[jr2]

EDIT: You may wish to update your client if you have not recently, as there is now an option to prioritize COVID19 or High Priority projects (previously you could only contribute to COVID by choosing "any disease").  I have not seen in the previous or current FAH version any auto-update options or notifications, so this looks to be a manual update if you wish to do so.

This is the thread for the unofficial HLP Folding@Home Team.  (Goober said I could make an unofficial thread.  Go Goober! )

Just put team number 81206 and your User Name into Folding@Home's client.

To get Folding@Home, go to their Download site.

FAQ Index is here.

Configuration FAQ & settings descriptions is here.

If you don't know what Folding@Home is, click here.

EDIT:

To fight COVID-19:  Select "any disease" as the disease to fight, and your spare CPU / GPU cycles will go towards fighting CV19.

EDIT2: FYI, there is now a dedicated drop-down for COVID-19 if you wish to focus solely on that (I leave mine to "any disease" but still frequently get COVID-19 jobs assigned).

https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/

The 81206 for the team number is only necessary if you want credit to go to the HLP unofficial team.

If you want to protect contributions made under your username, you can click "Get a passkey", put in your desired username and an e-mail address, and get a passkey for your desired username and they will e-mail you a passkey. This is separate from the group you wish your credits to go towards, which does not require a passkey.

EDIT2: Stats are unreliable many times, you can use ExtremeOverclocking's site fjor stats here

Thanks to LTT Forum's excellent COVID-19 F@H known issues page here.


Updates:

Number go up, but number must go up more

Number go up, but number must go up more

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Agreed.

Relevant, didn't realize Folding@Home was running into shortages of F@H target servers (or indeed, that that was a thing at all) - Linus from LTT builds one from old parts with a few upgrades:

[phreak]

bump. we need more meat.

Try and beat my quad-core extreme

[lenard27]

Yay! I joined the team. Now lets see what my little Dual-Core Centrino Laptop can pump out!

[jr2]

Just FYI, the "graphical" version can cause bugs in games, so if that happens, just quit (not pause) the graphical client, and re-start it when you're done... or use the "no-nonsense console" versions.

[Shade]

Joined up. Might help a little since I tend to leave the computer running most of the day anyway.

[redsniper]

I'm in.

[jr2]

 

[lenard27]

Just curious: How long does it take to complete these workpackets? I started at 10 PM today and it is now 130AM and the progress is still shown as 0/5000.

[redsniper]

Then it never started.

[jr2]

Depends on if you have small, medium, or large workpackets selected, and how much you use your computer.  If you played games or rendered graphics during that time, you'd not make much progress... but you'd make more than 0, I'd think.

[lenard27]

I guess I was thinking it would count the packets individually but now it says 1250/5000, so I guess it just shows when a big clump of them are done.

[jr2]

..Ya, I was going to mention that, but I figured you'd already waited enough time for it to show something.

* jr2 smacks himself.

[watsisname]

I'd heard about this program way back but never got around to looking at it so I subsequently forgot about it.  Thanks for bringing it up here, it's a great idea.
*joins in*

[colecampbell666]

bump. we need more meat.

Try and beat my quad-core extreme

6700, 6800 or 6850?

[phreak]

6850

[watsisname]

Damn, I want one of those puppies.   

Out of curiousity, anyone here active in any other distributed computing projects?  I looked at climateprediction.net which is quite interesting, and another project still in the planning stages is called PlanetQuest, where supposedly you help analize astronomical image data to search for extrasolar planets. 

Edit:  Do you have to complete a WU before you're added to the teampage?

[phreak]

Edit:  Do you have to complete a WU before you're added to the teampage?

yes

[colecampbell666]

and another project still in the planning stages is called PlanetQuest, where supposedly you help analize astronomical image data to search for extrasolar planets. 

My uncle had a screensaver like that though, something to do with analyzing raido signals or something. He had it on so long that it burned the image into his screen. Some screensaver.

[jr2]

Prolly SETI@Home.

[colecampbell666]

I think that was it.