Folding@Home HPC for COVID-19

March 2020, news was spreading of a rapidly evolving pandemic with potentially deadly concequences and societies were struggling to slow the tide. Less than a week before working remotely was made mandatory, in an effort to reduce human contact nationwide, I saw the news Folding@home update on SARS-CoV-2 (10 Mar 2020) the Folding@Home project was rapidly onboarding COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 protein folding projects to aid with early understanding of the virus in hopes of discovering ways to block the virus from interacting with human cells, preventing infection....

July 25, 2023 · 3 min · 639 words