Slightly Unstable

So this is pretty basic stuff but I decided to give this tutorial for anyone that doesn't already know this stuff. Don't feel bad if this pertains to you because we were all newbs once, including me.

So here's a bit of info first.

What is Folding@Home?

"Folding@home (also known as FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing (DC) project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics (MD). It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay Pande. Folding@home is the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world, according to Guinness,and one of the world's largest distributed computing projects. The goal of the project is to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."

-Wikipedia

What is Ubuntu?

"Ubuntu is an operating system for desktops, laptops, and servers. It has consistently been rated among the most popular of the many Linux distributions. Ubuntu's goals include providing an up-to-date yet stable Linux distribution for the average user and having a strong focus on usability and ease of installation."

-Wikipedia

So if your running Ubuntu lets set this up...

Step One: Open up a terminal and type in the fallowing command

mkdir folding@home

Step Two: Go into the directory you just created with this command.

cd folding@home

Step Three: Download folding@home to the directory.

wget http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH504-Linux.exe

Step Four: Make Folding@Home executable

chmod +x FAH504-Linux.exe

Step Five:Start up folding@home for the first time.

./FAH504-Linux.exe

Most of the questions can be left with the default here's the ones you need to care about.

User name [Anonymous]? Go to this site and use the Search function to pick a username that isn't currently being used.

Team Number [0]? If you don't already know a team you want to join ,you could join mine. If you wish to do that you can enter in 131542

The rest can be left at it's default.

Step Six: You can now always start folding@home by typing ALT + F2 or opening up a terminal and entering this command

./folding@home/FAH504-Linux.exe

You can set it up to autostart whenever you log in by adding it you your session. To do this what you need to do is click "System" "Preferences" and then "Sessions"

Then click the "Add" button and enter the fallowing into the fields.

Name: Folding@Home

Command: ./folding@home/FAH504-Linux.exe

Comment You don't have to put anything here

Step Seven: To check up on your folding enter the fallowing command

firefox ./folding@home/MyFolding.html

and bookmark it

Have fun and happy folding