Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19

Post by bschwindHN » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 4:22 AM UTC

UncleOxidant wrote: post #68

Gotta say the instructions are pretty awfully lacking. You go to the download page and you download the client and there's nothing that tells you what you're supposed to do after you download the client. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and after downloading the client I had to do: $ sudo update-rc.d FAHClient defaults $ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb $ sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient start Yeah, it only took a few…

    $ sudo /etd/init.d/FAHClient restart

Post by UncleOxidant » Fri, Mar 06, 2020, 5:03 PM UTC

bschwindHN wrote: post #101

UncleOxidant wrote: post #68

Gotta say the instructions are pretty awfully lacking. You go to the download page and you download the client and there's nothing that tells you what you're supposed to do after you download the client. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and after downloading the client I had to do: $ sudo update-rc.d FAHClient defaults $ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/fahclient_7.5.1_amd64.deb $ sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient start Yeah, it only took a few…

I got the GPU working with this config: Followed up with $ sudo /etd/init.d/FAHClient restart Like others mentioned, I really want a way to make it specifically work on Covid related proteins.

Post by burnte » Sat, Mar 07, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC

privateSFacct wrote: post #97

burnte wrote: post #93

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In the US you wouldn't be able to write that bill off as a legitimate business expense. The auditor would ask "What legitimate business purpose does this represent?" and they wouldn't have an answer.

100% false. If a business allows a nonprofit to use excess capacity, the capacity is still a business expense. Google and AWS have huge amounts of unused computer capacity at low traffic periods. They can still expense those items even if they allow charitable use when not needed for business use. Worst case if no unused capacity a business can call the expense a marketing expense and can ask the nonprofit to acknowl…

Post by olejorgenb » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 6:00 PM UTC

UncleOxidant wrote: post #77

Havoc wrote: post #43

wow their UX is atrocious. * Download page doesn't explain why there are 3 packages and which you need * On installing first & clicking next it pins all CPU cores to 100% * The package that presumably controls this silently fails to install - on a brand new up to date ubuntu install. ...so now I'm stuck with a service pinning everything to 100% (while in use) and no way to control it. Uninstalled. I'll stick to BOINC…

I don't think BOINC is that much better. I got it installed and running and got 'cannot connect to core servers'. Nothing on their download page talked about where to go next for instructions either. After googling around I see something on a message board about opening up certain ports. If they want people to help out with this stuff the first thing they need to do is improve their documentation and onboarding. At l…

Post by antonyh » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 5:41 PM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #57

antonyh wrote: post #34

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It wasn't great though - it didn't use spare cycles. It had to be started and run exclusively. If they baked it in to use cycles when games were paused for instance or made it switch to FAH instead of powering off, it could have been so much more.

Considering PS3 only had 256MB of ram and was using all of it for computations or when running games, I think the chances were pretty slim.