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I have recently convinced my college to run Folding@Home on college computers. 400+ machines! I also set-up a page on the college's intranet to provide students with general information and a guide to setting it up at home. It took a while, but it was worth it! I would advise anyone else looking to do the same to consider these points:


-- Appeal to their better nature. Don't start off by saying "I'd like you to run this".
-- Make sure they know what it is, what the benefits are and why it would be a good idea to run it on the computers.
-- It should be a 'Selfless' act. Don't try to get them to run it for your own benefit. Suggest they set up a team of their own, and that employees,/students/whatever join in at home too. If you have any sort of ulterior motive, such as +600 points per day from their computers then they're bound to throw the idea out. Also you'll get more people involved at home too.
-- Be sure to keep on their good side. Don't keep pestering them (but don't let them forget about it either!) and volunteer to do as much work towards it as possible (even if you know that you couldn't actually do much because of security restrictions or whatever). A willing helper is much more appreciated than a begging man.
-- And on that note, remember that "Beggars can't be choosers".

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GreyWhiskers wrote:Excellent idea, and good topics

I've included an extract from the FAH Wiki that may help you. Setting up a team, and encouraging selfless participation might be addressed

I would also include in topic 8 reference to the End user License Agreement I've reproduced in the CODE block below. Emphasize that the users must only run the software on computers they own. You might be able to work with the school administration to get formal, written permission from someone authorized to commit the University's resources to run FAH on the school's servers - a very worthwhile goal if you an accomplish it, but likely to be very difficult.

Good luck!![/code]

Jesse V wrote:Hmm nice! Wouldn't it be better if the disease impacts were listed before the other details? That's one of the main selling points for F@h. I know Google Translate will butcher this if I try to put it back into Portugese, but how about something like this:

Zagen30 wrote:I'd be hesitant to state that FAH "does not affect computer performance in the slightest," as many posts on this forum are from people who have found that is not the case. Many of those cases are due to GPU folding, which isn't as common as CPU folding, but it's not such a minority case that I'd ignore it altogether. I know that "minimally impacts computer performance" isn't as convincing as "has no effect," but I wouldn't want people trying it out to get upset if they do notice lag when you stated there wouldn't be any.

Nantes wrote:She did ask however how are FAH's results shared among other institutions. It seemed to me she implied she'd like my college to obtain the FAH data. How would this process work?

7im wrote:For starters, all the research papers are published, and publicly available.

Jesse_V wrote:...

True, but some of them aren't freely accessible.

7im wrote:

Jesse_V wrote:...

True, but some of them aren't freely accessible.

Depends on your timing, and or location. After a year, they're all free, to everyone. Or you can travel to a local institution and read the paper at no cost in their library, without waiting.

And consider your audience here. The person asking is FROM one of those institutions. So while making that distinction about not being freely available is helpful to a wiki article, it misses the target you were shooting at here.