Folding@home is one of the oldest and the most successful distributed computing for science projects. It is started 20 years ago and there will be a celebration on November, 18th on Twitch as follows: https://m.twitch.tv/foldingathomedotorg/
The link to the original tweet is below: https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1326216738141327363?s=20
Thanks to NVIDIA GPU, there are 900 completed workunits within just 6 months of computing.
NVIDIA GPU is just amazing and increased my computation production by about 100 times.
My laptop is currently working on 2 Covid-19 projects : 16810 and 14909.
Project 16810 computes ion channel protein: https://stats.foldingathome.org/project?p=16810
Project 14909 is about ACE2 and virus transmission that I wrote in more details a month ago:
There is also an interesting service that benchmarks GPUs in regards to productivity, speed and electricity cost (which can be partly compensated with cryptocurrences such as BAN).
https://folding.lar.systems/folding_data/gpu_ppd_by_project?project_id=14909
It is never too late to start with folding at home. Modern computers are much more powerful than those PCs that we had 20 years ago. Here is where and how to join:
I remember a time when NVIDIA GPU was the most popular, but also the most expensive, so I totally agree with you that NVIDIA GPU is amazing.