SOLVED Folding at Home ORIGAMI

[WacoJohn]

I have been using Origami client for years on other Linux boxes (Ubuntu). I am 99% certain I installed it correctly from all the times before. Problem is on the Raspbian Pi, I get an error:

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo origami start
starting origami...
ERROR: UNABLE TO START LOCAL SERVICE.

Can anyone offer help to a somewhat rookie? Thank you in advance.

[AndrewS]

Any distributed computing project will run so slowly on the Pi compared to a 'normal' computer, that it's probably not even worth bothering.

[WacoJohn]

I think you have made a very good point. Oh, well .. someday I will find a use for this Pi. Thank you.

Edit: Wonder why Origami is in the repository ... if not suitable. Fell through the cracks .. I guess.

[AndrewS]

Edit: Wonder why Origami is in the repository ... if not suitable. Fell through the cracks .. I guess.

Not at all. Raspbian is (as much as possible) an automatic recompilation (for the Pi's ARMv6 CPU) of everything that's in Debian wheezy (tens of thousands of packages). Nobody's sitting there making judgement calls about whether any particular package is "suitable" for the RPi

[WacoJohn]

OK. Does run origami. Good deal.. unless it errors. Any ideas on my error? Thank you in advance.

[AndrewS]

Sorry, I've never run origami myself (not even on my "big PC").

[WacoJohn]

Sorry, I've never run origami myself (not even on my "big PC").

I get the feeling it is less 'origami' than it is knowing how to start a service(?) .... but I barely know anything about Linux. Maybe someone else will chime in.

[gmc]

Any distributed computing project will run so slowly on the Pi compared to a 'normal' computer, that it's probably not even worth bothering.

These guys dont think so

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspb ... ampton.htm

[WacoJohn]

These guys dont think so

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspb ... ampton.htm

I bet it won't run origami.

[AndrewS]

Any distributed computing project will run so slowly on the Pi compared to a 'normal' computer, that it's probably not even worth bothering.

These guys dont think so

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspb ... ampton.htm

Heh, AFAIK that was done to a) grab headlines and b) be a "teaching platform" for how you'd write code to run on a supercomputer cluster (so that students could practise without using the "real cluster"). In terms of performance per Pound (or Dollar) or performance per Watt, it's much better to just buy one or two Intel boxes than it is to buy a whole bunch of low-powered ARM boxes.

[WacoJohn]

I intend to agree with you.

FWIW, I contacted the author of Origami ... and to my surprise, he replied to me. We are working to see what the problem might be. Hope we get to the bottom of it ... waiting for his next reply.

[WacoJohn]

This is straight from the Origami developer's mouth:

I did a little bit more digging around and it looks like folding@home in general is not supported on the Pi due to it being ARM hardware architecture. The actual folding@home client that Origami uses isn't compiled for that architecture, so it's simply incompatible.

So it really SHOULD be removed from the repository ... wouldn't you think???