Like many, when I heard about Folding@HOME and how I could contribute to the fight against COVID, I put my hardware to work. Now that’s it has been a while, what effect did those projects ultimately have on the outcome? Did it actually help with the creation of vaccines, or was it effectively just a massive waste of energy?
Here’s a video from Dr. David Barker, who leads the Rosetta@Home project, describing how that project’s computing has helped COVID research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEIN5V3yLgI hadn’t seen that video before, but it’s not quite what I’m looking for; it seems that video was made while they were still working on the project, and they were looking for a way to “get it out into the world”. Is there a sort of post-mortem analysis of what the project achieved / is still achieving now?
How did I completely miss this, the video linked in another comment does a decent job of explaining. Is there anything like this currently going on for other research elsewhere? Would love to get involved.
It seems a lot of projects aren’t in operation anymore, but I found a list at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_projects
The one I still use is https://electricsheep.org/, but it’s art based and not as much for research. :)
That’s just amazing. Thanks so much
