[K12OSN] folding at home

[Jeff Kinz]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:56:59AM -0600, Doug Simpson wrote:
Re-ordered for continuity:
> Jeff Loper wrote:
> 
> > I’m interested it using LTSP 4 to run a diskless folding at home farm. 
> > What steps should I take to A. run the F at H client on each diskless 
> > workstation. B. Automate startup of the clients so that F at H.exe 
> > <mailto:F at H.exe> will start automatically. I tried using 
> > http://www.ltsp.org/ltsp-4.html as a guide but did not have any 
> > success with the local apps. Any help would be great.
> >
> First, folding at home. . . is what?

A protein folding research project done on a donated cpu-time basis,
like the seti @ home project.  you volunteer your cpu's idle cycles,
download their stuff and it runs like a screensaver
	
> 
> Second, you mentioned F at H.exe looks like a winders (or DOS) executable. 
> . . Have you made sure F at H.exe will run on linux?

has stuff available for both  Lin and Win.  Go google.

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