Fight Coronavirus with BOINC Rosetta@Home

Rosetta@Home is fighting Corona Virus with protein folding research.

Here is how to help:

1 download client for your computer:

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

If running windows just follow the gui for the screen saver, if linux manual follow step 2b, for auto 2a.

2a
#install it
apt-get install boinc-manager boinc-client
#start it at boot
update-rc.d boinc-client enable
#start it as a service
service boinc-client start
#start gui manager
boincmgr
click to bar -> tools -> add project, add your account username/password registered via the boincmgr or on the projects website

I add rosetta@home and gpugrid


2b

Sign up for account at https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

3

Get your account key
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/weak_auth.php

Its the string inside  <authenticator>YOURKEYHERE</authenticator>


4
Run boinc client with the account key attached to rosetta, to do it from command line run this:

boinc -attach_project  https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ YOURKEYHERE

There are modes of BOINC for windows where it can run as a screensaver.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_screensaver

5
Check your progress here, it can take hours to update once it starts running
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/home.php

If you arn't sure its running, check your CPU usage, when running right it should use 100% CPU on all cores so make sure your fan works well.