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Post by Wally Balljacker » Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:14 pm

I decided to start up a TLLTS protein folding team that I was hoping all you guys would join. In a nutshell, it's a distributed computing application that uses unused CPU cycles on your computer to try and help cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Parkinson's. All that is required is that you run a little program in the background.

The team number is 68208, so if you decide to help out, run "./FAH504-Linux.exe -config" and then add in the team ID along with any other preferences.

http://folding.stanford.edu/
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... mnum=68208

And in case you were wondering, FAH is mostly open-source, although the core is closed in order to protect scientific integrity.

http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html#project.source

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Post by Wally Balljacker » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:24 pm

I guess nobody is interested. :shock:

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Post by riddlebox » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:47 pm

if I put that on my mythtv box/asterisk server will that hinder performance when I record shows or make or receive phone calls?

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Post by CptnObvious999 » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:15 pm

riddlebox wrote:if I put that on my mythtv box/asterisk server will that hinder performance when I record shows or make or receive phone calls?
Nope I have been running on my main machine and work machine and you will not notice any performance decrease thanks the linux's great scheduler, it sets it to a very low priority.
Wally Balljacker wrote:I guess nobody is interested. :shock:
I have been running it for a while, since DLTV mentioned it first, I switched from their team to TLLTS but it really doesn't matter what team I am on so long as my work units get sent in I know I am helping.

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Post by Wally Balljacker » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:49 pm

Thanks for joining. There are alot of geeks around here with alot of computing power. It seemed like kind of a cool idea to start our own team.

And no, there is no noticeable performance decrease. FAH won't take over your system, it just uses CPU cycles that would otherwise go to waste. I've been successfully running it on my desktop and laptop for a few months now.

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Re: TLLTS Folding@Home Team

Post by Linc » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:45 pm

Wally Balljacker wrote:I decided to start up a TLLTS protein folding team that I was hoping all you guys would join. In a nutshell, it's a distributed computing application that uses unused CPU cycles on your computer to try and help cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Parkinson's. All that is required is that you run a little program in the background.

The team number is 68208, so if you decide to help out, run "./FAH504-Linux.exe -config" and then add in the team ID along with any other preferences.

http://folding.stanford.edu/
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... mnum=68208

And in case you were wondering, FAH is mostly open-source, although the core is closed in order to protect scientific integrity.

http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html#project.source
OK, I joined in the fun. As you might imagine, I have a couple machines I can throw at the project when they are not busy. Oddly, though, I checked the team stats page and it says there aren't any (stats that is)???
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Re: TLLTS Folding@Home Team

Post by CptnObvious999 » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:58 pm

Linc wrote:
Wally Balljacker wrote:I decided to start up a TLLTS protein folding team that I was hoping all you guys would join. In a nutshell, it's a distributed computing application that uses unused CPU cycles on your computer to try and help cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Parkinson's. All that is required is that you run a little program in the background.

The team number is 68208, so if you decide to help out, run "./FAH504-Linux.exe -config" and then add in the team ID along with any other preferences.

http://folding.stanford.edu/
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/mai ... mnum=68208

And in case you were wondering, FAH is mostly open-source, although the core is closed in order to protect scientific integrity.

http://folding.stanford.edu/faq.html#project.source
OK, I joined in the fun. As you might imagine, I have a couple machines I can throw at the project when they are not busy. Oddly, though, I checked the team stats page and it says there aren't any (stats that is)???
noone has completed a workload yet, it takes a long time just to finish one.

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Post by Karl » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:42 am

I have a few computers that I will add to the team.

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Post by Wally Balljacker » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:33 pm

It looks like Stanford's servers are having some problems, so if your work unit fails to upload, just wait for them to sort things out. I guess with the massive number of PS3s running FAH, their infrastructure couldn't handle the load.

http://forum.folding-community.org/ftop ... asc-0.html

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Post by riddlebox » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:37 pm

I have joined and hopefully we will get some stats soon!

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Post by CptnObvious999 » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:16 am

Is anyone else getting an error similar to this that keeps repeating in the log?

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[05:38:45] + Attempting to get work packet
[05:38:46] - Connecting to assignment server
[05:38:46] - Successful: assigned to (0.0.0.0).
[05:38:46] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[05:38:46] Work Unit has an invalid address.
[05:38:46] - Error: Attempt #12  to get work failed, and no other work to do.
             Waiting before retry.
No other work to do? Has everything possible been folded?!

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Post by riddlebox » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:50 am

mine is saying that too, actually mine is up to attempt #26 right now

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Post by CptnObvious999 » Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:55 pm

It seems to be working for me now, I wonder why it was doing that though...

EDIT: Ok I spoke too soon it is happening again after I completed a small workload.

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Post by riddlebox » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:37 pm

mine is working again now

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Post by adam » Mon Apr 30, 2007 6:15 am

I just set it up on my two boxes but I'm getting that "..no other work to do." error right now.

edit: well, i've had them on all day and neither have anything :cry: .

edit2: ok, i reconfigured my client to accept large work units and now its working fine.
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