The official Folding@home containers are designed to be simple and run in any container environment - desktop, laptop, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker Compose, OpenShift, Cloud...
Containers track stable versions (2 weeks with no found bugs) of the Folding@home Client. They will run on any Linux distribution, and are based on LTS version of Ubuntu, OpenCL, and CUDA libraries. They contain enough utilities to exec in and be able to debug any problems.
This repo will also contain Helm templates and other deployment scripts/tools for a variety of environments.
/fah/
.Each of these is explained in the container README, but they are included here for clarity. RFC 2119 meanings.
/fah
of the running
container. Running containers MUST NOT share the same mounted directory,
but directories SHOULD be reused to avoid lost Work Units.config.xml
in each persistent
storage directory before running the container for the first time.--user
or
equivalent, so that the running container has read-write permissions to
the persistent storage in /fah
.The Folding@home client versioning is mostly SemVer, but depends on OpenMM, CUDA, and other dependencies. Calendar Versioning (CalVer), is used starting with 21.11.0 following the YY.0M.MICRO format:
YY.0M.MICRO
- follows month of release.YY.0M.MICRO-rc...
- test builds of the containers, stable clients.latest
- please never use latest in production, specify a version. Points
at the latest released container.