AWS Just Started Folding

Let&#x27;s be clear here: this is about protein folding.<p>I almost panicked for a moment thinking they were folding in some sort of business sense, before realizing it would take far more than what&#x27;s currently going on for AWS to fold.

Oh, spot instances to save lives!<p>There is also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19-hpc-consortium.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;covid19-hpc-consortium.org&#x2F;</a><p><pre><code> COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium Members: a lot of universities, federal agencies, NASA, US DoE, IBM, Amazon Web Services, AMD, Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft, NVIDIA, </code></pre> compute muscle -&gt; Over 402 petaflops, 105,334 nodes, 3,539,044 CPU cores, 41,286 GPUs, and counting.<p>To join - go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xsede.org&#x2F;covid19-hpc-consortium" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xsede.org&#x2F;covid19-hpc-consortium</a><p>Just curious - are Apple&#x2F;FB doing anything about it?<p>EDIT: Apple is helping in a different way (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;4&#x2F;5&#x2F;21209270&#x2F;apple-face-shields-masks-covid-19-coronavirus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2020&#x2F;4&#x2F;5&#x2F;21209270&#x2F;apple-face-shield...</a>)

The teams are quite fascinating. A diverse bunch of national teams, and community teams from tech websites to the skeptics community to Bronys to Free Republic, the Republican mega-forum?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;folding.extremeoverclocking.com&#x2F;team_list.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;folding.extremeoverclocking.com&#x2F;team_list.php</a><p>HN should start one.

So I’m curious, we have a tendency on HN to assume every problem has a technical solution; from autism to inmate rehabilitation, from food insecurity to poverty, solutions are just one good SaaS idea away.<p>Is covid@home really going to solve this by donating cpu cycles before traditional medical research creates a vaccine? Is turning coal into code (ala Bitcoin) that productive in this case? Because I’ve run the app but feel like I’m in some kind of techbro bubble to believe I’m making even an iota of difference

So... can we add &quot;@ Home&quot; to this title? Cuz I was like &quot;WHOA how is AWS possibly going out of business?&quot;

What am I seeing? The chart is blurred out.

Why has this article been flagged?

Slightly better context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;message.jspa?messageID=938560" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forums.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;message.jspa?messageID=938560</a>

Is amazon the corporation putting in the cpu time or an individual paying for aws to do this?

So, anyone want to hazard a guess at what their bill would be?

No information in the link.

Can anyone explain to me what I&#x27;m looking at?

As usual ... Wikipedia [1] has a better explanation than the actual site [2], sigh.<p>&quot;Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for performing molecular dynamics simulations of protein dynamics. Its initial focus was on protein folding but has shifted to more biomedical problems, such as Alzheimer&#x27;s disease, cancer, COVID-19, and Ebola.&quot;<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Folding@home" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Folding@home</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foldingathome.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;foldingathome.org&#x2F;</a>