SCS Wire applauds the efforts made by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine to find new COVID-19 therapies. We have finished participation as a citizen scientist with the completed Covid Folding@Home program.
The Washington University School of Medicine wanted to study and understand SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 with a goal of finding effective theraputics but didn't have the computing capacity required. A call went out to individuals across the globe, asking to connect their PCs with the school’s mainframe computer for their Folding@home Project. Combining the school's hardware with "citizen scientists" created the largest supercomputer in the world.
Looking for a way to help during the pandemic, SCS Wire's owner Joseph Stute, and electrical engineer and inventor, was excited to get involved. As of the project's closing, SCS Wire had seven computers running twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, which completed over "70,132 work units." We ranked number 181 out of hundreds of thousands of active contibutors.
:: Folding@Home homepage
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