General¶
Table of Contents:
- Installation Guides
- Windows Install Guide
- Linux Install Guide
- Mac Install Guide
- Configuration Guide
- Running Folding@Home
- Are there any limits to how long my machine can take to finish a work unit (WU)?
- Can I download more than one unit at a time?
- Does Folding@home run on my graphics chip or GPU?
- How can I configure the client using flags?
- How can I make sure my results are being sent back and used? How can I tell how much work I’ve processed?
- How do I manually adjust the priority of the Folding@home core?
- How do the results get back to you?
- How long does it take to finish a work unit? How do you measure a work unit?
- I just finished a WU and now I got another for the same protein. Is there something wrong?
- What if I turn off my computer? Does the client save its work (i.e. checkpoint)?
- What is simulation instability?
- Why should I update my Folding@home software to the current version?
- Troubleshooting
- Rules & Policies
- Stats, Teams and Usernames
- How do I choose a username?
- How do I start a Team or how do I join a Team?
- How can I change my username (donor name)?
- I’m running multiple machines behind a firewall. Can they all have the same username?
- How can I get a copy of all of the current stats?
- How do you decide how much credit a work unit is worth? How do you determine how many points a work unit is worth?
- How do you set the deadlines for the work units?
- Points
- Points Overview
- Passkey
- What is a passkey?
- What is the purpose of a passkey?
- Do I need to get a passkey?
- Where can I get a passkey?
- Should I keep my passkey secret?
- What do I do if I forgot or lost my passkey?
- Why does the passkey web page ask for my email address?
- Is there an easy way to enter the passkey into the client?
- OpenSource
- Donation
- FLOPS
- What is a FLOP?
- What is a TFLOP (or Teraflop)?
- What are native FLOPS?
- What are x86 FLOPS?
- Why are the ATI x86 FLOP numbers half of the ATI native FLOP numbers?
- Why are the x86 FLOP counts generally higher?
- Why aren’t the differences between native GPU and x86 FLOP counts even greater?
- What conversion did you use for GPU to x86 FLOPS?
- Are FLOPS consistent between different types of architectures?
- Is there a way to account for these differences to allow for an “apples to apples” comparison
- Press Info
- How Did This All Come Together?
- Folding@home’s efforts in computational drug design
- Science background
- What does FAH do?
- Are there any cost to the donors?
- Are there any major disadvantages to conducting the research in this way?
- How accurate are Folding@home’s predictions?
- In the interests of getting people interested in the project, is it possible to explain what you do in layman’s terms?
- What benefits can these simulations of protein folding bring?
- With that said, what does Folding@home do?
- What have you done so far?
- How Did This All Come Together?
- Miscellaneous
- What do the pictures of proteins show?
- Where did the logo come from?
- Do you have web buttons that I can download to use with links to your site?
- How much power/money does keeping a FAH running 24/7 on a computer use?
- What about security issues?
- Why no client version for IRIX, Solaris, OS-2, AMIGA, Commodore, Macintosh OS9, iPhone, Smart Phone, ARM chip, XBox, Wii, etc.?
- What are you going to add in later versions of the software?