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Folding Home Reaches Exascale: 1,500B,000,000 Operations Per Second for Covid-19

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Does this effort provide incremental, meaningful value? Or is it a hail mary, kind of like SETI@Home?

And it's not even using most of its capacity at the moment. I have made a dozen GPUs available to it, and at most 3 are doing any work. CPUs are idle most of the time also.

Has a project like this achieved anything over the past 20 years they've existed.

The world is getting so strange. Imagine you were talking with a bright person from, say, 1920, and you wanted to explain this to them. Think of all the things you would have to explain, and how odd and impossible it would likely sound to them.

Typo in the title..have a B rather than a zero

I think they are trying to shorten the number to “one thousand five hundred billion million”

how easy is it to setup ?

I thought I'd print a little ad for kids in my neighborhood to use contribute their gpu

It's not too hard just a little funky. Though sometimes they run out of work to do when it gets popular.

If you're using Linux, it can be launched with a single command line under Docker.

For CPU, that is. Trying to make it work on my GPU took me to driver hell -- OpenCL support seems to be an entirely separate driver from normal graphics, and the newest packages that might support my GPU (Intel) are not even available for Ubuntu, let alone Mint.

I've just given up trying to make it work with Radeon RX 580 under linux (and I'm unlikely to waste any more electricity by running it on my windows box). I tried amdgpu-pro - opencl was there but folding@home refused to even detect it. I tried rocm - same nonsense.

Isn't basically everything with docker? Maybe two lines with a volume.

Installing docker itself is a whole different matter:

https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/

Pretty much. But a lot of people already have Docker installed.

All the non profitable and benevolent crypto miners.

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