Team DU Needs Your Help To Put Freepers In Their Place

[mcscajun]

AKA: DU Folding@Home Thread #4

It's time to smash "Free Republic Folders" and help medical research by joining Team # 48157, Democratic Underground's own Folding@Home Team!

Since ny_liberal sounded the first call on December 22, 2005, 84 DUers have donated the spare computing cycles of 119 CPUs to the cause. We started out small; our ranking was around the 17,000 mark out of over 40,000 teams.

Today, we've joined the ranks of the Top 2000 Teams!

Date of last work unit: 2006-01-17 09:20:38
Active CPUs within 50 days: 119
Team ID: 48157
Grand Score: 96609
Work Unit Count: 840
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate): 1978 of 42245

: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 100 -- 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

Links to prior threads:
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

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!!!