https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/fd29vj/please_consider_downloading_boinc_or_foldinghome/
Please consider downloading BOINC or folding@home to use your computers processor to help analyze COVID-19 research.
General
Hello all.
I believe this has been posted before on this sub, but I wanted to let many of the new members know about distributed computing and the potential it has to help research into COVID19.
Here are some initial comments on how
Rosetta@home and
Folding@home are helping to combat COVID19.
Distributed computing is a fairly simple concept - a university, government research institution, etc takes a large chunk of data and breaks it up into small pieces. The data is sent out to anyone who is a member of that research team, your computer does the number crunching, and the finished product is sent back to the institution to be added to the whole body of research. Programs like Rosetta (using the BOINC client) or folding@home can run invisibly in the background, whenever you're not using the computer, or full time (I have three, soon to be four, computers running both clients full time, and a fourth I have running in the background). The installation takes up a small amount of space, and you can easily control how much of your computer processing power you want dedicated to either program.