Help COVID-19 / 2019-NCOV Research through [email protected] or BOINC  

Thanks for bringing this up itsage, it is good work that eGPUs can do. I've been running [email protected] on my egpu for a couple of months now. No issues with slowdowns or overheating as almost all the work is done by the gpu outside the laptop. Unfortunately there isn't a GPU macOS client, but windows bootcamp or Linux can be made to use the egpu.

@nu_ninja, That’s great to hear your eGPU can run [email protected] without issues! Can you share the details on setting up for Linux?

My eGPU for it..

Configure -> Slots -> gpu -> Edit -> gpu-index "0"

You need to set "Full" or "Medium" Folding Power, otherwise the GPU will seems idle... @itsage it would be fine to register the ID for egpu.io team!

@jefniro, That’s an excellent idea! Thank you for sharing the screen cap and I will see if we can create eGPU.io team and have more members join force!

 Update: I created a team for our community. The team number is 235996.

Joined! 😀 

@itsage, Thanks for sharing! Amazed at myself for not knowing about this already. Have enlisted my PC and Mac to blast away at both. Am using the team ID for [email protected]

@mac_editor, Same here. Setting the eGPU to run full blast for [email protected] has little to no negative effect in terms of using the computer for other daily tasks. After all these years, we may have found the perfect application to justify eGPU existence!

Bookmarked and sharing your page and team number across the internet. Hope it helps

Hello to all,

I run FoldingAtHome, it's work. But I will compute Covid tasks. How can I set Project 11737 (or similar to Covid) ?
I try set team number 235996 or 2359960, but allways start with different projects, actually: 14314. 14314 seems not be a Covid project.

Can somebody help me to set my FAH client to compute Covid projects ?

Regards

Kendy

@xkendy_kendy, same behavior! I paused it because is not clear which project you are helping.... unfortunately it seems that the client is very limited!

@xkendy_kendy [email protected] provided an update with the project numbers and what they do. Also to note is that they are GPU optimized so using the eGPU for these projects is an excellent match. Would be great to know how we can configure our systems to specifically work on them. Here’s a quick summary:

• 11741: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) receptor binding domain in complex with human receptor ACE2. atoms: 165550, credit: 15396
• 11742: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease in complex with an inhibitor. atoms: 62227, credit: 9405
• 11743: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease – potential drug target. atoms: 62180, credit: 9405
• 11744: Coronavirus SARS-CoV (SARS causing virus) receptor binding domain trapped by a SARS-CoV S230 antibody. atoms: 109578, credit: 7608
• 11745: Coronavirus SARS-CoV (SARS causing virus) receptor binding domain mutated to the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) trapped by a SARS-CoV S230 antibody. atoms: 110370, credit: 7685
• 11746: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) receptor binding domain in complex with human receptor ACE2 (alternative structure to 11741). atoms: 182699, credit: 16615

@itsage, Yeah, I wanted to specifically contribute to COVID-19 research first. I don't mind lending compute for other projects of course, but the former was a motivation.

Here's a relevant thread from the folding forum, looks like there's no automated option to get only CoVID-19 work units, but GPUs should get mostly only those jobs since that's what they're pushing.

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=32267&p=312083&hilit=set+cause#p312083

If you get a non-CoVID project (as seen by having a different project number from the ones itsage posted) you can try just removing that slot and re-adding it to get assigned a different project.

@nu_ninja, it's very difficult to get one of them... 🙁 It gives to me only projects 11748 and 11751...

Got it! 🙂 

I woke up to my machines not doing any work. It seems many people are getting on board and the FAH servers cannot keep up with distributing out new work. 😀 

The Alienware 13R3 with 3x Radeon eGPU is excellent for this use. At one point, they were going full speed and posted 2,293,210 points per day!

Just joined the team yesterday, though I've been running it for the last week. Apart from the occasional idle, my system's been okay. Does anyone else have "bad gateway" issues when looking at the [email protected] site?

@itsage, it's amazing!!! Cool!!!

@rlmontez, FAH servers have been overloaded the past week. I’m having a hard time pulling up the stats page. It’s not a bad problem because many people and jumping on board. 

@jefniro, I think also projects 11748 and 11751 are COVID-19-related, see links 😉 

Italian here joining the eGPU team. After one week stuck at home with the country in complete lockdown, putting my GTX1070 to good use was the least I could do
Yesterday the servers were pretty overloaded but today I finally got my first Work Unit.

Oh and guys, don't forget: with [email protected] we can speed up research, but on the other hand let's also buy it as much time as possible!
Wherever you are, as COVID-19 spreads through your country, try to limit movement to the bare necessities, wash hands, avoid crowded places, postpone that visit to Granma you planned.
If you can, be proactive and just stay at home even before the local authorities oblige you to!
We are what your country will look like in a couple of weeks, please learn from our shortcomings and heed our advice

@blackjack84 Our souls will fight it, our technology will beat it!! 😉 

We reach 470 Peta Flops. That's more than twice the 149 petaflops of the best supercomputer in the World!!

I installed both Radeon VII cards into my X399 desktop and it has serious compute power. Usually there’s only one job given in the past week. When both cards are assigned jobs however, they can produce nearly 4 million points per day. It’s very loud when both GPUs are running. 😀 

Posted by: @jefniro

We reach 470 Peta Flops. That's more than twice the 149 petaflops of the best supercomputer in the World!!

Now flying past ~768 PFLOPS, i.e. faster than the top 103 supercomputers combined.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/folding-at-home-breaks-exaflop-barrier-fight-coronavirus-covid-19

So here's a message to the demogorgon:
We are not locked in here with you.
YOU are locked in here with us.

@blackjack84, WOW!!!! That's incredible!! Really incredible! The message is brilliant! 😀 

My problem with [email protected] was the noise of my eGPU. Now I use MSI Afterburner in order to limit the power usage, so I can give my contribution and keep my hears safe!

I started folding again after several years - man how powerfull those GPS got.

In 2011 it took weeks to achive what now can be crunched in a day 😉

All the best to you!

phila (folding for PC Games Hardware)

New projects added:

Projects 14530-14590

Cause: covid

CORONAVIRUS PROJECT

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease - potential drug target

These are high-priority **CPU** projects to simulate the main protease of the COVID-19.     At the time of release, this is the latest news report:   https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/

Please stay tuned to  https://foldingathome.org/news/  for more current updates.

Source: https://apps.foldingathome.org/project?p=14533