COVID-19 is still the worldwide real threat, medical officer around the globe are fighting hard to rescue life. Instead of letting our PC to do nothing about it, I would want to bring up this program back alive, we can now help to find cure for the threat. Folding@home by Stanford University announced they are taking up the fight against COVID-19. Detailed articles are listed as following:
1.) Help Cure Coronavirus with Your PC's Leftover Processing Power
2.) FOLDING@HOME TAKES UP THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 / 2019-NCOV
3.) World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Fights Coronavirus, Unleashing Supercomputer Horsepower Against 2019-nCov.
4.) FOLDING@HOME UPDATE ON SARS-COV-2 (10 MAR 2020)
5.) Nvidia Wants Gamers to Fight COVID-19
6.) NVIDIA GeForce Twitter Status
7.) CORONAVIRUS – WHAT WE’RE DOING AND HOW YOU CAN HELP IN SIMPLE TERMS
8.) TheStar ~ Covid-19: Crowdsourced virtual supercomputer revs up virus research (Credit to: Human Nature)
9.) Coronavirus Researchers Get Access to 16 Supercomputers
10.) Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers, Combined. The fight against coronavirus goes nuclear.
11.) Folding@Home Network Breaks the ExaFLOP Barrier In Fight Against Coronavirus, Power from the people.
12.) NEW COVID-19 SMALL MOLECULE SCREENING SIMULATIONS ARE RUNNING ON FULL FOLDING@HOME!
13.) CAPTURING THE COVID-19 DEMOGORGON (AKA SPIKE) IN ACTION
14.) AMD and Nvidia Join Supercomputer-Powered Fight Against Coronavirus
15.) Radeon RX Twitter Status
16.) Using Your AMD Powered System to Help Researchers in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases
17.) Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined
18.) Folding@Home Now Has Dedicated Coronavirus Research Option
19.) NEW SIMULATIONS TO SEARCH FOR COVID-19 TREATMENT VIA REPURPOSING EXISTING NTP ANALOG DRUGS THAT TARGET VIRAL RNA REPLICATION
20.) NEW FOLDING@HOME SOFTWARE WITH THE OPTION TO PRIORITIZE COVID-19 PROJECTS
21.) Together we are Even More Powerful: GPU folding gets a powerup with NVIDIA CUDA support!

(Credit to: goldfries)


What is Folding@home?
Folding@home is a distributed computing program launch by Stanford University since the year 2000, aimed to study the folding of protein to find causes and cure for multiple diseases. The simulation of protein folding is a very computational heavy task. Instead of getting gigantic cost supercomputer, they distributed this program to the volunteers around the world to donate their PC resources to help. In return, donor will receive points for ranking purpose. [Folding@home Homepage]

Where shall I start?
Folding@home clients are available for download from their official website: [START FOLDING (Windows Client)][START FOLDING (Others Client)]

Installation guides: [Installation Guide (Windows Client)][Installation Guide (Others Client)]


Setup Identity:
Name: For name, you can use any unique name to represent yourself, or a common name to remain anonymous.

Team: For team, you can fold for anonymous team, or join a team around the world. I would like to invite you all to join our country team, Folding@Malaysia, Team Number: 2999.

Passkey: Passkey is not a must, but I highly recommended you all to get one for yourself. Passkey is a unique key that identified it's you when two or more person uses the exact same name. In addition, using a Passkey granted you bonus point. All you need to do is fold 10 work unit with your Name & Passkey. After that, you will start to receive bonus point on your following work unit. [Passkey FAQ]

You can get your Passkey here: [Get F@H Passkey]
Note: The passkey request form is case sensitive. You will need an email for it, so don't lost your email.

You would have some control on the web control user interface:


User interface for advanced user:



More about energy efficient folding: [Green Folding@home]

Where could I find my contribution statistics?
You could find our country team summary statistics here: [Folding@Malaysia]

You can also put a statistics image on your signature: [Signature Image Guide]

Here is one of my customization for example:


Check here for more colourful customization examples with code: [Signature Image Examples]


Things to know before start folding:
1.) This is a beta program, you might encounter bugs, hang, restart, or even BSOD while folding. Don't panic, if you find your PC is not stable for it, just stop it.
2.) Since it uses your idle CPU, or GPU, or both CPU & GPU resources, it can heat up your PC, and raise your electricity bill.
3.) It might not necessary to get a work unit related to COVID-19 for you, but other diseases. In other word, you were still contributing your effort towards other diseases.

It's all about volunteering. Okay, don't get discourage, we have member folding strong here (our team is generating 9M points per day (PPD), when I'm writing this post). You are welcome to reply this thread if you have any question or facing any problem. Please share this news among your PC hardware enthusiast member to join force. Happy folding, thank you.



This post has been edited by saturn85: Dec 9 2022, 04:58 AM

Nothing on COVID-19. Uninstalling

Sounds like an easy way to get infected by virus, computer virus. LOL.

Hi saturn85, long time no see you in forum...
Can we choose folding for COVID-19 like last time we choose for cancer? Or is it auto random folding? Cos i don't see any...



This post has been edited by kherel77: Mar 6 2020, 07:23 PM

Yeah, bro kherel77, life is getting harder. Ya, I notice it as well. For now, please select "any disease" according to the main article.

Source: [FOLDING@HOME TAKES UP THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 / 2019-NCOV]

I guess you might still getting random work unit, but certainly there is a chance to get something related to the new threat.

Alrite, thanks a lot bro...

World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Fights Coronavirus, Unleashing Supercomputer Horsepower Against 2019-nCov.

I've been contributing!

Fold strong.

Start Folding using my unused vpn. 367 pts only hahaha

I earn money running my Linux server with end GPU for machine learning. In my case, I earn USD 75 every month. It helps to cover some of my electric bills.

This post has been edited by GOPI56: Mar 10 2020, 11:16 AM

GPU for machine learning? can share?

Welcome everyone.

Do you use a passkey?

FOLDING@HOME UPDATE ON SARS-COV-2 (10 MAR 2020)

First post is updated with:

List of Current COVID-19 Projects (Updated on 28.04.2020) [[FAQ] SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) projects]



This post has been edited by saturn85: Apr 28 2020, 07:57 PM

Nvidia Wants Gamers to Fight COVID-19

NVIDIA GeForce Twitter Status

Nvidia owner, show your folding power. Join us and our friends at Folding@Malaysia in supporting Folding@home and donating unused GPU computing power to fight against COVID-19!

Wish I can join but my room is already damn hot. Don't need another space heater.

Haven't folded for almost a decade. Getting back in now. Btw where's the old F@H subforum?

Me too... But running CPU temps at 95c for hours on my working laptop sounds like a bad idea. Gotta korek and fire up my old 2011 pc to help.

Welcome everyone.

Ya, the weather is very hot these days.

I also don't know where is the F@H forum goes.

95'c, I guess it is not recommended to run folding on it.

Back in Folding@Home helping.

-pWs-

Nice will set this up tomorrow :D

i've been getting stuck at "Updating" message recently, and i tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, now i get stuck at "Connecting" message.

edited: nvm, didn't see the team number in 1st post. i'll join


This post has been edited by anasnomous: Mar 16 2020, 03:06 AM

Welcome and folding strong everyone.

Bro x800, get a passkey if possible.





Do you have any screenshot or log file on the problem?

old dog here
bionc better for rig without gpu?

ini macam stuck lidat after i reinstall


Attached thumbnail(s)

they gonna mine btc with it

I'm not sure about this, but I believe the native F@h client work best instead of going through BOINC platform.

Any information from the log tab? Do you removed the whole folder while uninstalling? Do you open the FAHControl through a shortcut or somewhere else?

Tried last night, client states no new WS Task or sort? can't remember the error code

seems to run out of task to process?

found it. the subforum was deleted back in 2017, inactive https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4270335

requested a passkey on sunday, still havent gotten them. looks like the servers are overloaded, since the same issue is reported in their forums. cant get my QRB for now

Edit: just requested the passkey using my yahoo mail, and got the passkey already. something is wrong with gmail, it didnt even got into the spam folder

seems like a lot of people are jumping in to help for COVID-19 these past few weeks, and the server ran out of WU(Work Units)/tasks to assign

This post has been edited by x800: Mar 17 2020, 08:40 PM

So it's deleted.

Glad to hear that, and passkey is bound to email.

The responses from worldwide seem really overwhelming from their Twitter status.

https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1239673282565214208

https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1239673285375332358

https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1239264870111105024

Now this makes sense, last time (years ago) I used my yahoo mail to retrieve the passkey.

Getting my QRB now

Bro can share whats that youre doing with?

Strong PPD there.

Glad to see my vps still running. now adding my gaming rig into F@H

95 celcius for real?

A little help with mediocre specs...

signed up. hope i'm doing it correctly.

Welcome everyone and folding strong.



Good enough.

heh set this up now and standing by for WU's

This post has been edited by fluotone: Mar 21 2020, 10:36 AM

AMD CPU+GPU can?

Yes, can.

Few reasons distributed/grid computing project of this sort deterred my participation. The following are the ones that weighted most to me.

1. Global greenhouse impact and carbon footprint attributed by internet usage alone account for 3.7% and is expected to double by 2025. See: Lean ICT Towards Digital Sobriety

Source: Climate Crisis: The Unsustainable Use Of Online Video

Not included in this big picture are the factors due to cryptocurrencies mining and a similar project such as F@H. As of Nov 2018, Bitcoin Minning itself took in 45.8 terawatt-hours of electricity per year that contributed around 23 megatons of Carbon Dioxide emissions annually. Effects of alleviated Carbon Dioxide level or global warming have been documented aplenty from disruption of ecosystem-level processes, evolutionary change, the proliferation of viral-bacterial interactions and cross over, etc.



2. There are theoretical limitations and inaccuracies on methods used for Protein Structure Prediction (Folding or Misfolding).

Source: CAMEO-3D: Protein Structure 3-months Performance (2019-12-20 - 2020-03-14)

Since the issue is mentioned, we would want to follow a greener route and fold efficiently.

Refer to the following blog if anyone is interested to know and get some idea from the author on how to fold greener.

Green Folding@Home ~ Energy Efficient Computing

(Credit to: goldfries)

This post has been edited by saturn85: Mar 28 2020, 09:26 PM

… in continuation of.

6. Recruited downstream platforms operated on the Principle of Voluntarism. Often time nodes in distributed computing will be ranked in statistical ladder by workloads contribution. The sense of affords, gratifications and euphoria for donating a node’s computing resources end in the solutions pipeline without much governing of any responsible institution or legislative curtain for exploitation.

What are the beneficial returns with respect to adversities?


Source: Anger In Germany At Report Trump Seeking Exclusive Coronavirus Vaccine Deal

Beware of the phishing email that pretend itself as Folding@home.

RedLine Info-Stealing Malware Spread by Fake Folding@home Phishing Email, Scammers take advantage of a good thing

I am also start to fold...have some hiccup to get the GPU to fold covid case... but manage to solve it.... select full on GPU, after that it will assign a server...

1. How do I choose to help with the COVID-19 related projects ?
To help in the fight against COVID-19, you need to select
- Webcontrol : "Any disease" in the list "I support research fighting"
- Advanced Control/FAHControl : Configure > Advanced, select "Any" in the list "Cause Preference"

The COVID-19 related projects are on top priority and will be assigned automatically.

You guys are in paper
https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2...-virus-research

Welcome and glad to hear that. Probably ran out of work unit for awhile.



Nice one.

K took a good while to setup on my Ubuntu PC via command line.

GPU running at 82c 90w, giving my GPU a good exercise now.

Will run it on my pc when I get home tonight

lol i forgot my passkey. their passkey retrieval system is on cooldown
no WU assigned for both CPU & GPU so far

How much impact would this have on your electricity bill?

Probably need more cooling in long run.



The response worldwide is overwhelming, frequently ran out of work unit.
About the passkey, is your old client files still around?


It can be roughly estimated from the hardware that run folding. Let's take a GTX 1060 rated at 120W for example. When you fire up GPU folding on it at full load, additional 120W is drew from PSU. (Assumed it really draw 120W power at full load. In real scenario, power draw can be different.) And let's assumed your PSU is rated at 80% efficiency, when it supply the additional 120W into the PC component, additional 150W is drew from the wall electric socket. Let's assumed you run folding 6 hours everyday, a total of 180 hours in one month. 150W x 180 hours = 27kWh, so additional 27kWh of electricity on folding. Let's assumed the 27kWh hit the [201-300kWh] range which cost 33.40 sen/kWh, 27 x RM0.334 = RM9.10.

RM9.10, so this figure is the rough estimation that impact your electricity bill.

This post has been edited by saturn85: Mar 23 2020, 04:23 PM

Thanks for breaking it down. I'll look at the power rating for my GPU and calculate it from there.

hah. i've changed my pc hardware pretty much since. so, old client dated 2011 onwards are no longer with me.
that being said, i've found my passkey. after digging through my inbox. so, bonus PPD easy-peasy...

CPU still unassigned, but running GPU at 470+k PPD.

You are welcome.

Glad to hear that, good PPD there, fold strong.

Good explanation there.

I'd like to add, that even if you are only folding on the gpu, everything else in your pc is also drawing power. Even cpu usage will also increase a bit.

Example, my main gaming system is idling at 70w (based on my old notes using a measuring device).

So when folding, add my 1070's estimated 150w (assuming stock) + estimated 30w for the small cpu usage, and it'll be about 250w. Add the psu efficiency factor, its around 300w.

Hmm, saying that, i definitely need to measure the power consumption of all my systems now

That's right. Thanks for additional notes.

My bad, the earlier estimations were incorrect. The 70w is inclusive of the GPU idle (which may be about 5-10w), and the increase in cpu usage does not draw as 30w of power. Nonetheless, the point was to also include the other components power consumption in the calculation.

Anyway, just did measurements using a smart plug. These are for GPU only folding, without any programs/games running.

1. My gaming pc 4790k+gtx1070 at stock does uses 70w on idle. On GPU folding load, it jumps to 220w, for 650kppd (2954ppd/w). Lowering the gpu powerlimit to 50% with +100core oc gets the power consumption down to 180w, for 600kppd (3333ppd/w).


3. My wife's pc 2500k+gtx1060 (running fixed ~1750mhz@0.8v) uses 150w, for 400kppd (2666ppd/w)


4. My 24/7 server g4560+RX460 (all at stock, i dunno how to optimize AMD cards) uses 110w, for 125kppd (1136ppd/w)


(These data are using the current WUs assigned to me, different WUs might give different ppd.)

Hmm, I might as well stop folding on my 24/7 server, or swap the gpu since its the most inefficient.

Edit: added screenshots

This post has been edited by x800: Mar 23 2020, 10:11 PM

A very good sharing on green folding, with practical data and figures, well done.

finally, got a hold of CPU-based WU. and it's 14328, one of those that relate to COVID-19.

current TPF is about 27 seconds. which is damn fast. gotta say, Ryzen 3rd gen, the power usage is much lower than i'm expecting. (about 90 watts) absolutely slaying them WU.

but PPD wise, it's lesser than what my GPU (a RX 580) can generate.

so, from my self-monitoring thus far:
CPU folding, average PPD at 110k.
GPU folding, average PPD at 430k.

Kinda stopped folding when can't solve the issue with the client, only managed to utilize the CPU and i rather fold with GPU alone. Hope to get back folding soon, currently working somewhere with limited internet.

Date of last Work Unit 2019-10-27 03:00:29
Total score 14,923,223
Total WUs 472
Overall rank (if points are combined) 18,700 of 2,236,318

What OS are you using, windows?

Windows 10. Somehow manage to get it to work after numerous attempt and reinstalling windows and updates.

Helping Trump with your PC Idle Power?

Folding overnight with my GPU. So far done 2 WU. It was chewing through the 2nd WU when I left for work.
Computational Molecular Dynamics was my Final year project in Uni.

Is that a 8C/16T Ryzen 3000 series CPU? TPF = 27s is very fast.
Even RX 580 have 430k PPD, AMD cards are back to folding league.

Glad to hear that.

Nice, fold strong.

Anyone here running Rosetta@Home also? Since Folding@Home keeps running out of work units.

The COVID-19 Projects list is updated, quite a number of them, but still frequently ran out of work unit.

Not sure if anyone here running Rosetta@home or not.

Goldfries got make new video

I'm new to folding.

I normally run my PC 24/7. Set folding when idle and left overnight, next day saw there wasn't any folding done. If I enable folding while I'm working, it started just fine.

long time already, too bad se7en closed subforum

edit: unfornately I am more of a BOINC guy, so sticking with Rosetta@Home for now

This post has been edited by TruboXL: Mar 24 2020, 07:47 PM