World Community Grid and COVID-19

[CountryGent]

For those that not already aware of World Community Grid, it is the largest public computing grid designed to tackle medical and other scientific research projects. It runs on PC and Macs and works in the background. I've had it on all my home and office PCs since around 2005-ish. Anyway, COVID-19 research is coming to the platform soon. Main site here and news here.

Just thought I'd pass it along.

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[glc357]

Thank you for the information. I am a believer in scientific research.

 

[CountryGent]

Just a heads up that this project is now live. It is neat seeing the project crunch away on the various machines, particularly the high-end ones.

Cheers.

 

[IOM]

 

[CountryGent]

In the event an update is of interest: OpenPandemics: COVID-19 Update (July 2020)