posted on 07/08/2006 8:43:24 AM PDT by JosephW (Mohammad Lied, People die!)
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To: Egon

2389 = 529 pts.


56 posted on 07/08/2006 10:17:44 AM PDT by dfwddr (Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword:folding.)
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To: dfwddr

place holder bump


57 posted on 07/08/2006 5:03:54 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: dfwddr

Thanks! I added it.

I also finished rewriting the function that grabs project information. It's now a non-destructive process: Once projects are gleaned from FAH's site, they're in the database. If FAH pulls the project from the site, it'll still be in our system. Likewise, if we've got an unconfirmed project in the database, and they subsequently add it, the database will be updated.


58 posted on 07/08/2006 7:06:39 PM PDT by Egon (We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
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To: All

Saturday night bump.


59 posted on 07/08/2006 8:39:17 PM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: Egon

p2504_A21_agbnp_amber99 = 195
p2505_A21_agbnp_amber99 = 200


60 posted on 07/08/2006 8:46:45 PM PDT by RebelTex (Help cure diseases: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548372/posts)
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