DU Folding@Home - Thread #10 - Put your PC to work to fight disease!

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.

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 #9. You will see that the linked DU page will reference older threads.

One other request: please join the DU Folding@Home team:
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Thank you, and please consider joining us.

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


thread #7
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=299849&mesg_id=299849

thread #8

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=396309

thread #9
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=514640&mesg_id=514640

I wonder if it's possible to download it onto the terminals at the public library and get it to work quietly in the background?

Or, on the other hand, convince the library to allow it to be installed.

Imagine if every library computer in the country were running this!

I'm going to send Stanford an email suggesting that.

issues, no matter how noble the cause. They would have to get permission from the city to run such a client. It would be great to have cities running their own teams.

Write your friends and urge them to join.

What else do you expect from a dedicated folder :shrug: ?

Date of last work unit 2006-03-13 11:09:24
Active CPUs within 50 days 327
Team Id 48157
Grand Score 858569 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 5492 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 413 of 43230

:applause: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause:

I am folding between thunderstorms. This time of year I can't leave my puter on when gone because you can never tell when lightning will strike.

I live in Kansas. We lost power yesterday due to a sudden storm with tornadic winds. Kansas University, across town, is closed today with damage to 60% of the buildings. One junior high, a few blocks from me, lost its air conditioning units when they were ripped off the roof and blown into the parking lot below. We still have helicopters flying overhead surveying damage which keep freaking out the dogs.

Here's a link to a post containing some pictures my brother took yesterday. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=153&topic_id=4422&mesg_id=4422

We spent part of this morning helping to do neighborhood clean-up. We got power back yesterday morning but the people across the street from me didn't get theirs until early this morning. We almost never turn off our computers but we have been lately. In fact, we unplugged them completely a couple of times yesterday.

up, so that could mean real trouble come the summer.

Looks like the neighborhood with be alive with the sound of chain saws for the next few weeks.

The city crews and neighborhoods were out in force today. The city is pretty cleaned up. I'm amazed. I had to drive across town today and most of the larger debris has been pulled off the street and removed or stacked for removal. We live near where they park the majority of city vehicles overnight so they had to clear the debris to get the equipment across town. We're also near a few major (for our town) streets so that also helped in getting the area around here cleaned fairly quickly.

I awoke to the sound of chainsaws and it continued most of the day. Believe me, I'd rather hear chainsaws than the howling wind that woke me up Sunday morning.

LOL, my neighborhood is great. Before the electricity came back on (at least on our side of the block) one of my neighbors had pulled out a camp stove and made coffee for everyone. People brought out food (cold cuts, bread, etc.) and helped feed people who stopped by to help clean up our neighborhood. I don't want to say it was like a party, especially considering the amount of damage around here, but we made the best of it. The kids were especially fun. They were picking up small things and alerting adults if there was something with nails. We made them go on the porch after we started finding roofing with nails in it. Thankfully the stuff with nails was in a small area.

We knew most of our neighbors by sight before the storm and we would always give them an obligatory wave but we certainly got to know them a lot better the past couple of days. Now I'll feel a lot more comfortable about waving and saying "hi" to my neighbors.

Anyway, now that I've replaced the burned out cable that hosed my internet connection after a brownout this afternoon, I'm back to folding.

Good work, Alfredo!

I have my home computer on folding almost full-time, but it appears to be blocked for the office PC.

There have been reports of people being fired for running distributed computing software on company computers.

capacity for a good cause.

Small independent businesses would probably be more flexible.

Freepers continue to outfold us.

I expected their production to drop but they continue to add new CPUs.

Just a suggestion - we don't need any more divisions than we already have in this nation.

Also: I just finished folding my first protein!! Am now on Protein #2.

:hi:

and exploiting that competitive spirit for a good cause is OK to a degree.

To get through the next hundred teams is going to take a lot more CPU's, and that will take time. We got the most motivated people already, and from here on out we will grow slowly.

I do it for the good it is doing, and for building community. Everybody has their reasons for helping. I'm just happy people are helping no matter what the reason.

More CPUs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just about to finish a 10,000!

Got the screensaver installed. This is such a cool project -- thanks for telling us about it!!
:toast:

Every little bit helps. Your CPU might be the one that unlocks the puzzle, finds that elusive clue that helps find a cure.

33 Mo_pinko 7200 46
38 mr_mo 6619 43
44 Moebius2288 6164 39
62 mo_drama 4322 27
74 mo_pvr 3681 16

total points for team mo- 27986

which would put us in 6th place, if we were not more interested in competing with each other than all of you. gotta get it together, tho. got one more computer that is not communicating, and a laptop that could probably do some folding, if it was not out planting yard signs with me.

That we have Mo and all the momentum that is created with his/their enthusiasm. Go team! We have to recruit more DU folders, we gotta recruit.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

:applause: Way to mo, er, I mean, way to go! Give everymo a pat on the back.

...ah, well. Glad to see these threads keep on keepin' on. :)
Go, Team DU!!! Each one, recruit one. More CPUs!!!

I'm in the home stretch of my next WU. It should be finished by this weekend.

Had to give up some CPUs I had running at work. Oh well...it was a temporary bonus that last longer than I thought it would.

I have 54 more frames left on this WU.

:loveya:

Thanks for all you do!

Date of last work unit 2006-03-15 23:22:20
Active CPUs within 50 days 326
Team Id 48157
Grand Score 895951 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 5680 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 400 of 43272

The top #400! Way to go DU!

:woohoo: :applause: :applause: :woohoo:

:thumbsup::applause:
Major Congratulations to kevsand who has taken the No.1 spot for team DU!
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&t=48157

Jumping from 3rd to 1st in the same day, the production coming in is steady and strong from kevsand. Keep it up!!
:thumbsup:
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=174607

Well done! Keep it up!

I've still got a handful of older boxes sitting around in various states of disrepair. If I get some spare time next month, I may try and bring a few more cpus online. They're slower than glaciers, but they're just collecting dust right now. Might as well give 'em something to do...

Not bad at all.

Just finished my 4th WU. It hasn't shown on the site yet.

DU rules! I always knew we were a better forum than Slashdot anyway.

Now we can prove it by Folding their ass off. ;-)

Another interesting data point is we're within three months of taking down the Microsoft team. Heady stuff there.

Keep Folding for DU! I have five CPUs up and running 24/7.

:woohoo:

and we can get into the top one hundred

Date of last work unit 2006-03-18 10:15:05
Active CPUs within 50 days 323
Team Id 48157
Grand Score 930224 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 5839 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 388 of 43307

:kick:

Losing CPU's but still climbing

Check out this chart of Team DU progress at

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=48157

We have seen ~30% decline in daily production. I wonder what is going on?

In total, we are doing well (384th place). We already passed up IBM, and soon will take down Debian and Intel. How cool is that? We need more DU CPUs!

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_overtake.php?s=&t=48157

Still folding away, though.

and within the past couple of weeks we got some big WUs to crunch. As a result it doesn't look like we have been as productive but the truth is we are still folding away - slower but higher points.

BTW, I just made the 3,000 club and my husband (folder Lebowski) is still moving up and almost ready (currently 352/400) to get another WU.

...like this (see below)? Then please reply here.

/Which will kick the thread.
//Shameless promotion of a good cause.

Is it some kind of script or do you have to update it manually?

... please let me know if there are any errors or glaring omissions.

How to create an automatic Folding@Home forum signature

The instructions below help you to set up a forum signature image that displays your F@H statistics. This requires a little HTML knowledge. The statistics are updated automatically every hour.

1. Go to www.dynasig.net and create a free account. All they need is an e-mail address (I haven't received any junk e-mail on the account that I used, so I trust them). The free account limits you to one signature.
   
2. Once you login, click on Edit Folding@Home Profile in the Control Panel. Enter your F@H Username and DU's team# 48157 (leave the Statistics Page set to 1).
   
3. Go back to the Control Panel and click on Create Signature. Now the fun starts! There are a few background images you can choose for your signature and some basic text controls. The selection of F@H variables you can display is quite limited, but covers the basics. Unfortunately, the only way I have found to get a 2-column layout is to choose a monospaced font and insert the HTML escape code for a space "& n b s p ;" (without the spaces) repeatedly until the text lines up. This will require the occasional tweak as the stats change. Primitive, huh? I strongly recommend that you save your text into a text editor or word processing document, as the multiple spaces get stripped out by the website when editing.

My current configuration is described below. All text is set to the monospaced font "Comic Sans MS". The terms in brackets are the F@H variables I selected.

Title: "Democratic Underground Folding@Home Stats" (Yellow)
Line 1: "Team Points: [fah9]        Team WUs: [fah11]" (Lime Green)
Line 2: "Team Rank: [fah8]                 Team ID: [fah2]" (Lime Green)
Line 3: "My Points: [fah6]                 My WUs: [fah7]" (White)
Line 4: "My DU Rank: [fah5]                 Last Updated: [fah10]" (White)
Background: "Spear"

Once you are happy with your signature, copy the part of the HTML code they provide on-screen: just the characters from "http" through ".gif" inclusive. Paste these characters into your DU profile signature field.

I personally prefer the F@H signature generated by the Extreme Overclocking site, but unfortunately the DU forum software doesn't support the type of image link it produces.

Thanks

Credit for my interest in F@H stats signatures goes to DUer Vox_Reason who posted in Thread #8 about the stats sig image page at Extreme Overclockers.

This is an example of the type of stats sig image they can do (it can be customised). For people that like to monitor their F@H statistics, Extreme Overclockers also do kick-ass F@H stats pages.

Regarding the instructions, I may have overcomplicated how to insert multiple spaces to create columnar text. I think you can just lean on the spacebar to line things up instead of using the HTML escape code for a non-breaking space character. However, the recommendation to save text to another document still stands.

I would like to see other peoples' design ideas for their stats sigs using DynaSig. My current one was just the first that didn't make my eyes cross too much. Design isn't my strong suit.

:kick:

Edit:Needs more work.

This is only a test...and thanks in advance!!!

What's going on?

people to join.

is happening.

Please check on the thread, keep it kicked, offer help and encouragement

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4915376

That's the answer now. I've been saying "Each One, Recruit One" here on DU for a while now...meaning each DUer recruit One Other.

That's "tip of the iceberg". This evening, I sent out a letter to ten of my liberal friends, to many of whom I provide computer support at No Cost. In the letter, I'm asking them to join our efforts here.

I'll report back on responses.

Go thou and do likewise. :)

but I'm not sure if any joined.

In fact, I called her office earlier today about her opponent buying a house from a DeLay front group at below market value (ala Duke Cunningham). Whenever I've done this things in the past I put out things like blank voter registration forms and materials for local groups as part of my networking project. In addition to the usual materials I'll also print up/out the DU mission statement, F@H materials and how to sign up for the DU folding team. Hopefully I'll get some recruits for both. It's definitely worth a shot.

Every CPU helps!

we need more CPUs!!

Freepers have over 1,000 CPUs folding.

:kick:

computer. Among other things, it will speed up number crunching.

Way up. Check it out http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=174657 Up til last week I was cranking out one or two units a week. Last week I did four. A WU uploaded this morning and got a new one. I'm cruising through it and I'm due to finish tomorrow. If this keeps up I'll double my previous output. Maybe it's because the WUs I've gotten lately are smaller but I don't remember finishing units this quickly before. The only explanation I have for it is I cleaned up my C drive last week. My C drive was getting pretty full but my D drive still had a lot of space. I moved some of my larger and less frequently used folders onto D. Hmmm. I should have done this a long time ago.

I'm also thinking there are a couple of other folders I can move off the C drive. :evilgrin: Anything to help up the numbers.

the problem. My machine is 6 years old. I'm running a dual 450 G4. It was fast in its day, but now it is slow.

It was late last night when I was "thinking" :eyes:. I just realized that I also disabled some start-up programs that I didn't use and really didn't need to be running when I moved the folders over to the D drive last week. For instance, I found out that WinFax was running continuously in the background. I rarely use it so I killed it. There was also some Netscape program (view manager) that was running all the time. I killed it too. I think this the reason my machine is running faster. I've got less clutter going on. It's amazing what a good night's sleep and two pots of coffee will do to my mental acuity.

I clean up caches, check for running apps, update data bases, repair permissions, and pre binding

It's really hard to accept that Freepers are beating DU and Kos combined :(

We need more CPUs.

...there seems to be a problem with project p2401 _Ribo_indole and the FAHcore78.exe in that it triggers the error message "Core is not present or corrupted", downloads FAHcore78.exe again (which is the same as the one that caused the error) and keeps doing this in a loop. This problem may be limited to AMD processors.

The only solution seems to be manually downloading a Beta version of FAHcore78.exe (link goes to the FAQ article "Downloading FAH Core files manually" on www.fahwiki.net). Unfortunately, this beta core runs very, very slowly (90 minutes to do 1% of a 250,000 step project), but it seems to be the only way to break out of the loop.

I hope this helps. Our two poor little Linux boxes are struggling through this project.

Using two computers to combat the disease. This is in memory of my aunt who passed away 3 years ago of ovarian cancer.

Thanks for joining! :cheers:

I've had several friends and family members die of cancer. I've got several friends who have relatives that have Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases. I fold so that others may some day be spared the heartaches that I and those close to me have experienced.

All of the XP boxes I have crash a couple times a day with folding. All the W2K boxes are fine. No problems whatsoever.

I run XP and I've only had problems with one core/WU. It kept crashing my machine and when it wasn't crashing it was slowing everything to a crawl. It took a while to finish processing but I haven't had a problem since.

Had to stop using it because everytime I would come to check on that PC it would be frozen. Been running Seti@home lately on it with no problems..

Date of last work unit 2006-04-04 14:12:57
Active CPUs within 50 days 321
Team Id 48157
Grand Score 1148745 (certificate)
Work Unit Count 6979 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate) 333 of 43521


On my way out the door to pick up my nephew from school and take him to a recital. So, no time for fancy formatting.

Need more speed.

Donator KAZ
Team Democratic Underground (48157)
Score 10340 (certificate)
Donator Rank 70002 of 543476
WU 53 (certificate)
Date of last
work unit 2006-04-05 10:12:48
Active processors
(within 50 days) 3
Active processors
(within 7 days) 3

EOC doesn't :)

Thanks for the explanation.

What gives?

We are seemingly losing folks (and CPUS) but right now we are at 315 CPUS, and ranked 320 out of 43638. Let's keep folding! Tell everyone you know! Kick, Recommend, CHEERLEAD!

it shows 308. go figure!

We need more CPUs

This is what is going on.

<20:08:44> - Preparing to get new work unit...
<20:08:44> + Attempting to get work packet
<20:08:44> - Connecting to assignment server
<20:08:45> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<20:08:45> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<20:08:46> Loaded queue successfully.
<20:08:47> - Deadline time not received.
<20:08:59> - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<20:09:13> + Attempting to get work packet
<20:09:13> - Connecting to assignment server
<20:09:14> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<20:09:14> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<20:09:14> Loaded queue successfully.
<20:09:16> - Deadline time not received.
<20:09:28> - Error: Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<20:09:52> + Attempting to get work packet
<20:09:52> - Connecting to assignment server
<20:09:54> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<20:09:54> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<20:09:54> Loaded queue successfully.
<20:09:55> - Deadline time not received.
<20:10:08> - Error: Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<20:10:30> + Attempting to get work packet
<20:10:30> - Connecting to assignment server
<20:10:31> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<20:10:31> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<20:10:31> Loaded queue successfully.
<20:10:33> - Deadline time not received.
<20:10:47> - Error: Attempt #4 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<20:11:37> + Attempting to get work packet
<20:11:37> - Connecting to assignment server
<20:11:48> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<20:11:48> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<20:11:48> Loaded queue successfully.
<20:11:50> - Deadline time not received.
<20:12:03> - Error: Attempt #5 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<20:13:26> + Attempting to get work packet
<20:13:26> - Connecting to assignment server
<20:13:29> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<20:13:29> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<20:13:29> Loaded queue successfully.
<20:13:32> - Deadline time not received.
<20:13:52> - Error: Attempt #6 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<20:16:33> + Attempting to get work packet
<20:16:33> - Connecting to assignment server
<20:16:37> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<20:16:37> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<20:16:38> Loaded queue successfully.
<20:16:39> - Deadline time not received.
<20:16:51> - Error: Attempt #7 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
<20:22:21> + Attempting to get work packet
<20:22:21> - Connecting to assignment server
<20:22:22> - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.112).
<20:22:22> + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
<20:22:22> Loaded queue successfully.
<20:22:24> - Deadline time not received.
<20:22:36> - Error: Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

We need to find out if others are having this trouble at this time.



Error: Attempt #8 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

I have tried reinstalling, and removing queue.dat. I've tried my graphic client configured every way possible. It has tried several servers, but none worked so far.

it works!!!!!!

I'm 10% done with this WU. It must be pretty small.

n/t

Every CPU helps!

I'm at #14 (melonhawg) Score_19193 WU_99

But my remote network (3 pc's Intel 3.1g...three Mandriva PC's)is down till Saturday... wire closet getting cleaned up.

We're in the Top 300!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We've come a long way - need more CPUs!!!!!

We desperately need more CPUs... TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW! We had such momentum, we need to step it up SOMEHOW!

with a problem nobody seemed to know how to fix.