Using folding@home to combat Covid-19
Posted: 2020-03-21 12:40pm
I've started to give some of my computing power to combat the Covid-19 virus using folding@home. I would strongly recommend you guys with unused computing power to follow me here.
I'm following team 11741, mostly because a local newspaper said they were used to combat Covid-19, but I don't think it really matters, what matters is that you put "I support research fighting" to "any disease", as the GPU will then start on projects related to combat this corona fuckery.
Using the power setting to "light" will only use about 50% of your cores and maybe 40% of your GPU, but not at the same time, "Full" will use every CPU core except one and as much GPU as possible, sometimes working on two projects at the same time, but you better have a well ventilated system for that, as both GPU and CPU will run on almost max for extended periods of time.
Proteins and stuff are tricky things and they move around and reconfigure themselves. To have a snapshot of one is like having a snapshot of a football game: It gives an impression, but it's difficult to see how the game will go. What folding@home does, is to simulate how different proteins can move to see how medication can fit into them.
I'm following team 11741, mostly because a local newspaper said they were used to combat Covid-19, but I don't think it really matters, what matters is that you put "I support research fighting" to "any disease", as the GPU will then start on projects related to combat this corona fuckery.
Using the power setting to "light" will only use about 50% of your cores and maybe 40% of your GPU, but not at the same time, "Full" will use every CPU core except one and as much GPU as possible, sometimes working on two projects at the same time, but you better have a well ventilated system for that, as both GPU and CPU will run on almost max for extended periods of time.
Proteins and stuff are tricky things and they move around and reconfigure themselves. To have a snapshot of one is like having a snapshot of a football game: It gives an impression, but it's difficult to see how the game will go. What folding@home does, is to simulate how different proteins can move to see how medication can fit into them.