Folding@home-Team Linux Mint-76140

[ajgringo619]

Starting to move up the food chain - ranked #110, with another 15 teams in our sights.

[guilupe]

thank you so much for doing this

[ajgringo619]

While I'm normally on my LM 20 XFCE system, I do occasionally reboot into Windows 10. I also run FAH on Windows, but it's not nearly as fast as LM. I recently started using my CPU and Android phone to run BOINC for Universe@Home (CPU WUs in FAH are so small that they seem pointless). This is also way slower on Windows 10.

As a test, I installed Ubuntu via WSL2 and BOINC - 40 minutes per WU as compared to 135 minutes on native Windows! Has anyone tried the same with FAH? My GTX 1070 gets about 1.3m points per day on average on LM, only 950k points on Windows, so if there's any way to bump this up I'd be happy.

[Jeff13]

I fold on 3 different operating systems with a mixture of GPUs. It seems to me that in general Win 7 is slower than Win 10 which is slower than Mint 19.3.
This chart might help.

https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/overall_ranks

Badsinger.

[ajgringo619]

Thanks for that link. I think the biggest issue I'm having now with my Win10 install is bad/corrupted projects. I was on it for about 5 hours yesterday and none of the WUs showed up on either https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/76140 or https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com ... s=&t=76140.

I think for now I'll stick with BOINC via WSL on Windows and FAH on LM 20.

[Jeff13]

Hi Team;

I'll have lowered daily PPD for a while. I'm back to satellite internet only and the monthly bandwidth available won't let me fold as much as I'd like. To misquote Leia..Help me Starlink, your my only hope.

[battlenut]

Well guys, it was a fun ride. I have just shut down my last machine. Prepping for the move, back to Continental US. Not sure when or if I will be back. good luck to the team, I wish you luck.

[tinca]

battlenut

really sorry to see you go, but I am a bit fed up by having to continually look at your high points.

Stay safe and well and hope to see you back at some time in the future.

Best regards Keith

[battlenut]

battlenut

really sorry to see you go, but I am a bit fed up by having to continually look at your high points.

Stay safe and well and hope to see you back at some time in the future.

Best regards Keith

Points are points bro, Just glad I could help this team while I had time. Trust me if or when I do come back it will be back to this team.

Frank

[SimonPeter]

...
http://folding.stanford.edu/ is the website for some good information on the project. The quick version is, its a distributed computing project run by Stanford University. For the purpose of biological research.
...

It looks like the website is down.

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$ nslookup folding.stanford.edu 8.8.8.8 
Server:		8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

** server can't find folding.stanford.edu: NXDOMAIN

$ date --utc
Tue Dec 14 05:32:05 UTC 2021

[Jeff13]

Yep. Looks like they moved. Try here.

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/?lng=en-US

And welcome to the team if you decide to join.

[Demmers]

"All good things come to an end..."
Given the new rise in energy costs in the UK, I have folded my last work unit for the foreseeable future. I don't even use a GPU due to the chip shortage, but on the CPU alone (a 65W Ryzen 3400G), my power meter showed I was spending just over £11 every 4 hours!!! (With the monitor on most of the time). And that was with the chip undervolted!
And to think I was patiently waiting for an RTX 3060ti (200W)
Hopefully once things get back to normal (whatever that is), i'll be back supporting this team

[Jeff13]

Hi folks;

April brings the return of my folding nemesis, heat. My numbers will drop for the next 6 months or so.

Badsinger

[mr_raider]

Anyone successfully installed the FAH control app in 22.04 based distros? I'm getting python errors again.

[Jeff13]

I have not been able to. I can get the client to run but not control. I'm almost desperate enough to try the snap.

[Jeff13]

I've come up with a kluge that lets me fold in mint 21. My ignorance of linux file structure makes it less than elegent. I installed the client file from the FAH site. I then searched for every instance of config.xml on the machine and replaced any FAH config I found with the config.xml I use in Mint 19.3. Using it, the client starts paused (my preference) and my CPU isn't used. I monitor in my web browser pointed to https://client.foldingathome.org It's not optimal but its running.

Badsinger

[mr_raider]

I've come up with a kluge that lets me fold in mint 21. My ignorance of linux file structure makes it less than elegent. I installed the client file from the FAH site. I then searched for every instance of config.xml on the machine and replaced any FAH config I found with the config.xml I use in Mint 19.3. Using it, the client starts paused (my preference) and my CPU isn't used. I monitor in my web browser pointed to https://client.foldingathome.org It's not optimal but its running.

Badsinger

I'm thinking of doing that. There must be a way to interactively configure the client from the command line. I remember doing back in the old days.

[Jeff13]

There is Sir. I use crontabs to start and stop my folding so I know the commands /your/path/FAHClient --send -unpause and
/your/path/FAHClient --send -finish work. I think there were more buried in a thread on the FAH support forum. I'll look for it.

Try typing the command FAHClient --help in the terminal. It shows all the legal commands.

[Jeff13]

Hi Folks;

Points will be way down on the 4th, likely zero. Heat again. Should be back to normal on the 6th.

badsinger

[Redshift_91]

I had a lot of stumbling in order to figure out how to do this and wanted to provide any other user a set of commands you can run that should get it working. I just did this in the order provided on a clean install of Mint 2. Decided I'd contribute my WU to the team here as well (76410)

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sudo apt-get update

install qapt
sudo apt-get install qapt-deb-installer

download amd gpu pro
https://www.amd.com/en/support

download folding client.deb
https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/?lng=en

install amd gpu pro
with gui right click qapt

install folding client
with gui right click install with qapt

install git
sudo apt install git

install python all
sudo apt install python3-gi python3-all python3-six dh-python gir1.2-gtk-3.0

install opencl
sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-opencl-dev

install rcom
wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/22.20.1/ubuntu/bionic/amdgpu-install_22.20.50201-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get install ./amdgpu-install_22.20.50201-1_all.deb
amdgpu-install --usecase=opencl --no-dkms

clone git repo for the folding gui with python 3
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/cdberkstresser/fah-control.git


set gpu to true in /ect/fahclient/config.xml in order to write to file youl'll have to either chmod it or sudo vi the file or something similar, it's set to read only by defaul

reboot
in terminal execute
FAHClient
cd fah-control
echo "version = '7.7.0'" > fah/Version.py
./FAHControl