folding-power-control

Control Folding@Home activity based on Swedish hourly electricity pricing.

Install Folding@Home

Folding@Home clients are available for Linux, Mac and Windows. The script is only tested on Ubuntu but will likely work with minor tweaks on other Linux distributions and MacOS.

Linux

• Linux packages
• Linux Installation Guide

Python requirements

Python 3.6+

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure

YAML values

1. Set area applicable to your location. Choose one of the supported Swedish regions.
2. Set price_threshold as the maximum spot price you are willing to pay. Folding@Home will pause if spot price exceeds this value.
3. Set Folding@Home socket address and port.
4. Set Folding@Home config_files and slots. Commands will be sent to the union of all slots found in config files and explicitly declared slots.

Automate

$ sudo touch /var/log/cron/fah-power-control.log
$ sudo chmod 777 /var/log/cron/fah-power-control.log
$ crontab -e

# m h dom mon dow command
0 * * * * /path/to/envs/bin/python /path/to/fah-power-control.py >> /var/log/cron/fah-power-control.log 2>&1