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Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus

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Post by natch »

I wish they would spend five minutes documenting how to use the GPU on Ubuntu. My 1080ti is just sitting idle while my CPU is busy folding. Any instructions I came across said something like “make sure you have the libraries” but then failed to describe even at a high level how to locate and install those libraries. Last time I installed any CUDA libraries it involved adding an Nvidia repo or something.

Edit: I’d be glad to be proven wrong with a link to an FAQ or some part of the docs.

Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus

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Post by natch »

grogenaut wrote: post #10
pandaman wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Or because they don’t tell you how to troubleshoot when the GPU is not enabled.

Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus

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Post by allannienhuis »

pandaman wrote: post #6
zimbatm wrote: post #3

Make 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.

That happened to me initially too, but I left it running (on idle config) and it had obtained work by the next day when I looked.

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zimbatm wrote: post #3

Make 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…

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Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

There was a recent HN discussion on whether this kind of approach has ever produced an effective treatment for anything. I believe the answer was Never, but lots of papers have been published.

Assuming that's the case, I don't put much stock in this giving us a means of fighting the pandemic.

Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus

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Post by wiml »

3fe9a03ccd14ca5 wrote: post #5

Does this project have enough promise compared to its external cost? I imagine that’s a lot of energy usage.

Household heat where I live is mostly electric, there's no reason not to do some computation with the energy you're going to be burning anyway.

For a little while I had a script set up to control my BOINC client based on the temperature.

Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus

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Post by zlynx »

natch wrote: post #11

I wish they would spend five minutes documenting how to use the GPU on Ubuntu. My 1080ti is just sitting idle while my CPU is busy folding. Any instructions I came across said something like “make sure you have the libraries” but then failed to describe even at a high level how to locate and install those libraries. Last time I installed any CUDA libraries it involved adding an Nvidia repo or something. Edit: I’d be…

I followed every instruction to configure ROCM and OpenCL in Ubuntu 18 with my Vega 56 card. All the samples and such work but Folding@Home refuses to believe its there. It might be nice if someone at FAH actually tried using it on Linux.

I would also like a FAQ.

Re: Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus

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Post by ojii »

natch wrote: post #11

I wish they would spend five minutes documenting how to use the GPU on Ubuntu. My 1080ti is just sitting idle while my CPU is busy folding. Any instructions I came across said something like “make sure you have the libraries” but then failed to describe even at a high level how to locate and install those libraries. Last time I installed any CUDA libraries it involved adding an Nvidia repo or something. Edit: I’d be…

I think I got it to work by editing the config file at /etc/fahclient/config.xml and adding: , then restarting the client. Took me some googling and trial and error though, so I agree this should be made clearer.
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