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Like many, when I heard about Folding@HOME and how I could contribute to the fight against COVID, I put my hardware to work. Now that's it has been a while, what effect did those projects ultimately have on the outcome? Did it actually help with the creation of vaccines, or was it effectively just a massive waste of energy?

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[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did I completely miss this, the video linked in another comment does a decent job of explaining. Is there anything like this currently going on for other research elsewhere? Would love to get involved.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems a lot of projects aren’t in operation anymore, but I found a list at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_projects

The one I still use is https://electricsheep.org/, but it’s art based and not as much for research. :)

[–] lemme_at_it@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's just amazing. Thanks so much