An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: The Folding@home project has shared new results of its efforts to simulate proteins from the SARS-CoV-2 virus to better understand how they function and how to stop them. Folding@home is a distributed computing effort that uses small clients to run simulations for biomedical research when users’ PCs are idle. The clients operate…
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NVIDIA Is Contributing Its AI Smarts To Help Fight COVID-19
NVIDIA is using its background in AI and optimizing supercomputer throughput to the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium group, which plans to support researchers by giving them time with 30 supercomputers offering a combined 400 petaflops of performance. Engadget reports: NVIDIA will add to this by providing expertise in AI, biology and large-scale computing optimizations. The company likened the Consortium’s efforts…
After SETI, ‘Folding@Home’ Takes Up the Fight Against COVID-19
Though SETI@Home has shut down, “users with a fondness for distributed computing might take a look at Folding@home, which is trying to figure out the structures of proteins on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus,” writes Ars Technica.
The coronavirus uses these proteins to latch on to proteins on the surface of human cells, a key step in its ability to infect…