As we all know Corona virus(COVID-19) has emerged
as a major threat to the entire humanity. While the whole world is trying to
find a cure for this pandemic, what if I told you that even you can help them in a way?🙄 Yes! You heard it right😎. Folding@home is a
distributed computing project originally designed by Stanford university, California to
study about protein folding,molecular structures and their behaviour.
Folding@home is now based at the Washington University and have extended their studies to performing molecular dynamics
simulations of protein dynamics. And now they are helping the world to find a vaccine for
the COVID-19 where you can also be a part of the same
How does Folding@home work?
The project uses the idle processing power of your CPU(central
processing unit) and GPU(graphical processing unit) of your system to run
complex simulations about protein dynamics. It uses statistical simulation
methodology which is different from traditional computing methods. Folding@home
uses client–server model network architecture so that all the volunteered machines
each receives s pieces of simulation at a time to run. After completing, it sends
back the results to the project's database servers, where the units are
compiled into an overall simulation. In simple terms, it’s like partitioning a
huge task to many people and combines all the results to a single one so that
time consumed for the same can be minimized⌚
What are the benefits of Folding@home?
The main advantage is that with very little technical knowledge you can
set up your computer to help find cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s,
Parkinson's, various types of cancer, ALS and even COVID-19. The more people
that get involved, the more processing power there is to simulate the protein
folding and the faster the results will be achieved👏. Currently, the network now
comprises a whopping 'exaflop' of computing power,ie 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
operations per second which is technically faster than the fastest
supercomputer ever made😍. It is estimated that a network of 1 million PC’s are
currently active in this project with an average of 700,000 units at any given
time. This became possible through the massive ‘crowdsourcing’ by many volunteers
all around the world👌
Considering
the urgency to finding a cure for the corona virus, tech giants like Nvidia,
Intel and Google are requesting casual users🚶♂️, gamers🎮 or anyone with a PC🖥 to
join this venture🤸♀️
PC Gamers, let’s put those GPUs to work.— NVIDIA GeForce (@NVIDIAGeForce) March 13, 2020
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/EQE4u7xTZT pic.twitter.com/uO0ZCq8PEv
How you can be a part of this?
Well,
it’s very simple. All you need is a PC with a GPU and a working internet connection. Go to
folding@home’s website and download this📥 setup file. Once downloaded,
install it and provide your name. You can also fold anonymously or with a group. I recommend you to join either LTT(223518) or PCMR(225605) and passkey is for additional security🔰. There is detailed instructions given at their site about installation. You can check it out here.👇
As folding@home team says, you are one in a million😇. All those awesome computing power didn't came from a single user. Every user can make a difference in this effort. May be your system is not that powerful. But at this time, it doesn't matter since something is always better than nothing💯. I request everyone to join this amazing project and help the world to find a cure for COVID-19🙏. You can learn more about folding@home here👇
foldingathome.org/covid19
LTT Folding@home video 🎬
www.reddit.com/r/foldingathome
So what are you waiting for?🤷♂️ Start folding today and do your part!✔
Hi How did you made that GPU Work Can you guide me to configure i have the exact GPU
ReplyDeletesure! what exactly is your issue? can you be more specific?
DeleteSometimes it wont work just go idle but i fixed it i upgraded the driver
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