![]() ![]() The good news is that our contribution has sped up their iteration cycle tremendously. need field experts to put together work units to be sent out to our computers, and such expertise is also required to review and interpret our submitted results. They’re still working on it, hang tight!Ĭomputing hardware aside, there are human limitations on both input and output sides of this distributed supercomputer. As of this writing, their backend infrastructure has grown though not yet caught up to the flood. Fortunately they are optimistic this recent fame has also attracted attention from enough donors with the right resources to help. ![]() These restrictions typically exclude capital equipment and infrastructure spending, meaning researchers can’t “just” buy more servers. Most of their research grants have restrictions on how that funding is spent. * Every time we double our server resources, the number of Donors trying to help goes up by a factor of 4, outstripping whatever we do. * Keep your machines running, they will eventually fold on their own. * We are working on it and hope to have a solution very soon. * It’s happening because of an approximately 20x increase in demand The most succinct information was posted by a folding support forum moderator. This has overwhelmed their server infrastructure and resulted in what’s been termed a friendly-fire DDoS attack. Since then, several hundred thousands more started pitching in. Before this month there were roughly thirty thousand regular contributors. We could see this happening on the leader boards, but in this AMA we have numbers direct from the source. Thanks to people spreading the word - like the amazing growth of Team Hackaday - there has been a huge infusion of new participants. Unsurprisingly, the top two topics are “Why isn’t my computer doing anything?” and “What does this actually accomplish?” Some members of the FAH research team hosted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit to provide us with behind-the-scenes details. A great big Thank You to everyone who answered the call to participate in helping to understand proteins interactions of SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
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