Folding@home 20th Anniversary on Twitch
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/ https://m.twitch.tv/foldingathomedotorg/profile 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: https://read.cash/@Swca.ch/crunching-folding-at-home-project-14909-angiotensin-converting-enzyme-2-ace2-b80495dd 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: https://foldingathome.org/home/
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I remember a distributed computing project relating to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). This must have been when I was just finishing school so around 20 years ago, making it about the same age as Folding@Home. I didn't really understand the significance at the time!
You are right! Thanks 👍. SETI is a bit older than folding@home and sits on BOINC platform. Boinc is easy to install and run on a mobile. I publish my experience with it here: https://read.cash/c/citizenscience-with-boinc-8cf5 I run einstein@home and WCG with BOINC platform