folding at home troubles

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hello all

i seem to be having a problem with folding at home. It goes through the work units fine, but doesnt seem to send off the finished packet back to them. I get this message in the logfile:

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[13:05:10] + Attempting to send results
[13:06:51] Couldn’t send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[13:06:51] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:06:51] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed July 5). Keeping unit in queue.

[13:06:51] + Attempting to send results
[13:06:59] Finished a frame (223)
[13:07:19] Couldn’t send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[13:07:19] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:07:19] - Error: Could not transmit unit 02 (completed July 8). Keeping unit in queue.

[13:07:19] + Attempting to send results
[13:07:43] Couldn’t send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[13:07:43] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:07:43] - Error: Could not transmit unit 04 (completed May 30). Keeping unit in queue.

[13:07:43] + Attempting to send results
[13:08:06] Couldn’t send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[13:08:06] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:08:06] - Error: Could not transmit unit 05 (completed June 3). Keeping unit in queue.

[13:08:06] + Attempting to send results
[13:08:31] Couldn’t send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[13:08:31] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:08:31] - Error: Could not transmit unit 06 (completed June 15). Keeping unit in queue.

[13:08:31] + Attempting to send results
[13:09:16] Couldn’t send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[13:09:16] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:09:16] - Error: Could not transmit unit 07 (completed June 19). Keeping unit in queue.

[13:09:16] + Attempting to send results
[13:09:41] Couldn’t send HTTP request to server (wininet)
[13:09:41] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:09:41] - Error: Could not transmit unit 09 (completed June 23). Keeping unit in queue.
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any ideas on what the problem could be?

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They had some server downtime recently due to a power outage and a move to a different building. That is likely the cause of your uploading problems.

There is a forum at folding-community.org where you can see announcements about server problems and other issues. Look in the Pandegroup Announcements section.

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Can some one tell me what ‘Folding @ Home’ is?

I have heard of it, but I dont know what it is!

Cheers,

Joe,

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Folding@Home is a distributed computing project that is folding proteins for the advancement of science. Research in protein folding will help advance research in diseases like Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow Disease, some cancers, and other diseases that result from the misfolding of proteins. More information about the project is available at the Folding@Home home page.

In a distributed computing project people volunteer to donate their spare CPU time to the project. This gives the project more computing power than the worlds largest super computers. Each person downloads a client. The client runs in the background and uses your spare CPU cycles to compute protein folding. Since the client is a low priority background task it doesn’t interfere with your normal operation of the computer.

We created a team called CPUniCycles for Folding@Home. There are a bunch of use here running the client. We’re team number 13392.

Here’s our stats:
Folding@Home stats

To join the team you only need to download the client, pick a unique user name (with no spaces), plug in team number 13392, and then let your computer run. It works better if you let your computer run 24/7 or at least 12 hours per day. Minimum CPU requirements are a 500 MHz Celeron, but in reality you’ll want something like a 1 GHz or better AMD Athlon, Pentium III, or Pentium 4. There is also a client for Macs, but I don’t know the minimum CPU requirements for the Mac.

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system requirements…

I used folding on my dual processor PII (Painful!). It took me 1 week per work unit.
You can use folding on any machine, but how long is your patience…?