Folding Forum

Hello. I am the marketing director for a healthcare elearning company based in California, and I wanted to know about companies who have deployed en masse across their organization FAH. Are there corporate sponsorships in this regard, or any particular prior use cases for companies using their work computers to run FAH? Would the basic hardware requirements be in let's say, typical Dell or HP PCs in a work environment be useful? If you have any insight I would love to propose, if feasible, for us to deploy FAH to our CTO. Thanks.

It can be done, the whole point of the FAH software is to use the "spare" compute capacity but back out when the primary user needs the resources. There are links from the F@H home pageMany companies have donated resources in this way. I have no detailed knowledge of any particular steps to manage the deployment centrally, and often donor companies don't want to identify themselves. Maybe someone here can give you more pointers.

The minimum hardware specs are listed in the installation guides, for example here

I was an IT guy for a small Mental Health organization. I can go over what I know, but I am a user, not a representative of F@H http://regionone.org/

F@H's EULA requires permission by the owner of the PC to install the software. A CTO would qualify. I had a written document from the Executive Director.

Because 'hackers' would install F@H on unsuspecting owners, the software is serialized to one PC, you can't image or clone an installed version. You can install it one at a time on as many PCs as you like. (I kept the username, Team Number and Passkey on a USB drive. If you have shared drives, even easier. (Our 'solution' to HIPPA regulations was not to share data centrally.) I had 55 PCs all running as one user with one Passkey.

Laptop graphics will be a continual source of frustration, I would only fold on the CPU on laptops. (Many AMD laptops do not meet the hardware requirements: no Double Precision floating point math. Many Nvidia Laptops have Intel graphics and switch to Nvidia for higher powered work, in practice F@H crashes before the switch) Laptops do not fold on battery power, by default. Desktop graphics are easy by comparison, and very powerful.

CPU folding is very 'nice' it runs at a very low priority and rarely slows the foreground tasks. GPUs have no Priority scheme, if you notice slowing, you can set the GPU to Fold 'on idle' as it just does not share as well as CPU folding. You can also set CPU folding to be on idle, but that is rarely needed.