Posted on 03/22/2020 5:00:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Gamers, bitcoin "miners" and companies large and small have teamed up for an unprecedented data-crunching effort that aims to harness idle computing power to accelerate research for a coronavirus treatment.
The project led by computational biologists has effectively created the world's most powerful supercomputer that can handle trillions of calculations needed to understand the structure of the virus.
More than 400,000 users downloaded the application in the past two weeks from "Folding@Home," according to director Greg Bowman, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University in St. Louis, where the project is based.
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The computations are not the rate limiting step. The double blind study controlled trials and FDA approval is the rate limiting step. This could take a year even if they found the right drug tomorrow.
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