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Well, if Folding@Home's project still exists, I'm going with Deep Mind is not working with them or there's still space to help.
by rovr138 3y ago
Well, if Folding@Home's project still exists, I'm going with Deep Mind is not working with them or there's still space to help.
- danpalmer 3y agoOr Folding@Home is barely active enough to decide to stop, or they have a sunk cost fallacy... there are other options. While Folding@Home has some mindshare among techies of a certain age, I suspect it's no longer practical given the wide availability of much higher performance cloud computing, and I don't think it has ever been cost effective. I suspect it needs reevaluating in the modern era. The last time I was looking at the project at all seriously was in ~2006 I think.
- rovr138 3y ago> Folding@home is one of the world's fastest computing systems. With heightened interest in the project as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,[8] the system achieved a speed of approximately 1.22 exaflops by late March 2020 and reached 2.43 exaflops by April 12, 2020,[9] making it the world's first exaflop computing system. This level of performance from its large-scale computing network has allowed researchers to run computationally costly atomic-level simulations of protein folding thousands of times longer than formerly achieved. Since its launch on October 1, 2000, Folding@home was involved in the production of 226 scientific research papers.[10] Results from the project's simulations agree well with experiments.[11][12][13] Source, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home