[texas booster]

How to Install and Use Folding@Home to Fight the Coronavirus

1. Download and install Folding@Home as you would a normal program.

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

2. Use Custom Install options to set the startup preferences of your choice.

3. Run Folding@Home. You will automatically be redirected to the web control.

4. Enter a FReeper name and join our Team: 36120

Please see the link for more details on setting up the program.

[texas booster]

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

[Drago]

The “Team Stats” site appears to be having issues....was going to see where I was on the “FR Folding, A tribute to RR” team...I switched to folding for cryptocurrency awhile back tho. (”CureCoin” & “FoldingCoin”) so I fell well back on the FR team stats.

https://stats.foldingathome.org/teams

[aquila48]

bookmark

[Widget Jr]

Signed up and running.

Looking at DU's stats that had a pretty active team last year from April to October, then they just vanished.

[sauropod]

Interesting.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Is there any chance that I’ll be mining bitcoins rather than unfolding proteins?

[KobraKai]

OMG folding. What a blast from the past. This is possibly the original Virtue Signaling before the term was coined. It was a huge deal with all the leftist gamers who wanted you to do folding with your Playstation when you weren’t playing gamed on it. Folding can cure cancer they said. So if you don’t do folding, your not helping save the world they said.

Virtue Signaling I say.

[zeugma]

I ran folding@home for quite a while a few years ago. The problem I have with their client is that it forks off processes for any core you have on your PC. I wouldn't mind letting them have use of 2 or 4 cores, but maxing out all 16 simply makes my computer annoyingly loud with the fans and such, that get kicked into gear because of how much heat the processors are using.

Does anyone know if the client lets you tweak the load?

[stylin19a]

maybe we can entice by tellin all the full name of our team...

Free Republic Folders - A Tribute to Ronald Reagan

[LonePalm]

I heartily endorse Folding at Home.

I've been folding for about 12 years now and have folded just over 700 Million points. I fold about 1,500 points a day.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Craigon]

Wow, here’s a blast from the past. I was into this with folding team Freep going against the Dummy Underground many many years ago... even built a “folding rack” with a bunch of old mother boards..lol. My 1 video card alone can probably out fold that old setup ..haha. I’ll have to revisit this.