Coronavirus - Folding@home

[watercooled]

Just in case anyone's not aware, F@H are now lending computing resources to potential Covid-19 treatments: https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27...-19-2019-ncov/

I can't claim to know a great deal about it, but given plenty of people were happy to donate resources to make a quick buck a few years ago, maybe people will donate to a good medical cause? Of course the virus isn't the only important running project but maybe it will encourage some people to consider getting back into it, or trying it out for the first time?

I've decided to give it a go again, and having just set it up (currently anonymous) I have what I believe is a cancer-related CPU project, and got a Covid-19 one on GPU straight away, so I imagine they're giving it a high priority.

[ik9000]

really? Will this help. Timelines are too tight. I think this will be far more expedient: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44439515

Turns out cleverer people than me thought so too!
https://hexus.net/tech/news/systems/...ug-treatments/
https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news...ts-coronavirus

[watercooled]

It's not a case of all-or-nothing. Folding@home acts as a large distributed supercomputer which complements efforts such as the one you linked, not instead of.

[Terbinator]

Heh, I did search but nothing came up about this so posted in the old thread.

I'm out of the UK atm but it would be good to put the 6700K to use finally - and for a good cause!

[watercooled]

It looks like so many people have signed up recently that they're struggling to keep up with work units. My GPU was sitting idle for a while before getting another unit to work on. https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=312692#p312692

[Mr. Q]

That's encouraging in its own way though I guess?

[watercooled]

Absolutely. Check the bottom post on this page: https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.p...art=90#p312858

I think that's only referring to one team, but they've seen a huge increase in performance. I tried to look for global performance stats but couldn't find any. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?

[watercooled]

It seems the processing power of the distributed system is something to be reckoned with: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15661...d-for-covid-19

[Phage]

Folding here. I'm getting about two thirds Covid related units

Saving money on home heating too...