03/24/2020

Michael Wells, G7VJR, has announced that Club Log[1] is contributing 120 CPU cores (most running at 3.4 GHz) to the Folding@Home Project[2] that's simulating the dynamics of COVID-19 proteins to hunt for new therapeutic opportunities. Wells said he's assigned a higher priority to the Folding@Home work, so radio amateurs may experience slightly longer upload times.

"You can help, too, by contributing your own computer to the project," Wells said. "If you have a recent home computer with a good graphics card, and if a lot of people make a contribution, it will make a significant difference to the research, potentially reducing decades of work to a far shorter time frame that will make a practical difference this year." He cautions that computers involved in the project will be operating at 100% CPU, when not otherwise in use.

Club Log's Folding@Home team number is 246763.


[1] http://www.clublog.org/
[2] https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/

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