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FR Folding@Home Project Update -- The March To 25 Million Points
Stanford University's Folding@Home Stats page ^ | 05/28/2007 | Texas Booster

Posted on 05/28/2007 8:53:40 AM PDT by texas booster

Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.

Our FreeRepublic team of 460 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 54th place (with 1050 active CPUs - 123,500 completed Work Units and 24.75 million points).

Please take the time this Memorial Day weekend to run the F@H program and contribute to the basic research that may one day save YOUR life.

This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want more details, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 30+ folding threads)


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KEYWORDS: alzheimers; cancer; fah; fh; foldinghome
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To: processing please hold

Howdy.

Hope all is well in your world!


21 posted on 05/28/2007 9:27:01 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Just joined


22 posted on 05/28/2007 9:29:41 AM PDT by billphx
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To: texas booster

Yup, thanks to the PS3...I almost feel guilty taking FOLDING off line to play some golf!

It’s become an obsession to get into the top 100!


23 posted on 05/28/2007 9:30:25 AM PDT by GRRRRR ("We the people..." say NO AMNESTY!!!)
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To: texas booster

Nah that’s not me.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&teamnum=36120&username=sshultz460

I’ve been slacking off. I used to be way up there for single processor folding.

I’m looking at building around an X2 5600. I’m waiting for the DX10 crap to come down a little before I build.


24 posted on 05/28/2007 9:35:28 AM PDT by SShultz460
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To: texas booster
What is your error message?

I've already uninstalled it...I'll reinstall and let you know later....I'll check the main forum for a hint in the meantime.

I just upgraded to Vista (got a new Dell with it on it), and it is a strange animal indeed. SimCity 4 refuses to run on it, but Ghost Recon works like a champ. Folding is the only important program (for me) that it has choked on. As far as internet goes, I like it, once I got past all the queries to allow programs to run.

Thanks for the help!

25 posted on 05/28/2007 9:38:52 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: texas booster
Fine thank you. Only took me a week to get over my hissy fit. :-)

Went to the cemetery this morning to honor pop.

BBQ pit is churning out meat left and right. Watermelons cooling in fridge. All kids and gk here.(save one gc)

God bless our military on this their day.

All is right with the world.

Hope you and yours have a great day as well.

26 posted on 05/28/2007 10:00:09 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: billphx; texas booster

Welcome to the folding club!!


27 posted on 05/28/2007 10:14:00 AM PDT by ken in texas (come fold with us.... team #36120)
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To: texas booster

Proud to b foldin’ for the Gipper.


28 posted on 05/28/2007 10:44:34 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: texas booster
Swordmaker and Route66_FreeRepublic will both break the 100,000 points barrier this week!

BAH! I hit it last week (or the week before ;).

Thx for your help!

29 posted on 05/28/2007 10:49:33 AM PDT by FrogMom
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To: texas booster

If I could find a way around the Deep Freeze program in the computer lab where I work, I could have 26 more computers folding at all times. Still, I’m happy with the six processors I have running.


30 posted on 05/28/2007 10:54:10 AM PDT by LanPB01
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To: billphx

Thank for the help.

Please ping if you have any questions!


31 posted on 05/28/2007 11:01:27 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: FrogMom

My fault for not noticing that you and several othesr hit milestones. Its been a month between threads, way too long.


32 posted on 05/28/2007 11:03:43 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: LanPB01

Deep Freeze is a tough nut to crack...I was once at a sysm admin conference (geek out) and the vendor had it running on a new system. *IF* you could crack it, you won the computer. After 3 days only three people had been able to circumvent the protection.

Are you the sys admin and have just lost the password?


33 posted on 05/28/2007 11:06:30 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: LanPB01

Well, you could slipstream Folding@home into the Deep Freeze image so that it gets reloaded each time. Maybe a better way is to keep F@H inside the Thawspace so no work units are lost between reimages.

Do we need to have a bake sale to raise money for beer and brisket to ummm ... create an attitude adjustment with the sysadmins?


34 posted on 05/28/2007 11:08:18 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Drango; ken in texas

I think you two are among the oldest FReepers still folding.

I know your names surface on those old threads from Dec 2005!

A special thanks to you both for generously helping new folders for a very long time.


35 posted on 05/28/2007 11:10:34 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

OK. Just set my P4 3.2ghz/2gb Ram and Dual PentiumD 3.4ghz/2gb Ram for the FR team. If you have a ping list, you can add me.


36 posted on 05/28/2007 11:11:04 AM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch (...And we, poor fools, demand truth's noon, who scarce can bear its crescent moon.)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch

Will do. You will find that F@H is addicting, and helping researchers find cures for disease is what it is all about.

Blessings!


37 posted on 05/28/2007 11:22:20 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch

You can run either the console or the GUI version on the P4. You have plenty of memory so it will fly.

On teh Dual CPU system, I recommend that you start with the GUI. You can run two instances of the GUI, just start them from different directories and mark them as Machine ID 1 and Machine ID 2.

You can also take a look at the Windows SMP client here:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/download.html

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/FAQ-SMP.html

if you want to try a faster work unit. You certainly have plenty of horsepower.


38 posted on 05/28/2007 11:46:38 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Drango

No, I’m not the system administrator. I’m sure the head of our technology department has the code, but I don’t.


39 posted on 05/28/2007 12:03:01 PM PDT by LanPB01
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To: texas booster

I’ll mention it to the system administrator and see what I can do.


40 posted on 05/28/2007 12:04:02 PM PDT by LanPB01
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