A WIU team during the quarantine
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:03 pm
Tuesday night, I discovered there's a WIU team for Rosetta@home. I joined up, so now we have two active members.
For those unacquainted, Rosetta@home does molecular modeling of protein structures through distributed computing. The calculations require heavy lifting, suitable for a supercomputer. Absent one of those, the work is dealt out to a bunch of ordinary computers connected via the Internet.
Right now, much of the focus is on tackling COVID-19.
Participants and teams are awarded credit for work performed and there are scoreboards. On my arrival, WIU was ranked 187 among universities and 1326 among all teams. Since then, sixty-five university teams have eaten our dust and we're now in the top 800 overall. The point isn't much to brag, but to show the difference to be made by only a few more computers.
If anyone here wants to enlist their own, that'd be awesome.
Ideally, we'd get the university itself on board. There are over 550 computers in computer labs and resource centers across campus -- several of those currently closed due to COVID-19.
Who is it needs to be persuaded to arrange that computers idled by COVID-19 are deployed to combat COVID-19?
For those unacquainted, Rosetta@home does molecular modeling of protein structures through distributed computing. The calculations require heavy lifting, suitable for a supercomputer. Absent one of those, the work is dealt out to a bunch of ordinary computers connected via the Internet.
Right now, much of the focus is on tackling COVID-19.
Participants and teams are awarded credit for work performed and there are scoreboards. On my arrival, WIU was ranked 187 among universities and 1326 among all teams. Since then, sixty-five university teams have eaten our dust and we're now in the top 800 overall. The point isn't much to brag, but to show the difference to be made by only a few more computers.
If anyone here wants to enlist their own, that'd be awesome.
Ideally, we'd get the university itself on board. There are over 550 computers in computer labs and resource centers across campus -- several of those currently closed due to COVID-19.
Who is it needs to be persuaded to arrange that computers idled by COVID-19 are deployed to combat COVID-19?