Folding @ Home : Progress Update
Well my tutorial the other day on installing Folding @ Home on Ubuntu looks like it was a hit. I got some great reactions from you and I’m glad to see there are so many people interested in helping out doing this kind of research.
Since I wrote up that tutorial I got to thinking more about it and have expanded what I did a bit. I’m happy to announce that I have created a script that will automate the installation process based on the steps in the tutorial. Also, I added a deployment script that can install, configure and start the service across a network via ssh on any machine you have access to. I’m fairly proud of myself on that little bit 
In my recent test run I got it installed, configured and running on 12 machines with zero interaction on my part. w00t, as they say .
I’m still QAing my deployment and installation script but if any of you are interested I’d be more than happy to share it. I think the easier we can make the Folding @ Home installation, setup and use the more widely it can be adopted and the more work can get done.
Until next time…
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