- Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line dedicates its unused computing power to the Folding@Home Project (FAH).
- FAH is a distributed computing service that helps researchers simulate protein folding and movement in diseases like COVID-19.
- This program will help researchers who work around the clock to find a coronavirus cure.
- The software is free and available to download for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- In the past three weeks nearly more than 120 FAH projects have been launched.
- Apart from Bahamas Paradise Cruise; cruise ships Grand Classica and Grand Celebration have also made their contribution.
A recently published article in the Maritime Executive gives a clear picture of how the cruise lines come into play to fight the novel corona virus. The Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line has announced that it is dedicating its unused computing power to the Folding@Home Project (FAH). The computing service that helps researchers simulate protein folding and movement in diseases like COVID-19.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented global impact, and when we learned about the unique Folding@Home initiative, we immediately knew we had to help,” said Oneil Khosa, CEO of Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line. “We have an enormous amount of idle computing power at hand, given our ships are currently restricted from their normal operations, and this program gives us a way to utilize those resources, helping researchers who are working around the clock to find a coronavirus cure. We’re proud to be part of this project, and we are asking our industry partners and peers to commit their resources to the effort.”
Folding@Home project
- Through the Folding@Home project, scientists can use donated computing power from anywhere in the world to run simulations.
- It includes studies targeting the virus that causes COVID-19.
- The software is free and available to download for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- The more computing time donated to the cause, the more simulations scientists can run.
More than 120 FAH projects targeting the novel coronavirus have launched within the past three weeks alone. As an example, the Huang lab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has released a series of Folding@Home projects that simulate protein complexes involved in the virus’ replication. It is a part of research to screen existing drugs for use against COVID-19.
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Source: Maritime Executive
