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Use your GPU to help find a vaccine for Covid 19


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Sammy

You can set it to run cycles for research during off-peak usage.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/fh4d3m/you_can_now_use_your_amd_or_nvidia_gpu_to_take_up/

 

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/foldinghome-put-your-cpu-and-gpu-in-use-against-the-corona-covid-19-virus.html

 

https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/

 

https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/

 

Folding@@Home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. It brings together citizen scientists who volunteer to run simulations of protein dynamics on their personal computers. Insights from this data are helping scientists to better understand biology, and providing new opportunities for developing therapeutics.

 

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Sammy

Update on the current status from Stanford University:

 

Please be patient if you experience idle time as we face the COVID-19 pandemic together! We are working like mad to start simulations of COVID-19 proteins. The enthusiastic response to our effort has been tremendous and has sometimes emptied our queues. This is a great “problem” to have as there is no end to the valuable science we can do, its just a matter of giving us some time to get more running.

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In other words they've processed all the data they can right now and need to get more simulations set up.

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Sammy

Funnily enough I don't even see the Corona project... I have the others...

Yeah, I just selected all projects.

 

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It would be very hilarious if in the end it turned out that everyone involved, instead of working for the good, was using it for mining) But not a bad idea for marketing in general for the company

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Dibbes
1 minute ago, Sammy said:

Do you not think the people behind this project would have something to say if their name was being used for bit mining?? Jeez..

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https://foldingathome.org/

Probably: Thank you very much (with the way BTC has been going over the last two months!)

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It is this that made it possible to have a vaccine in less than a year where previously it would take several years, decades even. 

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The main reason the vaccine came quickly is that it turned out the preexisting mrna delivery mechanism was effective for covid19.

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