helping-others

This is one of those "give back" projects in which we can help others with simple actions

• helping-others
  • Requirements
  • How to run this project
  • Cleanup

Requirements

For running folding at home project we require you to have terraform installed. For instructions on how to do this go to LINK

You will also need an AWS account and have your credentials correctly set. For information on how to do this CLICK HERE and then CLICK HERE. If you dont have aws cli installed, please CLICK HERE FIRST

You will also need packer installed to generate the AMIs you need to run this. Click on THIS LINK to check how to install this software.

How to run this project

In order to run Folding at home project on AWS Cloud you will need to first generate the AMIs using the following commands:

cd ./folding-at-home/packer
packer build linux_ami.json
packer build gpu-enabled-ami.json

with the generated AMIs you are ready to go.

cd ./folding-at-home
terraform init
terraform plan -var ami_id=<ami_id generated>
terraform apply -var ami_id=<ami_id generated>

It's that easy.

Cleanup

If you'd like to stop everything and remove the resources we created your will have to execute the following command:

terraform destroy