VMware Appliance for Folding@Home

This post was published 3 years 11 months 28 days ago, so the post may be outdated.

The PhotonOS-based appliance allows you quickly deploying the software by Folding@Home running protein folding calculations using your available CPU/GPU resources to help fighting COVID-19.

Deploying the OVA gives you different set of options:

Deployment of OVA through vCenter HTML5 Client

In the end, looking like:

(Guess who made that local console! Also posted on Twitter here.)

Want to know more?
Read the official blog post from VMware: octo.vmware.com/vmware-appliance-fah/

Interested in contributing?
Check out the fling website at flings.vmware.com/vmware-appliance-for-folding-home#summary.

The most amazing and exciting part of this project for me: From the idea by William Lam, creating and intensive testing (including GPUs!), writing documentation, going through audits and reviews until the final publication of the appliance – in just about 72 hours. It was really great to see how people work together, turning an idea into reality in just such a short period of time.

In case you’re interesting in finding out how I’ve made the "Local Console/F@H Stats", you might want to read my post over here.

Patrik Kernstock

May I introduce my self? I am Patrik Kernstock, 25 years old, perfectionist, born in Austria and living in Ireland, Cork. Me explained in short: Tech- and security enthusiast, series & movies junky. Interesting in Linux, Container-stuff and many software solutions by Microsoft, Veeam and VMware.

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MaM

Ich hatte auch ganz guten Erfolg mit BOINC und rosetta@home und habe das problemlos sowohl auf Linux als auch Win an den Start gebracht. Machen auch Proteinfaltung und Corona Experimente.
Da folding@home in ihrem blog selbst schrieb, dass ihnen die Arbeit teilweise schon ausging, ist das evtl. eine sinnvolle Alternative?

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