Posted on 12/23/2006 12:24:32 PM PST by texas booster
Merry Christmas to all of the folders among the ranks of Free Republic!
We have reached #57 on the list of teams worldwide, 3 FReepers are in the Top 1,000 of all folders and we are stomping the bejebers out of the DUmmies and Daily Kos.
A year ago we were just beginning to expand. Now we have about 170 regular contributors with nearly 1,050 computers using F@H as their screensaver.
Folding@Home makes a real difference in basic research into such diseases as Alheimer's, Parkinson's and BSE.
All it takes is a little free time to download the core, which runs in the background. Safe, clean and effective!
Currently, the team is in 57th place (with 1,050 active CPUs - 89,000 completed Work Units and 17.10 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 20+ folding threads).
Thank you and a very Merry Christmas to you and your families!
Pinging over to a new thread. We will be looking back at what we have accomplished the last year and Howdying out to friends that we have made.
Keep on folding!
Pinging over to a new thread. We will be looking back at what we have accomplished the last year and Howdying out to friends that we have made.
Keep on folding!
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 (Folding@home Client Download). 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 they were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Stanford 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.
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List of Relevant Folding Links
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Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic
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Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos
Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11 #12
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Other Useful Stuff - Links
How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
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While the nature of the fold is determined by the sequence, it is encoded in a very complicated manner. Thus, protein folding can be seen as a connection between the genome (sequence) and what the proteins actually do (their function).
There has been a lot of discussion on results of genetic research. The Folding@Home project is an excellent way to contribute to the research!
Thank you very much for joining the team.
Your system is folding away. Please ping us if you have any questions or need configuration help.
BTTT
Team # 36120 bump
Bumpity bump.
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.
Available features include:
http://jmol.sourceforge.net/fah/
Here is a link to a library of the molecules that we solve.
Grab a protein, right click and you can set the spin. Will rotate so you can see all sides.
Fun to play with!
OK, I joined and I guess it's working because I got pictures of silver, blue and pink popcorn balls on my screen that keep changing shape.
Which work unit are you folding?
I am working on p_2125_lambda_5way_melt. It takes about a week to finish.
Great to have you on board!
I'm down one machine at the moment but still chugging along.
Every little bit helps.
Join the FReeper team and Fold @ Home!!!
...thanks for your posts, TX!!
Merry Christmas Folding Bump!
I got a little p3301_ribcomp. It's going by increments of two. It says 50 frames, But, I'm up to 56 frames already. Could that be a messup somewhere?
p2138_ww2138 says it will be finished on 31 Dec 06....whatever that means...
No, one frame "clock" increments by even numbers (50 or 100) and the other frame clock is exact.
A detailed explanation is found here:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/allprojects#2127
and scroll down to p2138.
"The villin headpiece is a fragment of the protein villin, and is formed from three helices which are packed together. Villin is a protein that helps maintain a mesh of fibers (made from the protein actin) that serves as a sort of skeleton for the cell."
In particular, p2138 is using an improved treatment for the electrostatic forces.
Bump
Here is what the villin protein looks like:
Kinda cute, for a protein.
Notice how curly the protein is? All proteins are rolled up inside the cell and must be uncurled to actually do anything. Stanford is doing detailed studies of this folding and unfolding, usually in the presense of water, sometimes with urea or or other molecules.
It is when these protein do NOT fold correctly that diseases can be manifested.
For the last couple days my folding@home protein says "Could not connect to Work Server." My husband is connected on two other computers and his says the same. Is this a problem with our computers or is everyone else getting the same message? It has been working well up until a couple days ago when my protein finished.
Are you using the GUI client or the Console? Do all three boxes have team 36120 and name "mschalock"?
The most common problem is that the client has "Use IE Settings". Make sure that that box is unchecked.
Also, if you have upgraded to IE 7 then consider IE 7 evil. Make sure that the client is not using IE Settings or a proxy.
One work unit was uploaded (p2124) to server 171.65.103.160 last Wednesday. Which computer could that be, and what do the logs say?
You can also track your stats here:
http://fahstats.com/usum.php?u=887886
Thanks. Shoot, there must be a large group of p3301 and they gave them all to me. I've got two more. My numbers will never go up if I keep getting 47 pointers. Oh well, luck of the draw I guess.
Lately most of my WUs have been 20K frame units, with some up to 50K. Today the new one is 25 frames. Hmmm
Oops! My bad. I just read through my log. It was 11 hours 55 minutes. {blush-blush}
:O)
P
I would dare say, our progress is a testimony to the power of the wonderful people on FR.
You mean 2005, right?
;-)
p3301: These projects take advantage of the double precision core FahCore_79.exe. They examine the interaction of small molecules with the ribosome, using an explicit water model.
Doesn't that make you feel better now that you know what your baby is doing?
These are small cores (even if they are modeling 24,802 molecules) and should only take 5 to 8 hours.
If you or one of your talented family has time, ping Egon and get his monitor installed. He is a very good programmer and it will watch your systems for you.
Mail at ya!
It looks like you are getting bunches of small WUs. You'll get a big'un, then pop out 47 pointers every couple of hours.
Do you only have one machine crunching on these? Must be a nice system.
http://fahstats.com/usum.php?u=809533
Woohoo!! 48 points!
That screenshot was from the days when I used one name unique name for each system. If one stopped reporting I could go over and reboot the system.
From 48 points to 200,000 in just over a year. you have done quite well!
Whoops.... maybe I'll lay off the eggnog till a little later... LOL
As has everybody !!!! A big thanks to you for starting this team, and systematic for bringing it to our attention. I've had a lot of fun with this over the past year.
We're smack in the middle of the twelve days of Christmas wine here!
I need more nog to get rid of those sugarplums dancin' in my head.
One machine until recently. Now three.
Main system is my CAD workstation in the office.
Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thanks for the invite many moons ago. Thanks for all your (and others) hard work on this program. I'd name them all but, alas, I've had too much eggnog this night.
Shameless self-promotion my achin' behinney. I use your wonderful program almost every single day! Thanks Egon!!
sign me..EggNog Enduced!
Those are more common now than a pimple on a fat lady's butt!
Got that right!
tHANKS, JCEccles
dARN, i LOVE EGGNOG!!!!!!!!
Lukslikemy X WiiFe.....
Daminit, I lUv egGnoG!!!
not me, I haven't been on dial up for years.
You;re old enough around here to know that talking like that can get u banned from FR!
Call Klutz. I heard he has an antidote!
You're obviously not eating your spinach!
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