Digitale Kontrolle von Beschäftigten ist für manche Unternehmen bestimmt ein interessanter Ansatz.
Und wie mit der Einschränkung der Grundrechte müssen wir alle dagegen kämpfen.
Überwachung generiert kein besseres Ergebnis der Arbeitsleistung.
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/covid-19-verschaerft-die-ueberwachung-am-arbeitsplatz/
Samsung entwickelt ein erstes Handy mit einem Quanten Computer.
Die Anwendung ist zwar nicht so super spannend, aber immerhin.
After a long time of not programming and just configuring software – and working as a manager in a heavily growing company – I started a new python software project for the folding@home project.
I was inspired first by the folding@home project itself. This project supports heavily finding new vaccines and other drugs while calculating protein folding activities. These computations are also related to the COVID-19 desease.
So please join and contribute the idle time of your computer(s)@home to the project!
Second I wanted to learn python for a long time already.
So I thought why not combining these two ideas, specifically during the not so busy corona time (that’s not completely true, as I’m in the luxury position to be still 100% busy at work ;-))
The methods I learned so far are quite a lot:
The idea is to compile an app that can be used on any mobile device to control folding@home clients in your local network – or also from outside your network as long as you have access to the folding@home clients via an IP V4 address.
For the time being you always have to have a folding@home client running at your local machine to control other clients. With my app you can control the clients also just with any mobile device.
I have some long ago experience with C++ and Java, but honestly working with python is much easier and makes much more fun!
If you want to contribute to the project, just let me know. I will publish the source code soon on github.
The first prototyp with some GUI and some telnet commands is already running 🙂
Coronavirus pushes the Folding@Home project to exaflop levels-
You wanna be part of the biggest computer on earth?
Come, join folding@home!
Techcrunch
There is a project simulating protein folding called folding at home.
Simulating the folding process of proteins requires a huge calculation power, that is normally offered only by super computers.Protein folding is used to fight deseases like HIV, Alzheimer, cancer and also the quite new COVID-19
The folding at home project is using the idle time of your personal computer making calculations for the possible foldings of a protein.
There are clients available for Windows und Linux. The installation is quite simple.
Unfortunately there are no packages available for Raspberry PIs as the computing power is too low.
This approach here uses the idle time of your (small) desktop or laptop computer at home and contributing to different projects while calculating so called „work units“. The client requests a work unit from a server and then makes the dedicated calculations in a maximum defined time, typically a few days. At the end the result of this work unit is sent back to the server.
You can „earn“ some points and also define a team, if you like.
I had some problem getting a work unit from the server on my Linux system. The following script helped as it pulls the server every 30 seconds for a new work unit. I found a quite good solution in the foldingathome forum.
#!/bin/bash
cd /var/lib/fahclient
while true
do
egrep -i "Download|No WUs available" log.txt|tail -1|egrep "No WUs available"
results=$?
#echo "$(date) results = $results"
if [ $results = 0 ]
then
INDEX=$(egrep -i "Download|No WUs available" log.txt|tail -1|egrep "No WUs available"|cut -d F -f2 |cut -b 3)
echo "PAUSED ******* $(date) INDEX = $INDEX"
echo -e "pause $INDEX\nquit" | nc localhost 36330 &> /dev/null
sleep 10
echo -e "unpause $INDEX\nquit" | nc localhost 36330 &> /dev/null
fi
sleep 30
doneIf you have multiple clients running you have to allow the access to each client for the remote access. How to do the configuration is explained here. For stopping and starting the server under Linux use these commands:
sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient stop
sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient start