Macintosh OS X SMP Client Installation

- OS X Installation (Installer)
- OS X Installation (Console)
- Install Guide Updates
- I found a better way to install the MAC client, where can I make a suggestion?

OS X Installation (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.

OS X Installation (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/FAH6.29r1-OSX-Intel-Console.tgz
 tar xzf FAH6.29r1-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 -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 -verbosity 9
OPTIONAL: To make it a little easier for yourself, one can make a little script by running following commands:

 echo "./fah6 -smp -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 Guide 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/FAH6.29r1-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 FAH6.29r1-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 FAH6.29r1-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 -configonly
 ...
 box:~/Library/FAH user% echo "./fah6 -smp -verbosity 9" > FaH
 box:~/Library/FAH user% chmod +x FaH
 box:~/Library/FAH user% ./FaH

Install Guide Updates

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