[O/C]Easy Linux Folding Setup Guide: The GUI Method

Overclockers.com · Jan 18, 2010

Easy Linux Folding Setup Guide: The GUI Method
by ihrsetdr

For those folding participants new to Linux, the CLI (command line interface) can be a bit unfamiliar. And yea, we’ve all had the frustration of getting the necessary tips from the more experienced Linux users. Yet the developers of most Linux distributions have provided a very nice Graphical User Interface for people who well, live in a graphical world! That’s what we are going to take advantage of, just basically 10 quick & easy graphical steps represented in a series of screenshots. Please note that there are always other ways to accomplish the same result, and that the GUI method can be accompanied by the CLI way at any and all steps along the way.

First thing we do is navigate to Stanford’s download page: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
Choose the Linux client(Linux (x86) and BSD *combined uniprocessor and SMP client* (64-bit build) 6.24beta )

Click here to continue reading.

Discuss this article below. If you are interested in contributing to the front page (www.overclockers.com), please feel free to contact splat, mdcomp, or hokiealumnus.

deadlysyn · Jan 20, 2010

Good work, ihr. Glad to see this on the front page.

Sydney · Jan 21, 2010

Lacks info on how to GPU fold

GIXXERGUY6 · Jan 21, 2010

Thanks for taking the time to write it all out and take all the SS's of the process. Greatly appreciated.

vonkaar · Jan 21, 2010

Just followed it and got one of my dual 6-core M805s VMs up and running. Project 2662.

hooray

I.M.O.G. · Jan 21, 2010

Sydney said:
Lacks info on how to GPU fold

Fortunately there's information about folding with your GPU on linux here:
http://www.overclockers.com/detailed-step-step-guide-foldinghome-linux/

ihrsetrdr · Jan 21, 2010

Sydney said:
Lacks info on how to GPU fold

The focus was on SMP folding, the article's title in it's original form reflected that.

...besides, that was your job. :p

Vovan · Feb 12, 2011

Gosh, its closed source blob. From university. WTF? Who sayd you are actually Folding? How about you are donating your CPU cycles(electricity bill) to Dr. Joe from Sony. Eek..

ihrsetrdr · Feb 12, 2011

Vovan said:
Gosh, its closed source blob. From university. WTF? Who sayd you are actually Folding? How about you are donating your CPU cycles(electricity bill) to Dr. Joe from Sony. Eek..

It's all about quality control, which is essential when doing scientific research. A controlled, document-able study is Pande Group's goal, and would not be so, if every code hacker in the World was modifying their work.

Open sourced GPL'd code is desirable, but understand the value of Pande Lab's work, and why it has to be closed source.

Vovan · Feb 12, 2011

ihrsetrdr said:
It's all about quality control, which is essential when doing scientific research. A controlled, document-able study is Pande Group's goal, and would not be so, if every code hacker in the World was modifying their work.

Open sourced GPL'd code is desirable, but understand the value of Pande Lab's work, and why it has to be closed source.

By all respect - you are running pandora box on your CPU. Period. No one of your assumptions can be verified, because, again you are running pandora box.

Opensource does not relate to commercial or non-commercial. It does not relate to closed group working on project or everyone hacking and forking. You might have 1k researchers working on opensourced project. If they do not accept outside modifications - it is their right, they are neither required, nor asked to do so. They can ignore any hackers.

Source is open mainly for two reasons - security and portability. In order to run the depicted SETI on linux you have to use WINE - here goes portability; or run binary blob - there goes security. You can just as easy install Skype and let Skype closed inner circle use your bandwith via a sub-form of botnet which Skype is.

If the project utilize GPGPU acceleration, both OpenCL and CUDA are either opensource or freeware and do not require lockdown of the entire source in order to work.

Is anyone aware of BONC or similar? ie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing

ihrsetrdr · Feb 12, 2011

Vovan said:
By all respect - you are running pandora box on your CPU. Period. No one of your assumptions can be verified, because, again you are running pandora box.

Opensource does not relate to commercial or non-commercial. It does not relate to closed group working on project or everyone hacking and forking. You might have 1k researchers working on opensourced project. If they do not accept outside modifications - it is their right, they are neither required, nor asked to do so. They can ignore any hackers.

I'd suggest that you take these issues up with the project founder- Dr. vijay Pande:

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/chemistry/faculty/pande/

Vovan said:
Source is open mainly for two reasons - security and portability. In order to run the depicted SETI on linux you have to use WINE - here goes portability; or run binary blob - there goes security. You can just as easy install Skype and let Skype closed inner circle use your bandwith via a sub-form of botnet which Skype is.

If the project utilize GPGPU acceleration, both OpenCL and CUDA are either opensource or freeware and do not require lockdown of the entire source in order to work.

Is anyone aware of BONC or similar? ie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing

I've never run SETI in WINE, only run in BOINC, which available in Debian's main archive.

dfonda · Feb 12, 2011

Nice job Tim! :beer:

Good stuff for the front page.

ihrsetrdr · Feb 13, 2011

Thanks Dave. I put that up a while back, and have since felt that the article needed a 'touch up", for clarity on some points. Once published, I'm not sure if that's an option, but maybe I'll look into doing an update, if things materially change.

harlam357 · Feb 13, 2011

This needs to get into our Super Sticky material... I was unaware of its existence. Nice work Tim! :beer:

WhitehawkEQ · Mar 11, 2016

abdallaa433 said:
- ان شركتنا لتنظيف الخزانات بالرياض هى الشركة الافضل بين ايديكم والتى بإمكانها ان تساعدكم فى شتى الخدمات المنزلية الاخرى شاملة التنظيف بوجه عام بجانب خدمات مكافحة الحشرات ورش المبيدات وعزل الاسطح والخزانات وخدمات كشف تسربات المياه وتسليك المجارى ونقل الاثاث , لذلك يمكنكم القول بأنها افضل شركة تقدم خدمات منزلية متكامله بالسعودية
شركة غسيل خزانات بالرياض
تقوم شركة غسيل خزانات بالرياض بتنظيف وتعقيم الخزانات من خلال طرق مختلفه تعمل على تنقية وتنظيف مياه الشرب من الملوثات , وهذه الطرق تتمثل فى :
غسيل الخزانات بالمعدات
شركة تنظيف بالرياض
شركة تنظيف شقق بالرياض
شركة غسيل خزانات بالرياض
مكافحة حشرات بالرياض
رش مبيدات بالرياض

شركة نقل اثاث من الرياض الى جدة
مستودعات تخزين الاثاث بالرياض
نقل اثاث بالرياض
نقل عفش بالرياض
شركة مكافحة بق الفراش بالرياض
شركة نقل اثاث من الرياض الى دبي
شركة مكافحة فئران بالرياض
شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بجدة
افضل شركة مكافحة الصراصير بالرياض

حيث يقوم فريق عمل الشركة بالرياض باستخدام الادوات والمعدات الكهربائية التى تساعم جيدا فى تنظيف الخزانات فى اسرع وقت مثل المكانس النفاسه للمياه التى تزود بأفضل المطهرات والمعقمات التى تنبعث منها فور الضغط عليها داخل الخزان

Translation?
And Welcome to Team 32 Folding

ihrsetrdr · Mar 11, 2016

Wow, I never thought that this article would get a bump up. I had planned to polish up this but never got a-round-tuit. :shrug:

I don't think that fah v6 is depreciated, but it's certainly quite "long-in-the-tooth".

A better guide for "easy Linux folding" exists, and involves the latest- v7 software:

https://folding.stanford.edu/home/guide/linux-install-guide/

torin3 · Mar 12, 2016

WhitehawkEQ said:
Translation?
And Welcome to Team 32 Folding

Translation starts like this:

- Our company to clean up the reservoirs in Riyadh is the company's best in your hands and that can help you in various other household services a comprehensive cleaning generally beside Pest Control Services workshops pesticides, roofing, reservoirs and services detect water leaks and wiring conduits and moving furniture, so I can say it is the best company provides services household integrated in Saudi Arabia
Cabinets washing company in Riyadh
The tanks in Riyadh to clean and disinfect tanks washing company through ways

So..it was spam.

WhitehawkEQ · Mar 13, 2016

torin3 said:
Translation starts like this:

So..it was spam.

Oh well, and here I thought we had a new member :rofl:

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