foldingathome-arm64

Every penny counts - even a tiny Raspberry Pi

Container deployment for Folding@Home, using foldingathome.org official fahclient release here

Develop environment : Raspberry Pi 4B(4GB) Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Linux 5.4.0-1025-raspi

Dockhub repository
fahclient versions :

State	Version
Success	7.6.20,7.6.21
Error

Objective

The main objective of this project is to make use of as much as resources we have to fight against diseases, with the help of the excellent tool folding@home has already provided.

My project goal is aiming for Kubernetes deployment with Helm, and any help or suggestions would be very appreciated as I am only just stepping into k8s.

Helm Chart Deployment

https://github.com/beastob/helm-charts/tree/master/foldingathome

Docker deployment

Pull latest image

$ docker pull beastob/foldingathome-arm64

Pull specify image version

$ docker pull beastob/foldingathome-arm64:v7.6.14

Deploy container in background and bind web port to host

$ docker run -d -p 7396:7396 beastob/foldingathome-arm64

You should now be able to access the web console via http://<server-ip>:7396

Deploy container with custom ENV config

$ docker run -d -p 7396:7396 --restart=always \
  -e FOLD_USER=elonmusk -e FOLD_PASSKEY=xxxxxxxxxx -e FOLD_ANON=false -e FOLD_ALLOW_IP='192.168.1.101' \
  beastob/foldingathome-arm64

Container info

fahclient

Currently using debian-stable-arm64 release from foldingathome.org release here

Web console

Port number: 7396

ENV

ENV	default value	description
FOLD_USER	Anonymous	user name
FOLD_TEAM	0	team number
FOLD_PASSKEY		passkey for your account
FOLD_ANON	true	contribute as anonymous
FOLD_POWER	full	'light',"medium','full' - how much CPU power available for fahclient
FOLD_ALLOW_IP		whitelist IP addresses for accessing the web console

TODO list

• Trim down container image size (~150MB -> ~90MB)
• Kubernetes deployment
• Helm chart