Folding@Home - let's contribute some processing power to the fight against this bloody virus!

The disease choices are "hardcoded" so Covid-19 won't appear (if ever) until an updated client is released. "Any" is the correct choice which lets the assignment servers select your work units based on what is available.

There's lots of good information at https://foldingforum.org/ but in a nutshell, it appears that new clients are signing up faster than they can get new work units generated so many clients (new and old) are seeing no WU available.

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Makes sense.
I'm folding away!

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Got our current team stats to load by pure chance:

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Pumping out those work units...

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I'm having WU-envy. Who's this ctb person? @ctbaker, perhaps?

I logged in as EddyMI3D

I made a stab at repurposing my Ethereum rig over to this but couldn't get it going. I'll need to throw a display on there later to figure this out.

Finally got the stats page to load again (F@H seems to be under horrible load, which I guess is a good thing).

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Thanks for posting this. I downloaded a couple of hours ago. Still waiting to get an assignment.

Got exactly one work unit today, and have one on 'waiting to send results' for a couple of days already. There are definitely too many clients available now :blush:

Finally got my assignment. It took about 15 hours or so from the time I downloaded FAH. Of course, like a dummy I shut my machine down last night, rather than leaving it running. I'm making up for some lost time by turning it up to full folding power now. (I don't mind the CPU load when I'm just catching up on emails.)

I'm still waiting for a result to upload that's been sitting on my disk for almost 24h now :sweat_smile: Servers are still a bit overwhelmed it seems.

Has anyone installed this on a Pi? I tried downloading the Debian version, but it would not install. I get the error:

A package could not be found that allows the action to complete
more information is available in the detailed report.

For the life of me, I cannot find the "detailed report".
I'm running a freshly downloaded, installed and updated version of Raspian Buster.

Fresh stats:

Stats server also feels more stable now: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/239813

I got notified by N131MG on Twitter that we are included in Extreme Overclocker's folding stats too now ^^

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=239813

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Pretty soon they’ll have to switch to processing the results in a distributed way; Folding At Home At Home.

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If you're not getting F@H work units, try installing Rosetta@Home that's doing the same sort of thing: Join Rosetta@Home.
I have both clients running - when I have a F@H WU it takes the lion's share of the CPU and all the GPU, when I don't have a F@H WU Rosetta kicks in to do work.

Bummer that F@H won't use the GPU on a Mac.

From what LTT was saying, F@H went from 30k active users to 400k+ active users in a week or two... so yeah, just a BIT more load :wink:

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Showing off a little. Less than a 24 hour period:

Scraping the stats and starting to put it on a dashboard: