Slightly lateral posting, but one I am promoting with University of the Third Age members with underutilized home computing power, more than they would ever imagine could be used foe a good cause. Mailbase members should consider as well with their own personal computing resources
Please review link:
https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-contributes-computers-combatting-covid-19
Synopsis (from above link)
"Like other viruses, the virus responsible for Covid-19 has proteins that are used to suppress hosts’ immune systems, as well as proteins for self-replication. Folding@home is supporting work to better understand these proteins, which is an important first step towards developing new drugs that could inhibit their function, thus stopping the virus.
While many methods exist for determining protein structures in the lab, these approaches reveal the shape at one given point in time. Computer simulations thus have an important role to play in determining how the three-dimensional structure of proteins can change over time. In the case of viral proteins, this can reveal new sites where drugs can be used to attack the protein and stop its functioning.
The number of people around the world contributing to Folding@home has grown rapidly over recent weeks. The maximum collective computing power of the system now stands at almost 2.5 exaFLOPS, which is more than that of the world’s top 500 supercomputers combined."
So if your interested to helping, you need to download the software at:
https://foldingathome.org/
There is an option to prioritize Covid 19 when installing
https://foldingathome.org/2020/04/17/new-foldinghome-software-with-the-option-to-prioritize-covid-19-projects/
The only cost to contributors is some electricity when you PC's go into hibernate, so would encourage all to have a look.
It could make a big difference.
BW John
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