Hey community,

If you would like to contribute to an immediate need (especially while GPU work is dwindling at GPUGrid)...

I recommend installing Folding@home and setting it to work on "Any disease", which will allow your resources to be used for new COVID-19 Coronavirus tasks. They have spun up some GPU projects a few days ago, and even some CPU projects more recently. Links below.

The software is a bit clunky, but it is also relatively easy to set up. For the short term, I am allocating all my beefy GPUs resources toward working on Coronavirus, and about half of my CPU resources.

Note: I have a lot of passion for GPUGrid, and will definitely come back to it. I'm just recommending a temporary (few weeks/months?) switch, to help an immediate need.

https://foldingathome.org/

https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=32287

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2953361518064379&id=136059519794607

Thanks,
Jacob Klein

Note: I have a lot of passion for GPUGrid, and will definitely come back to it. I'm just recommending a temporary (few weeks/months?) switch, to help an immediate need.

+1

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I would love to see HCF1 protein folding and interaction simulations to help my little boy... someday.

I am planning SARS-CoV-2 work.

(especially while GPU work is dwindling at GPUGrid

GPU work is NOT dwindling here.

Excellent !!
Also, sorry for being wrong about GPUGrid work supply.

I am planning SARS-CoV-2 work.

Toni, Outstanding!!!
Count me in.

Excellent! Thanks for the update. Hope to get some of those SARS-CoV-2 work units soon!

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Rosetta@home also has COVID-19 WUs (CPU only).

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533

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Toni
I have this WU- https://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=17678083 stuck since the outage, awaiting validation. Can anything set it free?
Thanks

Rosetta@home also has COVID-19 WUs (CPU only).

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533

Rosetta code is flawed in how it handles your L3 Cache. You need to budget 5 MB L3 Cache per Rosetta and MIP (WCG MIP uses Rosetta code).

<app_config>
    <app>
        <name>rosetta</name>
             <!-- needs 5 MB L3 cache per WU -->
             <!-- needs 1.5 GB RAM per WU -->
             <!-- Xeon E5-2686 v4,  18c36t,  32 GB,  45 MB L3 Cache  -->
             <max_concurrent>9</max_concurrent>
    </app>
    <app>
        <name>minirosetta</name>
              <!-- needs 5 MB L3 cache per WU -->
              <max_concurrent>1</max_concurrent>
    </app>
<project_max_concurrent>9</project_max_concurrent>
</app_config>

I am planning SARS-CoV-2 work.

You better upgrade the server(s) before you do! FAH servers are overwhelmed.

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Toni, will these work units be GPU, CPU, both? I know to some that may be a silly question but GPUGrid has dabbled with GPU, CPU, ARM (Android), and virtualbox in the past. Just wanted to know what to look forward to.

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Rosetta@home also has COVID-19 WUs (CPU only).

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533

Thank you, Chilean!

I've already joint to Rosetta@home, as it is a CPU only project and, therefore, complementary to GPUGrid

You better upgrade the server(s) before you do!

So goes the conundrum of distributed computing...

I've already joint to Rosetta@home, as it is a CPU only project and, therefore, complementary to GPUGrid

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You better upgrade the server(s) before you do!

So goes the conundrum of distributed computing...

The real conundrum is the preparedness of the public health services and/or governments which is put to the test by this world wide pandemic.

You better upgrade the server(s) before you do!

So goes the conundrum of distributed computing...

The real conundrum is the preparedness of the public health services and/or governments which is put to the test by this world wide pandemic.

Also:
1. The unsanitary food processing practices of China are antediluvian.
2. ImPOTUS has ravaged science in America and our response is many weeks behind where it should be. The US government fell on their face.

Okay okay ....
:) Back to Crunching for Coronavirus! :)

Does anybody know of any cool methods to somehow have my GPUs crunch Folding@home if they have a work unit available to them, but if they don't (Since there are server outages there sometimes) automatically switch over to BOINC?

I have .bat files that can turn BOINC GPU Computing from GPU Suspended to Use GPU based on preferences ... but I guess I need to do more research into finding a way to detect Folding@Home slot fulfillment for my GPU devices.

I guess I'll be starting here:
https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/wiki/3rd-party-FAHClient-API

As folding@home is in the media now with many new users and servers are already overloaded I would recommend to stay at Rosetta for CPU and GPUgrid for GPU.

I already tell that other new users of folding@home which cannot get enough work units yet.

Okay okay ....
:) Back to Crunching for Coronavirus! :)

Does anybody know of any cool methods to somehow have my GPUs crunch Folding@home if they have a work unit available to them, but if they don't (Since there are server outages there sometimes) automatically switch over to BOINC?

I have .bat files that can turn BOINC GPU Computing from GPU Suspended to Use GPU based on preferences ... but I guess I need to do more research into finding a way to detect Folding@Home slot fulfillment for my GPU devices.

I guess I'll be starting here:
https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-control/wiki/3rd-party-FAHClient-API

If you were following the greatest BOINC team site in the world, which everyone should be ;) you'd know that all you need to do is set exclusions in cc_config for FahCore_21.exe and 22. This works for GPU, which is all that I'm doing.

	<exclusive_app>FahCore_21.exe</exclusive_app>
	<exclusive_app>FahCore_22.exe</exclusive_app>

Set your preferred project to a resource share of zero and you're good to go. I was using PrimeGrid for this at first because I wasn't expecting the FAH client to be out of work for hours at a time. The current GPUGrid work is fine for this, in fact I've run more GPUGrid work than FAH lately.

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