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Off topic but important. You can help the fight against CoronaVirus with the raw power of your rig
stitchesofdooom
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There's a website called folding@home and you can use their client to donate some of your spare computing power (CPU & GPU) to the various protein folding simulations to help the global research collaboration find treatments, vaccines and cures for Covid-19.
Anyone with a PC can help, but we PC gamers particulary can put the power of our GPUs into this project when we're not gaming. Many of these tasks are far better suited to GPUs. We can help to protect the weak and the sick. We all know someone with a trashed immune system, or who is really effin old. Please, PCMR: use your PCMR powers for good.
Obviously Google it first: folding@home
Edited by stitchesofdooom on March 18, 2020 10:58PM Anyone with a PC can help, but we PC gamers particulary can put the power of our GPUs into this project when we're not gaming. Many of these tasks are far better suited to GPUs. We can help to protect the weak and the sick. We all know someone with a trashed immune system, or who is really effin old. Please, PCMR: use your PCMR powers for good.
Obviously Google it first: folding@home
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✭✭Oh are you the guy I saw in The Rift earlier on PC EU?
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I've been donating computing power to SETI@home since like 2003 and those guys haven't found a single alien.
Joking aside this is probably a decent thing to do.10 -
stitchesofdooom✭✭✭✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Oh are you the guy I saw in The Rift earlier on PC EU?
But no, seriously. Yes. I agree.
Yeah, that was me. PCMR are uniquely equipped to make a real difference. Even a potato potato beats a basic workstation.Say NO to Crown Crates. Crown Crates are Loot Boxes. Loot Boxes are gambling. Zenimax makes enough money off us.
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stitchesofdooom✭✭✭✭Pffft
I've been donating computing power to SETI@home since like 2003 and those guys haven't found a single alien.
Joking aside this is probably a decent thing to do.Sylvermynx wrote: »Moi aussi!InaMoonlight wrote: »Done.
thanks for the support. It's not my project, and I'm extremely unlikely to die if I catch it... but for the small percentage to who CoronaVirus is extremely threatening - I choose to use my PCMR powers for good.Say NO to Crown Crates. Crown Crates are Loot Boxes. Loot Boxes are gambling. Zenimax makes enough money off us.
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IndianaJames7✭✭✭✭✭Good idea! Just got a 2080 super + 3900x which game performance has prevented me from using anyways... might as well put em to good use!3 -
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✭This seems like a really good thing! Thank you @stitchesofdooom for sharing this information!
Now, here's hoping ZOS will make an exception and not close this thread down because it is not ESO-related. Please, ZOS, be reasonable and just ignore this, there are things that are slightly more important than your game right now and the more people know about it and take it seriously, the better.This poor little Bosmer stealth passive had passionate friends and a big loving family!4 -
nhisso✭✭✭✭The folding at home folks are bringing it back to playstation as well. It was on ps3. Going to ps4.2 -
IndianaJames7✭✭✭✭✭CassandraGemini wrote: »This seems like a really good thing! Thank you @stitchesofdooom for sharing this information!
Now, here's hoping ZOS will make an exception and not close this thread down because it is not ESO-related. Please, ZOS, be reasonable and just ignore this, there are things that are slightly more important than your game right now and the more people know about it and take it seriously, the better.
0% chance ZOS closes this, this should be pinned if anything.5 -
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✭IndianaJames7 wrote: »CassandraGemini wrote: »This seems like a really good thing! Thank you @stitchesofdooom for sharing this information!
Now, here's hoping ZOS will make an exception and not close this thread down because it is not ESO-related. Please, ZOS, be reasonable and just ignore this, there are things that are slightly more important than your game right now and the more people know about it and take it seriously, the better.
0% chance ZOS closes this, this should be pinned if anything.
Well, they have closed down other Covid-19 threads before, but those were mostly dealing with memes or other inappropriate stuff, so... I sure hope you're right in this case This poor little Bosmer stealth passive had passionate friends and a big loving family!1 -
stitchesofdooom✭✭✭✭CassandraGemini wrote: »IndianaJames7 wrote: »CassandraGemini wrote: »This seems like a really good thing! Thank you @stitchesofdooom for sharing this information!
Now, here's hoping ZOS will make an exception and not close this thread down because it is not ESO-related. Please, ZOS, be reasonable and just ignore this, there are things that are slightly more important than your game right now and the more people know about it and take it seriously, the better.
0% chance ZOS closes this, this should be pinned if anything.
Well, they have closed down other Covid-19 threads before, but those were mostly dealing with memes or other inappropriate stuff, so... I sure hope you're right in this case
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thank you for joining the team.
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✭✭✭✭✭stitchesofdooom wrote: »
thank you for joining the team.
Team PCMR is 225605 btw
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✭✭✭✭✭...this smells malicious.
Folding@home is not a new thing, but there since a couple of years. Computing how proteins fold is a rather intensive computation and using the power of client machines to distribute the computation is helping research - this is not specifically for corona, but in general it helps researchers in the field with many problems related to the 3d structure of proteins and enzymes. This said, if you graphics hardware has issues with temperature, keep an eye on it - the computations done are using lots of GPU power and it could eventually overheat.Edited by Lysette on March 19, 2020 10:39AM7 -
InaMoonlight✭✭✭✭✭@ZOS_GinaBruno Is there any chance we can sticky this, so we can all see and help out if we can?
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Magenpie✭✭✭✭✭Sorry to ask this but does it contribute internationally or just to the US?
Edit: For anyone concerned like me this seems to be a good jumping off point. I'm very wary of commercial research masquerading as open source research (although I realise the lines are always blurry.) Anyway, sorry to be overly cautious probably.
https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/
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stitchesofdooom✭✭✭✭Sorry to ask this but does it contribute internationally or just to the US?
It's a global collaboration.Say NO to Crown Crates. Crown Crates are Loot Boxes. Loot Boxes are gambling. Zenimax makes enough money off us.
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stitchesofdooom✭✭✭✭stitchesofdooom wrote: »
thank you for joining the team.
Team PCMR is 225605 btw
@stitchesofdooom there is now an ESOfam team 240473
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✭Thank you for the info. Done.
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scorpius2k1✭✭✭✭✭
✭I pay for electricity, so no. Plus ESO lags enough!
LOL. How much power does your rig pull Kadoin? I'll gladly pay the extra $2-3 a MONTH if it means helping out the cause and in return keeping posts like these still around for the humor component.their story's so touching, it sounds just like a lie!
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✭✭Just to clarify, this project covers protein folding simulations, one application of which is a set of simulations they are running on SARS in order to understand COVID-19 better and identify the potential for certain kinds of cures - it's not devoted to COVID-19 exclusively and it's actually unlikely (but not impossible) that they will contribute to curing COVID-19 anytime soon. Their primary focus is on diseases resultant from protein mis-folding, like cancer, Alzheimer's, and many others.
I'm pretty sure they are capitalizing on the COVID-19 media frenzy to draw attention to their project by applying their methods to the problem, and it's an area that needs to be explored, but they are not working towards a cure, per se. They are making simulated SARS data available to researchers who are investigating a very specific factor that might result in a cure.
It's good that they are doing their part, and their work is important, but if your primary concern is curing COVID-19, donating your GPU to this probably won't do a lot. But it might do a lot more for curing many other diseases - so don't let your cynicism override your desire to help, just make sure that you are informed and devoting your resources in a way that meets your priorities.
On a side note, if they are a registered charity, the additional power consumption costs you incur by running their models ought to be tax deductible AFAIK, but I don't think that they provide a reliable way to measure that in their software, and their tax ID is not on their website from what I can see.7 -
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