Background

Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for performing molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics.

Folding@home is one of the world's fastest computing systems. With heightened interest in the project as a result of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, the system achieved a speed of approximately 1.22 exaFLOPS, or 2.43 x86 exaFLOPS, by April 12, 2020, making it the world's first exaFLOP computing system.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home for a broader overview of the project

Team UCC

UCC's Folding@Home Team Number is 261452

The statistics for the UCC team can be found at https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/261452

Clubroom Desktops fold with the name ACC_Murphy, and the passkey is stored in uccpass

Installing Folding at Home clients

Instructions for installation of the Folding@Home clients can be found at https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

Installation of Folding at Home clients at UCC

As at April 2020, the ClubroomDesktops that have Linux installed on them, had the Linux Folding@Home clients installed on them. This was due using the https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe UCC Ansible SOE using the https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe/blob/master/folding-at-home.yml folding-at-home.yml playbook

This is in support of Folding@Home efforts to undertake research on COVID-19

TLDR; I just want to join the UCC team

For our Folding@Home team:

• Download the client here: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

• Create a passkey: https://apps.foldingathome.org/getpasskey

• Our F@H team number: 261452
• Install your client, set your user name and pass key in your client, and set your team number.