Team Folding@RO :: How can I contribute? - View topic 4 pe sorrell-fah.myforum.ro

Administrator Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Braila

You can help by simply running a piece of software.

Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved.

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What are the different types of clients? The Console client runs in the background and is launched from a terminal window (command line i.e. DOS window), to which they output text messages about the simulation's progress. The graphical clients (former GUI or current System Tray) run in the background and has a graphics window interface that allows you to see the protein being simulated. The v4.x Screensaver client runs like other screensavers, except that it also runs our calculation in the background. However, a separate Screensaver version is being phased out, and that feature has been rolled in to the graphical clients.

Downloads:

For Linux Console (x86) and BSD
Version 5.04: [url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH504-Linux.exe[/url]
To launch: To use this program, make sure that you can execute it (chmod +x FAH5-Linux.exe) and then run it ./FAH5-Linux.exe

For Linux (x86-64 bit, only) SMP client console version
Version 6.02: [url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.02beta1-Linux.tgz[/url]
To launch: To use this program, make sure that you can execute it (chmod +x fah6.exe) and then run it ./fah6.exe
If you were previously using a Linux SMP client, the v6 client provides integrated SMP capabilities. Run with the command-line argument -smp for multi-processor operation.

For Windows 2000/XP/Vista Graphical client
Version 5.03: [url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/Folding@Home503.EXE[/url]

For Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista text-only console (with built-in Windows-service-install option)
Version 5.04: [url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH504-Console.exe[/url]

Mac OS X (Intel) SMP OS X 10.4+
Version 6.10 beta2: [url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.10beta2-OSX-Intel.zip[/url]

Mac OS X (Intel) SMP OS X 10.4+
Version 6.02 beta *console only*: [url]http://folding.stanford.edu/English/MacSMPInstall[/url]

Mac OS X Graphical client (PPC)
Version 5.02: [url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH5.02-GUI.dmg[/url]

Mac OS X (PPC) OS X 10.3+
Version 6.01 Beta2: [url[http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.01beta2-OSX-PPC.gz[/url]

Mac OS X Screensaver (PPC)
Version 5.02: [url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH5.02-SS.dmg[/url]

Mac OS X Text console (PPC)
Version 5.02: [url]http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH5.02-CLI.dmg[/url]

For PlayStation3 users
Update System Software to 1.6 or above (go to Settings>System Update). Go to Network>folding@home and press X. The PS3 will download the software automatically.

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