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Skip to comments.FR Folding@Home Project Update -- We're in the Top 65 of all teams with 12.75 Million points
Posted on 09/28/2006 11:45:29 PM PDT by soccer_maniac
Time for a new FreeRepublic folding@home thread.
Our FreeRepublic team of 358 members comprised primarily of Free Republic members in good standing have banded together to donate their excess CPU cycles to a worthy cause. Via distributed computing, millions of computers around the world, contribute directly to scientific research, in the quest for a greater understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, and Mad Cow (BSE).
Currently, the team is in 75th place (with 1,020 active CPUs - 70,500 completed Work Units and 12.75 million points).
This is an entirely voluntary program, and if you want to learn more, please see the links posted below (or read one of the previous 20+ folding threads)
How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.
Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.
How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?:
1.) Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (Folding@home Client Download). Type in your desired username.
2.) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic!
3.) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.
How can my computer help? Even if he were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Standford still wouldn't have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people's desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.
There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.
List of Relevant Folding Links
Why Fold - Watch This !!
Extreme Overclockers Stats for FreeRepublic
Competition (Not!!) Dummies ..Daily Kos
Dummie Folding Threads #7 #8 #9#10#11 #12
Other Useful Stuff - Links
How much are those work units worth? And what are they?
All Projects Listed
Point Summary for Workunits
Fahmon Third Party Monitoring Software
Past FreeRepublic Folding threads
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #17 #18 #19 #20#21
|Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan
|Date of last work unit
|2006-09-28 23:15:20
|Active CPUs within 50 days
|Team Id
|Grand Score
|12788349 (certificate)
|Work Unit Count
|70485 (certificate)
|Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)
|67 of 45639
|Home Page
Our competitors' teams:
DUmmies: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157
DailyKos: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48083
Other conservative teams:
RedState: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48064
Just downloaded and installed. You would think I would have something else to do at 3 a.m.
ummm.. might want to worry about the possibility that it could be a password thief or a creditcard/bank info thief. no idea who wrote it, except for some students.
This is a legit program sanctioned by Stanford U and backed by the largest tech companies in the world: Google, Intel, IBM, Apple, HP, etc.
Welcome to the team!
Every CPU helps!
Well I got a question. It seems that at the rate my CPU is going it will take 400 days to finish this WU. That seems way too long. Is something wrong here?
Just wait a bit and it will adjust the estimated time downwards when it has a larger sample size to work with.
We are closing in on the 1 year anniversary of FReeper folding.
So are we going to have a party or what???
A Question:
I want to attach this project to my BOINC manager..
It (BOINC) asks for a URL..
Would that be "http://folding.stanford.edu" or do I need to add the team # on there or something??
Hafta thank you for your advice from a couple months ago: I'm less than 250th (finally) on Team Reagan, and, with taking down the processor usage to 75%, this little pig I'm typing on is running on 24/7 and is at about body temperature.
F@H doesn't even get offended if something hangs and I have to reboot - just takes up where I left off, most of the time.
Just wish I had more time to see what my protein folding actually is accomplishing...
These are accredited and safe..
I have run Berkeley's SETI and BOINC for years now, and never had any security problems.. ( We run anti-virus and Adware and security programs on a daily basis.. To the point we have been called "obsessive".. )
These programs are constantly monitored for hacks and hackers.. Their reputation is everything to them, and could cost them large chunks of their funding if anything went "wrong"..
These distributed computing projects are literally worth their weight in gold to researchers..
Volunteered computing time is priceless..
Heads would roll.. Seriously..
I just tried to feed that URL into the join mechanism on my own BOINC, and was told that BOINC did not support the "folding" project. And so, with that in mind, I would like to take this opportunity to remind my fellow FReepers about the contributions that some of your brothers are making in other computational arenas (as shown in the links below):
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=30594 http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=1619 http://predictor.scripps.edu/team_display.php?teamid=1450
Freepers rule.
Of course, sometimes, we don't always get our text right.
Try reading about it before you try to scare off volunteers.
Knee jerk reactions like yours make it harder for those of us that want to do something good1
The #1 Team: [H]ardOCP
BUMP "For The Gipper"! Thanks for your efforts soccer_maniac.
Proud to b "folding".
Thanks for the ping...I hope to have a total of five processors going shortly.
This is a lot of fun, with very little effort, and for a good cause!
did check the site. still wouldn't trust it. I had used the Seti @ home project, since I knew people that worked on it.
I'm rapidly approaching Top 50 for FR. :-) If I knew for sure how to get >8 CPUs registered, I could probably add more.
bumpity...I think I've reached the point I'm going to stay in the rankings.
Folding@Home grew out of Genome@Home, a contemporary of SETI. SETI allowed G@H to use their ideas and some code in the process of building it.
Same group of folks that get together at conferences, only F@H looks for Little Genetic Markers and SETI looks for Little Green Men.
Are you still using SETI?
The current limit is 8 CPUs per system, not per user.
What are you running that has that many SMPs?
But Windows doesn't need to be rebooted very often. </sarcasm>
My second WU was recently completed. Thanks for bringing this worthwile cause to my attention!
Oh, I got the impression that I have to specify a CPU number for each CPU, regardless of which machine it's on. I guess I misunderstood.
I finally hit 100,000 points a few days ago... Now to get to 200,000.
If you're interested in tracking your folding machine(s) over the web, please Freepmail me.
Available features include:
Bump for later read.
Hey, thanks for the new thread and the ping.
I've borged my office 2.8G P4 and my 24hr Average Points is now holding fairly steadily in the low 40's, though I've been as far upscale as the 37th slot.
From my personal experince, for machines in an environment that produces lots of dust -- especially in a home with pets where there's pet hair around -- open up your CPU on at least an annual basis and vacuum the lint and hair out of your heat-sinks. I shut down for an evening to do this on my 2.26G P4; going so far as to remove the heatsinks completely, clean them and reinstall them with fresh thermal transfer grease. You would not believe the difference in performance due to the vast improvement in heat dissipation.
With computers, more so than with nice cars, a clean machine really IS a fast machine.
Self ping
Nope. stopped a few years ago.
What are CPU ?
Please don't discourage people from helping the team with your histrionics. If you don't want to participate, that's fine, obviously. However, there's no reason to scare others off for no reason.
ATI pioneers new Stream Computing technology Uses processing technology to go beyond graphics, working with leading academic institutions and software developers to build a stream computing ecosystem
MARKHAM, ONTARIO, Sep 29, 2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX News Network) -- Today ATI (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT) announced that it is pioneering a new technology known as Stream Computing, that has the potential to dramatically impact almost every sector of the market. Along with leading companies and academic institutions worldwide, ATI is working to build a stream computing ecosystem, one that delivers the performance, applications, software and tools necessary to turn ATI's vision into reality.
Stream computing allows ATI graphics processors (GPUs) to work in concert with today's high-performance, low-latency computer processors (CPUs) to solve complex computational problems. Using stream computing, in simulations today processing of risk assessment models similar to those used by financial institutions' were completed 16 times faster than traditional methods(1), oil and gas companies are seeing seismic model processing increased by more than 20 times(1), and Stanford University is seeing disease research accelerated by as much as 40 times, giving them the ability to process three years worth of research data in just one month(2).
Stream computing makes use of ATI's sophisticated graphics processors (GPUs) that have until now, been used solely to calculate and render millions of pixels onto computer monitors, hundreds of times each second. Stream computing harnesses that tremendous processing power for a wide range of scientific, business and consumer computing applications, providing organizations the ability to process incredible amounts of information in significantly less time.
"ATI processors are some of the most technologically advanced computing architectures on the planet," said Dave Orton, president and CEO, ATI Technologies Inc. "They were designed with more than just graphics in mind, and today we're seeing the initial fruits of those labors with the introduction of our stream computing initiatives. Fortune 1000 companies, leading software developers, and academic institutions are demonstrating today that stream computing is they key to tremendous performance in a number of applications. Today's announcement is part of our vision of becoming a processing powerhouse in the months and years to come - we're beginning to build the stream computing platform today."
"Stream computing is a great representation of the vision of AMD's Torrenza platform strategy - bringing the unique capabilities of two heterogeneous processing solutions together to solve complex problem sets and change the game," said Marty Seyer, senior vice president, Commercial Segment, AMD. "Combining AMD64 with stream computing from ATI to address specific application workloads will open up new innovation possibilities in markets such as high-performance computing environments. Torrenza-based technologies have the potential to enable information to flow seamlessly between them in order to solve problems in the most cost-effective and timely manner. We see the potential over time for these two processing elements to become even more tightly coupled."
"The raw computational power of these DirectX-based processors is incredible and harnessing those capabilities for general purpose applications makes a lot of sense," said Dean Lester, general manager of the Graphics Platforms Unit, Microsoft Corp. "Stream computing has the potential to positively impact how organizations analyze data by improving the accuracy and efficiency with which critical business decisions are made, as well as enhancing the overall consumer experience by enabling compelling, high-fidelity environments to gamers today. Microsoft is working closely with ATI towards a future where all of our customers can experience the benefits that stream computing has to offer."
"The combined power of ATI processors and Havok FX enables physical realism only dreamed of by today's game designers," said Jeff Yates, vice president, product management, Havok. "Realistic physics is the future of videogames and together we're making it possible. Just as real-time lighting and shadows are standard in today's games, there will come a time when no game is without this level of immersive, true-to-life physics."
ATI's high-end processor today makes use of 48 compute cores that results in an order of magnitude processing speed-up. In certain applications(3), ATI processors perform up to 40 times faster than competing processors. The accelerated processing associated with stream computing has implications for a number of fields now and in the future, as the ecosystem around stream computing matures:
Scientific research - Today ATI's stream computing efforts are helping to save lives by driving life sciences to produce results faster in areas such as disease research, giving organizations the option to do more granular studies in the same amount of time as in the past(4). ATI announced today that Stanford University will make available a new distributed computing application that takes advantage of ATI processors for disease research. In the future, climate research may also benefit from stream computing as analysis of large data sets for storm and hurricane forecasting can be done faster or in more detail, potentially resulting in the issuing of warnings longer in advance of severe weather, and ultimately a better understanding of the world's climate.
Homeland security - Communications analysis and facial recognition can be drastically improved using stream computing, with implications for airport security, as well as photograph and video analysis.
Financial forecasting - Major institutions have been using server farms to do risk assessment using Monte Carlo simulations, and for derivatives pricing using models like Black-Scholes. Simulations conducted by PeakStream, Inc. using ATI hardware shows that stream computing can provide these companies with more detailed answers in significantly less time, letting them make the business decisions they need to faster, and giving them a leg up on their competition.
Oil and gas - Companies are using stream computing to analyze more data in shorter periods of time to more quickly and reliably discover where resources lie, speeding discoveries of crude oil deposits. ATI graphic processors in concert with PeakStream's software platform are allowing oil and gas companies to achieve significantly faster seismic data modeling.
Database searching - For search companies with incredibly large databases to organize and sort through, stream computing may offer a compelling business case providing increased processing power in less space.
Consumer applications - Software used by millions of people around the world, such as operating systems, office applications, and graphics applications, can benefit from stream computing. Any graphics-laden software that requires heavy processing can be accelerated.
Videogames - An area where ATI processors are already heavily used for graphics purposes, working with Havok, premier provider of software and services to interactive digital media creators, stream computing is resulting in life-like modeling of hair, cloth, smoke, liquid, and the physics behind them, giving gamers the most immersive experience possible.
Other areas that stream computing has the potential to impact in the future include enterprise software, product design and manufacturing, and digital media encoding among others.
With this new opportunity, ATI is also announcing a specific focus on enterprise stream computing in an effort to drive commercial adoption of stream computing with the help of its partners. For more information on ATI's stream computing initiatives, please see related company announcements made today on the topics of enterprise stream computing, and Stanford University's Folding@home program. About ATI Technologies ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics, PC platform technologies and digital media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world's foremost graphics processor unit (GPU) provider and is dedicated to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top and digital television, game console and handheld device markets. With fiscal 2005 revenues of US $2.22 billion, ATI has more than 4,000 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).
WOW A 40X increase in processing time!!
Congrats to lrenh for hitting the Big 1.0 ... One Million points!
I may add another box this year. (I cancelled the AMD AM2 plans.) I am considering the Intel Core 2 Quad (4-Core) coming out in November. My old node7 is gone (ownership changed) and I wish to build a replacement. node7 is the only Windows box (other than a dual boot laptop) it is used for Video and 3D applications, all of my other boxes are Linux/BSD/UNIX.
I already bought some parts including some software. I love the student prices at universities: WinXP Pro $5, MS Office 2003 Pro Enterprise Edition $0 (Really, 1 free copy per year).
GPUs to increase Folding@Home processing power up to 500x
Wolfgang Gruener and Mark Raby
September 29, 2006 13:03
Palo Alto (CA) - Stanford University's Folding@Home project today announced a new software that will enable the use of graphics cards within the distributed computing project. Project leaders will tap into the floating point horsepower of graphics chips and hope to see a massive jump in processing power that can lead to more research results in less time.
Whenever there is a need of enormous processing power scientist typically make use of, if available, supercomputers. And if supercomputers aren't enough, clusters have been expanded in the past, for example for the SETI@Home ("search for extraterrestrial life") program of the University of California, Berkeley, or the Folding@Home project of Stanford University, to distributed computing projects.
Folding@Home, launched in 2000 by Stanford Associate Professor Vijay Pande, researches the "folding" process of proteins - a term that refers to the assembling and reassembling of proteins. This biological process not always happens in a perfect way and if "proteins get screwed up," said Pande, biomedical problems and diseases can develop - such as Alzheimer's disease, one of Pande's research interests.
Computer simulation of these folding processes can help researchers to learn more about the processes and find cures for or even prevent certain diseases. The problem is that these simulations consume huge amounts of processing power. "This scenario has become a 25-year nightmare," Pande said. Researchers are far away from being able to calculate folding processes in real time: In fact, 1 ns of folding currently takes about 1 day to calculate - or 1 second will take more than 2700 years on "one fast processor," he said.
"Even if the government would give us everything they have in computing power, it wouldn't be enough," he explained. Some simulations could still take up to 40 years to yield some results. Folding@Home was an idea to reach many more machines that would run calculations and, according to Pande, it has been a great success - with more than 200,000 active computers worldwide crunching numbers at this time.
Dual-core processors promised to bring another increase in horsepower, but Pande said that "twice" the performance doesn't cut it: "We need 30 or 40 times the speed to turn months into days," he said.
The project members looked into options to increase the processing speed and ended up at solutions such as Clearspeed's accelerator card, which provides about 100 GFlops or about four times the performance of a current Core 2 Duo chip. But the cards are priced at $5000 even in volume and aren't quite what one would call affordable. Pande now believes to have found a solution by tapping into the capabilities of modern graphics cards, which are monsters in terms of floating point performance: A new client released today supports ATI's X1900 and X1950 graphics cards, which can unleash about 375 GFlops, which is about 20 to 40 times more speed than what the project has seen so far. The group has also improved the software algorithm of Folding@Home, which he expects will bring another 10 - 15x improvement for a total maximum performance increase of about 500x - when ATI's graphics cards are used. However, Pande conceded that the graphics may only be able to deliver a sustained 100 GFlops of speed.
Folding@Home Project
At this time, the beta client is limited to the X1900 series of graphics cards; the researcher said that X1800 cards will be supported soon. The group will also be leveraging the Playstation 3 with its powerful Cell processor. A client for the PS3 was shown already in August, but, according to Pande, that applications for the Cell aren't easy to program.
So, what about Nvidia cards? According to Pande, the group has not been able to get the software to work on Nvidia chips.
Andy Keane, general manager of visualization applications at Nvidia, said in response to the ATI/Stanford announcement that general processing graphics processing units (GPGPUs) so far have been "fundamentally flawed" in a sense that there has not been a lot of "commercial exploitation with GPUs as a processor."
He mentioned that Nvidia wants to change this situation and considers the GPGPU market as "exciting" and something that "the company has been looking at for years." He stated that he had no personal knowledge of the development of a Folding@Home client for the Nvidia platform, but stressed that the company has a "long-standing relationship with Stanford."
At least as far as we know, Nvidia cards were in fact used for general processing projects before ATI came into the picture. One of the early projects was the now defunct BionicFX, which used Geforce 6800 processors to accelerate audio processing. ATI publicly mentioned the possibility of using graphics processors for other applications than graphics shortly before the launch of the X1800 graphics cards series. Such an approach, which ATI called "load balancing" could one day run, for example, physics effects on consumer and enthusiast PCs. Nvidia outlined a similar approach earlier this year for future SLI systems.
However, the fact that graphics chips particularly excel in floating point performance, currently limits the general purpose use of the chips largely to scientific applications. More and more companies are entering this lucrative field and try to answer the need for more processing power. For example, startup Peakstream last week announced an application interface layer that enables developers to add graphics cards to computer systems as a way to create "cheap" supercomputers.
The GPU Advances: ATI's Stream Processing & Folding@Home
Date: Sep 30, 2006
Type: Video Card
Manufacturer: ATI
Author: Ryan Smith
Page 1 In the continual progression of GPU technology, we've seen GPUs become increasingly useful at generalized tasks as they have added flexibility for game designers to implement more customized and more expansive graphical effects. What started out as a simple fixed-function rendering process, where texture and vertex data were fed into a GPU and pixels were pushed out, has evolved into a system where a great deal of processing takes place inside the GPU. The modern GPU can be used to store and manipulate data in ways that goes far beyond just quickly figuring out what happens when multiple textures are mixed together.
What GPUs have evolved into today are devices that are increasingly similar to CPUs in their ability to do more things, while still specializing in only a subset of abilities. Starting with Shader Model 2.0 on cards like the Radeon 9700 and continuing with Shader Model 3.0 and today's latest cards, GPUs have become floating-point powerhouses that are able to do most floating-point calculations many times faster than a CPU, a necessity as 3D rendering is a very FP-intensive process. At the same time, we have seen GPUs add programming constructs like looping, branching, and other abilities previously only used on CPUs, but which are crucial to enable effective programmer use of the GPU resources . In short, today's GPUs have in many ways become extremely powerful floating-point processors that have been used for 3D rendering but little else.
Both ATI and NVIDIA have been looking to put the expanded capabilities of their GPUs to good use, with varying success. So far, the only types of programs that have effectively tapped this power other than applications and games requiring 3D rendering have also been video related, such as video decoders, encoders, and video effect processors. In short, the GPU has been underutilized, as there are many tasks that are floating-point hungry while not visual in nature, and these programs have not used the GPU to any large degree so far.
Meanwhile the academic world has been working on designing and utilizing custom-built floating-point hardware for years for their own research purposes. The class of hardware related to today's topic, stream processors, are extremely powerful floating-point processors able to process whole blocks of data at once, where CPUs carry out only a handful of numerical operations at a time. We've seen CPUs implement some stream processing with instruction sets like SSE and 3DNow!+, but these efforts still pale in comparison to what custom hardware has been able to do. This same progress was happening on GPUs, only in a different direction, and until recently GPUs remained untapped as anything other than a graphics tool.
Today's GPUs have evolved into their own class of stream processors, sharing much in common with the customized hardware of researchers, as a result of the 3D rendering process also being a streaming task. The key difference here however is that while GPU designers have cut a couple of corners where they don't need certain functionality for 3D rendering as compared to what a custom processor can do, by and large they have developed extremely fast stream processors that are just as fast as custom hardware but due to economies of scale are many, many times cheaper than a custom design.
It's here where ATI is looking for new ideas on what to run on their GPUs as part of their new stream computing initiative. The academic world is full of such ideas, chomping at the bit to run their experiments on more than a handful of customized hardware designs. One such application, and part of the star of today's announcement, is Folding@Home, a Stanford research project designed to simulate protein folding in order to unlock the secrets of diseases caused by flawed protein folding.
For several years now, Dr. Vijay Pande of Stanford has been leading the Folding@Home project in order to research protein folding. Without diving unnecessarily into the biology of his research, as proteins are produced from their basic building blocks - amino acids - they must go through a folding process to achieve the right shape to perform their intended function. However, for numerous reasons protein folding can go wrong, and when it does it can cause various diseases as malformed proteins wreck havoc in the body.
Although Folding@Home's research involves multiple diseases, the primary disease they are focusing on at this point is Alzheimer's Disease, a brain-wasting condition affecting primarily older people where they slowly lose the ability to remember things and think clearly, eventually leading to death. As Alzheimer's is caused by malformed proteins impairing normal brain functions, understanding how exactly Alzheimer's occurs - and more importantly how to prevent and cure it - requires a better understanding on how proteins fold, why they fold incorrectly, and why malformed proteins cause even more proteins to fold incorrectly.
The biggest hurdle in this line of research is that it's very computing intensive: a single calculation can take 1 million days (that's over 2700 years) on a fast CPU. Coupled with this is the need to run multiple calculations in order to simulate the entire folding process, which can take upwards of several seconds. Even splitting this load among processors in a supercomputer, the process is still too computing intensive to complete in any reasonable amount of time; a processor will simulate 1 nanosecond of folding per day, and even if all grant money given out by the United States government was put towards buying supercomputers, it wouldn't even come close to being enough.
This is where the "@Home" portion of Folding@Home comes in. Needing even more computing power than they could hope to buy, the Folding@Home research team decided to try to spread processing to computers all throughout the world, in a process called distributed computing. Their hopes were that average computer users would be willing to donate spare/unused processor cycles to the Folding@Home project by running the Folding@Home client, which would grab small pieces of data from their central servers and return it upon completion.
The call for help was successful, as computer owners were more than willing to donate computer cycles to help with this research, and hopefully help in coming up with a way to cure diseases like Alzheimer's. Entire teams formed in a race to see who could get more processing done, including our own Team AnandTech, and the combined power of over two-hundred thousand CPUs resulted in the Folding@Home project netting over 200 Teraflops (one trillion Floating-point Operations Per Second) of sustained performance.
While this was a good enough start to do research, it was still ultimately falling short of the kind of power the Folding@Home research group needed to do the kind of long-runs they needed along side short-run research that the Folding@Home community could do. Additionally, as processors have recently hit a cap in terms of total speed in megahertz, AMD and Intel have been moving to multiple-core designs, which introduce scaling problems for the Folding@Home design and is not as effective as increasing clockspeeds.
Since CPUs were not growing at speeds satisfactory for the Folding@Home research group, and they were still well short of their goal in processing power, the focus has since returned to stream processors, and in turn GPUs. As we mentioned previously, the massive floating-point power of a GPU is well geared towards doing research work, and in the case of Folding@Home, they excel in exactly the kind of processing the project requires. To get more computing power, Folding@Home has now turned towards utilizing the power of the GPU.
Modern GPUs such as the R580 core powering ATI's X19xx series have upwards of 48 pixel shading units, designed to do exactly what the Folding@Home team requires. With help from ATI, the Folding@Home team has created a version of their client that can utilize ATI's X19xx GPUs with very impressive results. While we do not have the client in our hands quite yet, as it will not be released until Monday, the Folding@Home team is saying that the GPU-accelerated client is 20 to 40 times faster than their clients just using the CPU. Once we have the client in our hands, we'll put this to the test, but even a fraction of this number would represent a massive speedup.
With this kind of speedup, the Folding@Home research group is looking to finally be able to run simulations involving longer folding periods and more complex proteins that they couldn't run before, allowing them to research new proteins that were previously inaccessible. This implementation also allows them to finally do some research on their own, without requiring the entire world's help, by building a cluster of (relatively) cheap video cards to do research, something they've never been able to do before.
Unfortunately for home users, for the time being, the number of those who can help out by donating their GPU resources is rather limited. The first beta client to be released on Monday only works on ATI GPUs, and even then only works on single X19xx cards. The research group has indicated that they are hoping to expand this to CrossFire-enabled platforms soon, along with less-powerful ATI cards.
The situation for NVIDIA users however isn't as rosy, as while the research group would like to expand this to use the latest GeForce cards, their current attempts at implementing GPU-accelerated processing on those cards has shown that NVIDIA's cards are too slow compared to ATI's to be used. Whether this is due to a subtle architectural difference between the two, or if it's a result of ATI's greater emphasis on pixel shading with this generation of cards as compared to NVIDIA we're not sure, but Folding@Home won't be coming to NVIDIA cards as long as the research group can't solve the performance problem.
The Folding@Home project is the first of what ATI is hoping will be many projects and applications, both academic and commercial, that will be able to tap the power of GPUs. Given the results showcased by the Folding@Home project, the impact on the applications that would work well on a GPU could be huge. In the future we hope to be testing technologies such as GPU-accelerated physics processing for which both ATI and NVIDIA have promised support, and other yet to be announced applications that utilize stream processing techniques.
It's been a longer wait than we were hoping for, but we're finally seeing the power of the GPU unleashed as was promised so long ago, starting with Folding@Home. As GPUs continue to grow in abilities and power, it should come as no surprise that ATI, NVIDIA, and their CPU-producing counterparts are looking at how to better connect GPUs and other such coprocessors to the CPU in order to further enable this kind of processing and boost its performance. As we see AMD's Torrenza technology and Intel's competing Geneseo technology implemented in computer designs, we'll no doubt see more applications make use of the GPU, in what could be one of the biggest-single performance improvements in years. The GPU is not just for graphics any more.
As for our readers interested in trying out the Folding@Home research group's efforts in GPU acceleration and contributing towards understanding and finding a cure for Alzheimer's, the first GPU beta client is scheduled to be released on Monday. For more information on Folding@Home or how to use the client once it does come out, our Team AnandTech members over in our Distributed Computing forum will be more than happy to give a helping hand.
You didn't misunderstand, the documentation of that point is very unclear. It's actually a CPU ID per instance on a given computer, though there is generally nothing to be gained by having more instances than processors in a given box.
Looks like I will go over 100k tonight or early in the morning!
I don't know about boinc, but seti is a waste of time and cpu. Folding can save lives, what will finding an intelligent life a billion light years do for us?
It will hasten the invasion.... and finally make the UN a relevant body... not that they'll be any more useful, but at least they'll be relevant.
As usual, the fork-tongued libs squawk the talk, but only slither the walk.
The problem is that on the whole the FAH project requires a personal commitment of one's own resources (or the ability to persuade others to voluntarily commit their resources). Liberals are famously stingy when it comes to putting their own money and stuff on the line.
They'd do much better if they could create an inefficient, bloated government agency and give it power to compel other people to participate.
Of course, that would destory the whole basis for FAH and put the research back ten years.
As usual, the fork-tongued libs squawk the talk, but only slither the walk.
The problem is that on the whole the FAH project requires a personal commitment of one's own resources (or the ability to persuade others to voluntarily commit their resources). Liberals are famously stingy when it comes to putting their own money and stuff on the line.
They'd do much better if they could create an inefficient, bloated government agency and give it power to compel other people to participate.
Of course, that would destroy the whole basis for FAH and put the research back ten years.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
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But this tortoise figures you'll have to take another extended trip to Europe sooner or later. ;-)
I still have two dormant machines to get back on line. I'll work on that this week.
But this tortoise figures you'll have to take another extended trip to Europe sooner or later. ;-)
I still have two dormant machines to get back on line. I'll work on that this week.
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Nov 11, 2005 10:30PM PST
to have all Xbox games to be playable on the 360? For all who have not seen the list check it out. Where is Shenmue 2, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Conker Live and Reloaded, Metal Gear Solid two: Substance, Area 51, and even the Burnout series. What a ripoff! They say more will be added to the list. Lets just hope these will be added. Why must they be so difficult? Everyone else is making their games playable on their new systems,even Nintendo for crying out loud!!!
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I hopingPosted: Nov 15, 2005 12:00AM PST by escaped_shoplifter
they do put Shenmue 2 on that list. They might make Shenmue 3 for the 360.
you're so right!Posted: Nov 22, 2005 12:00AM PST by younguy1979
i'm so sick of microsoft trying to rehash crap and they know it. it's so sad that they have no inovative games. i hate that. if i wanted to play computer games, i would get em on my computer. let's no confuse the two, please.
butPosted: Dec 03, 2005 12:00AM PST by homebrews311
Microsoft doesn't want to have to dabble in backwards compatability any more than can have to. I'm sure they didn't include EVERY game in their library because it costs money to emulate the games on the 360 hardware. Backwards compatability can't continue to every next gen system that comes out. Unless you're Nintendo..
???Posted: Dec 14, 2005 12:00AM PST by blackfox51
I guess...
I think...Posted: Dec 17, 2005 12:00AM PST by Lordofchaosiori
Microsoft is beginning to slip here, I just hope they don't slip so far they fall out of the console race...
AGREEING TOTALLYPosted: Dec 20, 2005 12:00AM PST by green_tunic_elvenboy
I was thinkin bout askin for a 360 for x-mas,but since i dont have an original x-box i would definatly wanna play several of the original x-box games (since the 360 has very few games out right now). then i decided against it cause im a hardcore nintendo fan and im gonna be gettin a revolution and ps3. Dang i better get a job><>KEEP IN TOUCH><>


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As WordPress tends to mangle code that I post, I've started moving it to GitHub. As I move code to GitHub, I will replace the code within the article to a link to the code on GitHub.
You can find my GitHub here.
Installing GIMP on Mac OS X with ELA Script-Fu
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on April 9, 2016
This article will walk you through installing GIMP on OS X with an ELA (Error Level Analysis) plugin to detect editing.
To learn more about reading ELA results, read this:
First, download GIMP from here: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Next, grab elsamuko-error-level-analysis.scm from the bottom of this page: https://sites.google.com/site/elsamuko/forensics/ela – Save it for later.
After downloading this .scm file, open it in your favorite text editor and locate the following line:
SF-STRING "Temporary File Name" "error-level-analysis-tmp.jpg"
Change it to the following:
SF-STRING "Temporary File Name" "/tmp/error-level-analysis-tmp.jpg"
And save the file. This fixes an issue with images not being able to be processed as the default location is not writable by GIMP.
Now double-click the GIMP .dmg file you downloaded, and copy GIMP to your Applications folder as shown:
Once you have it copied over, you will want to open the package contents by alt-clicking and selecting "Show Package Contents".
From here, navigate to Contents > Resources > share > gimp > 2.0 > scripts and drop in the elsamuko-error-level-analysis.scm file you download earlier.
Now, run GIMP. Because of security-related things and stuff, the first time you run you will have to alt-click on GIMP and select Open. After doing this for the first time, you won't have to do it again.
GIMP will appear to freeze for about 5 minutes while it builds its initial caches. This will cause GIMP to appear unresponsive. Do not force-kill it during this time, simply be patient until it opens.
Now, you can perform ELA on an image by opening it, and selecting Image > Error Level Analysis from the menu.
Once you've done that, running it against an image will produce an ELA mask as an additional layer, which you can use to analyze an image.
You can toggle the ELA layer visibility by clicking the eye shown in the following screenshot.
(Sample image from http://fotoforensics.com/tutorial-ela.php, retrieved April 11th, 2016)
Changing Piwik delimeters
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on March 13, 2016
If you wish to change the Piwik delimiters to break away from any treeing of your pages on the action and titles reports, you can use the method described on http://piwik.org/faq/how-to/faq_62/, but that method doesn't describe both of the delimiter tags you may wish to apply.
There are two delimiter settings that you may wish to change, which get added to your config.ini.php file under [General]
action_title_category_delimiter = "::" action_url_category_delimiter = "::"
Installing Munin on Linux
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on February 5, 2016
I read several articles on how to install the Munin monitoring tool for Linux, and they all seem to over-complicate the install, or end up with an install that doesn't work.
This article will walk you through installing Munin for a local monitor/node setup on Debian 8 64-bit. Tweak it to your liking. This also assumes that you are running as root. Prefix commands with sudo where appropriate.
Start by making sure your system is up to date:
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
Next, install apache, munin, munin-node, munin-plugins-extra and dependencies.
apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils libcgi-fast-perl libapache2-mod-fcgid munin munin-node munin-plugins-extra
Now, edit the munin config file /etc/munin/apache24.conf
nano /etc/munin/apache24.conf
Change the <Directory /var/cache/munin/www> section as follows:
... Require all granted Options FollowSymLinks SymLinksIfOwnerMatch ...
Do the same with the <Location /munin-cgi/munin-cgi-graph> section, adding the Options line if it's not preset.
Now restart both apache and munin-node.
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart /etc/init.d/munin-node restart
You can now view munin data at http://<server IP>/munin
Sound not working in Java apps in Ubuntu Linux
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on November 12, 2015
I tested Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in VMware. I started with a clean install. I made sure sound was working in the VM, then updated everything using this command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
I then checked Software Updater and found a few more packages that didn't get updated, and updated them.
I then made a backup of the VM to have a good baseline. I then installed OpenJDK 7 and the icedtea-7-plugin, using the following command:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre icedtea-7-plugin
I did not have openjdk-6, icedtea 6, or Oracle Java installed. If you do have any of those installed, try removing them to prevent any conflicts.
You can test your Java sound output any trying any Java applet that produces sound, such as this SoundApplet demo. If you don't hear sound from it, you have an issue. If you have more than 1 sound device, check the other sound device for the sound output. In my case I only had 1 device (through virtualization), but it worked fine.
I also tried AllStar and was able to hear audio from the node announcements just fine, albeit with occasional crackle, perhaps due to the limited resources of the VM. I tried transmitting but did not get a reply from the few nodes I tried.
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Weather Underground forecast data in text display
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on November 11, 2015
One of the uses I found for my Raspberry Pi was using it to display weather data. I retrieved the weather data from Weather Underground using their API, parsed it, and displayed it on my RPi's small LCD. This gave me an always-on view of the weather, which was nifty, and it was done all in bash scripting with a few external programs to parse the data.
This script is very customizable and extensible. You could use it to do any number of weather-related tasks.
I reduced the font size on the LCD to Terminus 6×12 using the following command:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
This helped make room for all the forecast data on the tiny LCD. If you are running this on a PC, it's not necessary.
For the smoothest updates, I have found it ideal to run the script under 'watch', as so:
watch ./weather.sh
I tired doing a 'while true; do… clear… done' loop, but the refresh rate was too low and the updates were not smooth.
Here is the script:
UPDATE : This has moved to github, here.
Last updated: 11-21-2015
Installing and configuring Samba on Raspberry Pi
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on November 9, 2015
If you want your Raspberry Pi to share its files and folders over the network, you want to install and configure Samba.
Start off by installing the basic Samba requirements:
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
Edit the samba config file
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
edit the workgroup= line to match your network. workgroup=WORKGROUP is the default and usually fine. It needs to match what your Windows PCs are set to.
[pi] path=/home/pi browseable=Yes writeable=Yes only guest=no create mask=0777 directory mask=0777 public=no
Add the pi user to samba. Use the same password for the pi user:
sudo smbpasswd -a pi
It takes about 2 minutes for the changes to take effect, but after this you should have no problem exploring files over the network. Note that some may be owned by root and you may have an issue writing to them.
If you have trouble logging in under Windows (password errors), try using "raspberrypi\pi" (raspberrypi-backslash-pi) as your username (without the quotes)
Disable screen blanking on Raspberry Pi
sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt
add the following to the end of the line:
Setting up the SainSmart WaveShare SpotPear 3.2 inch Raspberry Pi LCD (V3)
I picked this inexpensive LCD up at MicroCenter for my Raspberry Pi, but getting it to work was a bit of a chore.
I wanted to install it onto a Raspberry Pi 2 which is already set up and running some software of mine. Therefore, I wanted to install it in as few steps as possible. Fortunately, WaveShare provides some drivers (but they don't clearly document the setup process).
Here's now to set it up:
Do the normal update/upgrade procedure:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Download the correct "LCD-show-*" driver for your version of Raspbian Jessie from the Drivers section of the product page on WaveShare, and transfer it to your Pi, or use the following example commands from your Pi to download it directly:
wget http://www.waveshare.com/w/upload/9/9d/LCD-show-151020.tar.gz tar xvzf LCD-show-151020.tar.gz cd LCD-show/
and run this command to set up the 3.2″ screen. :
Note: You may need to have the SPI interface already turned up via raspi-config before this will work.
Important note: The LCD32-show and LCD-hdmi scripts will overwrite several system files. If you have customized them, or have concerns, you are strongly advised to read through the scripts before running, and consider merging the changes in manually. Here is the list of touched files:
- /boot/overlays/waveshare*-overlay.dtb
- /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf
- /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbturbo.conf
- /boot/cmdline.txt
- /etc/inittab
- /boot/config.txt
After a few seconds, you Pi will reboot, and the screen should be active. You can refer back to the WaveShare page to see documentation on how to switch to HDMI and back to the LCD.
Follow these steps to download and install xinput_calibrator to calibrate the touchscreen. I noticed that on my panel, the touchscreen does not respond well to input; I suspect I have a defective panel.
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev wget http://github.com/downloads/tias/xinput_calibrator/xinput_calibrator-0.7.5.tar.gz ./configure make sudo make install
Now, following the directions from WaveShare, you can run this command to calibrate the touchscreen:
DISPLAY=:0.0 xinput_calibrator
Refer to WaveShare's page on how to edit 99-calibration.conf to save the calibration data so it persists over reboots.
Comments are welcome.
Raspberry Pi heartbeat LED
Posted by MB in Uncategorized on November 1, 2015
The Raspberry Pi has two LEDs on the front: One hardwired as a power indicator, and the other is (by default) an SD card activity indicator. This second LED can be changed via software to anything (even a GPIO), but for this, I'm going to show you how to set it as a heartbeat indicator.
sudo su modprobe ledtrig_heartbeat echo heartbeat > /sys/class/leds/led0/trigger
The Pi's led should now start blinking as a heartbeat indicator. If you want to restore the default behavior, you can do so:
echo mmc0 > /sys/class/leds/led0/trigger
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We had our first child in November of 2002. He was conceived farely easily. It took three cycles and we didn't chart or temp. This led me to believe (for some reason) that it would be even easier to conceive this time. Wrong. Well.. We knew last September of last year that we would want to start a year from then (this September) ttc our second child. I had it all planned out. I was going to get pregnant in September and then graduate in May and have a baby in June. Well, not so much.
September, I didn't chart or temp, just went by my cm and also bd every other day almost the entire month. Well, at the end of the month I was having some ewcm, so I ofcourse jumped on the ole' internet and starting trying to find reasons to believe that it was a sign of pregnancy. Ofcourse I found them everywhere. This led me to test early (something I typically won't do) Well, I bought a box of tests that are supposed to be able to render results five days early. Great for me! Well, I took the test and put it down and started the timer. I was half way expecting it to be negative, but also very hopeful. When the 3 minutes was up, I went in and holy cow, it was bfp!!!!!! I was shaking, heart racing.. I didn't want to wake my husband up because I had planned how special it was going to be to tell him this time. (Last time he was with me when I found out) Well.. I can't hold it in. I go in there and I wake him up (midnight) and tell him we're pregnant. He was so happy, I was so happy.. Great. Well, then I went and called a friend and told her the happy news. At this point I'm starting at my hpt in joy and disbelief and uh oh.. the line starts to disappear... Huh.. what's that all about? Then it's gone. Luckily the box came with two, so I took the other one. Very obvious positive, and then after ten minutes the line disappears. Hum... pregnant? Not so much. Then I have to go in and tell my husband, sorry, false alarm!
So, I get over that trauma, on to cycle 2. I was ok with it, because it's not that often that it happens with one try right? Well, cycle two comes around and I have promised not to test early!!!! Af day comes, but no af. Ofcourse my hopes get very high!!!!! The next day I test, bfn. I'm still hopeful because I got a bfn with ds. So... next, next, next... no af. Five days late!!!!!! Ugh.. why?????? Ok, onto cycle # 3. It's ok Malisa.. It's only been two cycles. Get over yourself.
So, at the end of cycle number three, but a week early, I start spotting brown blood. Ofcourse, I'm pretty excitied.. Implantation bleeding, yay.. This goes on lightly for three days. But so light a lot of times it's not there and it never even gets on my underwear. Ope' here we go again, af late that night. Then it was there the next day. Then it was gone.. WEll, ofcourse I had myself convinced that I was one of the lucky ones who has a period but is still pregnant. Took an hpt, nope.. not so much!!!!!!!!
Well, this is our fourth cycle and the first to use opk's and temping. I'm still very frightened and nervous about doing something wrong with those, but am hopeful that this will be our month! I tell everyone it's ok to be hopeful because assuming you're not pregnant doesn't make it any easier to see a bfn!
So, this is my month! look out old navy cause I'm gonna start shopping for maternity clothes next month while they're on sale!!!!!!!!!
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Misha Mengelberg: More than Instant Composition
Misha Mengelberg is one of the truly rare voices in improvised music, for he has added so much to the conceptualization of what makes jazz and improvisation tick, a semantic understanding of the music, yet has also cut to the core of the personality that the music has and requires. Mengelberg often uses the word "amusing to describe what music and art can do - that is, a statement of value placed on personality. Improvisation is pointless if it isn't fun and given to joy and understanding, a knowing nod to the contrasts that make art happen. Theatrics and ironic impossibilities are not present as part of an act, but for action - the action of life.
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· Eric Dolphy - Last Date (Fontana, 1964)
· ICP Orchestra - Groupcomposing (ICP, 1970)
· Misha Mengelberg/Steve Lacy/George Lewis/Arjen Gorter/Han Bennink - Change of Season: The Music Of Herbie Nichols (Soul Note, 1984)
· Misha Mengelberg - Who's Bridge (Avant, 1994)
· Misha Mengelberg - Two Days in Chicago (hatHut, 1998)
· Misha Mengelberg - Four in One (Songlines, 2000)
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On Wednesday, Aug. 26, The K-State Research and Extension Agricultural Research Center in Hays will be hosting their annual Fall Crop Seminar. The event will be held at the Agricultural Research Center, 1232 240th Ave, in Hays. Registration will be held from 8:30-9 a.m. with the Program from 9 a.m.- 12 p.m.This is your chance to talk with several specialists that will be on hand, and to listen to up to date information on their varying expertise. Some of these topics will include information about the Sugarcane Aphid, Managing Iron Deficiency Chlorosis in Grain Sorghum ...
Kansas farmers are encouraged to be especially cognizant during wheat planting season to select wheat varieties with high resistance to fungal diseases as well as to apply fungicides to seed before drilling wheat this season. Wheat flag smut was detected in Kansas earlier this summer and with potential yield and trade implications from the fungus prevention in the upcoming crop will be important.
The official end of summer in Kansas is really the start of school. Most public schools are now in session and Barton Community College started this past Wednesday. The next "crop" of students has started on the formal journey of becoming professionals in agriculture while some are in their sophomore year. It might be a bit of a stretch but let's compare education and agriculture.
We're locked in the Dog Days of summer and the humidity is rolling through the roof. If the first few days of August are any indication, this summer may continue well into September. And while some don't venture outdoors much except on weekends, for many outdoor work continues as usual.
Kansas State University's Agricultural Research Center-Hays is hosting its Fall Crop Seminar Aug. 26, in the auditorium at the center, located at 1232 240th Ave. in Hays.
Keeping enough moisture on flower or vegetable gardens this summer hasn't been as stressful as in years past thanks to the intermittent rain showers. But, if you missed out on some of those rains a garden needs an efficient or smart watering system and the Barton County Conservation District can help you out.
Kansas State University's Southwest Research-Extension Center will host Field Day 2015 on Thursday, Aug. 27. The day starts with registration, coffee and donuts from 8 to 9:15 a.m. and features field tours, seminars and agricultural product displays.
The last but certainly not the least consideration of wheat producers is variety selection. Before discussing the topic, please make a note of the following webpages for information on wheat varieties.
Bring along your friends and neighbors to attend the Horticulture Night at the K-State Ag Research Center in Hays. It is set for Tuesday evening, Aug. 25th. The emphasis will focus on the Prairie Star Flower Performance Trials and the Low- Water Use Turf Demo Plots. The event will occur near the north main entrance roadway through the Center.
Throughout the years, I've heard fellas talk about who ought to wear a cowboy hat and who shouldn't. These conversations are littered with the necessary skills a cowboy must acquire to wear a western hat. Some even suggest issuing a license to wear such apparel.
A new technique developed by a Kansas State University researcher helps estimate the movement of beef cattle to determine the risk of disease.
Over the past few weeks, I have been receiving many calls about bagworms in area trees. This is the time of year that they are the most visible since the identifying bag that they will overwinter in is large enough to see from a distance. Also, their feeding habits may have defoliated a few branches making them even easier to see. Although bagworms are much easier to control in late May or the end of June when they are smaller, as long as the insect is still feeding on the foliage, they can be controlled. Here is a brief write-up ...
What's left for producers preparing to plant the 2016 wheat crop after last week's column? Naturally there's plenty including variety selection.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The EPA announced Wednesday it is proposing stronger standards for pesticide applicators who apply "restricted-use" pesticides. These pesticides are not available for purchase by the general public, require special handling, and may only be applied by a certified applicator or someone working under his or her direct supervision.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, announced Wednesday the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works passed S. 1500, the Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2015.
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Without a doubt, livestock producers take care of their livestock. They continue to upgrade facilities, use the best animal feed and doctor their cattle, swine ...
High Tunnels have increased in popularity in the last several years in Barton County. The ability to have an increased growing season for vegetables is ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced Nov. 18, as the first cut-off date to apply for fiscal year ...
So far we have focused on water in plants and water in the soil. Now let's focus on water in the atmosphere, crop water ...
Last week's column focused on water in plants. This week features water in the soil. As always, this is simply a brief overview that ...
I love to eat. And like millions of fellow Americans there's nothing better than the food grown and produced on this nation's farms ...
The Sugarcane aphid is still moving through Barton County, and many people have questions about when or if to treat for the insect before the ...
The Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University is making it easier for producers and veterinarians to manage pregnancy diagnosis information with a new mobile ...
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This weekend the 'calm before the storm'
Studios are calling this weekend at the domestic B.O. the calm before the storm, with two R-rated pics opening in wide release: Warner buddy comedy "Cop Out" and Overture horror pic "The Crazies."
Launches come a week before Disney rolls out its much-anticipated 3D "Alice in Wonderland," which is expected to do boffo business as it bows day-and-date in several key territories overseas.
Paramount's reigning champ, "Shutter Island," should hold well after an impressive opening last weekend, earning $41 million — the biggest bow for both director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio.
At the specialty B.O., Sony Pictures Classics will launch Oscar-nommed "A Prophet" in limited release with hopes of gaining traction before the Oscar telecast March 7. French-language prison drama, directed by Jacques Audiard, debuts at nine locations in New York and L.A.
"Cop Out," launching on 3,150 screens, stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as police officers who investigate the case of Willis' stolen baseball card.
Directed by fanboy auteur Kevin Smith, "Cop Out" is co-scripted by Mark and Robb Cullen and reps the first film Smith has helmed but didn't write. Originally titled "A Couple of Dicks," Smith reportedly allowed the change after taking flak for "Zack and Miri Make a Porno." That film opened to $10.1 million at 2,735 playdates in 2008.
Tracking for "Cop Out" is strongest among males, but weaker for femmes.
"The Crazies," about small-town residents contaminated by a toxic water supply, opens at 2,477 engagements and should also play best among male auds. Overture said it hopes positive early reviews for the film can help it cross over to other demos.
Pic is co-financed by Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi.
"Shutter" has seen strong midweek figures, having cumed $50.2 million as of Wednesday, with Par adding 12 engagements in its soph sesh for a total of 3,003 playdates. Scorsese's thriller — about U.S. marshals, played by DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, who investigate the case of a missing woman at a remote insane asylum — overpowered a host of holdovers in its opening weekend. Pic beat out Warner's "Valentine's Day" and 20th Century Fox's "Avatar."
"Valentine's Day" saw a steep drop of 70% in its soph sesh last weekend after becoming the highest-grossing opener during a Presidents Day Weekend, with $63.1 million. Pic has cumed $89.9 million.
Entering its 11th weekend, "Avatar" should pass $700 million, having already cumed $691.7 million. With "Alice" set to occupy most 3D screens in the coming weeks, pic should continue to play well on 2D screens as it holds steady during midweek.
Fox's other holdover, kid-targeted "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," will continue to benefit as the frame's top family title until the "Alice" onslaught. "Percy" earned $15.3 million in its soph sesh, down 51% for a cume of $60.7 million.
In addition to "A Prophet," Sony Classics will expand today another Oscar hopeful, "The Last Station," more than doubling the theater count for a total 352 locations. Starring nominees Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer, "Station" has cumed $2.2 million since its limited release on Dec. 4.
Fox Searchlight will expand "Crazy Heart" to 1,148 screens in its 11th frame as the distrib continues its steady awards push. Pic earned $3 million last weekend and has reached a total $22.3 million.
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directed thriller "The Ghost Writer" enters its soph sesh today, expanding to 43 after opening with $183,009 at four locations for a per-screen average of $45,752.
Overseas, Warner plans a day-and-date release of "Cop Out" in markets including Austria, Germany and New Zealand.
Still, "Avatar" continues to soar above new entries in most key territories, grossing $48.5 million last weekend to claim the top spot. International cume for "Avatar" totaled $1.78 billion.
"Shutter Island" debuted last weekend in Spain and Australia, earning healthy returns in both territories. In Spain, pic opened with $3.4 million at 406 screens, followed by Australia with $2.5 million at 213. "Shutter" grossed an overall $9.1 million with the pic poised to launch in France and Germany this weekend.