Democrats Rock! But do they fold?

[mia]

Watch the film.

DU's team # is 48157.

Join the fun and help science move forward!



:kick:Come on DUers, say "Yes"!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. I've been there since the start. Great Cause! And Creative Thread!

Caught me offguard. Quite witty :)

[mia]

2. Thanks for the kick!

Yes, a great cause, and fun too.
Rate it up!

[Roland99]

3. Kick to my Lou...

[mia]

5. ...new teammates...

[CabalPowered]

16. Quick note on foldmenow

When I setup the farm I thought each box needed a unique identifier and so I assigned each one a number. Now that I know they don't need uniques, I've put them all on one name, foldmenow.

[EFerrari]

32. That's cool! How did you fish that? I signed up as EF. nt

[mia]

38. I copied it from this page.

http://fahstats.com/ts.php?t=48157

We'll be seeing "EF" there soon!

[alfredo]

4. Kick and recommend.

[berni_mccoy]

6. K&R! F@H DUERS WANT YOU

Sign up today!

[mia]

7. A powerful film by "The Folding Frogs".

It brings the benefits of this project home!

(Just think # 48157 while you watch this.)

http://www.hel-razor.com/FoldingForOurFuture.html

[Pharaoh]

8. When will we catch the freepers?

Whats the score?

K&R

[Mabus]

9. When we get enough people to join to make a serious run at it

Right now they are way ahead in terms of active CPUs. They have 915 and we've got 304. They've taken over some computer labs and co-opted as many computers as they can get a hold of right now. One guy is running over fifty computers (while their owners are away - or so he admitted). We've pretty much have been trying to recruit by posting and keeping the interest alive. We're counting on people power, not unauthorized co-opting of others' CPUs.

If we want to catch them we need just 1.1% of the current DU membership each running one computer. In my household we're running two. I know there are a lot of two+ computer households in the DU community. If we could get just 1% of the total number of DU'ers signed up and running at least two computers, we'd not only catch the freepers, we'd leave them in the dust.

[IronLionZion]

25. damnit, we can do better than the freepers

have you posted this in the DU groups and topic forums? I know there are thousands of DUers, but I only heard of Fold@Home tonight, thanks to this thread.

I'm glad that the DU-freeptard rivalry is being put to good use for once.

[mia]

26. Yes we can!

Kick up this poll and spread the word.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x476792

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

33. There seem to be some posts missing from this thread...

... I swear that I read some posts here earlier that no longer exist. That's probably understandable, but also a shame. When I followed a link in one of these missing posts, I discovered a wildly entertaining (albeit poorly formatted) discussion forum wherein:

1. The owner of that forum totally dismissed F@H: "Sorry, I don't open my bank account to the widows of Nigerian Officials who want me to hold 10,000,000 bucks for them and I don't open my CPU to Stanford mad scientists. Just a flaw in my character I guess.".
   
2. Their forum admins started side-lining such discussions.
   
3. Some people on that forum seemed to finally see the small luddite behind the curtain; others just swallowed another gulp of Kool-Aid. The wimpering was hilarious.
   
4. One participant stated that he was using computers at his place of employment without authorisation: "Seven of the CPUs are home machines, all the others are at work where I use only those that would go unnoticed in case of a crash. My boss (MIS Director) tolerates me but if something fails and there's a whiff of folding near it he would have me pull it out of all of them. I've been using this approach since mid-2003." -- there speaks a member of the "party of responsibility". This person should be fired.
   
5. Their highest-producing person refers to the computer s/he uses as "new acquisitions" (complete with scare quotes) and makes allusions to said computers not belonging to him/her.

Yeah, there's the spirit :sarcasm:

While it would be gratifying if the DU Folding team were able to add more people and processing to the Folding cause than these people, this should not be done through immoral or unethical means. Contribute what you can. Don't steal from anyone else. It's for a good cause.

EDIT: completed the quote from the site owner, because it's just better when left intact.

[mia]

35. I read posts of that nature on the same board you did,

but it wasn't on DU, unless I missed some posts on earlier threads. Just a wrinkle in time, I suppose.

Love your name!

[mia]

11. When we triple our active members and daily output, we may catch

up to them in a matter of months.

This chart shows that we're ahead in terms of new members, and have about 3/4 the number of active members, but their daily output is just under 3x ours.

I like looking at the stats here to get an idea of how we moving up relative to our own performance.

Bottom line: DU #571 (304 CPUs) FR #212 (915 CPUs)

[brainshrub]

10. K&R

[corporate_mike]

12. Recommended - Please recommend so it will go to the greatest page.

[mia]

13. Moving up!

We have 158 active members today, compared to 141 last Monday.
http://fahstats.com/ts.php?t=48157

We can do it!

[CabalPowered]

14. Ask not what DU can do for you but what can you do for DU

and important science! K&R

[progressoid]

15. YEAH!!! I'm on my ninth one!!

[mia]

36. You rock!

and you're living up to your name!

[Mabus]

17. I'm still crying.

That little film hit me between the eyes. One of my best friends just lost her husband to cancer (last week) and the husband of another friend of mine has Parkinson's Disease. These aren't the only two people I know that are facing catastrophic familial medical problems. I know and have known a lot of people who would benefit from F@H research.

Everyone can help researchers understand (and maybe find cures or prevent) these diseases by using their spare CPU cycles to fold protein simulations.

[mia]

20. I know and have known a lot of people who would benefit from F@H research.

Well said, Mabus. Your post reminded me of those I have lost.

[Mabus]

39. Thanks

I guess it hit me because of the recent cancer death of my friend's husband. It was an aggressive and invasive form of renal cancer that had spread throughout his body before he was diagnosed in December. Over two months we literally saw him wasting away before our eyes. I couldn't save him, I couldn't save my mom when she had cancer but I can do something to help others in the future.

Thank you for sharing that little film. It really hit home. I will never hear Rod Stewart singing "Forever Young" again without thinking about Folding.

Keep on Folding!

[Vox_Reason]

18. Come on, DU! Join the team!

As liberals, among many things we value quality health care, scientific progress, use of technology for humanitarian purposes, compassion for others, and collective, unselfish effort for the common good.

The DU Folding@Home team is working together to produce tangible results consistent with our values. It's free, it's easy, you won't even know it's working, and the results might one day save your life or that of a loved one.

It doesn't matter how fast your computer is--every single folding CPU makes a difference. Using an old laptop and this machine, I've gone from zero to a top 20 producer on the DU team in 8 days, and it took no time at all to download and install the program on the two machines. After that, it's maintenance-free.

So little effort, for such a big potential payoff. Won't you consider joining us today?

Thanks for the thread and the nice flash link, Mia.

K&R!!!

:kick:

[mia]

34. And if not, why not?

Take the poll and other DUers will guide you along the way.

Thanks for the poll and clear explanation, Vox. :dem:

Here's to our health and the progress of Science!

[onyourleft]

19. A kick for

science. :kick: :)

[corporate_mike]

43. science

[IronLionZion]

21. graphical or no-nonsense?

any problems with either one on Windows XP?

I'll probably go with no-nonsense :shrug:

[dmr]

23. I do graphical w/ no problems using XP

I also added a 2nd pc last week.

[EstimatedProphet]

22. I fold

[corporate_mike]

40. I do, too

[Vox_Reason]

24. Why haven't you joined DU's Folding@Home team?

Take the poll!

[EFerrari]

27. I think I did but I'm not sure! lol

How do I know if I managed the download properly?

It says, "Completed 0 out of 10000000 steps"

:wtf:

:hi:

[mia]

28. Your in!

It will say "Completed 0..." for awhile, depending on the speed of you computer. It will also move back to zero briefly if you restart your computer. Then it will quickly move on to around where the program left off before the restart.

Welcome to the folding team.
Take the poll and rate it up!

[EFerrari]

31. Will do.

:)

[Mabus]

37. Done!

The poll that is.

[Vox_Reason]

29. Sounds like you're all set!

As long as the "team number" field reads 48157, you're all set.

Thanks for joining DU's Folding@Home team! Every CPU counts!

[EFerrari]

30. It does! Yeah!

:toast:

[Mabus]

41. A kick for a worthy cause

:kick:

[mia]

42. Morning stats - 552 with 309 CPUs

Date of last work unit 2006-02-22 02:12:31
Active CPUs within 50 days 309
Team Id 48157
Grand Score 562520 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 3956 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 552 of 42908

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157

[alfredo]

44. 311 CPU's Rank- 549

fold on.

[mia]

45. Calling all potential folders...

www.brainshrub.com/folding-at-home

Say "Yes"!

[corporate_mike]

46. Folding@Home can turn you into a research assistant!

I like that :)

[alfredo]

47. And sexy beyond belief.

313 CPU's

538 Rank

[mia]

48. Rank 530 - 312 CPUs

Date of last work unit 2006-02-24 03:15:45
Active CPUs within 50 days 312
Team Id 48157
Grand Score 596682 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 4167 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 530 of 42933

[alfredo]

49. We lost one CPU but our rank went up. to 528

[mia]

51. not to mention the potential for better health!

:dem:

[alfredo]

50. Kick

[corporate_mike]

52. Kick

[alfredo]

53. Ouch!

Watch where you're kicking.

Damn, I'm going to have a bruise.

314 CPU's
521 ranking

[clixtox]

54. More Recruiting, More Recruiting

We have to keep up the big Mo!

Momentum is the key to our success.

We each have another friend or three that would love to join us in this most worthy effort.

Peace, One Love and Much More Happiness

[alfredo]

55. I just finished a WU that took over two weeks.

I think I may have recruited my sister for the cause.

314 CPU's
515 Ranking

[mia]

56. Moved up 3 points in ranking

314 CPU's
512 Ranking

I need to get my brothers and sisters working on this too.

[alfredo]

57. We moved up two since your post.

I am surprised that our ranking is still growing so fast.

Remember, it isn't just the number of CPU's, it is the quality (speed and power) of CPU's. 500 CPU's from one team may not be equal 500 on another team. DU'ers may have, on average, newer computers. It seems like we have done a good job educating people on our team.

[alfredo]

58. We should be in the 400's soon Rank - 505.

[mia]

61. Now we're ranking 494 (322 CPUs)

Date of last work unit 2006-02-27 17:15:28
Active CPUs within 50 days 322
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 494 of 43017

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157




Four new members today too.

http://fahstats.com/ts.php?t=48157

[mia]

59. newest members

[corporate_mike]

60. foldmenow -- all those separate usernames can be merged into 1

[mcscajun]

62. Kickin it for Team DU!

:kick:

[mia]

63. Welcome back, mscajun!

:kick: