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PayPalAlright Coronavirus, this has gone on long enough. It's time to kick your arse. Want to help? We've made a team on Folding@home for you to spare your unused CPU/GPU cycles for research.
Hold on, what is this Folding stuff? It's a distributed computing project that simulates protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. It does this using your hardware and then sends all the data back to them—for science! It can help people working on diseases to better understand them. A good time to remind people on this, with everything going on right now and they have special simulations setup for Coronavirus.
How to get involved: Head to the official site to download it for Debian /Ubuntu/ Mint and Redhat / Centos / Fedora. If you're on Arch/Manjaro, you can see a guide on the Arch Wiki. If you're on NVIDIA, and it won't use your GPU, ensure you have OpenCL installed.
When you're setting it up and it asks you for a team ID, enter "245680" (stats page) which is the GamingOnLinux ID and we can work together to make a better world. Right now, my GPU is purring away working on Folding, come and join me.
You might see errors and delays, as they've been a little overwhelmed. Eventually though, it should assign your PC some work to do to help. They did a little FAQ thread recently on Twitter.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: SalvatosQuoting: dudeThere's also a game to help discover an antiviral, programmed by the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design in Seattle: fold.itI must be missing something obvious, but how do you run the executable?
Just unpack "Foldit-linux_x64.tar.gz" and run the "Foldit" executable, works without problems on Manjaro.
Kuduzkehpan Mar 22, 2020
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Kuduzkehpan Mar 22, 2020
sudo update-rc.d FAHControl defaults
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends FAHControl_7.5.1_amd64.deb
solves installing problems
sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev
solves GPU related problems
Last edited by Kuduzkehpan on 22 March 2020 at 8:16 pm UTC
Cpu has had the one whilst GPU is still crunching.
Plintslîcho Mar 23, 2020
Quoting: chornI would like to provide an additional view.
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Good point.
https://stats.foldingathome.org/os
(Oh, it was posted on the last page. Cool stats tho!)
Last edited by Pangaea on 24 March 2020 at 1:42 am UTC
UnixOutlaw Mar 24, 2020
Quoting: ajgpWell Im trying but I keep getting an OPenCL error in the log and my GPU is doing sod all work. CPU is pumping along fine!Same here... but which CUDA package? I'm running it on two NVidia GPU hosts, but it's not using any GPU... I'm running proprietary 390 series drivers...
Have the correct OPenCL packages as well; any ideas?
EDIT:Works after installing CUDA package and then rebooting!
Installed libopencl :
ocl-icd-libopencl1
There's a bunch of libcuda1 packages, but they all seem to be for NVidia drivers pre 390 - e.g. libcuda1-384, libcuda1-331...
Will libcuda1-384 work with 390?
Trying it anyway...
Also - it's a PITA (i.e. never got it to work), despite allowing 0/0 and/or 0.0.0.0/0 in "allow" and "web-allow"... Ended up just running firefox over X, to view http://localhost:7396/ - they don't make it easy, do they?
Anyway - I'm running it on three nodes, but only two have GPU's - and all going to the credit of team : 245680
Note - if you apply for a "key" expect to wait 24 hours for it to arrive in your inbox...
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Update - rebooted one machine after installing libcuda1-384, after restarting FAHClient service didn't make any difference, and it's still not using GPU (according to http://localhost:7396/). It's running a Quadro 2000, not the best / fastest... but it should be working with this...
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Update 2 - also found suggestion to install ocl-icd-opencl-dev, and rebooted (probably shouldn't need to but why not?) -and still seeing no GPU usage, but : no longer got OpenCL errors and shows GPU and CUDA available... so maybe won't use CUDA / GPU until it loads another data set to fold?
Summary (on my Ubuntu 18.04.4) :
sudo apt install ocl-icd-libopencl1 libcuda1-384 ocl-icd-opencl-devLast edited by UnixOutlaw on 24 March 2020 at 3:38 am UTC
Quoting: scaineQuoting: Liam DaweOur team now actually shows up. We're ranked currently 12,516 of 238,810.
I left my GPU running last night, only to wake up this morning to a jump from 600 points (two jobs on my CPU) to 137k!!
The team is now visible with detailed stats too: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/245680
My GPU runs at 82 degrees when it's folding - roughly the equivalent of playing a AAA game. But the loads it takes are worth much, much more than the loads my CPU is assigned. Very impressive!
Just to note - we're at 3799 of 241330!
leillo1975 Mar 24, 2020
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