Folding@home Applet for KDE

About

What is Folding@home?

Folding@home is program you run on your computer. It simulates how proteins behave and sends the results to Stanford University. The results are then used to research the causes, and possibly cure, for diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's.

From the Folding@home website:
"Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. [It uses] a novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed [them] to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct [their] approach to examine folding related disease."

What is Folding@home Applet?

Folding@home Applet is an applet for the KDE panel. It provides a convenient and unobtrusive way to monitor, visualise, and control the Folding@home client software on Unix systems running KDE.

Features:

One-click access to start and stop the client software
Graphical display of the current work unit's progress
Detailed work queue information
3D visualisation of the current work unit

See the screenshots below!

News

28 February, 2005

Alan Prescott has kindly provided a kfolding-1.0.0-rc2 RPM for SuSE 9.0 and KDE 3.3.2. Thanks!

27 February, 2005

Folding@home Applet for KDE 1.0.0-rc2 has been officially released. Don't forget to vote for my project at KDE-Apps.org!

31 October, 2004

Alan Prescott has kindly provided an RPM for SuSE 9.0.

31 July, 2004

Folding@home Applet for KDE 1.0.0-rc1 has been released! See below for more details.

06 March, 2004

Folding@home Kicker Applet 0.9.6 Released. Many bugfixes and new features - see the changelog for full details
SMP users now have the ability to run multiple instances of the applet with different machine ids!
The requirements have been increased for this version - Folding@home client software version 3.0B or greater is now required
This will likely be the last release in the 0.9 series, unless any major bugs are found. The next version will probably be 1.0

24 January, 2004

Folding@home Kicker Applet 0.9.5 Released. This release contains a number of new features and bug fixes. See the Changelog for details

18 January, 2004

Folding@home Kicker Applet 0.9.4 Released. This updated fixes an issue with the compile failing for people not running the latest kdelibs from cvs. :P If only every release could go smoothly.... (sigh)

17 January, 2004

Folding@home Kicker Applet 0.9.3 Released. Enjoy!

Changelog

kfolding-1.0.0-rc2

Folding@home Applet for KDE now requires Folding@home client software for Linux version 5 or greater
Fixed a of compilation issue that was reported by some users
Changes to take advantages of new features in the Folding@home 5 client software, such as the Big Packets option

kfolding-1.0.0-rc1

Completely re-worked the Work Unit dialog. Fixed OpenGL rendering artifacts. Fixed layout to fit onto 800x600 screen.
Added ability to select the image displayed on the panel.
Automatically detect and read existing client.cfg files when a new work directory is selected
Enhanced errror checking for multiple clients running in the same work directory or with the same Machine Id.
Significant code refactoring, drawing optimisations, etc.

kfolding-0.9.6

Increased requirement to Folding@home client 3b or greater
Merge qd.c (01 March 2004)
Added ability to run multiple instances with different machine ids for SMP users
Added DCOP interface
Fixed 'Stereo Depth' slider
Fixed possible memory corruption in the Unit Info dialogue (yay Valgrind!)
Small cleanups in the queue dialogue

kfolding-0.9.5

Merge project points for work queue from qd.c (22 January, 2004)
Detect and read user information from existing client.cfg file, if it exists
New Feature: Option to start Folding@home automatically when the applet starts
Fixed client software restart bug when preferences are applied

kfolding-0.9.4

fix compile failure on systems with KDE 3.1

kfolding-0.9.3

Merge with qd.c <16 January, 2004>
Updated project points

kfolding-0.9.2

Merge with qd.c <14 January, 2004>
Updated project points

kfolding-0.9.1

Merge with qd.c <11 January, 2004>
Updated project points

kfolding-0.9.0

First public release - enjoy!

Screenshots

The Folding@home Applet works away in KDE's panel. Progress can be monitored as the logo turns from gray to coloured.

Many features are available from the context-menu.

Four different visualisations of the current work unit are available. Alpha carbon trace, Wireframe, Space-filling, and Ball-and-Stick. The model can be rotated by left-dragging, or panned by right-dragging.

The queue information dialog.

Requirements

Linux, FreeBSD*, or OpenBSD*
KDE version 3.2 or greater
Folding@home client for Linux version 5 or greater

*Free/OpenBSD users: please Folding@home's FAQ section about running the Linux console client.

Download

Current Version: 1.0.0-rc2

	kfolding-1.0.0-rc2.tar.bz2 (804K) GPG signature	(md5: 7ee21ed05d2f84b049f47ef84e63403d)
	kfolding-1.0.0-rc2.tar.gz (984K) GPG signature	(md5: ea7051632f9d42873107504a0bcc19e5)
SuSE 9.0 RPM	kfolding-1.0.0-rc2.i386.rpm (467K)
SuSE 9.2 RPM	kfolding-1.0.0-2.i386.rpm (508K)

Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2.

Author

Kevin Hessels <khessels () shaw ! ca>
PGP Public Key

Thanks to:
Richard P. Howell IV, author of fpd and qd - off which Folding@home Applet is based.