The Folding @ home project makes a contribution to medical research against the coronavirus. The computational capacity gathered thanks to the participants reached 474 teraflops, much more than the existing supercomputers.
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It is possible to contribute to research against coronavirus by participating in the Folding @ home program. This collaborative project launched by Stanford University (California) aims to bring together the computing resources of computers in order to contribute to scientific research. The objective is to understand how proteins attached to the virus work by modeling them in 3D in order to observe how the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus develops.
As promised, here is our first glimpse of the # COVID19 spike protein (aka the demogorgon) in action, courtesy of @foldingathome . More to come! pic.twitter.com/iD2crCMHcX
– Greg Bowman (@drGregBowman) March 16, 2020
To participate in the project, nothing could be simpler. Just download the software Folding @ Home on the official website. This uses the computing power of the CPUs and GPUs of private computers when they are not in use. With this process, the computing power of Folding @ Home has reached 474 teraflops, more than IBM Summit supercomputer (148 teraflops). It is therefore possible to contribute at its level to research against the coronavirus. Besides, Nvidia encouraged her community to join the program.
PC Gamers, let’s put those GPUs to work.
Join us and our friends at @OfficialPCMR in supporting folding @ home and donating unused GPU computing power to fight against COVID-19!
Learn more → https://t.co/EQE4u7xTZTpic.twitter.com/uO0ZCq8PEv
– NVIDIA GeForce (@NVIDIAGeForce) March 13, 2020
The program has been in existence since 2000, but has never been as essential as it is today. Another similar program called “SETI @ Home” aims to listen to signals from space and analyze them in order to find an extraterrestrial life. It will end on March 31 after more than 20 years of activity without convincing results.
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