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1) Message boards : News : Rosetta's role in fighting coronavirus (Message 92045) Posted 18 Mar 2020 by 75685826 Post: Reassurance For those looking for even more reassurance (like I was) that volunteering to R@h is still relevant to the fight against COVID-19: R@h tweeted just 29 minutes ago (as of writing): Our scientists could use YOUR help in the fight against #coronavirus. Best part: it's as easy as running a screensaver. Seriously. Visit boinc.bakerlab.org to learn more & get started Another tweet from two days ago, this time from Institute for Protein Design: During this difficult time we are prioritizing our COVID-19 research (antiviral, vaccines, diagnostics) while enforcing social distancing. […] To help: boinc.bakerlab.org #WeGotThisSeattle Lastly, this (brilliant) tweet from three days ago, by team behind University of Washington’s protein folding game Foldit: Help researchers fight #COVID19 by donating spare time on your computer. If 💻's asleep, it can be working! Step 1: Download BOINC […] Step 2: Select the Rosetta@Home project (@rosettaathome) from inside BOINC app 🦠🧬 That's it! When your 💻's awake, play Foldit :) Download: fold.it *** No GPU processing? I was also wondering why Rosetta@home does not take advantage of GPUs, and found this previous answer from project administrator Mod.Sense: There are 150 developers in 23 universities and laboratories working on various aspects of the coding (Rosetta Commons). So, the idea has been considered from many many perspectives. […] Some serious efforts have been made to utilize GPUs. Noone is dismissing the value of GPU to computing. And with more and more on-chip memory their versatility improves. But even those making and selling GPUs do not attempt to argue that computing is all just ones and zeros, and therefore GPUs should be used for everything. They have a specific subset of compute tasks that they do very very well... such as graphics. But the "GP" does not stand for "General Purpose". In past posts I have likened the comparison between CPU and GPU as being similar to the difference between a school bus and a race car. The race car's acceleration and top speed are certainly superior, but that doesn't mean it can be used effectively to bring all of the children to school if that is the task at-hand.