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Previously on "Something useful to do"

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    If you’ve got some spare computing capacity sitting around, Folding@home would like to use it to help suss out how SARS-CoV-2 works: Covid19 – Folding@home
    Been running it for a week or two already. I'm not doing any video editing at the moment, and I'm using my laptop for working, so it's full throttle 24 hours a day.

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  • darmstadt
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    Had this over here:

    WirVsVirus - Der Hackathon der Bundesregierung - Corona / Covid-19

    https://twitter.com/wirvsvirushack

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  • wattaj
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    Originally posted by BR14 View Post
    i would if i thought it would benefit UK, but it's septic.
    You weren't given many hugs as a child, were you?

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by BR14 View Post
    i would if i thought it would benefit UK, but it's septic.
    It may be based over there but all data generated are published freely and openly, to be used by scientists everywhere

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by BR14 View Post
    i would if i thought it would benefit UK, but it's septic.
    I was going to set up a CUK team

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  • BR14
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    i would if i thought it would benefit UK, but it's septic.

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  • wattaj
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    If you’ve got some spare computing capacity sitting around, Folding@home would like to use it to help suss out how SARS-CoV-2 works: Covid19 – Folding@home

    Folding@home apparently has more computing power to hand than the world's top seven supercomputers combined.


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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    Will definitely sign up to this. I used to do the SETI@Home thing for a while, leaving it to run overnight when I wasn't working.
    You should be bitcoin mining. That's where the dollars are!!!


    ..apparently...

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    If you’ve got some spare computing capacity sitting around, Folding@home would like to use it to help suss out how SARS-CoV-2 works: Covid19 – Folding@home
    Will definitely sign up to this. I used to do the SETI@Home thing for a while, leaving it to run overnight when I wasn't working.

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  • NickFitz
    replied
    If you’ve got some spare computing capacity sitting around, Folding@home would like to use it to help suss out how SARS-CoV-2 works: Covid19 – Folding@home

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  • ladymuck
    started a topic Something useful to do

    Something useful to do

    https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/edh/rainfall-rescue

    Help transcribe rainfall data out of paper records so climate researchers can use it.

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