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Donate Your Unused CPU Cycles to Fight the Coronavirus

Jeremy Morgan on March 15, 2020

The Folding at Home research project uses crowdsourced CPU power to help model simulations to develop treatments for diseases. You can help them by...
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Derek Ardolf
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Jeremy Morgan

Thanks Derek! This seems to be trending to the point they are running out of work units but that's a good thing!

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Derek Ardolf

Yeah, I've had to bounce my fahclient a few times because of the servers being slammed and not being able to get work units. A good problem to have. Hope they have good folks around to help them scale. I wonder if there could be a virtual hackathon or something? haha

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Christopher van Horn

Let's do it. Cv Progress

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Md Abu Taher

Really wanted to try things out but here are my first impressions,

  • Was not able to install it on my linux machine. Ubuntu Eoan 19.04LTS
  • Could not find the team JenemyMorgan, it says bad gateway.
  • Not sure where to report the issues related to installation. Instructions unclear.

I am pretty sure it'll work if I put my mind into it, but just sharing the experience.

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Jeremy Morgan

Thanks for sharing. One issue they're having right now is being swamped with people. What error message are you getting with the install? If it's not getting any work units, that's normal right now. I'm barely seeing any available, and they're working on creating some more for us.

As far as the stats page, it's nearly always broken right now, it's overloaded as well. As long as you put 236359 in for the team name it will count your stats.

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Jeremy Morgan • Edited

Latest Stats update!! 62 members on the team now! Thank you all so much for pitching in!!

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Manuel Gómez

Excellent! Does it work (the controller) with multiple instances?

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Peter Witham

Done and on the team, a worthy cause and something I always forget to think about. Thanks for the reminder.