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Folding at Home, help research Covid 19

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Have a look if you have a decent pc and are willing to help out even only when it is idle. Join a team or go solo, whatever you like. 

 

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

 

More info:

Folding@home is based at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, and is doing research work into all sorts of diseases, with the current focus being on Covid 19. Check their main page at https://foldingathome.org/

 

From their About page:
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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What is this, blockchain bitcoin mining stuff?  I'm years out of the loop.

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No it has nothing to do with bitcoin etc. If you have ever heard of Seti@home it works the same way, distributed computing. I will post a bit more info in the original post.

 

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41 minutes ago, Nomadikhan said:

What is this, blockchain bitcoin mining stuff?  I'm years out of the loop.

Nope, things like that existed for years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

 

edit oh just noticed that user before mentioned seti

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I have mine running and have for about a week. My comp sits idle a lot of the day when I am at work or asleep, so it doesn't impact me much to let it run a bit more electric.  Who knows, maybe it will help.

 

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I strongly encourage people to get onboard with this .. Seti at home was the first, but there are now dozens if not hundreds of different public participation data crunching research projects going on these days, in all sorts of fields, from medical to astronomy, and everything in between.

 

The idea is simply that when your not using your computer, it will run a screensaver program to analyse data, send the results back to the university (or whatever) when its done, and download a new set of data to analyse .. once its set up u don;t need to do anything, just leave your computer running (turn off the monitor to reduce energy usage if u like)

 

No u dont need a ninja computer or a bit coin cruncher, any reasonably decent computer will do .. if it runs wurm its good enough :)

 

I have been running this type of program for many years w no problems

 

Seti at home is actually ceasing to send out new data units at the end of the month, so i will switch to folding at that time.

 

Below are several links to boinc program from University of Berkeley

 

Boinc home page  https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

 

list of boinc projects

 https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

 

cheers, Sam

 

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If you are going to use up electricity running your computer when you aren't using it, this is a much more worthy use of its time than blockchain mining.

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Br advised that Folding@home has experienced a 20 x spike in demand for work units, and therefore many people are not getting units to analyse .. i am having the same problem with the covid 19 project at https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

 

no work units from Rosetta since i joined 3 days ago ..

 

I'd suggest it might pay to also sign up for some related project if u can find one, so you can at least get some stuff done.

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Update .. im underway w the Rosetta covid 19 work units, done 3 so far, working on no. 4 .. each takes about 8 hours.

 

Took about 4 days to get my first work unit.

 

Folding@home website is still displaying the message about excess demand for work units, so looks like it def pays to sign up for another project while u wait for your folding units to arrive imo

 

 

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