Hello everyone. I hope you are all doing very well today.
For some time I've been running Folding@Home on my home computer. As described on Ubuntu's site, "Folding@Home (F@H) is a distributed computing project by Stanford University for simulating protein folding and other molecular dynamics with the goal of understanding protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases." Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu/HowTo It's similar to the SETI@home project. It sits in the background and uses spare CPU cycles to do the calculations and send the results back to Stanford. I feel it is a worthwhile endeavour and I am wondering if I can get it running on all the ltsp clients in our building. Many times these machines are on but not logged in and are ideal for such a task. There is a linux version of Folding@Home found at: https://folding.stanford.edu/home/guide/linux-install-guide/ Ubuntu has the aforementioned page that describes how to install it via command line using a program called Origami. The part of the description that made me think of LTSP is where it said: " It can install the client to the local machine or to remote machines with root SSH access" https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu/HowTo I searched online and found some others who had tried this, but many describe the process for much older versions of LTSP years ago (some over a decade!). I am not sure how it would be done now. Has anyone done this or is interested in doing this? I'm looking for any guidance on how to proceed please. I imagine it would involve installing F@H into the thin/fat client image and then pushing it out, but how would it run if no one is logged into the client? It has to start up automatically as soon as the thin client boots up. Thanks! Joseph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
