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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by einpoklum on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:13PM (#22576823)
I went here to get started:

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

and started running the client, but...

* The fahcontrol DEB package is not compatible with Debian 10 / Devuan 3.

* There is no APT repository.

I'm willing to do folding@home, but not take-care-of-their-devops-issues@home.

Edit: Apparently, indeed, the folding@home work I would be doing doesn't have much in particular to do with covid-19. I feel a bit cheated here.

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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by wtracy on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:03PM (#22577222)
Maybe someone's already done this and I haven't noticed, but having Docker and/or Flatpack images for this seems like an obvious way to include as many machines as possible.
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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:22PM (#22580955)
Containers with GPU pass through is tricky
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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by bestboy on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:06PM (#22577249)
docker images: https://hub.docker.com/search?q=foldingathome&type=image

kubernetes: https://github.com/richstokes/k8s-fah

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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by SNaf5aa48 on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:42AM (#22662400)
Kubernetes chart which runs with StatefulSet so compute time would not be lost when node is going down and/or pods are being rescheduled:

https://github.com/pcktdmp/charts

This design pattern is extremely useful when running for instance on AWS Spot Instances.

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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by llukas on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:57PM (#22577169)
https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/
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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by qiqitori on Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:22AM (#22581250)
You don't need the fahcontrol package. The COVID-19 work units are high-priority and you're currently very likely to get them, but they haven't halted work on the other ones.
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