OS X CONSOLE MODE SOFTWARE

We provide a console mode version of the client, exactly equivalent to the console version for Windows. There are no fancy graphics - it simply sits in the background running at lowest priority and making use of the CPU cycles not being used by other processes. The latest OS X version can be found at http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html. It has the same scientific core as the screen saver version, the only difference being the no-nonsense front end. This is the most flexible client.

1) Go back and click on the Download link for the Mac OS X text console (may have to "right click" and do "Save link as"). This will download a file called FAH4-CLI.dmg to your Desktop. Double click on that to mount FAH4-CLI, and copy "fah4" to your Desktop. You can now trash the disk image.

2) Open up a Terminal window and cd into the Desktop directory. To do this, type cd Desktop/

3) Now, type ./fah4 to run the program.

4) You will be asked a series of questions to set up the configuration. T he first of these will be what User name you would like to use--this is so that you can track your work on the statistics web page.

5) The application will download the scientific core (may take a few minutes) and then get to work. If you would like to hide the terminal, just choose Hide Terminal from the Terminal menu.

If you want, you can have Folding@home start up automatically each time you start Mac OS X. Just open the System Preferences, click Login (it's listed in the first row), click the Login Items tab that appears, click the Add button, select the Folding@home application, and click Open.

For more information: console userguide

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