nightknight Posted March 21, 2020 Posted March 21, 2020 A good use for 'spare' GPU cycles. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15633/covid-19-toms-hardware-2020-folding-at-home-race
DracoLlasa Posted March 21, 2020 Posted March 21, 2020 Thanks for sharing, and to add a bit Folding@Home is doing mostly GPU work units right now for COVID-19, if you want to maximize your contribution specific to the current pandemic, you can disable the CPU for FaH and then install BOINC and enable the Rosetta@Home project witch is also doing Protein folding research, but they are sending out CPU work units for COVID-19, and no GPU at all. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] i5 8600K OC @ 5.0GHz w/ Corsair H100i Liquid Cooler| MSI GTX 1080 OC Edition | 32GB DDR4 3600 | EVO 960 NVMe SSD | WD Black NVMe SSD Win10 X64 | TrackIR 5 | HTC Vive | Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS and Cougar MFDs | Saitek Combat Pedals
Mesha44 Posted March 23, 2020 Posted March 23, 2020 Good post nkghtknight, DCS is the ideal community to work on F@H since there is a large number of people here with high end CPU's and GPU's. Here is the link to F@H if anyone wants to download it straight from the source. https://foldingathome.org/ A recent news article said that due to the Covid-19 outbreak F@H has seen a rise in downloads and now has more computer power as a distributed network that the top 7 super computers combined. It's a good cause, dl and run it in your spare time.
Badger1815 Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 Yep, been running it during working hours from home on my Game PC GPU is happily folding along
R_a_y_t_h_e_o_n Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 Join the fight! 1. Download MS/Mac client & install: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ 2. Open client / website: https://client.foldingathome.org 3. Get passkey: https://apps.foldingathome.org/getpasskey 4. Make an account - Username / Team Number ( 223518 Team LTT :thumbup: ) 5. Close website and right click client in task bar hidden icons, set to full then open "advanced control" (start client from DT icon first if needed) 6. Press 'Fold' to start - 'Pause' to stop and 'Finish' to finish the task then stop. 7. Your folding. Client will auto download 'WU' or 'Work Units' and fold proteins both on your GPU and CPU. You can shut down or pause any time. Leave overnight running with ventilation. Useful Server IP stats: https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats Vid tutorial if needed: F@H work servers are being emptied faster than science can create jobs, be patient, if no WU begin, restart the client after 20mins to refresh. [sIGPIC]https://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic164529_1.gif[/sIGPIC]
mvsgas Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 To whom it may concern, I am an idiot, unfortunately for the world, I have a internet connection and a fondness for beer....apologies for that. Thank you for you patience. Many people don't want the truth, they want constant reassurance that whatever misconception/fallacies they believe in are true..
Mango Posted March 24, 2020 Posted March 24, 2020 Nice, I was wondering if others in the community were Folding as well. I've had it running since last week and find that it alternates between CPU processing and GPU processing regularly.
station2station Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 My wife and I have been doing this for some time. Recommend those using AIO be cautious of settings used for CPU. The coolant in AIO doesn't like sustained levels above 64 on average. Check google and mfg for your cooler type before committing to a CPU load. GPU can usually take it. System Specs: Intel 8700K (Factory Clocks) / NZXT Kraken X62 ASUS ROG STRIX 1080TI Corsair RGB 32GB @ 3600MHZ Samsung 970EVO M.2 OS Drive / 2 x Samsung 960EVO SATA Game Drive (DCS and STEAM) Phankteks Enthoo Evolv TG w/ something like, 9 case fans now... Alienware 34" AW3418DW (with 120HZ and GSYNC) Warthog HOTAS Thrustmaster MFD Saitek Rudder Pedals Logitch G35 Mic TrackIR5 Corsair keyboard/mouse A10C,FA18,F14,Viggen <3,F16,Spitfire, NTTR, Persian Gulf,SuperCarrier
_Silens_ Posted April 14, 2020 Posted April 14, 2020 Stumbled across this thread and was curious, is there any sort of "Team DCS World" or "Team Eagle Dynamics" for Folding@Home? My systems have been happily folding along, though joining "Team DCS World" would be pretty cool if such a team exists. Intel i7-4790k @ 4.5Ghz | Corsair H80i v2 | EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Hybrid | 24GB RAM (2x8 & 2x4) | Samsung 850 Evo 500Gb, Crucial MX300 525Gb, WD 1Tb Black | Windows 7 Professional 64-bit | 3x 24" 1920x1080 & 1x 20" 1600x900 | EDTracker Pro w/ OpenTrack 2.3 | Thrustmaster T.16000M | Thrustmaster TWCS Throttle
Gnadentod Posted April 15, 2020 Posted April 15, 2020 You'll never realize how much you're surrounded by idiots as much as I do. Here we go again.
Mango Posted April 15, 2020 Posted April 15, 2020 "To avoid falling victim to this scam, resist any suggestions to download the Folding@Home software via a link in an email or social-media posting. Instead, go straight to the official Folding@Home download page. (There, you'll see that the real Windows installation software is named "fah-installer_7.5.1_x86.exe".)" https://www.tomsguide.com/news/coronavirus-password-stealer
sovietotaku Posted April 16, 2020 Posted April 16, 2020 Can I or everybody else do an audit of the data which @home sent? No? So data can be anything: from somebody's password hash to atomic bomb calculations. I strongly advise you to avoid this USGOV honeypot!
R_a_y_t_h_e_o_n Posted April 16, 2020 Posted April 16, 2020 Can I or everybody else do an audit of the data which @home sent? No? So data can be anything: from somebody's password hash to atomic bomb calculations. I strongly advise you to avoid this USGOV honeypot! Why would the US Government use a civilian distributed computer network to do basic nuclear science? Oh and here's the full list of current F@H projects, their individual contributor sponsors and contact details for each: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary But I'd avoid looking, you'll get Coronavirus from your wifi network! :smilewink: [sIGPIC]https://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic164529_1.gif[/sIGPIC]
sovietotaku Posted April 17, 2020 Posted April 17, 2020 Why would the US Government use a civilian distributed computer network to do basic nuclear science? Oh and here's the full list of current F@H projects, their individual contributor sponsors and contact details for each: https://apps.foldingathome.org/psummary But I'd avoid looking, you'll get Coronavirus from your wifi network! :smilewink: Who said to you that this network is (((civilian)))? Anyway, data distribution in @home network is non-transparent, content of the datablock is not available for end contributor for simple audit, documentation about datablock structure is not transparently available. So i strongly advise to you to avoid "folding coronavirus at home". IMHO better way to contribute is to mine *coins and then donate them to the charity.
JeffreyC Posted September 1, 2020 Posted September 1, 2020 Sadly even here there are some idiots. :( Been using this for months both with my home system and office on workdays. Everyone can contribute and can be scaled down or paused if you do something that needs more power. :)
Sierra99 Posted September 1, 2020 Posted September 1, 2020 Can I or everybody else do an audit of the data which @home sent? No? So data can be anything: from somebody's password hash to atomic bomb calculations. I strongly advise you to avoid this USGOV honeypot! I'm sorry...The Folding@home project has been around for years with zero issues. Your concerns are unfounded. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Primary Computer ASUS Z390-P, i7-9700K CPU @ 5.0Ghz, 32GB Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 @ 3200Mhz, ZOTAC GeForce 1070 Ti AMP Extreme, Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe drives (1Tb & 500 Gb), Windows 10 Professional, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS, Thrustmaster Warthog Stick, Thrustmaster Cougar Throttle, Cougar MFDs x3, Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals and TrackIR 5. -={TAC}=-DCS Server Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3, i7-3770K CPU @ 3.90GHz, 32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 @ 1600Mhz, ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 970.
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