Posted on 12/08/2020 7:30:47 PM PST by texas booster
We are pleased to announce version 7.6.21 of the Folding@home software and recommend that everyone upgrades!
This version includes a number of significant updates, most notably the addition of ARM 64-bit support. ARM support is a great step forward given the rapid proliferation of ARM-based devices. We are especially grateful to Neocortix for helping make this possible!
The new client also includes updates that better detect and automatically configure supported GPUs.
The Coronavirus is causing lots of problems around the world, and it can feel a bit unfair that many of us are home living our lives, unable to help. However, that doesn't mean we can't do anything. Folding@Home announced that it is taking the fight to the Coronavirus, and you can donate your computer's leftover processing resources to help researchers find a cure.
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project run by the Stanford University, aimed at learning about protein folding with the purpose of fighting disease. Distributed computing means that rather than using one big supercomputer, Folding@Home relies on users donating their computer's reserve power to the organization as a charity. By concentrating the computing power of the untold masses on singular problems, the organization can wield the power of a supercomputer, but without the cost.
To understand how this helps, we have to explain a little bit about protein folding. When proteins are made they emerge as a long string, but for this string to be useful to the body, it needs to fold into a three-dimensional shape. These folded proteins can be found on the surface of cells and they determine what enters and exits the cell.
The 2019-nCoV also has proteins on its surface called spikes, which trick the ACE2 lung cell surface receptor into letting the virus into the cell and starting a viral infection. One way to stop infection is to find a way to block this protein that resides on the virus, preventing the virus from binding to our cells, and thus rendering it unable to establish an infection.
I haven't posted but once this year. I trust that those who are getting new computers and video cards for Christmas will install the F@H client with team 36120 Free Republic Folders, and continue to fold in the background.
5,000,000,000 (5 billion) point mark!
https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120
Sad, but I moved to 10 yr old, sloughed off, Hospital data logger mini-desktops. [3 identical units, 2 at two different physical locations and a spare - $45 total plus $300 in new SSDs.]
If you have folded in the past, when you reinstall please use your old folding name and you will keep the credit for all of your previous points.
A special shout out to FReepers
LonePalm, and
Hagerstrom
Our two largest folders to date, for having crossed the 1 billion point mark by themselves!
Since this "Folding" started years ago, I suspected it was a scam for data mining by the Chineese.
Folding for the Corona Virus 19 makes it more so.
Never did understand why y'all would volunteer to log into a version of logmein.com by a unknown state.
*Can I have your WiFi password?
Remember, the discoveries you make may save a life - your own!
The newest GPU cards from NVidia and AMD are fantastic at completing projects, and the newest ones due out in a couple of months will do tremendous work at low power consumption rates.
I started folding with the original Genome @ Home, and have folded for SETI, BOINC and did some BTC mining. That over 25 years of folding.
This is one of the best distributed programs that actually provides results that medicine can use to provide advances and cures that make a difference to me - Alzheimers Disease research in particular.
Not using any version of logmein.com ... and if you come to my part of Texas, I'll gladly let you use my wifi password.
If you can get in range.
These minidesktops are more like a laptop, but have no GPUs, nor a slot to accept one.
I’m all in favor of donating spare cycles, but would have to build a new end of life desktop. Maybe next year, for old times sake....
1. Download and install Folding@Home as you would a normal program.
https://foldingathome.org/#downloads
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
5. It's OK to ask for a Folding@home Passkey. This allows faster folding after finishing a project.
Please see the link for more details on setting up the program.
https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=1096093
Yep, one user pushing 2 - 3 billion points per day. Here is an article on the new NVidia supercomputer:
You can have one like it, comprised of 280 NVidia DGX A100s plus support hardware and software, amounting to a list price of $56M.
How can you verify that this not by China?
You cannot.
If you need help please ping me or one of the other folders on the forum.
We are now posting about 10,000,000 ppd, thanks to a couple of new video cards in folding systems.
Thanks for posting. Folding home hasn’t worked for me in a while.
No I can't, anymore that I can verify that you have stopped beating your wife. But the project is led by the Washington University in St. Louis, the Sloan-Kettering Institute, Temple University and Stockholm University, among others.
Here is a list of named contributors to one of the most recent research papers published at www.biorxiv.org.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.27.175430v1
Anton Thynell,
Maxwell I Zimmerman,
Justin R Porter,
Michael D Ward,
Sukrit Singh,
Neha Vithani,
Artur Meller,
Upasana L Mallimadugula,
Catherine E Kuhn,
Jonathan H Borowsky,
Rafal P Wiewiora,
Matthew F D Hurley,
Aoife M Harbison,
Carl A Fogarty,
Joseph E Coffland,
Elisa Fadda,
Vincent A Voelz,
John D Chodera,
Gregory R Bowman
Notice what I don't see? A bunch of Chinese surnames. Not that this means much, but it is truly a worldwide effort aimed at advancing medical research.
Anyway, have a very good night.
Has Folding at Home achieved any results? I reviewed their site once and couldn’t find any mention of results.
thanq for this. been awhile. I’m folding on CORONAVIRUS PROJECT.
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