Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
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Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
#2Title nit-pick -- It isn't a "firm", but a project:
Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
#3Make sure to contribute GPU resources as the CPU ones aren't being used for C19 research.
EDIT: I have heard that CPU is also getting C19 research but not exclusively.
Here is a better link with more details: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus/blob/master/REA...
FreeBSD port: https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coron...
NixOS port: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/fight-covid-19-with-folding-ho...
Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
#4Viral Research Firm? I thought F@H was run out of Stanford University.
Edit: it's run out of Washington University (St. Louis School of Medicine) so it's definitely neither a firm nor viral. Mods should change the title.
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#5Does this project have enough promise compared to its external cost? I imagine that’s a lot of energy usage.
Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
#6Make sure to contribute GPU resources as the CPU ones aren't being used for C19 research. EDIT: I have heard that CPU is also getting C19 research but not exclusively. Here is a better link with more details: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus/blob/master/REA... FreeBSD port: https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coron... NixOS port: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/fight-covid-19-with-folding…
I wish I could. It only uses CPU on my machine, saying there are no work items for the GPU slot.
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#7its really compute power lol. i am folding with my V100 gpus.
Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
#8Does this project have enough promise compared to its external cost? I imagine that’s a lot of energy usage.
Better than bitcoin!
Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
#9Viral Research Firm? I thought F@H was run out of Stanford University. Edit: it's run out of Washington University (St. Louis School of Medicine) so it's definitely neither a firm nor viral. Mods should change the title.
Indeed.
Not a firm, and not viral research either (that is just one consequence).
Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus
#10Make sure to contribute GPU resources as the CPU ones aren't being used for C19 research. EDIT: I have heard that CPU is also getting C19 research but not exclusively. Here is a better link with more details: https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/coronavirus/blob/master/REA... FreeBSD port: https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coron... NixOS port: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/fight-covid-19-with-folding…
I wish I could. It only uses CPU on my machine, saying there are no work items for the GPU slot.
This can be also because they're having trouble creating GPU workloads fast enough