Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
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Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
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#2Has FAH approach solved any other real world problems? Has its findings accelerated understanding of any particular disease or helped significantly in developing a cure?
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#3Maybe they should reconsider the integration with BOINC. That would give them access to one of the largest distributed clusters.
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#4Why not use smartphones these days?
Just plug your iPhone in at night, and the app will run in the background, when it detects user inactivity.
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#5There used to be a FoldingAtHome application for the Playstation 3 that I ran for a while. It's a shame it never made its way to other consoles because they're properly underutilised during the day, for me at least.
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#6Has FAH approach solved any other real world problems? Has its findings accelerated understanding of any particular disease or helped significantly in developing a cure?
Have you checked the website? E.g. https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/
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#7A friend tried this in the last week and was frustrated that there seemed to be no way to limit CPU/GPU use to only work relaed to Covid.
Is there a way to limit work to Covid?
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#8Has FAH approach solved any other real world problems? Has its findings accelerated understanding of any particular disease or helped significantly in developing a cure?
Their wiki page lists a handful of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding%40home#Examples_of_app...
Do keep in mind that 1. very few drug candidates make it through drug trials (iirc it's something around 1 in 1000), and 2. these trials takes 10+ years, and FAH has been around for only 19 years. It's very likely that a bunch of its results are in trial right now, and we'd only hear about it 10-20 years in the future
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#9Saw that on Heise (German IT magazine) a few days ago. Setup on Arch Linux is really simple (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Folding@home), but with our electricity costs over here it's more expensive than what I'm willing to contribute - my CPU compute node [2*2687W] at home draws 500W on FAH, which translates to 112US$ per month (80W idle, but it's mostly powered down anyway). Else this & BOINC would be a really nice way to utilize my unused hardware.
Re: Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
#10Maybe they should reconsider the integration with BOINC. That would give them access to one of the largest distributed clusters.
I can see they have staff shortages that prohibits that:
https://foldingathome.org/faqs/high-performance/fah-on-boinc...