HPC and F@H

[Charles_Crawford]

I am a student in my senior year of high school and I am novice to supercomputing and computer science in general. I am assembling a multi-node cluster computer using old dell workstations. I plan on using MPICH and OpenSSH on ubuntu to run my nodes however my question pertains to Folding At Home. Is there a way for me to utilize the nodes to run folding at home?

Thanks

[PaulTV]

F@H unfortunately does not work well on a HPC cluster. There is quite a bit of data exchange between the threads, and doing so over an HPC infrastructure is far too slow. Even on a CPU with multiple compute dies you can see the extra latency between the dies - using a two die CPU like Ryzen 5950 is not twice as fast as using one like 5800 (given same clock speed).

[toTOW]

Install one client on each node.