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		UncleOxidant on March 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19 I don't think BOINC is that much better. I got it installed and running and got 'cannot connect to core servers'. Nothing on their download page talked about where to go next for instructions either. After googling around I see something on a message board about opening up certain ports. If they want people to help out with this stuff the first thing they need to do is improve their documentation and onboarding. At least I got the FAH thing to run, but only on the CPU not the GPU. I give up.

olejorgenb on March 14, 2020 | [–]

I also had trouble getting the GPU to work. Maybe this helps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22577145

Havoc on March 5, 2020 | [–]

BOINC behaves very nicely on the CPU. You can tell it how many cores to use and how much total cpu time.

So you can easily set it to keep say 4 cores free for the user at all times

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