# Fold client offers unsupported project (climateprediction.net)

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911>\
**Category:** Fold for Covid\
**Created:** [December 8, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911 "2020-12-08T10:00:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![GOTO\_GOSUB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/goto_gosub/32/7457_2.png) [@GOTO\_GOSUB](https://forums.balena.io/u/GOTO_GOSUB)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911/1 "2020-12-08T10:00:28Z")

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This seems a little off-topic but since the Fold client offers support for the climate prediction project I would have expected this to work.

I tried to set this up today and got as far as the client attempting to acquire work units at which point I receive the following error:

> Master file download succeeded  
> Sending schedular request: Project initialization.  
> Requesting new tasks for CPU
> 
> Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks  
> Message from server: This project doesn’t support computers of type aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

Is there any way around this using the Balena Fold BOINC client, or is it just unsupported on a Pi 4 ?

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**Author:** ![karaxuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@karaxuna](https://forums.balena.io/u/karaxuna)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911/3 "2020-12-08T10:21:56Z")

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Looking for solution I found the [article](https://blog.dbplatz.com/weve-joined-the-world-community-grid-and-you-can-join-too) that describes similar problem. If you go to troubleshooting section, you’ll see a suggestion from author to add an entry in `cc_config.xml` file:

```auto
<options>
          <alt_platform>aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu</alt_platform>
  </options>

```

Another answer suggesting same: [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum\_thread.php?id=13167&postid=93199#93199](https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13167&postid=93199#93199)

Please, let us know if this works for you.

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**Author:** ![GOTO\_GOSUB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/goto_gosub/32/7457_2.png) [@GOTO\_GOSUB](https://forums.balena.io/u/GOTO_GOSUB)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911/5 "2020-12-08T10:31:14Z")

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Hi @karaxuna, thank you for the prompt response and search expertise. I am not local to the hardware at the moment and I don’t fancy my chances in modifying system files remotely via the dashboard if that is possible (if it is and dead easy to do I am happy to learn something new today) so this will probably have to wait until the weekend. I will check it out though and let you know what happens.

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**Author:** ![karaxuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@karaxuna](https://forums.balena.io/u/karaxuna)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911/6 "2020-12-08T10:55:55Z")

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You can use terminal on dashboard to run commands. That should be easy.

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**Author:** ![GOTO\_GOSUB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/goto_gosub/32/7457_2.png) [@GOTO\_GOSUB](https://forums.balena.io/u/GOTO_GOSUB)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911/8 "2020-12-11T15:40:29Z")

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I couldn’t figure out how to do that via the dashboard but after a fair bit of hunting around among the various partitions of the physical card I eventually found what looks like the relevant file here:

:\docker\volumes\1766994\_boinc\_data

… and found the following already in there:

> \<cc\_config\>  
>   
> \<alt\_platform\>aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu\</alt\_platform\>  
>   
> \</cc\_config\>

So that would appear not to be the resolution to this problem. Any other suggestions would be gratefully received.

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**Author:** ![jtonello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/jtonello/32/3246_2.png) [@jtonello](https://forums.balena.io/u/jtonello)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911/9 "2020-12-11T21:26:51Z")

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Hi Garry,

When we deployed Fold for Covid last spring, we worked closely with the Berkeley folks, who made a custom image for their BOINC project. As far as I know, the same support does not extend to other BOINC projects.

John

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**Author:** ![GOTO\_GOSUB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/goto_gosub/32/7457_2.png) [@GOTO\_GOSUB](https://forums.balena.io/u/GOTO_GOSUB)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/fold-client-offers-unsupported-project-climateprediction-net/218911/11 "2020-12-13T10:23:58Z")

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Hi John,

That’s OK and good to know. Thank you for taking the time to clarify.