On Monday, 23 March 2020 16:47:37 GMT Tim Waugh wrote:
> In case you haven't seen stories about this elsewhere, I thought I'd share
> a couple of projects which may help us all out of this mess by harnessing
> otherwise-idle CPU/GPU time.
>
> https://foldingathome.org/covid19/
> http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
Well I tried Folding at Home first (mainly because that was what Tim was
using). However, I ended up with dependency issues and the installation
process wasn't straightforward either.
Initially, I checked my package manager but folding wasn't there, so I
downloaded the three .deb packages on the Folding website. I then attempted
to install each of the three .deb packages in turn by clicking on them. This
launched the Qapt installer, which worked for the client, but not for the *all
or viewer package. When I tried installing in a console it turned out that
apt couldn't find the package that I was trying to install, presumably because
the directory wasn't on the PATH. Once I fixed this, I found that the
dependency python-gnome2 was missing. Apparently that hasn't been in
(K)Ubuntu since 18.04 and I'm running 19.10. Your mileage will undoubtedly
vary as our American cousins say.
I then decided that life was too short and installed boinc from the package
manager. This is now running and the current task is expected to take 5
hours. All four cores (8 threads) are shown as running at 100% in KSysGuard;
that might put my son off running this. Apart from that I am running the
Rosetta@Home Biology task and according to the BOINC site they have been
focusing on coronavirus since the 6th March.
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