Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer. The problems we are trying to solve require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to crunch some of the numbers.
Now this software is focused on fighting the CoronaVirus!
Folding@home is similar to the Seti@Home project; it uses your computer’s GPU & CPU power to crunch numbers for solutions. It is a perfect way to contribute helping to fight CoronaVirus with the unused resources you already have!
Available for:
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Install Steps
- Navigate to: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ and choose the download option for your OS
Manjaro / Arch specific instructions
- Since I’m using Manjaro (which is a flavor of Arch Linux), there is no package available for me to download on their site.
- Thankfully, this package (like almost every other piece of software) is available from the AUR (Arch User Repository) and can be installed with a simple command. We can double check the Arch Wiki for more details: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Folding@home
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Install the
foldingathomeAUR package.- In order to use your GPU for folding (highly recommended), you’ll need the appropriate OpenCL package for your GPU. Nvidia users can also use CUDA.
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Create the Folding At Home configuration.
cd /opt/fah sudo ./FAHClient --configure -
Start the Folding At Home service
foldingathome.servicewithsystemdsystemctl start foldingathome.service
Using & Managing Folding@Home
The graphical way
- Navigate to http://localhost:7396/ in the browser
- Alternately, you can install fahcontrol (AUR) and use the FAHControl program.
The terminal way
To see the current progress of foldingathome, simply $ tail /opt/fah/log.txt.