Folding@home reaches 470 petaflops in computing power primarily simulating COVID-19 proteins
A week and a half ago I wrote a little piece about the Folding@Home project. I am happy to report that many gurus have joined the team and that we're moving 24 Million points per day at the moment, helping solve some of Corona COVID-19 challenges and questions.
The Folding@Home team has not been sitting still, the project is nearly exploding and just before the weekend reached 470 petaflops in computing power. Previously Folding@home had 30K volunteers, who together accounted for roughly 100 petaflops of computing power on average. So that means the project is now surpassing the most powerful supercomputers in the world in terms of compute performance.
While not all workloads can be assigned to COVID-19, currently most computing power is used for the coronavirus project.An important part of the research is simulating proteins, for which GPUs are ideal. The whole decentralized system is used to make a protein that will function as an antibody, able to fight the virus. The first protein that will help fight against Covid-19 has already been simulated. Let's hope that will help out the science and health communities.
If you join in, it might take a while before a workload is assigned to you, just be patient. One note COVID-19 projects prefer fast GPUs. You can easily join up by downloading the client, which is easy to download and install. You do not need to utilize your PC or components 100%, but can choose light, medium and full settings, also in idle or always at work. If you like to donate GPU/CPU cycles, download the client, insert your nickname and if you want to Guru3D Team number: 69411 (or join any other team you prefer of course). You can also join anonymously.
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That just means there is nothing being asked of your computer as there is no work ie no Work Unit's. I know they are trying hard to make use of all the extra compute but so many have stepped up there is a surplus of compute power. So this is a good thing.
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Nice, but have you requested a passkey? Cause your points would go through the roof then

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I'm getting this...

And here's the error log...
15:45:08:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:45:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:45:09:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:46:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:46:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:46:09:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:47:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:47:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:47:09:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:48:46:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:48:47:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:48:47:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:51:23:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:51:24:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:51:24:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:55:37:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:55:38:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:55:38:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
16:02:50:WARNING:WU00:FS00:WorkServer connection failed on port 8080 trying 80
16:03:11:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Failed to connect to 40.114.52.201:80: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
That's because there are no WU's available right now. Just be patient, or pause and then restart the cpu client (right click on cpu:15 line).
That will reset the waiting timer.
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Dude, you have a print screen button, and you can paste it into paint and crop it if you want. Try that next time rather then sending very large, horrible quality phone taken pictures of your screen.
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I'm getting this...
And here's the error log...
15:45:08:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:45:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:45:09:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:46:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:46:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:46:09:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:47:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:47:09:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:47:09:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:48:46:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:48:47:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:48:47:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:51:23:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:51:24:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:51:24:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
15:55:37:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '65.254.110.245:8080': No WUs available for this configuration
15:55:38:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from '18.218.241.186:80': No WUs available for this configuration
15:55:38:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Could not get an assignment
16:02:50:WARNING:WU00:FS00:WorkServer connection failed on port 8080 trying 80
16:03:11:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Failed to connect to 40.114.52.201:80: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.