DU Folding@Home - Put your PC to work to fight disease!

[DFLer4edu]

This is the next DU Folding@Home Thread in support of citizen action in support of finding the cure for a wide range of diseases. Please join us as we contribute the power of our computers in the advancement of science and the betterment of all. You can get info from the Folding@Home Homepage, then download the client from the Download Page for Folding@Home.
http://folding.stanford.edu /

To make things easier, you may want to run the client as a service, or on the Mac you can put the client into the login items page. You can learn a lot by referencing the last thread: Thread #10 (see below). You will see that the linked DU page will reference older threads.

One other request: please join the DU Folding@Home team:
DU Folding@Home team #48157

Thank you, and please consider joining us.

The volunteers on the DU Folding@Home team (#48157)

[corporate_mike]

1. All DU members -- please consider joining our team

We need more members!! Every CPU counts!!

This is a worthy cause and it's a lot of fun as well.

[Kire]

18. team code is 48157

Team home page is http://fah-web.stanford.edu/teamstats/team48157.html

[alfredo]

2. since I started folding, my sex life has improved, my hair has

grown back in, and my car gets better milage.

[corporate_mike]

3. K&R

[alfredo]

4. 274 CPU's ranked at 272

[DFLer4edu]

6. Now at 275 CPU's!

[alfredo]

8. Good, someone has finished their first WU

[DFLer4edu]

10. 276 CPU's now!

This is my way of kicking the thread

[alfredo]

12. Let's get back above 300 CPU's We need to help new users

learn how to make the client launch at login. I can see people dropping out because they forget to launch the client.

[Kire]

16. 278

:kick:

[ny_liberal]

5. More on how F@H works

Folding@home does not rely on powerful supercomputers for its data processing; instead, the primary contributors to the Folding@home project are many thousands of personal computer users who have installed a small client program. The client runs in the background, and makes use of the CPU when it is not busy. In most modern personal computers, the CPU is rarely used to its full capacity at all times; the Folding@home client takes advantage of this unused processing power.

The Folding@home client periodically connects to a server to retrieve "work units," which are packets of data upon which to perform calculations. Each completed work unit is then sent back to the server.

Contributors to Folding@home may have user names used to keep track of their contributions. Each user may be running the client on one or more CPUs; for example, a home user with two computers could run the client on both of them. Users may also contribute under one or more team names; many different users may join together to form a team. Contributors are assigned a score indicating the number and difficulty of completed work units. Rankings and other statistics are posted to the Folding@home website.

[alfredo]

7. Wow, how long have you been back?

Haven't noticed you around the F@H threads in GD.


BTW, you have created a monster. ;-)

[ny_liberal]

9. This week

I've been overseas for a few months, got back home this week.

When I started the team, I never imagined that we would make the Top 1000, much less the Top 300.

Great job, DU! Keep folding!

[alfredo]

11. Hope you had an enjoyable journey.

At one time we had over 300 folders, but some have not kept up with it. I say most who have stayed on have it running as a service or a login item.

[hobbit709]

13. Got 2 Work units done

I'm about 85% on third computer. I was going to hook up my video processing computer until I realized I didn't have any empty slots for the wireless card. Guess I'll have to get a USB wireless adapter. That still leaves me my laptop and one more comp as a spare.

[ny_liberal]

14. Need motivation to join?

Read all the boasting and gloating in FREEPland

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1621107/posts?q=1&&page=158#154

[Roland99]

15. Kick to kick some Freeper butt!

[mwooldri]

29. Man how do they do it?

Well, I got my spare PC and the main PC on the go now (the main machine tends to stay on overnight anyway so no big sweat to keep two on). So that's a Celeron 1200 and an Intel P3 2.4 Mhz to add to the workpool (sorry not latest processors but what the heck).

If only I could get my employers in on it (man that would be a LOT of desktop computers - and signed up for the DU team? There's about 500 computers on the 4th floor of my place of work alone!).

But still... it's two more than what was there yesterday.

Mark.

[Kire]

17. Poor El_Maestro

13 WU's and only 2 points, :wtf:

[Kire]

19. kick

:kick:

[ny_liberal]

25. K & R !

[mcscajun]

20. Kick!

:kick:

[mcscajun]

21. Wednesday Night Stats

Date of last work unit:        2006-05-10 18:08:58
Active CPUs within 50 days:        283
Team ID:                      48157
Grand Score:                      1623771
Work Unit Count:               9134
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate):        267 of 43993

[corporate_mike]

22. DU #265 (with 281 CPUs) - FREEPers #111 (998 CPUs) - dKos #656 (77 CPUs)

DU stats:
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157

FREEPer stats:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120

DailyKos stats:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48083

RedState stats:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48064

[corporate_mike]

23. DU #263 (with 282 CPUs) - FREEPers #110 (990 CPUs) - dKos #649 (77 CPUs)

[hobbit709]

24. All right you guys

I'm creeping up on you long-timers
These are my stats after a week and a half;
Donator Hobbit709
Team Democratic Underground (48157)
Score 3568 (certificate)
Donator Rank 131464 of 551295
WU 15 (certificate)
Date of last
work unit 2006-05-15 15:09:17
Active processors
(within 50 days) 4
Active processors
(within 7 days) 4

SO WATCH OUT! I'M GONNA TAKE OVER

[steely]

26. I finished a WU and started my 2nd, but the stats don't show it.

Is there some latency in the system?

I sent the finsihed WU, and the 2nd downloaded, then I got a msg that F@H had to shutdown. I restarted OK, and the 2nd WU is working - but the error msg wasn't on the F@H FAQ page - just wondering.

[steely]

27. Never mind - I'm on the board.

:-)

[Kire]

28. ahem

:kick: