Overview

During the COVID-19 pandemic, ASU Research Computing, in collaboration with our tri-university partner institutions, joined efforts to understand COVID-19 through Folding@Home (FAH), a distributed computing molecular dynamics project with hopes to significantly contribute to drug discovery for COVID-19 by dynamically simulating COVID-19 viral proteins. To assist with this collaborative effort ASU Research Computing utilized accelerated computing devices to perform these protein modeling computations during the brief idle periods between regular computing jobs.

By running these computations only during idle time, Research Computing was able to contribute to this COVID modeling effort without impacting ASU's everyday computational research. These jobs were submitted in the lowest priority QOS queue and were automatically canceled to make resources available to any user-submitted jobs. Folding@Home jobs never impacted user jobs or research.

Progress

During the pandemic, Arizona tri-universities Research Computing ranked 37 in the world for contributions to FAH, scoring over 32,000,000,000 points early in the pandemic.

Open

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See our live progress: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=239945

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