The moderators of the PC Master race subreddit urged the owners of powerful gaming video cards to join the scientific cloud computing of the Stanford Folding @ Home project , which is now engaged in the calculation of models in eight directions at once to combat COVID-19. The Reddit community initiative was already supported by Nvidia, which called on Twitter to provide scientists with the computing power of their video cards:It is important to note that the PC Master race subreddit is not trying to hype on the topic of coronavirus : Folding @ Home support and the first systematic mega-thread dedicated to the project were published 4 months ago, when they did not even hear about coronavirus. In addition, users have mentioned F @ H in subreddit for the past five years.How to take part in collective calculations, even if you do not care about COVID-19 and you want to quickly find a cure for cancer - under the cat.In order to participate in the calculations and support scientists with their own capacities, you have three options.First: join the computer reddit group of the subreddit PC Master race.Second: enter the specific code of the study of interest and count it yourself, in the chosen direction.An option for those who do not care about COVID-19: choose from the four proposed areas (cancer, alzheimer, etc.) and count there.In order to become part of the computing group, you will need to install special F @ H software on your PC. A complete list of installers can be found here . Now out of the box, Windows 10, MacOS, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, RedHat, Debian, and Mint are supported. Also worth reading this article.and the previously mentioned thread on Reddit itself . For those interested, a repository on GitHub .So that you do not waste time: in order to connect to the calculations, you must specify the code of the project (settlement group) in the software settings F @ H. The developers suggest using a web interface, but it can be called stable with great difficulty. In the client’s configuration, in the “Team number” field, enter the code of the Reddit group, which considers everything in a row, or a specific calculation using COVID.Group Code: 225605Codes of individual studies and their description14530/14531: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease — potential drug target
14328: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease — potential drug target
11741: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) receptor binding domain in complex with human receptor ACE2.
11746: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) receptor binding domain in complex with human receptor ACE2 (alternative structure to 11741).
11742: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease in complex with an inhibitor.
11743: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) protease – potential drug target.
11744: Coronavirus SARS-CoV (SARS causing virus) receptor binding domain trapped by a SARS-CoV S230 antibody.
11745: Coronavirus SARS-CoV (SARS causing virus) receptor binding domain mutated to the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 causing virus) trapped by a SARS-CoV S230 antibody.
For powerful workstations with the latest generation of graphics cards, or with full rigs on the GPU, it is recommended to get a personal key by contacting Stanford. This will optimize the load and calculations.Important! Initially, it may seem to you that FAHControl shows no signs of life and that everything broke down on automatic settings. If so, then you most likely faced the same problems as the blog editorial office: taking a job for a very long time. After several sessions and connections, the software should finally receive the data for the calculation and your video card will do the work.