If this was a war effort we’d probably get Microsoft to push out a patch to windows 10 to let users opt into it securely? Or does the computing power of 100M+ home PCs still pale in comparison to a few cloud providers?
Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
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Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#42Next scam: cryptomining app that pretends to help finding a virus cure.
Or obsolete, donated ASICS that that are now a legit part of the network.
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#43wow 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.
(edit: tried the terminal route - seems to fail because of python-gnome2 dependency). You'd think they'd get their stuff to work with Ubuntu...it's at a mere 50% of nix marketshare.
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#44sounds like a great new idea for phone scammers; try to con people into downloading their covid research project.
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#45Next scam: cryptomining app that pretends to help finding a virus cure.
Or obsolete, donated ASICS that that are now a legit part of the network.
Afaik, asics are unsuitable for most types of computation, except those they were designed to run (ie mining a specific type of crypto currency)
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#46Why not use smartphones these days? Just plug your iPhone in at night, and the app will run in the background, when it detects user inactivity.
While true and while phones are considerably more powerful now than they used to be, modern ARM SoCs don't come close to their x86 counterparts.
It looks like FAH has GPU support, but I don't see an AArch64 version that I could install on, say, an NVIDIA Jetson Nano.
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#47A friend tried this in the last week and was frustrated that there seemed to be no way to limit CPU/GPU use to only work relaed to Covid. Is there a way to limit work to Covid?
I tried this the other day and ran into the same issue.
Couldn't figure out a way to set it to covid.
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#48Why not use smartphones these days? Just plug your iPhone in at night, and the app will run in the background, when it detects user inactivity.
And someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I imagine that would be much more energy efficient than a desktop computer
That's most likely to be the opposite of what is needed here: do as little as possible and sleep as much as possible. Whereas the project actually needs is as much raw computing power as you can provide.
Yes, there are some methods to provide more computing bang for less energy buck, but this is a comparatively minor issue.
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#49So how is using home electronics an efficient use of electricity (and money) for doing these tasks? What are the economics of this? Wouldn't it be more efficient to donate the money you'd spend on electricity and equipment?
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#50Go to the apple store and set up the mac pro in each store to fold.
Mac Pro isn’t being sold in Apple stores. Made to order only.