Coronavirus – What we’re doing and how you can help in simple terms

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26 points·fredley··7 comments

An earlier news post gives some more detail about the projects being simulated [1]. That link was previously submitted on HN twice, but not discussed [2] [3].

[1] https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22575200

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22579834

I've just built a Ryzen 9 3900X (12C) system with a 2080 Super. I've also got a 100/50 connection. I'll be contributing what I can.

I've got some left over Ryzen 5 and i5 6600K CPUs, a 1060 and a 1070. I'll get these up and running ASAP.

Could not get any GPU work units on win10 with a 1080. Anyone got this to work with GPU only?

It happened the same to me, and at some point started to work.

I changed the following, but dont know if it really worked or was just a coincidence...

- In the FoldingAtHome Advanced Control, set the Folding Power to Full. - In configutation / slots, remove, readd the GPU - Disable pihole in case you have it

I wanted to put the R5 230 in my "home server" to use for it

Apparently the card is basically an 11 year old design die-shrunk though, it's simply too old to have OpenCL support in its drivers and the open source "Mesa" drivers don't yet have it

They've been running out of work units lately due to a huge increase in users in the last week. They're working on getting more work units available asap.

Does anyone run this on a CPU machine?

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