I just folded my first protein

[bs_texas]

I'll have to check out that youtube when I get to work. Those things take forever on the dial-up system!

If we ever get the DSL we are being promised maybe things will get better. (Last I heard though, our max upload will only be 1 Mbps and it will cost probably over $50/month.)
Until then I still see a lot of this:

[13:09:25] + Attempting to send results [April 5 13:09:25 UTC]
[13:13:30] Completed 70000 out of 500000 steps  (14%)
[13:18:05] Completed 75000 out of 500000 steps  (15%)
[13:22:47] Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps  (16%)
[13:24:28] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[13:24:28] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:24:28]     (130.237.165.141:8080)
[13:24:28] + Retrying using alternative port
[13:27:31] Completed 85000 out of 500000 steps  (17%)
[13:31:03] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[13:31:03]   (Got status 408)
[13:31:03] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:31:03]     (130.237.165.141:80)
[13:31:03]   Could not transmit unit 02 to Collection server; keeping in queue.

Although... I sometimes wonder if the problem is Stanford, or my setup? This particular machine is a Windows Vista machine:

8 cores detected
If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working
[12:06:09] MPIexec present


--- Opening Log file [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]


# Windows SMP Console Edition #################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.34

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: C:\Users\bs\Desktop\fah634
Executable: C:\Users\bs\Desktop\fah634\FAH6.34-win32-SMP.exe
Arguments: -advmethods -smp

[12:06:09] - Ask before connecting: No
[12:06:09] - User name: bs_texas (Team 36480)
[12:06:09] - User ID: 129C3D2F11F6AD59
[12:06:09] - Machine ID: 1
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Loaded queue successfully.
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Project: 7154 (Run 0, Clone 50, Gen 23)
[12:06:09] + Processing work unit


[12:06:09] Core required: FahCore_a3.exe
[12:06:09] + Attempting to send results [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]
[12:06:09] Core found.
[12:06:09] Working on queue slot 07 [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]
[12:06:09] + Working ...
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] *------------------------------*
[12:06:09] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[12:06:09] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Preparing to commence simulation
[12:06:09] - Looking at optimizations...
[12:06:09] - Created dyn
[12:06:09] - Files status OK
[12:06:09] - Expanded 1769031 -> 1957708 (decompressed 110.6 percent)
[12:06:09] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=1769031 data_size=19
57708, decompressed_data_size=1957708 diff=0
[12:06:09] - Digital signature verified
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Project: 6961 (Run 0, Clone 7, Gen 15)
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[12:06:09] Entering M.D.
[12:06:15] Mapping NT from 8 to 8
[12:06:15] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps  (0%)
[12:11:01] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps  (1%)
[12:15:53] Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps  (2%)
[12:20:41] Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps  (3%)
[12:21:17] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[12:21:17] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[12:21:17]     (128.143.199.96:8080)
[12:21:17] + Retrying using alternative port
[12:22:37] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[12:22:37]   (Got status 503)
[12:22:37] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[12:22:37]     (128.143.199.96:80)
[12:22:37] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed April 2) to work serve
r.


[12:22:37] + Attempting to send results [April 5 12:22:37 UTC]
[12:25:28] Completed 20000 out of 500000 steps  (4%)

Fortunately I get a few of these to:

[10:45:22] + Attempting to send results [April 4 10:45:22 UTC]
[11:18:22] + Results successfully sent
[11:18:22] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[11:18:22] + Number of Units Completed: 151

That upload only took about 30 minutes. But it was only about 3MB. In the recent past the work units uploading have all been around 42MB and can take 6 to 10 hours to upload. One of these days I'll take the time to figure out what's going on and see if I can get to a more reliable, steady state.