How can your computer help fight COVID-19? Your support in the fight against the virus using the Folding @ home project.
A worldwide pandemic resulting from the spread of coronavirus has forced most of us to change our daily lives. Restricting social contacts, remote work, closing cinemas and theaters are just one of the many restrictions we have to face.
Is there a chance in this situation where we can contribute to the fight against a pandemic?
The answer is yes, we can contribute to fighting the virus from the comfort of our own home. We got our chance with the Folding @ home volunteer project, which organizes tens of thousands of ordinary personal computers - like yours - to create digital virus simulations that break down the disease into millions of tiny pieces. You don't need to have a supercomputer at home, your personal laptop can join the world's fastest computing machine to help fight coronavirus.
How exactly does Folding @ home work?
Folding @ home aims to understand the mechanisms of diseases at the molecular level, and then find weaknesses that drugs can use. Software for computers running Windows, Linux and MacOS downloads a small task to be processed from the organization's servers, runs calculations, and then returns the results to be incorporated into research studies.When finished, the device downloads the next task. This is to create a presentation in the form of a short film about the behavior of atoms that are part of the coronavirus, with each film starting from a different atomic motion system. Having thousands of such short presentations helps Folding @ home researchers understand the overall behavior of the virus
Folding @ home has been dealing with diseases such as Alzheimer and Ebola for two decades. The pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus has taken priority in action, so it is important to show your support in this situation. Computers around the world have plenty of unused computing power. Each of us uses a computer a certain amount of time during the day, while in our computer free time, Folding @ home can do the calculations.
The situation caused by COVID-19 has contributed to unusually rapid growth over the past three weeks, over 700,000 new volunteers joined the 30,000 who were already active. That is why it is important that you help in the fight against a pandemic. The software is available on the Folding @ home website and is completely free, easy to install and secure.
