OK... this news item is not so new anymore, but worth reposting here nevertheless.
As many of you know, Rosetta@home is a Distributed Computing project very similar to Folding@home. Differences are that it uses the BOINC client for work distribution, and that its science applications are limited to CPU processing (while Folding@home can use GPUs, and is in fact much faster on commonly available discrete GPUs than even on the largest server CPUs).
Right now, I have got Folding@home running myself on 9 GPUs since the AnandTech vs. Tom's race was announced, but I have been running Rosetta@home on a little 4-core/8-thread Haswell Xeon E3 already throughout the last weeks, or actually months. I now remembered to switch the host CPU of my biggest GPU computer, a Xeon E5 v4, over to Rosetta too. It's a 22c/44t processor, and I set 36 threads for Rosetta, leaving the rest to drive this computer's 3 GPUs and what else goes on in the background.
But back to the news item above: If you wonder if this concluded Rosetta@home's corona virus related research already, then no, they are still at it. Of the tasks which I have currently queued here myself, about half say in their name that they are involved with COVID-19 research. (I haven't taken the time yet to go look up what the others may be about. Similar to Folding@home, Rosetta@home is pursuing several projects in parallel, yet the computing preferences don't have options for us to choose which ones we want to support in particular.)
If you are new to BOINC or to Rosetta@home: TeAm AnandTech is of course active as a BOINC team at Rosetta too. When you create an account for yourself at Rosetta@home, or at any later point in time, you can join your account with TeAm AnandTech through the Rosetta web site --- http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/.
On 24 Feb 2020 boinc.bakerlab.org said:Rosetta's role in fighting coronavirus
Thank you to all R@h volunteers for your contributions to help accurately model important coronavirus proteins. The collective computing power that you provide through R@h helps academic research groups world wide model important protein structures like these.
From a recent IPD news post:
"We are happy to report that the Rosetta molecular modeling suite was recently used to accurately predict the atomic-scale structure of an important coronavirus protein weeks before it could be measured in the lab. Knowledge gained from studying this viral protein is now being used to guide the design of novel vaccines and antiviral drugs."
Since the release of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences in late January, a number of important corona virus proteins like the one described above have been modeled on R@h volunteer computers. A list of these proteins is provided by the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID).
24 Feb 2020, 18:19:59 UTC · Discuss
As many of you know, Rosetta@home is a Distributed Computing project very similar to Folding@home. Differences are that it uses the BOINC client for work distribution, and that its science applications are limited to CPU processing (while Folding@home can use GPUs, and is in fact much faster on commonly available discrete GPUs than even on the largest server CPUs).
Right now, I have got Folding@home running myself on 9 GPUs since the AnandTech vs. Tom's race was announced, but I have been running Rosetta@home on a little 4-core/8-thread Haswell Xeon E3 already throughout the last weeks, or actually months. I now remembered to switch the host CPU of my biggest GPU computer, a Xeon E5 v4, over to Rosetta too. It's a 22c/44t processor, and I set 36 threads for Rosetta, leaving the rest to drive this computer's 3 GPUs and what else goes on in the background.
But back to the news item above: If you wonder if this concluded Rosetta@home's corona virus related research already, then no, they are still at it. Of the tasks which I have currently queued here myself, about half say in their name that they are involved with COVID-19 research. (I haven't taken the time yet to go look up what the others may be about. Similar to Folding@home, Rosetta@home is pursuing several projects in parallel, yet the computing preferences don't have options for us to choose which ones we want to support in particular.)
If you are new to BOINC or to Rosetta@home: TeAm AnandTech is of course active as a BOINC team at Rosetta too. When you create an account for yourself at Rosetta@home, or at any later point in time, you can join your account with TeAm AnandTech through the Rosetta web site --- http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/.