h3llr4iser Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Good day Starfleet, First of all, let me say I hope all of you and your families are keeping safe and well during these times of global emergency. Follow instructions from your local Government and the WHO as any officer would follow orders from Starfleet. We are an organization based on discipline and that WILL show outside of the confines of our web presence as well. It's the best way to keep your family and friends safe. As an organization, there's not much more we can do...except for one thing: put our collective computational power to the service of science and medicine! Being Starfleet an organization founded around gaming, it goes with the "job description" a lot of members, as well as friends and acquaintances of the Fleet, will have a relatively powerful system with a dedicated GPU; These can be set up to work with Stanford's Univeristy "Folding@Home" program - in a nutshell, the client downloads chunk of data used to understand how diseases work and devise a cure, processes them into protein folding simulations, and sends back the results once done. In the last month, there have been specific SARS-CoV-2 related Work Units added to the queues - both for CPU and GPUs. You don't need to have a supercomputer - old GPUs as well as CPUs will also work.With the Council, we've set up a Starfleet team - the ID is 238723. You can download the client here: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ (available for all major platforms and operating systems) - when setting it up, enter 238723 in the "Team" field. Leave the selection as "all diseases" at the top - that includes the SARS-CoV2 WUs. http://www.starfleets.tk/ranks/fah_1803.JPG But, the team setting isn't fundamental - what is, is that you set the client up. The client can be set up to only work while you're not using the PC (it detects the "screen shutdown" command from the OS), so you can keep using the system normally. Starfleet, time to make a contribution...ENGAGE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701PS Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Read and acknowledged. Running whenever im not sleeping or doing classwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamfirestorm Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Read and Acknowledged - running on my host server now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazumi Ametrine Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 USS Arbiter has been redirected for scientific mission. "Failure today is an opportunity for success tomorrow"– Kira Ametrine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsukikage Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 I have reactivated my old decrepit machine to contribute processing power to this task (at least until either this all blows over, or something blows up in it), but I have run into an interesting problem: F@H's server hamsters are all dead at the moment apparently.EDIT: And now all systems are operational. GPU got a project right after I moved the computer and fired it up on the PAINFULLY slow 1st gen SATA hard drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC1701PS Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 Yeah, Linus Tech tips made a video about FAH, and they said that the number of users went from like 30k to 400k in the past few weeks, hence the server problemshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU4qOebhkfs&t=0s around timestamp 8:35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 Read and running Sir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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