[W8MWA] Club Log Allocates 100% of its Computing Resources to COVID-19 Protein Research

[Spence Graham]

03/24/2020

Michael Wells, G7VJR, has announced that *Club Log*
<http://www.clublog.org/> is contributing 120 CPU cores (most running at
3.4 GHz) to the *Folding at Home Project*
<https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/>
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 at 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 at Home team number is 246763.

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Spence

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