OSX Installation Instructions (Installer)
1. Download and double-click the .zip file to decompress.
2. Double-click on the installer package, and follow the instructions.
3. Select System Preferences in the Apple menu.
4. Select the Folding@home icon in the System Preferences.
5. Set your username, team number and click the Start button!
Once you finish the install, you can watch your points on the stats pages. The protein viewer (part of the old GUI) and a Dashboard widget are in development.
OSX Installation Instructions (Console)
The preferred means for OSX installation is the installer (above) . Here are detailed instructions to setup the SMP client console version if you choose to run this one instead.
- Go to Terminal: In the Finder ribbon, select Go-> Utilities. Open Terminal. In the Terminal window you should see a prompt that looks something like this: yourcomputername:~ yourusername$
- To get the SMP FAH client going type in following commands:
mkdir ~/Library/Folding@home cd ~/Library/Folding@home curl -O http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.00beta1-OSX-Intel-Console.tgz tar xzf FAH6.00beta1-OSX-Intel-Console.tgz
- Now you should have the SMP FAH client in place and you'll have to configure it. It can be done by running following command: ./fah6 -smp -local -configonly
- After setting the configuration there are couple of ways to start the SMP FAH client. One way is to start it is by typing in each time the following command: ./fah6 -smp -local -verbosity 9
- OPTIONAL: To make it a little easier for yourself, one can make a little script by running following commands:
echo "./fah6 -smp -local -verbosity 9" > FaH chmod +x FaH
Now you'll just have to run
./FaH
and all those additional FAH client flags will get added by itself.
Note: All those listed commands MUST be typed/pasted from this little HOWTO to the terminal (window) of your machine.
Example (OSX):
Welcome to Darwin! box:~ user% mkdir ~/Library/FAH box:~ user% cd ~/Library/FAH box:~/Library/FAH user% curl -O http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.00beta1-OSX-Intel-Console.tgz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 138k 100 138k 0 0 34461 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 39789 box:~/Library/FAH user% tar xzf FAH6.00beta1-OSX-Intel-Console.tgz box:~/Library/FAH user% ls -la total 960 drwxr-xr-x 5 user guest 170 Nov 6 23:58 . drwx------ 18 user guest 612 Nov 6 23:55 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 user guest 141900 Nov 6 23:56 FAH6.00beta1-OSX-Intel-Console.tgz -rwxr-xr-x 1 user guest 282796 Nov 4 07:04 fah6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 user guest 60156 Oct 27 16:52 mpiexec box:~/Library/FAH user% ./fah6 -smp -local -configonly ... box:~/Library/FAH user% echo "./fah6 -smp -local -verbosity 9" > FaH box:~/Library/FAH user% chmod +x FaH box:~/Library/FAH user% ./FaH