HOWTO donate CPU to the fight against the Corona-virus

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 19 23:13:18 UTC 2020


Hi!

On 3/19/20 11:04 PM, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
> On 3/19/20 8:57 AM, Alexander Leidinger via freebsd-stable wrote:
>> if someone wants to donate some FreeBSD based CPU resources to the 
>> fight against the Corona-virus, here is a quick HOWTO in terms of 
>> installing the Folding at Home client on FreeBSD:
>>
>> https://www.leidinger.net/blog/2020/03/19/fighting-the-coronavirus-with-freebsd-foldinghome/ 
>>
>>
>> I tested this on a recent -current.
>>
>> If you are interested in how this helps in the fight against the 
>> virus, please refer to the https://foldingathome.org/ website. In 
>> short and over-simplified: they search for vaccines.
>>
> I've got an almost finished port of this software. I'll post a patch 
> soonish.

The patch is now on Phabricator open to reviews & ready to be tested:

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24127

Cheers,

Mateusz



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