Joseph Bishay
2017-03-02 02:45:37 UTC
Hello everyone.
I hope you are all doing very well today.
For some time I've been running ***@Home on my home computer. As
described on Ubuntu's site, "***@Home (***@H) is a distributed
computing project by Stanford University for simulating protein
folding and other molecular dynamics with the goal of understanding
protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases." Source:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu/HowTo
It's similar to the ***@home project. It sits in the background and
uses spare CPU cycles to do the calculations and send the results back
to Stanford. I feel it is a worthwhile endeavour and I am wondering
if I can get it running on all the ltsp clients in our building. Many
times these machines are on but not logged in and are ideal for such a
task.
There is a linux version of ***@Home found at:
https://folding.stanford.edu/home/guide/linux-install-guide/
Ubuntu has the aforementioned page that describes how to install it
via command line using a program called Origami. The part of the
description that made me think of LTSP is where it said: " It can
install the client to the local machine or to remote machines with
root SSH access"
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu/HowTo
I searched online and found some others who had tried this, but many
describe the process for much older versions of LTSP years ago (some
over a decade!). I am not sure how it would be done now.
Has anyone done this or is interested in doing this? I'm looking for
any guidance on how to proceed please. I imagine it would involve
installing ***@H into the thin/fat client image and then pushing it out,
but how would it run if no one is logged into the client? It has to
start up automatically as soon as the thin client boots up.
Thanks!
Joseph
I hope you are all doing very well today.
For some time I've been running ***@Home on my home computer. As
described on Ubuntu's site, "***@Home (***@H) is a distributed
computing project by Stanford University for simulating protein
folding and other molecular dynamics with the goal of understanding
protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases." Source:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu/HowTo
It's similar to the ***@home project. It sits in the background and
uses spare CPU cycles to do the calculations and send the results back
to Stanford. I feel it is a worthwhile endeavour and I am wondering
if I can get it running on all the ltsp clients in our building. Many
times these machines are on but not logged in and are ideal for such a
task.
There is a linux version of ***@Home found at:
https://folding.stanford.edu/home/guide/linux-install-guide/
Ubuntu has the aforementioned page that describes how to install it
via command line using a program called Origami. The part of the
description that made me think of LTSP is where it said: " It can
install the client to the local machine or to remote machines with
root SSH access"
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoldingAtHomeTeamUbuntu/HowTo
I searched online and found some others who had tried this, but many
describe the process for much older versions of LTSP years ago (some
over a decade!). I am not sure how it would be done now.
Has anyone done this or is interested in doing this? I'm looking for
any guidance on how to proceed please. I imagine it would involve
installing ***@H into the thin/fat client image and then pushing it out,
but how would it run if no one is logged into the client? It has to
start up automatically as soon as the thin client boots up.
Thanks!
Joseph