CPU client

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General

The CPU client is the original Folding@home client. It was designed to run on a single CPU, which meant that you have to run multiple clients to use all CPUs available in a multi CPU (SMP) system. This article focuses on the features of the normal CPU client, the SMP client was developed to make optimal use of multi CPU systems.

Supported Operating Systems & Hardware

CPU clients exist for several Operating Systems and CPU architectures.

• Windows
  • 95/98
  • NT/2000/XP/XP64/2003/Vista/Vista64/2008/7
• Linux
• Mac OS X
• FreeBSD¹
• OpenBSD¹

¹ FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems run the Linux client with a specific flag, and support has been removed as of client v6.02

CPU clients for Mac OS X only exist as PowerPC (G3 - G5) binaries.
On the flipside, the SMP client for Mac OS X only supports Intel (x86) binaries.

CPU clients for Windows and Linux exist as i386 (32bit) binaries. The clients can run on 32bit versions of Windows/Linux installed on either x86 or x86-64 hardware. The clients can also run on 64bit versions of Windows/Linux installed on x86_64 hardware. When installed in this configuration, the Windows clients will run in WOW64 mode; the Linux clients will require that ia32libs be installed (if not already). These clients will not run natively on IA64 (Itanium) hardware.

Cores

• 78: Gromacs
• 79: Double Gromacs
• 7b: Double Gromacs B
• 7c: Double Gromacs C
• 7A: GB Gromacs
• 80: Gromacs SREM
• 81: GroSimT
• 82: AMBER
• A0: Gromacs 33
• b4: ProtoMol

• 65: Tinker (retired)
• 96: QMD (retired)

FAQs

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Folding@Home configuration FAQ

Console client (CLI)

Download

Windows/x86 (NT/2000/XP/Vista)

• CLI client v6.23
  • Installation Guide
  • License information

Linux/x86

• CLI client v6.02
  • Installation instructions
  • License information

Mac OS X/PPC

• CLI client v6.20 This client will not work on G4 hardware with Mac OS X 10.5. Please refer to the [old download page] and install v5.02 if you have that combination.
  • Installation instructions
  • License information

Howtos

Windows

• How do I install the console client? (a guide for newbies)
• How do I run the console as a Service?
• How do I reconfigure the console client options?
• How do I add flags using a shortcut to the console client?
• How do I add flags when running the console in service mode?
• How do I uninstall the console client?
• I'm running the console as a service and I want to change my settings
• How do I switch from the GUI client to the Console client?
• How do I switch from the Console client to the GUI client?

Related FAQ items

• None yet.

Graphical client (GUI)

Download

Windows/x86 (NT/2000/XP/Vista)

• GUI client v6.23
  • Installation guide
  • License information

Windows/x86 (98/ME)

• GUI client v4.00
  • Installation instructions
  • License information

Mac OS X/PPC

• GUI client v5.02
  • Installation instructions
  • License information

Howtos

Windows

• How do I add flags using a shortcut to the GUI client?
• How do I pause the GUI client?
• How do I switch from the GUI client to the Console client?
• How do I switch from the Console client to the GUI client?

Related FAQ items

• None yet.

Screensaver client (SS)

Download

Mac OS X/PPC

• Screensaver client v5.02
  • Installation instructions
  • Changes
  • License information

Install & usage

Mac OS X/PPC

• Installation instructions

Howtos

• None yet.

Related FAQ items

• None yet.

See Also

• Clients Overview
• FAH files