Crowdsourced virtual supercomputer revs up virus research.

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Gamers, bitcoin "miners" and companies large and small have teamed up for an unprecedented data-crunching effort that aims to harness idle computing power to accelerate research for a coronavirus treatment.

The project led by computational biologists has effectively created the world's most powerful supercomputer that can handle trillions of calculations needed to understand the structure of the virus.

More than 400,000 users downloaded the application in the past two weeks from "Folding@Home," according to director Greg Bowman, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University in St. Louis, where the project is based.

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Those wishing to contribute "idle computer time" there is a web site here where you can download the software and find out more information here

foldingathome.org/

Installing the software does not compromise the normal use of your computer, it works when your computer is not doing anything, like whilst reading posts on here or articles on the web, making a cup of tea/coffee, going to the loo etc..

[RoadRunner44]

I dont know how you do it but you manage to get the most amazing news items.

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I have now installed it, and can confirm it has not had an impact on my normal use, my PC will now be running 24/7. I also have a high powered 16 core, 32 thread processor. My HTPC (Home Theatre PC) now has it installed, that will also run 24/7 as well.