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FreeBSD biology : linux-foldingathome

Distributed client for Protein Folding

 Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the
world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest
supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our
goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing,
to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than
previously achieved. 

linux-foldingathome history

v. 1.2
date: 2007/09/23 05:45:41;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
biology/linux-foldingathome needs to run as root?
(also: update to 5.0.4)

	Upon installing FoldingAtHome I ran the software from a
	user account only to find that I was stuck in a loop of
	trying to enter configuration options. Shortly thereafter
	I realized that it was trying to write to
	/usr/local/share/foldingathome, and therefore requires being
	run as root to write there unless one changes permissions
	there. Seing as this isn't installed with a startup script
	for daemonization, and running as root seems a little
	excessive for this application, should this be adapted to
	run from a user account or set up to be able to start at
	boot?

And from maintainer:

	This diff updates the port to version 5.04, and adds
	support to running as normal user using ~/.fah
	directory.

PR:		ports/113335
Submitted by:	James Snyder 
Approved by:	maintainer

v. 1.1
date: 2006/08/28 22:33:45;  author: pav;  state: Exp;
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project -- people from through out the
world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest
supercomputers in the world. Every computer makes the project closer to our
goals.
Folding@Home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing,
to simulate problems thousands to millions of times more challenging than
previously achieved.

WWW: http://folding.standford.edu

PR:		ports/101235
Submitted by:	Yonatan 
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