Your Mac can now help scientists find a coronavirus cure
4th March 2020
You might already be familiar with SETI@Home. This uses spare processing power from personal computers all around the world to analyze data from radio telescopes, looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. That program is ceasing at the end of the month, as the university now has enough results to do a back-end analysis to make sense of it all…
But there’s a similar distributed computing project geared to finding cures for diseases, Folding@Home (FAH), and that has started work on trying to find a cure for the coronavirus.
So far, FAH has been working on four different cancers, three neurological diseases, and five infectious diseases.
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.