[tech] The technical details - was: [ucc] Join the UCC Folding @ Home Team

[Mark Tearle]

Hi folks,

As at April 2020, the ClubroomDesktops <https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/ClubroomDesktops> that have Linux installed on them, had the Linux Folding at Home clients installed on them. This was due using the https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe UCC Ansible SOE <https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe%20UCC%20Ansible%20SOE> using the https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe/blob/master/folding-at-home.yml folding-at-home.yml <https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe/blob/master/folding-at-home.yml%20folding-at-home.yml> playbook

Any idea, how do we do something similar for the Windows boxes? Can we install chocolately packages remotely?

Mark

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Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>


----- Original message -----
From: Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>
To: ucc at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Subject: [ucc] Join the UCC Folding @ Home Team
Date: Tuesday, 14 April 2020 9:22 PM

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

Folding at 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 

For the TLDR crowd, this is a okay video on the topic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-uwljuMp7w

Team UCC

UCC's Folding at Home Team Number is 261452 

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

Clubroom Desktops, running Linux, have been setup to fold with the name ACC_Murphy whilst the clubroom is empty.



Installing Folding at Home clients

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

The page on the wiki will be kept updated with any further details and updates - https://wiki.ucc.asn.au/FoldingAtHome


Mark
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Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>

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