{"id":111496,"date":"2020-04-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fedoramagazine.org\/?p=30797"},"modified":"2020-04-13T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T08:00:00","slug":"how-to-contribute-to-foldinghome-on-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/13\/how-to-contribute-to-foldinghome-on-fedora\/","title":{"rendered":"How to contribute to Folding@home on Fedora"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Folding@home?<\/h2>\n

Folding@home is a distributed computing network for performing biomedical research. Its intent is to help further understand and develop cures for a range of diseases. Their current priority is understanding the behavior of COVID-19 and the virus that causes COVID-19. This article will show you how you can get involved by donating your computer’s idle time.<\/p>\n

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Sounds cool, how do I help?<\/h2>\n

In order to donate your computational power to Folding@home, download the FAHClient package from this page<\/a>. Once you’ve downloaded the package, open your Downloads<\/em> folder and double click it to open. For instance, on standard Fedora Workstation, this opens GNOME Software, which prompts you to install the package. <\/p>\n

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Click install and enter your password to continue from here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How to start Folding@home<\/h2>\n

Folding@home starts folding as soon as it is installed. In order to control how much CPU\/GPU is using you must open the web control interface, available here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The interface contains information about what project you are contributing to. In order to track “points,” the scoring system of Folding@home, you must set up a user account with Folding@home.<\/p>\n

Tracking your work<\/h2>\n

Now that everything’s done, you may be wondering how you can track the work your computer is doing. All you need to is request a passkey from this page<\/a>. Enter your email and your desired username. Once you have received the passkey in email, you can enter that into the client settings.<\/p>\n

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Click on the Change Identity button, and this page appears:<\/p>\n

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You can also put in a team number here like I have. This allows your points to go towards a group that you support.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Enter the username you gave when you requested a passkey, and then enter the passkey you received.<\/p>\n

What next?<\/h2>\n

That’s all there is to it. Folding@home runs in the background automatically on startup. If you need to pause or lower how much CPU\/GPU power it uses, you can change that via the web interface linked above.<\/p>\n

You may notice that you don’t receive many work units. That’s because there is currently a shortage of work units to distribute due to a spike of computers being put onto the network. However, different efforts are emerging all the time.<\/p>\n

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You can visually see the spike in computers on the network from last year at the same time to 4\/4\/2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo by\u00a0Joshua Sortino<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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