Alright 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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There's also a game to help discover an antiviral, programmed by the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design in Seattle: [fold.it](https://fold.it/portal/node/2008963)I 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.
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Kuduzkehpan 22 Mar 2020
Meanwhile my pc
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Kuduzkehpan 22 Mar 2020
Before reading check fahclient viever control packages' dependencies first from folding website
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 Mar 2020 at 8:16 pm UTC
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 Mar 2020 at 8:16 pm UTC
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[This](https://stats.foldingathome.org/os) is quite interesting:
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Joined myself today, Only problem I have seems to be lack of work units .
Cpu has had the one whilst GPU is still crunching.
Cpu has had the one whilst GPU is still crunching.
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Plintslîcho 23 Mar 2020
I would like to provide an additional view.
[...]
Good point.
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10% Linux <3
https://stats.foldingathome.org/os
(Oh, it was posted on the last page. Cool stats tho!)
Last edited by Pangaea on 24 Mar 2020 at 1:42 am UTC
https://stats.foldingathome.org/os
(Oh, it was posted on the last page. Cool stats tho!)
Last edited by Pangaea on 24 Mar 2020 at 1:42 am UTC
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UnixOutlaw 24 Mar 2020
Well 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 Mar 2020 at 3:38 am UTC
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Our 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!
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leillo1975 24 Mar 2020
Joined!
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Our 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](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!
Am happy as i've passed liam :P
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leillo1975 24 Mar 2020
Only a Question, is necessary to open some port on the router?
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Only a Question, is necessary to open some port on the router?
No, it uses both port 80 and 8080, 8080 is if you are behind a proxy
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leillo1975 24 Mar 2020
Only a Question, is necessary to open some port on the router?
No, it uses both port 80 and 8080, 8080 is if you are behind a proxy
Thanks a lot for the explanation
Greetings
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The link in FAHControl does nothing for me, but you can type it in on this page:
https://apps.foldingathome.org/project?p=13830
https://apps.foldingathome.org/project?p=13830
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Silly question from someone not used to F@H: how do we know what a WU is for ? All i have is a project number: 13830
There will be a project description on the [web client](https://client.foldingathome.org/) page for what your computer's currently working on, or you can look up a given [project number](https://apps.foldingathome.org/project?p=13830) on the folding@home website.
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Is there a GOL team on BOINC / Rosetta? If such a thing exists there.
Last edited by Appelsin on 24 Mar 2020 at 9:50 pm UTC
Last edited by Appelsin on 24 Mar 2020 at 9:50 pm UTC
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[This](https://stats.foldingathome.org/os) is quite interesting:
It is indeed interesting and puzzling. Why the significant difference between AMD and Nvidia folding machines? Like the Windows numbers, I see far more Nvidia GPUs at work for Linux users. Far more Nvidia users or far more Nvidia users willing to fold...or what? For the GamingOnLinux side of things I see in statistics Nvidia/AMD owners at 60/35%, so I kinda expected roughly the same numbers.
Talking about AMD, I had a hell of a time trying to get my AMD RX 590 to start folding. Tried various CL implementations (and they all seemed to work according to some tests) but none actually worked for FAH until I caved in and installed AMDGPU-PRO. I'm now firing on all cylinders (both CPU and GPU) for a couple of days and I might even keep AMDGPU-PRO installed, since I don't see much difference in performance at least for Vulkan, which I mainly use.
Also, thanks to this folding I discovered that my CPU cooling wasn't as good as I thought, in full load would go up 100 degrees, so I had to reduce the CPU max freq a bit while folding. GPU cooling OTOH is just fine, even at full load.
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Talking about AMD, I had a hell of a time trying to get my AMD RX 590 to start folding. Tried various CL implementations (and they all seemed to work according to some tests) but none actually worked for FAH until I caved in and installed AMDGPU-PRO. I'm now firing on all cylinders (both CPU and GPU) for a couple of days and I might even keep AMDGPU-PRO installed, since I don't see much difference in performance at least for Vulkan, which I mainly use.
Also, thanks to this folding I discovered that my CPU cooling wasn't as good as I thought, in full load would go up 100 degrees, so I had to reduce the CPU max freq a bit while folding. GPU cooling OTOH is just fine, even at full load.
I (think I) got my GPU to work (or at least show up in F@H webview), on my laptop at least. 2015 Macbook with the AMD M370X GPU. Running latest kernel and the kernel-proivded AMD drivers.
[As suggested by herc:](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/help-gamingonlinux-beat-coronavirus-join-us-on-foldinghome.16264/comment_id=177246)
sudo nano /etc/fahclient/config.xmlLine 6: Changed from
<gpu v='false'/>to
<gpu v='true'/>Line 18: Added
<slot id='1' type='GPU'/>[/b]How did you manage to get FAHControl running? I can't, for the life of me, get it working. Even with --force-dependa and --force-all
sudo update-rc.d FAHControl defaults
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends FAHControl_7.5.1_amd64.debLast edited by Appelsin on 25 Mar 2020 at 1:26 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.Talking about AMD, I had a hell of a time trying to get my AMD RX 590 to start folding. Tried various CL implementations (and they all seemed to work according to some tests) but none actually worked for FAH until I caved in and installed AMDGPU-PRO. I'm now firing on all cylinders (both CPU and GPU) for a couple of days and I might even keep AMDGPU-PRO installed, since I don't see much difference in performance at least for Vulkan, which I mainly use.
Also, thanks to this folding I discovered that my CPU cooling wasn't as good as I thought, in full load would go up 100 degrees, so I had to reduce the CPU max freq a bit while folding. GPU cooling OTOH is just fine, even at full load.
I (think I) got my GPU to work (or at least show up in F@H webview), on my laptop at least. 2015 Macbook with the AMD M370X GPU. Running latest kernel and the kernel-proivded AMD drivers.
[As suggested by herc:](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/help-gamingonlinux-beat-coronavirus-join-us-on-foldinghome.16264/comment_id=177246)
sudo nano /etc/fahclient/config.xml
Line 6: Changed from
<gpu v='false'/>
to
<gpu v='true'/>
Line 18: Added
<slot id='1' type='GPU'/>[/b]
How did you manage to get FAHControl running? I can't, for the life of me, get it working. Even with --force-dependa and --force-all
sudo update-rc.d FAHControl defaults
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends FAHControl_7.5.1_amd64.deb
No idea about FAHControl, it worked OK for me.
Does it give any errors in console?
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