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SETI@Home is back. Now it's combating the coronavirus
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213038726
Your laptop can help fight COVID-19 with Folding@home project
...You may not have a supercomputer at home, but that doesn't mean your laptop can't join the world's fastest machines in the fight against the coronavirus-caused COVID-19. A volunteer project called Folding@home has organized tens of thousands of ordinary personal computers -- like yours -- to break down big digital simulations of the virus that causes the disease into millions of bite-size chunks.
...For two decades Folding@home has tackled diseases, including Alzheimer's and Ebola. The pandemic has bumped COVID-19 to the top of the list, though, and lots more people now want to help. The world's computers have an abundance of unused processing power. Video editors, music producers and heavy-duty gamers have to sleep, and Folding@home's distributed computing approach can keep PCs busy when their human owners aren't.
...The rush of new volunteers has overwhelmed Folding@home's servers. "The limiting thing is collecting all the data that people are sending back and writing it to disk," Bowman said. The project has doubled its server count in the last week, and more are on the way as the project woos cloud-computing partners like Oracle, Bowman said....
It's nothing you could calculate on paper, but it's just what computers are good at. And what else is your laptop going to do overnight?
...You may not have a supercomputer at home, but that doesn't mean your laptop can't join the world's fastest machines in the fight against the coronavirus-caused COVID-19. A volunteer project called Folding@home has organized tens of thousands of ordinary personal computers -- like yours -- to break down big digital simulations of the virus that causes the disease into millions of bite-size chunks.
...For two decades Folding@home has tackled diseases, including Alzheimer's and Ebola. The pandemic has bumped COVID-19 to the top of the list, though, and lots more people now want to help. The world's computers have an abundance of unused processing power. Video editors, music producers and heavy-duty gamers have to sleep, and Folding@home's distributed computing approach can keep PCs busy when their human owners aren't.
...The rush of new volunteers has overwhelmed Folding@home's servers. "The limiting thing is collecting all the data that people are sending back and writing it to disk," Bowman said. The project has doubled its server count in the last week, and more are on the way as the project woos cloud-computing partners like Oracle, Bowman said....
It's nothing you could calculate on paper, but it's just what computers are good at. And what else is your laptop going to do overnight?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/your-laptop-can-help-fight-covid-19-with-folding-at-home-project/ar-BB11PDLk?srcref=rss
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