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Docker containers for easily launching the Folding@home client anywhere!
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Explain performance penalty of running Folding@home in container #7

Closed abitrolly closed 4 years ago

abitrolly commented 4 years ago

The README.md outlines so many benefits, but completely misses the part about performance. I think that for distributed computing community the performance is very important topic to cover.

https://hackernoon.com/another-reason-why-your-docker-containers-may-be-slow-d37207dec27f

beberg commented 4 years ago

This is fair, adding a bit to the README where it talks about using the standard clients if you're not familiar with containers already. Will be in next update.

abitrolly commented 4 years ago

@beberg actually I expected the upcoming explanation to be targeted to people who are already familiar with containers. )

abitrolly commented 4 years ago

@beberg there is still no information if running Folding@home in a container is slower and to what degree. Especially interesting to benchmark various container runtimes like https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/containers/commit/681d53f746a64547a64418cbea353a99cca038db