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Viral Research Firm? I thought F@H was run out of Stanford University. Edit: it's run out of Washington University (St. Louis School of Medicine) so it's definitely neither a firm nor viral. Mods should change the title.
There was a recent HN discussion on whether this kind of approach has ever produced an effective treatment for anything. I believe the answer was Never, but lots of papers have been published . Assuming that's the case, I don't put much stock in this giving us a means of fighting the pandemic.
The idea of the single scientist singlehandedly solving everything is mostly a myth. Most of the time, people rely on hundreds of previous papers before making their own contribution. Taken together, all the minimal steps make a significant leap.
Folding@home can very well be part of this effort.
There was a recent HN discussion on whether this kind of approach has ever produced an effective treatment for anything. I believe the answer was Never, but lots of papers have been published . Assuming that's the case, I don't put much stock in this giving us a means of fighting the pandemic.
If you're considering spending a dollar or two a day on electricity to contribute to the F@H project, consider donating that amount instead. Charity Navigator has a good list of well regarded charities that are working on covid-19 response: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...
Does this project have enough promise compared to its external cost? I imagine that’s a lot of energy usage.
Better than bitcoin!
I wish they would spend five minutes documenting how to use the GPU on Ubuntu. My 1080ti is just sitting idle while my CPU is busy folding. Any instructions I came across said something like “make sure you have the libraries” but then failed to describe even at a high level how to locate and install those libraries. Last time I installed any CUDA libraries it involved adding an Nvidia repo or something. Edit: I’d be…
I followed every instruction to configure ROCM and OpenCL in Ubuntu 18 with my Vega 56 card. All the samples and such work but Folding@Home refuses to believe its there. It might be nice if someone at FAH actually tried using it on Linux. I would also like a FAQ.
There was a recent HN discussion on whether this kind of approach has ever produced an effective treatment for anything. I believe the answer was Never, but lots of papers have been published . Assuming that's the case, I don't put much stock in this giving us a means of fighting the pandemic.
Viral Research Firm? I thought F@H was run out of Stanford University. Edit: it's run out of Washington University (St. Louis School of Medicine) so it's definitely neither a firm nor viral. Mods should change the title.