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Fedora - How to contribute to Folding@home on Fedora - xSicKxBot - 04-13-2020
How to contribute to Folding@home on Fedora
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/how-to-contribute-to-foldinghome-on-fedora.png" width="900" height="435" title="" alt="" /></div><div><h2>What is Folding@home?</h2>
<p>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>
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<h2>Sounds cool, how do I help?</h2>
<p>In order to donate your computational power to Folding@home, download the FAHClient package from <a href="https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/">this page</a>. Once you’ve downloaded the package, open your <em>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>
<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/how-to-contribute-to-foldinghome-on-fedora.png" alt="" /><figcaption>Click install and enter your password to continue from here.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>How to start Folding@home</h2>
<p>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 <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://client.foldingathome.org/" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
<p>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>
<h2>Tracking your work</h2>
<p>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 <a href="https://apps.foldingathome.org/paskey/create/">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>
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<p>Click on the Change Identity button, and this page appears:</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/how-to-contribute-to-foldinghome-on-fedora-2.png" alt="" /><figcaption>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>
<p>Enter the username you gave when you requested a passkey, and then enter the passkey you received.</p>
<h2>What next?</h2>
<p>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>
<p>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>
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</div><figcaption>You can visually see the spike in computers on the network from last year at the same time to 4/4/2020</figcaption></figure>
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