freebsd stable - Mar 2020 - HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

Hi,

if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the  
fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of  
installing the Folding at Home client on FreeBSD:

https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/

I tested this on a recent -current.

If you are interested in how this helps in the fight against the  
virus, please refer to the https://foldingathome.org/ website. In  
short and over-simplified: they search for vaccines.

Bye,
Alexander.

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Hi,

On 3/19/20 8:57 AM, Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the 
> fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of 
> installing the Folding at Home client on FreeBSD:
>
>
https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/
>
>
> I tested this on a recent -current.
>
> If you are interested in how this helps in the fight against the 
> virus, please refer to the https://foldingathome.org/ website. In 
> short and over-simplified: they search for vaccines.
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>
I've got an almost finished port of this software. I'll post a patch 
soonish.

Thanks so much for your blog post!

Cheers!

Mateusz

Hi,

Just a note that the client can grow its logfile at the rate of ~1GB a day.
You?ll probably want to take avoiding action.
> On 19 Mar 2020, at 07:57, Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable
<freebsd-stable at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the fight
against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of installing the
Folding at Home client on FreeBSD:
> 
>
https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/
> 
> I tested this on a recent -current.
> 
> If you are interested in how this helps in the fight against the virus,
please refer to the https://foldingathome.org/ website. In short and
over-simplified: they search for vaccines.
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
> --
> http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander at Leidinger.net: PGP 0x8F31830F9F2772BF
> http://www.FreeBSD.org    netchild at FreeBSD.org  : PGP 0x8F31830F9F2772BF
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On Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:57:45 AM CET Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-
stable wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the
> fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of
> installing the Folding at Home client on FreeBSD:
>
>
https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-free
> bsd-foldinghome/
>
Unfortunately, (using a CPU slot for the same work unit) TPF is 2-3 times
slower than on Ubuntu for me. Much of the speed difference seems to be related
to libOpenCL. If remove libOpenCL on Ubuntu, it's still 20-30% faster than
on
FreeBSD.

Don't know how stable the TPF numbers are, so numbers may be bogus.

Will a CPU slot also use the GPU with libOpenCL or is it just using better
optimized code? I tried to install libOpenCL but all I get is:
OpenCL: Not detected: clGetPlatformIDs() returned -1001

Since there's no CUDA support for FreeBSD, I guess there is no point in
trying
getting GPU slots to work.

Quoting Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable  
<freebsd-stable at freebsd.org> (from Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:57:45 +0100):
> Hi,
>
> if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the  
> fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of  
> installing the Folding at Home client on FreeBSD:
>
>
https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/
This is now available as a port: biology/linux-foldingathome (thanks 0mp@).

Bye,
Alexander.

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Hi,

Thanks for doing this :D

Is it possible to use this with a cuda-compatible nvidia card and if so how
would one go about it?
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