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I just installed the BOINC client, now it is requiring me to join a project. There are lots of projects in BOINC's list, but no FAH, so I need to specify the FAH project link manually.

What exactly the link is, is eluding me. I tried fah and folding dot stanford dot edu (forum won't let noobs post links), but no luck, and I don't see anything else in google or the FAH faq or front page. Anyone know the link?

Much appreciated.

I don't think you'll find one.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=folding+at+home+boinc -- check first two hits

In other words, to contribute to FAH you'll need to download FAH client and run it.

tear

FAH is not part of the BOINC platform, so you won't have any luck getting it to work on BOINC. As tear says, you will have to download the FAH client itself.

Thanks, I should have clarified that I acually did dl and install the FAH client:

Folding@home_GPU_v620nv.msi

However, it starts the BOINC client without the FAH project already added, as I would have expected. Any idea what's going on?

I believe you are mistaken. The FAH client does not start the BOINC client. You cannot add the FAH project to the BOINC client.

The two are totally independent. You'll have to choose whether you want to run BOINC or to run FAH unless you have the resources to manually dedicate specific resources to each project in a way that allows them to coexist without creating problems meeting the deadlines. If that's your intention, describe your hardware and how you would like to allocate your resources and we can probably help, although the simplest approach is to choose one or the other.

kurtosis wrote:Thanks, I should have clarified that I acually did dl and install the FAH client:

Folding@home_GPU_v620nv.msi

However, it starts the BOINC client without the FAH project already added, as I would have expected. Any idea what's going on?

This installer doesn't seem to have originated at Stanford. Have you downloaded it from folding at home website? -- http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

Something's fishy here...

tear

tear wrote:Something's fishy here...

Good catch.

I googled "Folding@home_GPU_v620nv.msi" and turned up several sources for files of that name.

In the official EULA, Stanford University wrote:Distribution of this software is prohibited. It may only be obtained by downloading from Stanford's web site (http://folding.stanford.edu and pages linked therein) or the web site of one of our commercial partners (Sony, NVIDIA, and ATI).

I did find copies which violate that restriction. Stanford has no way of knowing whether you downloaded an authentic copy or you downloaded a Trojan from somewhere.

I do not know if copies are currently available from NVIDIA and/or ATI or what those installers might be called. I do know that the official installers downloaded from Stanford do NOT use that filename, which means you did obtain it from some other source -- authorized or unauthorized.

I'd recommend that you be very careful until we can validate that the file you used is authentic.

bruce wrote:

tear wrote:Something's fishy here...

Good catch.

I googled "Folding@home_GPU_v620nv.msi" and turned up several sources for files of that name.

In the official EULA, Stanford University wrote:Distribution of this software is prohibited. It may only be obtained by downloading from Stanford's web site (http://folding.stanford.edu and pages linked therein) or the web site of one of our commercial partners (Sony, NVIDIA, and ATI).

I did find copies which violate that restriction. Stanford has no way of knowing whether you downloaded an authentic copy or you downloaded a Trojan from somewhere.

I do not know if copies are currently available from NVIDIA and/or ATI or what those installers might be called. I do know that the official installers downloaded from Stanford do NOT use that filename, which means you did obtain it from some other source -- authorized or unauthorized.

I'd recommend that you be very careful until we can validate that the file you used is authentic.

Comes as part of the nVidia Graphic Power Packs if you so choose (scroll down to the bottom). Stanford has sanctioned this download. Not to say that you can't find some tainted files via torrent, but it is likely legit. Not sure why you would be looking for BOINC, other than most other distributed computing projects ARE associated with the BOINC client. FAH, as stated, is not. Perhaps confusion since Power Pack #3 contains SETI, which is BOINC related? Power Pack #1 contains Folding@home and is not BOINC related.

Thanks all, spent the weekend building a new Nvidia-based pc and reinstalling everything, so probably got it from the Nvidia driver installation or something. Didn't dl it from Stanford though. Will uninstall and dl the official Stanford one, thanks for the link and help!

kurtosis -

I remember you from my days with SETI@Home - welcome to F@H and gl

John