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Portable folding on a Flash Drive?

phaxmohdem

phaxmohdem

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Just curious to see if anyone has tried folding from a USB flash drive. My college campus has decent PC's (C2D, E4500's) and I was just thinking it would be cool to be able to fold during class, then at the end of the class, close up, unplug, and resume folding on which ever campus computer I end up on next.

Don't know if you'd run into deadline problems, or if you can start a WU on one machine, and continue processing on another.
 
Haven't tried folding, but DPAD would be great for stuff like this. Runs using every CPU from one command, and can be shut down just as quickly.

However, you have to consider the ethical part of it--do you have permission to crunch on these machines, etc.
 
It should work fine. Mostly.

I would shorten the default 15 minute checkpoint to like 5 minutes.

Most uniprocessor WUs have long deadlines.

A word of caution: some WUs must be sent in from the computer (MachineID) that it was downloaded from.

As far as the ethical part - it should be OK as long as you don't put the client on the hard drive and leave it crunching (this is usually impossible anyway as the next person has to log on)
 
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