Run Folding@Home at your site

Prerequisites

You need to have

• Python 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8 (HowTo?)
• pip (HowTo?)

installed on your machine.

Virtual Environment

We recommend to run TARDIS in a Python virtual environment

• Create a new virtual environment

$ python3 -m venv fight_covid

• Activate your virtual environment

$ source fight_covid/bin/activate

Installation

• Install COBalD/TARDIS from PyPi

$ python3 -m pip install cobald-tardis

All dependencies are automatically installed as well

Configuration

git clone https://github.com/MatterMiners/FoldingAtHome.git

Adjust your settings in *_at_home_condor.yml, singularity_start_*.sh and submit_*.jdl. Please, have a look at the TARDIS Documentation for any details.

Container Images`

Rosetta@Home (Thanks to Thomas Hartmann)

https://confluence.desy.de/display/grid/BOINC+user+computing

Folding@Home (Thanks to Lukas Heinrich)

https://github.com/lukasheinrich/folding-at-home-docker)

Start Job Factory

To test your setup

cd FoldingAtHome
python3 -m cobald.daemon folding_at_home_condor.yml

In Production

In production environment we suggest to use systemd

cp cobald\@.service /usr/lib/systemd/system
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start cobald@folding_at_home_condor
systemctl enable cobald@folding_at_home_condor