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Former Member
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There are some distributed computing project on the Internet that tries to find cure for diseases, like World Community Grid. Could anyone say why there are such things and how useful those are? I mean, I believe that if you are serious researcher, I think you are able to use university's networks or supercomputers to do modelling. So what is the idea about spread the modelling to regular computers? Does the medicine modelling require so much computer power that computers in universities have not enough computing power?
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yoerik
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There are some distributed computing project on the Internet that tries to find cure for diseases, like World Community Grid. Could anyone say why there are such things and how useful those are? I mean, I believe that if you are serious researcher, I think you are able to use university's networks or supercomputers to do modelling. So what is the idea about spread the modelling to regular computers? Does the medicine modelling require so much computer power that computers in universities have not enough computing power? Supercomputers are incredibly expensive. And, across all BOINC devices - all our computer power summed up = the 5th largest supercomputer in the world, at no cost to the researchers that utilize it. I can't speak for scientists - but we are helping. I understand your skepticism, but like WCG says - they help projects that would take decades, take only months or years.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by yoerik at Apr 6, 2020 10:19:33 AM] |
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alged
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Well i wud be ready to participate in any WCG-Covid project but i ask a naïve question :
----------------------------------------After the previous outbreaks of SARS-COV in Asia some years ago;there was actually no research at all in any BIG PHARMA labs,any governmental or private research universities,in any country to better knowledge of these family of viruses? Really? If such that wud explain how we have been caught off guard and the so anxious rush to find a vaccine.Some studies before might have helped us now to counter better this plight. Is my question naïve? or is it me? May someone cud post some links or infos abt any research linked to that question. Regards  Nous sommes tous des chercheurs en puissance  |
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Former Member
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Actually there was SARS research and the lab that requested 3 million to continue and finish got thumbs down "no longer of immediate interest", so it died.
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