Foldingathome

Installing folding@home on gentoo linux.

Install:

To install folding@home client's package, run:

root #emerge --ask sci-biology/foldingathome

The package will install in /opt directory.

Configure:

root #emerge --config =foldingathome-7.5.1

 Configuring pkg...

./FAHClient: /opt/foldingathome/libssl.so.10: no version information available (required by ./FAHClient)
./FAHClient: /opt/foldingathome/libcrypto.so.10: no version information available (required by ./FAHClient)
./FAHClient: /opt/foldingathome/libcrypto.so.10: no version information available (required by ./FAHClient)
12:09:37:INFO(1):Read GPUs.txt
User name [Anonymous]: myuser     (put the username that you want for the Folding@home-system)
Team number [0]: 
Passkey: 
Enable SMP [true]: 
Enable GPU [true]:
 

(replace version with the one just emerged.)

Openrc

To start foldingathome's daemon:

root #rc-service foldingathome start

Once the service has been started, one can control it from the client's webpage: client.foldingathome.org.

To stop the daemon:

root #rc-service foldingathome stop

To add the foldingathome's daemon client to the default runlevel, run:

root #rc-update add foldingathome default

To remove the foldingathome's daemon client from the default runlevel, run:

root #rc-update del foldingathome default

Systemd

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Enable Suspend/Hibernate Resume.

When suspending or hibernating without stopping the foldingathome service OpenCl becomes inoperative, (after a suspend one must also reload the nvidia_uvm module.

Service files:

FILE /etc/systemd/system/Stop_Foldingathome_before_Hibernate.service

[Unit]
Description=Stop foldingathome before hibernate
Before=suspend.target
Before=hibernate.target
Before=hybrid-sleep.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/bin/systemctl stop foldingathome"
ExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 10

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target
WantedBy=hibernate.target
WantedBy=hybrid-sleep.target

FILE /etc/systemd/system/Start_Foldingathome_after_Hibernate.service

[Unit]
Description=Restart foldingathome after hibernate
#After=suspend.target
After=hibernate.target
#After=hybrid-sleep.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/bin/systemctl start foldingathome

[Install]
#WantedBy=suspend.target
WantedBy=hibernate.target
#WantedBy=hybrid-sleep.target

enable the 2 service-units:

root #systemctl enable Stop_Foldingathome_before_Hibernate.service

root #systemctl enable Start_Foldingathome_after_Hibernate.service

!!!foldingathome-service is not started by the Start_Foldingathome_after_Hibernate-service!!!
!!!we need also to reload teh nvidia_uvm module!!!
!!!folingdathome is started by a suspend-resumescript (see next charpter)!!!

System-sleep script:

FILE /lib/systemd/system-sleep/suspend-resume.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo $1/$2 

case $1/$2 in
   pre/hibernate)
	echo "Going to $1 $2..."

	# flush caches before hibernating to save time on sleep/wakeup

	sync
	echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
	sync
	echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
	sync
	echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
	sync

   ;;
   post/hibernate)
	echo "Waking up from $1 $2..."

   ;;
   pre/suspend)
	echo "Going to $2..."

   ;;
   post/suspend)
	echo "Waking up from $2..."

	# reload the nvidia_uvm module to enable cuda again after resume from suspend
 
	rmmod nvidia_uvm
	modprobe nvidia_uvm
	systemctl start foldingathome

   ;;
esac

make the script executable.

root #chmod a+x /lib/systemd/system-sleep/suspend-resume.sh

to do: procedure for other videocards.