The Folding@home software runs while you do other things - it will be working to help find cures for diseases like cancer, ALS, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Influenza and many others

The software runs on Linux, MacOS, or Windows and whilst I'm often a bit hesitant about the purpose or motives behind decentralised computing, this project is endorsed by numerous academic research labs and has partnerships with Intel, Nvidia, ATI, Cisco, Oracle and others.

They have also been focussing on research around Covid-19.

See Folding@home – Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.

#technology #distributed #medical

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