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2) This will put a file called "FAH4-GUI.dmg" on your Desktop. If it doesn't mount automatically, double click on the file to mount the disk image FAH4-GUI and open that. Copy Folding@home to your Desktop. You may now trash the disk image. 3) Double click on the Folding@home icon to start the application. The first time you run it, the Preferences window will pop open. You can fill in your Identity (so that you can track your work on the statistics web page). The application will automatically download the scientific core (takes a few minutes). Then, it will get to work. You can view the protein by choosing Display Protein from the Folding@home menu.
Auto Start:
OS X SCREENSAVER Use the convenient Folding@home screensaver! 1) Go back to the download page and click on the Download link for the Mac OS Screensaver (you may have to do a "Save link as" instead of simply clicking).
2) This will put a file FAH4-SS.dmg on your Desktop. Inside the mounted disk image FAH4-SS will be "FAH4-SS.pkg" 3)Running "FAH4-SS.pkg" launches a simple installer. You may be presented with a window saying "You need an Administrator password to install the software." If this happens, click on the lock icon that's at the bottom left corner of the window and enter the password. You'll now see a welcome screen. Press "Continue." Now, you are prompted to choose an installation destination. You can just select your hard drive and click "Continue." Continue through the next screen ("Easy Install") too, and you're done with the installation. You can trash the disk image. 4) Now we'll tell your computer that Folding@home is the screensaver that it should use. Bring up the System Preferences (you can access this through the Apple menu that's at the top left of your monitor). Click on the "Screen Saver" button, which is in the top row of choices (see screen shot below). You'll now be presented with a window where the left half has a listing of available screensavers and the right half has a preview of the chosen one. Folding@home will be the last choice on the list. Click on it. Next, click on the "Configure" button right that's right below the Preview. There's a screen shot of this below. When you click on Configure, a window will come up that looks like the Preferences window shown above. It will ask you to fill in a name and team number. This is so that you can track your work on the Statistics web page. You can also set Network and Settings for the display through this configuration window. When you're done filling in your information, click "OK." Quit System Prefs and you're done! Folding@home is now your screensaver and will operate when you're computer is idle for a certain period of time (depends on your System Preferences) or when you click on one of the top corners of the screen. The first time it runs, you may not see any molecules for a little while.
We provide a console mode version of the client, exactly equivalent to the console version for Windows. There are no fancy graphics - it simply sits in the background running at lowest priority and making use of the CPU cycles not being used by other processes. The latest OS X version can be found at http://www.folding.org/download.html. It has the same scientific core as the screen saver version, the only difference being the no-nonsense front end. This is the most flexible client. 1) Go back and click on the Download link for the Mac OS X text console (may have to "right click" and do "Save link as"). This will download a file called FAH4-CLI.dmg to your Desktop. Double click on that to mount FAH4-CLI, and copy "fah4" to your Desktop. You can now trash the disk image.
2) Open up a Terminal window and cd into the Desktop directory. To do this, type
3) Now, type 4) You will be asked a series of questions to set up the configuration. T he first of these will be what User name you would like to use--this is so that you can track your work on the statistics web page. 5) The application will download the scientific core (may take a few minutes) and then get to work. If you would like to hide the terminal, just choose Hide Terminal from the Terminal menu. If you want, you can have Folding@home start up automatically each time you start Mac OS X. Just open the System Preferences, click Login (it's listed in the first row), click the Login Items tab that appears, click the Add button, select the Folding@home application, and click Open. Thanks!
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OS X CONSOLE MODE SOFTWARE