Folding@home

[Ciscoguy]

Hi all,
At home, I have an old i3 Intel NUC that I want to re-purpose as an OPNsense firewall. Since this firewall will be mostly idle, I'd like to install a Folding@home client through the shell. Has anyone tried this or in general is there a method to install third-party software?

Kind regards
Dave

[viragomann]

I'd rather consider to virtualize OPNsense, then you can use the free hardware resources in any way you want for other VMs or containers.

[_tribal_]

As I remember it's a GPU-based project. And CPU will have extremely low speed of analyzing or checking jobs. Maybe you should choose a CPU-based project?  But yes, you can install it and even add the ability to run it from GUI.

[Ciscoguy]

I'd rather consider to virtualize OPNsense, then you can use the free hardware resources in any way you want for other VMs or containers.

Thanks. I'd prefer to stay with a bare metal build.

As I remember it's a GPU-based project. And CPU will have extremely low speed of analyzing or checking jobs. Maybe you should choose a CPU-based project?  But yes, you can install it and even add the ability to run it from GUI.

IIRC, the MAC/Linux version is CPU only possibly due to CUDA reliance.

[_tribal_]

I meant that apart from folding@home there are many inherently CPU projects where performance will not be so catastrophically low.

[Ciscoguy]

you can install it and even add the ability to run it from GUI.

Could you please elaborate on how this is done in broad steps?

I meant that apart from folding@home there are many inherently CPU projects where performance will not be so catastrophically low.

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I already have multiple hosts running this project so I'd like to stick with it and not another.

[_tribal_]

Try this guide: https://blog.ohmykreee.top/article/setup-tun2socks-in-opnsense/ of course replacing it with your own file