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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.
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Mohandevir 25 Mar 2020
How did you manage to get FAHControl running?
Personnally:
https://github.com/fcole90/fah-control/releases/tag/7.5.1-1_focal_1
It works on Ubuntu 19.10 too.
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Anyone noticed a lack of work units today ?Well, I do have a bunch of messages about it, but it only lasts for a couple of minutes between work assignments. I've been folding all day with very few interruptions.
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Anyone noticed a lack of work units today ?Well, I do have a bunch of messages about it, but it only lasts for a couple of minutes between work assignments. I've been folding all day with very few interruptions.
That was what was happening to me but for most of the day not had any.
Edit,
Now I've just posted that it has now got some
Last edited by pete910 on 25 Mar 2020 at 4:07 pm UTC
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Yeah I went through all that, but in my case it wasn't a configuration problem (I have now the same config as before), the GPU/CL were recognized and working apparently OK, but only briefly, with the work consistently rejected as faulty. Only with the AMDGPU-PRO the work started to be accepted.
No idea about FAHControl, it worked OK for me.
Does it give any errors in console?
It seems to be the case for me too. It's recognised, and show up in the webview and Control, but doesn't get/do any work. Too bad it doesn't work with the OSS drivers. Wasn't really much answer as to why from the F@H forum either
As for the proprietary drivers, the experience has been that the GPU folding core has not worked with the open source drivers. I have not seen any info that situation has changed. 🤷🏻♂️
It gave me the "usual" ones with python-gtk, dh-python and python-support. It would kinda install anyway (--force-[option]), but didn't run.
Though the .deb with stripped dependencies linked by Mohandevir did the trick :)
Personnally:
https://github.com/fcole90/fah-control/releases/tag/7.5.1-1_focal_1
It works on Ubuntu 19.10 too.
Great Scott, that worked! :D Thanks <3
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Great Scott, that worked! :D Thanks <3
Spot the Back to the future fan :D
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That's us broken into the top 2000 contributors, world-wide. Which is pretty crazy given that we're a 1% niche of the video gaming industry.
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That's us broken into the top 2000 contributors, world-wide. Which is pretty crazy given that we're a 1% niche of the video gaming industry.
:OI think what's helped is there's a good few of us that have fairly hefty PC's and a couple at the top that are probably on HEDT/Server grade hardware.
:D
Last edited by pete910 on 27 Mar 2020 at 4:57 pm UTC
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A neat thing that you can do is have an automatic signature image that shows your stats (my points were already spoken for before this article).
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michaldybczak 31 Mar 2020
Thanks, I installed the software, added gamingonlinux team ID and the process is running :).
I'm also on Manjaro. Here is what I did:
1. I installed from AUR: foldingathome-noroot, fahcontrol (GUI), pygtk (dependency), fahviewer (then your 'Viewer' button will work)
2. Issued those commands:
You can check status with:
and by running FAHControl GUI app.
So far, I'm not enabling the daemon and start it manually.
I edited and posted this as a guide:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/guide-how-to-run-fahcontrol-and-contribute-to-model-cures-against-covid-19/132911
Last edited by michaldybczak on 3 Apr 2020 at 8:13 pm UTC
I just tried to install it on manjaro, but the commamd "FAHClient --configure" returned me "command not found". Any idea on what aI'm doing wrong?
I'm also on Manjaro. Here is what I did:
1. I installed from AUR: foldingathome-noroot, fahcontrol (GUI), pygtk (dependency), fahviewer (then your 'Viewer' button will work)
2. Issued those commands:
su
useradd --system -s /sbin/nologin -m -d /var/lib/fah --user-group fahsystemctl edit foldingathome.service
[Service]
User=fah
Group=fah
WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/fah
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/opt/fah/FAHClient --config /var/lib/fah/config.xml --exec-directory=/opt/fah --data-directory=/var/lib/fahcd /opt/fah
./FAHClient --configureser name [Anonymous]: name
Team number [0]: 245680
Passkey (can be empty):
Enable SMP [true]: true
Enable GPU [true]: false
Name of configuration file [config.xml]: config.xmlcp /opt/fah/config.xml /var/lib/fah/config.xml
systemctl start foldingathome.serviceYou can check status with:
systemctl status foldingathome.serviceand by running FAHControl GUI app.
So far, I'm not enabling the daemon and start it manually.
I edited and posted this as a guide:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/guide-how-to-run-fahcontrol-and-contribute-to-model-cures-against-covid-19/132911
Last edited by michaldybczak on 3 Apr 2020 at 8:13 pm UTC
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Well, I've stopped mine for the time being, not a lot of point with only a few tasks a day .
Interesting stats!
I see the Mac guys are few, probably because it shows how slow there expensive systems actually are :P
Interesting stats!
I see the Mac guys are few, probably because it shows how slow there expensive systems actually are :P
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You might be interested in these statistics:
On Folding@home: https://stats.foldingathome.org/os
On Rosetta@home: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php
On Rosetta Linux is particularly well represented. Folding has reached 2,4 exaFLOPS of compute power. All the TOP 500 supercomputers have a total capacity of 1,65 exaFLOPS.
Yep, those folding stats are crazy:
ComputeVery impressive!
Linux 78792 34.00%
Win 134252 57.93%
Mac 18709 8.07%
Total Compute: 231,753
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I have mine running... but on Manjaro, i cannot get idle detection working. I run xscreensaver btw. Anyone have luck getting idle detection working?
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I have mine running... but on Manjaro, i cannot get idle detection working. I run xscreensaver btw. Anyone have luck getting idle detection working?Nope, sorry. I manually turn it on last thing at night and kill it in the morning!
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So you guys still folding? I still do, but while the electric bill didn't deterred me, the heat might.
I fold with my RX 590 (which outputs very little heat and noise) but also with an old mining rig that I used 10 years ago, and that one is extremely noisy, hot, and consumes a lot of power.
Also, I had to install the proprietary driver for my RX 590 and I really don't like that one. For Vulkan gaming, is somewhat serviceable, but with OpenGL and overall, I have all kind of issues. Can't wait to get back to Mesa to be honest. The only thing that keeps me in the game (actual gaming and folding) is Stadia. I haven't basically touched Steam since.
But like I said, here is getting pretty hot, and while I'll feel bad about it, I'm afraid that sooner or later I will need to pull the plug.
I fold with my RX 590 (which outputs very little heat and noise) but also with an old mining rig that I used 10 years ago, and that one is extremely noisy, hot, and consumes a lot of power.
Also, I had to install the proprietary driver for my RX 590 and I really don't like that one. For Vulkan gaming, is somewhat serviceable, but with OpenGL and overall, I have all kind of issues. Can't wait to get back to Mesa to be honest. The only thing that keeps me in the game (actual gaming and folding) is Stadia. I haven't basically touched Steam since.
But like I said, here is getting pretty hot, and while I'll feel bad about it, I'm afraid that sooner or later I will need to pull the plug.
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I fold but with a much more modest rig. My 4770K and a 970.
There's one thing I noticed on my system, folding with both CPU+GPU seems somewhat slower overall.
Basically I noticed my GPUs (all of them) usage dropping to half when CPU started folding as well. I tried to set the CPU folding to lower priority, but that didn't changed much. Eventually I removed the CPU slot.
Don't know if that stands true for other systems though. I suppose you can watch the GPU usage in Nvidia control panel and put the CPU folding on pause, see if anything happens.
OTOH some folding projects are running only on CPUs.
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