Items tagged with distributed computing

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 28, 2020

Thanks To Folding@home Volunteers, Targets For A COVID-19 Cure May Have Been Identified

Finding a cure and developing a vaccine to neutralize COVID-19 is key to saving potentially millions of lives, and getting back to life as we once knew it. That is easier said than done, of course. There is some encouraging news on that front, however, as efforts by the Folding@home project has identified a possible... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 26, 2020

Folding@home Storms Into ExaFLOP Territory As PC Warriors Battle COVID-19

Just a few days ago, the Folding@home distributed computing project had reached 470 petaFLOPS of cumulative compute power, topping out the output of the seven fastest supercomputers in the world. And now? Thanks to a continued surge in activity from users joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 12, 2020

Folding@Home Needs Your CPU Cycles To Help Researchers Battle Deadly Coronavirus

As the coronavirus continues to spread, Standford University's Folding@home project announced that CPU-based protein folding COVID-19 jobs are headed to the distributed computing client. For those who wish to do so, this means they can donate their unused CPU cycles to potentially critical research into the... Read more...