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LanDroid

There are two projects analyzing SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the Covid-19 disease. The first is Rosetta.

https://www.ipd.uw.edu/2020/02/rosettas-role-in-fighting-coronavirus/

The second project is Folding@Home, which is non-Boinc.

https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/

https://foldingathome.org/

LanDroid · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 6:02 pm Post subject:

My thought was to shrub Rosetta with CPU and also Fold with GPU. However that may not be possible? Folding@Home uses a web interface to report what the local client is doing. It appears to be saying the current WU is about 2/3 done, with 82% CPU and 9% GPU. If that is accurate it would appear one has to choose either / or = Boinc Vs. Folding? It has been a VERY long time since I Folded anything. Do any Knights have a better understanding of Folding and whether it's possible to shrub it along with Boinc?

I set Boinc to run only when the system is idle, then set Folding to run all the time. Checking the Task Manager, it shows Folding using all CPU and GPU resources. So this does appear to confirm it's one or the other, ya can't shrub both. Hmmmm... Decision time... Shocked

LanDroid · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 6:12 pm Post subject:

I also wonder if the Covid-19 disease could be an inflection point that encourages significantly more people to participate in distributed computing? Seems like this sort of fight might capture the imagination of folks who understand what "idle" computers can accomplish.

Folding@Home is attempting to gain 1 million people. This seems like a modest goal given the enormous resources that are available, but they are only 11% on the way.
https://foldingathome.org/iamoneinamillion/

Seti@Home going into hibernation is another discouraging sign. There's enough computing power to shrub raw data, but not nearly enough to process further?

Every computer cycle is sacred. #ni-2

LanDroid · Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:02 pm Post subject:

WCG is working on identifying a suitable project.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,42191_offset,0?linkId=84296303#622244

Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

I do not have any gpus to add but I have added my cpu power to rosetta to assist in killing the beer virus.
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Michelle · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 4:47 am Post subject:

I haven't heard anything about distributed computing mentioned but I have heard people on telly talking about citizen science. I guess it's pretty much the same thing.
I'll have to go through the projects I'm doing and just focus on the medical research for a little while.
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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

Looking at the Ralph@Home message board the admin posted the following there

Mifun · Duke Joined: 08 Jan 2012 Posts: 265 Location: Russia

Something wrong with folding@home team settings https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/117

Website is kinda weird. #ni-2

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LanDroid · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 4:24 am Post subject:

Boinc@TACC is also researching the Covid-19 virus. (May be a little tricky to get WUs, I had to suspend other projects.) Here's an article describing the University of Texas at El Paso’s School of Pharmacy running simulations through the Texas Advanced Computing Center, which this Boinc project supports.

https://elpasoheraldpost.com/utep-school-of-pharmacy-developing-covid-19-vaccine-drug-treatments-using-supercomputing/

Here's part of a Boinc@TACC thread on this project.
https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/forum_thread.php?id=44&sort_style=&start=40

Main web page
https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/index.php

Atomic Booty · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 9:54 pm Post subject:

Shrubbing Rosetta now!

WILFRIDE10 · Grunt Joined: 18 Jun 2017 Posts: 2 Location: PARIS