News Help Cure Coronavirus with Your PC's Leftover Processing Power

[Admin]

It is super easy to set your PC up to help fight the Coronavirus using Folding@Home and the price of just a little electricity.

Help Cure Coronavirus with Your PC's Leftover Processing Power : Read more

 

[punkncat]

Ah....remember a time when we did this in hopes of finding intelligent aliens?

 

[N_tell]

Ah....remember a time when we did this in hopes of finding intelligent aliens?

lol

 

[mdd1963]

I don't trust this claim of the folding's 'Corona-Virus' intent as far as I can throw it...

(I'd suspect someone is crunching crypto-currency in one form or another!)

 

[greatmaharg]

I don't trust this claim of the folding's 'Corona-Virus' intent as far as I can throw it...

(I'd suspect someone is crunching crypto-currency in one form or another!)

Folding@home has been around for years, it's a project by Stanford University.

 

[dethkult]

I don't trust this claim of the folding's 'Corona-Virus' intent as far as I can throw it...

(I'd suspect someone is crunching crypto-currency in one form or another!)

Folding's older than any kind of crypto bruh 🆒

 

[Unolocogringo]

I don't trust this claim of the folding's 'Corona-Virus' intent as far as I can throw it...

(I'd suspect someone is crunching crypto-currency in one form or another!)

I've been running F@H since 2004.
Please do not start false rumors. It is a major donor for scientific research. My computers fold protiens for several Universities now.

 

[SaltyMaverick]

This is awesome. I'm more than happy to help. I've got a Ryzen 9 3950X and an RX 5700 XT chugging at this problem now. 😉

 

[SaltyMaverick]

I've been running F@H since 2004.
Please do not start false rumors. It is a major donor for scientific research. My computers fold protiens for several Universities now.

Hey, I like that point tracker you have. How do I get one of those?

 

[Rogue Leader]

I don't trust this claim of the folding's 'Corona-Virus' intent as far as I can throw it...

(I'd suspect someone is crunching crypto-currency in one form or another!)

Please do NOT spread completely untrue rumors like this. F@H has been around for a very long time and has done a TON of research for good. Its run by Stanford University. There is precisely 0 evidence to back your claim up, and even joking about it is in poor taste.

 

[velocityg4]

This might get me folding again. I just hate to use so much extra electricity. There's a big difference between idle and full load. Plus with how long protein folding takes. Then how long it would take a cure to go from a lab concept, to animal testing, human trials and so forth to market. This strain will likely have long since passed.

Ah....remember a time when we did this in hopes of finding intelligent aliens?

I did that for a couple years with Seti@Home classic. Mostly I loved the screensaver. Remember when people were obsessed over screensavers? Anyways they changed it to be a part of BOINC . My old work units didn't translate over. Worse yet the new floating 3D screensaver sucked😛. I kept classic running for a while but gave up eventually. I think when I stopped using Mac OS 9.

 

[Jake Hall]

I'd rather not

 

[drivinfast247]

I wonder how much money 500+ watts will cost to run 8+ hours a day.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Hey, I like that point tracker you have. How do I get one of those?

Direct link to guide made a while ago.
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/toms-hardware-folding-home-team-40051-guide.92271/#1147117
Check out section 5 for sigs.
Or there is a link to it in my sig first post.
Mine is 5.3 EOC folding tracker.

PS Don't forget to get a pass key. After 10 successful work units you start receiving quick return bonus points.

 

[fonzy]

Remember when the PS3 came out and the cell processor was hyped for folding trying to find a cure for cancer? lol

 

[mogster]

Does Folding run on the BOINC client? I already have that installed for World Community Grid.

 

[Ofir Aviram]

How do i choose corona? i have being running it for three hours and it does not use my 2080ti gpu i guess it does not check corona.what can i do to change this?

 

[ThePretzelGuy_jr]

Ah....remember a time when we did this in hopes of finding intelligent aliens?

Seti@home is still looking for intelligent life on earth

 

[USAFRet]

Seti@home is still looking for intelligent life on earth

SETI@home

setiathome.berkeley.edu

SETI@home hibernation
On March 31, the volunteer computing part of SETI@home will stop distributing work and will go into hibernation.

 

[tennis2]

I wonder how much money 500+ watts will cost to run 8+ hours a day.

It really only makes sense to fold on your GPU these days. If you do truly have 500W of power consumption from your (2+) GPUs, it depends on your electricity costs obviously, but:
500W * 24hrs = 12KWh * $0.15/KWh = $1.80/day.

 

[Rogue Leader]

How do i choose corona? i have being running it for three hours and it does not use my 2080ti gpu i guess it does not check corona.what can i do to change this?

Leave it on the default, Coronavirus is one of the viruses they rotate through, its not a specific choice.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Leave it on the default, Coronavirus is one of the viruses they rotate through, its not a specific choice.

You need to tell it to use a GPU slot.
Default is CPU only.
Click the link in my sig ,first post is to a guide to set up folding.
Don't forget to get a pass key and enter it.

 

[Rogue Leader]

You need to tell it to use a GPU slot.
Default is CPU only.
Click the link in my sig ,first post is to a guide to set up folding.
Don't forget to get a pass key and enter it.

Right i was just answering the virus part. They haven't made it a separate selection.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Right i was just answering the virus part. They haven't made it a separate selection.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I was replying to his question on how to enable GPU folding. Lots going on.
No idea how to just get CV-19 units only.

 

[tennis2]

F@H. No work units being assigned since I kicked it on 5 hours ago....