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Can you pick which task your resources are being used for? (ie. covid19) because they have several in progress and I think it selects randomly?

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At least with folding at home they have set the covid19 research as top priority for all of the clients (regardless of the clients preference).

Note - as far as I know there are no covid19 CPU based works units, so you will continue to get normal work units if you have CPU slots available. This is worth mentioning, because by default the client adds your CPU to the available slots. On linux you have to go into advanced settings to enable the GPU at all, so it is something to watch out for.

The Folding@Home GPU client works way better on Linux with NVIDIA/CUDA than it does with AMD. I could not get a 4x Radeon VII rig with ROCm to utilise more than a single GPU at any time due to OpenCL errors. Also, the folding@home Ubuntu client has three-year-old issues with not installing properly [1] so you have to workaround that, too.

If you have the time to contribute reliability patches to the Linux clients, I'm sure it would be appreciated as well.

[1] https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-issues/issues/1193#issu...

Update: Installed Windows 10 Pro on a separate SSD, and I appear to have GPU slots for all GPUs under Windows.

This is not accurate. There are many CPU projects/work units for COVID.

Do you know what CPU WUs/projects are available? I have not been assigned any WU in days so I am not sure if there are any new ones which have been released recently.

But current the covid19 page (last updated mar-10) has the following statement: "All projects are using the new GPU-accelerated Core22 based on the open source OpenMM biomolecular simulation engine."

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

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