Since Seti@Home is closing down, we should all find something else to feed our extra cycles to, right?
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How to Use Your Mac to Help the Fight Against Coronavirus
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Someday in the future we'll find out they were secretly using all our computers to mine for bitcoins.
It doesn't seem to be working for me. I don't have the firewall turned on. I even forwarded the port that's specified in the remote access configuration.
Sadly, no. https://foldingathome.org/faqs/high-performance/fah-on-boinc/ FAH was cancelled on the BOINC platform as of 2006.
HOWEVER, yes, BOINC is still a distributed computing platform and is awesome! I like to use the World Community Grid project. I've been wishing/hoping the past few months that we would see a Coronavirus project on WCG but so far not even news of such a project in development.
Hhhmmm... My Web Control connection times out as well, though I chocked it up to my ISP (which seems to block all inbound traffic that isn't the response).
Anywho... Based on the screenshot, you're not missing any information per se just a simplified, collaborated layout. For example, as I mentioned, you can find that code 11741 is associated with the COVID-19 research using the project description lookup app.
Researches like this are long term development that will only have fruits after 10 or 20 years. The most important thing that you should do right now is WEARING MASK, especially when you're going to crowded places or taking public transits.
COVID-19 is **NOT**SARS nor regular Flu. The fatality rate is 10x to 20x of regular flu, and the virus is contagious as early as 2 days **BEFORE** the patients start to have any symptoms. Even worse, roughly 13% of patients doesn't have fever and 32% of patient doesn't even cough in the first stage. You don't feel sick doesn't mean you won't infect the innocent passengers standing next to you on the metro this morning. Wearing a mask is not protecting you but protecting other people around you, especially those who you don't know. It is madness that you people think you need mask ONLY when you feel sick.
For the love of god, just wear mask to protect others, and wash hands to protect yourself. Do it before it's too late.
COVID-19 is **NOT**SARS nor regular Flu. The fatality rate is 10x to 20x of regular flu, and the virus is contagious as early as 2 days **BEFORE** the patients start to have any symptoms. Even worse, roughly 13% of patients doesn't have fever and 32% of patient doesn't even cough in the first stage. You don't feel sick doesn't mean you won't infect the innocent passengers standing next to you on the metro this morning. Wearing a mask is not protecting you but protecting other people around you, especially those who you don't know. It is madness that you people think you need mask ONLY when you feel sick.
For the love of god, just wear mask to protect others, and wash hands to protect yourself. Do it before it's too late.
Pointless advice. Most surgical masks are too loose fitting to make any difference. Medical grade N95 masks usually need a proper fit to be useful. any other sort of mask has zero medical benefits.
Masks are nothing more than a visual placebo.
Not only are regular masks useless against any viruses because they are not hermetic (and thus let literally everything through), they are actually harmful. If the particles of the virus spread in the air, they can end up on your mask, and just in the next breath, you will be inhaling them right inside.
Do not use masks, their only point it to mildly contain people who already have the virus so that they do not infect others.
There is conflicting information on masks. The same day clinic I go to at a top 5 medical research university (U.S). last week gave masks to all of their patients to keep patients from infecting each other while in the waiting room.
Last week they did like 8 video visits a day total for all of their doctors. This week 50% of their appointments are via video (my area is one of the U.S. coronavirus cluster sites). I was told to wear a mask when in public. As they are a coronavirus research site I trust their advice.
But this isn't a discussion about coronavirus, it's about folding at home. I see that they have created the coronavirus projects, but don't see anyway to set them in the client.
You can't protect yourself 100% by using one, but it's to protect others, therefore you need to wear it.
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They do work. China said they do significantly reduce transmission in public when the viral content density is low. If you can't get N95, that's what you have to live with. In theory, you should replace a mask every 2 hours, so you don't use contaminated masks. However, the supply of surgical masks in the US is not enough for everyone to burn though like this, therefore, you should use an antiseptic spray to clean the mask frequently to prolong its use.
Hopefully, China would sell us some N95 masks, but we haven't been a humble cooperative party in fighting the virus. They probably won't give us any... We actually do not have the capability to make N95 masks in the United States, even if we build the production line magically, we wouldn't have the raw ingredients to make the masks with. Just Google what it takes to make an N95 mask.
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You can't set it.
When you sign up, you agree to be a part of the network. What they actually run on your device is not disclosed to you. It can be one of the many projects they have. The corona project is just there for marketing.
That's being said, how can you be sure that you are not just mining bitcoin?
You can't, that's the problem...
folding@home is run by a respected institution, has been around for a long time, and has done some good as I understand if. We get that you don’t trust them (or anybody?) but it’s not really necessary to post repeatedly like you’re trying to convince people they shouldn’t use it, like it, or feel good about it. The conspiratorial look is pretty ridiculous here, you’re actually suggesting Stanford could be tricking people into mining bitcoin? Come on, now.
Folding@home - Wikipedia
Bitcoin - Wikipedia
To predict bitcoin was coming 8 years in advance would be pretty impressive, but they are just Stanford 🙄.
Take it from a pessimist, the longer you hate everything the more everybody hates you. Sometimes it is better to smell the roses.
To the environmental trolls: When I'm folding I make sure to turn off 90W worth of lights, therefore its basically -0 difference, I'm just sitting in a slightly darker house while my computer works. Worth it to help out.
I seem to remember seti@ home folding in a virtual machine on a PC. I’ll see about doing this again...
As long as you only do it in the winter where you have the heater turned on - its fine.. (ok ok i know you get 1:5 more heat from a heatpump - but still) - just dont crank on 5 computers and then starte the AC becauce your room is to hot.
also if you have green energy (no there is no such thing as green coal) - but you know from windmills, solarpanelse, hydroelektricitet power and crazy stuff like that - you are fine.
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It is for the good of all - they dont make money of the findings (som 3. party will for sure) - but the results are public domaine
As a person that can’t buy a medication (that I need) because it is priced out of my socioeconomic position, I take issue with the third parties making money from donated resources.
I’m all for helping people get better, but I am into not stuffing big pharma’s pockets. They’re already full.
This answers all your questions.
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I installed it but you can't choose the coronavirus research and so far it's not prioritized for me under "Any".
Does anyone know how to limit CPU usage to say 70 percent? I don't feel like keeping my mini at max temp for 24 hours a day.
Does anyone know how to limit CPU usage to say 70 percent? I don't feel like keeping my mini at max temp for 24 hours a day.
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https://foldingathome.org/faqs/fah-v7/v7-introduction/web-control/folding-power-slider/
It's available on both the Web Control and locally installed FAHControl app.
Currently the Covid-19 projects are limited to GPU folding, but from what I read there will be CPU-based projects being rolled out sometime today.
Uhm ... its a random project you get assigned to... apparently you can work specifik on Corona... but that went a bit beyond what im prepared to do ( no you cant just change the project number... or can you .. let me know if you can)
Github link... where you can read how you can do specifik Corona folding
Github link... where you can read how you can do specifik Corona folding
Every single post you've made in the entire thread has just been conspiracies, bitching, and moaning.
They confirmed on Twitter that the COVID-19 projects are the top assignment priority right now but currently only GPU. CPU COVID-19 projects are coming soon.
I'd imagine at some point they'll release a new client with a drop-down.
Spotted my first CPU work unit for Covid-19 just now.
