DU Folding@Home Thread #6 - Team DU Moving Up!

[mcscajun]

Team DU is kicking ass and taking initials...we ain't got time for no names!

We're doing more and more important medical research every week! Imagine catching and passing the freepers, doing medical research and letting your computer do it all for you? How's that for an offer you can't refuse? How? All you need to do is join Team # 48157, Democratic Underground's own Folding@Home Team!

Join the Team here: http://folding.stanford.edu

Since ny_liberal sounded the first call on December 22, 2005, 131 DUers have donated the spare computing cycles of 185 CPUs to the cause. We started out small; our ranking was around the 17,000 mark out of over 40,000 teams.

Today, we're firmly entrenched in the Top 1500 Teams and going for the top 1000!

Date of last work unit 2006-01-25 16:19:50
Active CPUs within 50 days: 185
Team ID: 48157
Grand Score: 171168
Work Unit Count: 1432
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate): 1278 of 42386

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

:woohoo: :applause: :woohoo:

Our DU CPUs are busily simulating the folding of proteins to support medical research into diseases and disorders that kill, cripple, and impair human life. Help the work...help find cures!

Every PC has spare computing cycles to contribute to the effort. The program is small and runs in background, can be paused at any time, or closed entirely if your workload or hobbies require more CPU resources. There's even an interesting graphic to let you watch the simulation in progress. Old PCs, Slow PCs, Spare PCs lying around that can be attached to your home network all help the cause. The race may go to the swift, but slow and steady racks up points, too!

Mac and Linux clients are available, also.

You can have fun catching Freepers along the way. It's a great fringe benefit to joining Team DU. :)

The Freeper team stands in the top 500 -- let's knock 'em off that pedestal they're sneering down on us from; what do you say, DU?

Join the Team here: http://folding.stanford.edu

If you've already joined the team, there's still more you can do. Send out the call to your progressive friends and family; get them to join our team!

C'mon, DUers! More CPUs!!!

Links to prior threads are included here, so you can check on questions and answers already covered:
Original Thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=753&mesg_id=753
Thread #2: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=38723&mesg_id=38723
Thread #3: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=120440&mesg_id=120440
Thread #4: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=164110&mesg_id=164110
Thread #5: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=204219&mesg_id=204219