Mesh Computing Projects with Free Software against COVID-19

Mesh Computing Projects with Free Software against COVID-19

Mesh Computing Projects with Free Software against COVID-19

As many of you know, around the world there are currently many Mesh Computing Projects, of which some are based on Free Software and Open Source. And of which, many have scientific purposes, especially medical, such as Folding @ home y Rosetta @ home.

So, for a long time, most of the Grid Computing Projects, that is, those that make use of organizational, public or private computing resources, and the Voluntary Computing Projects, that is, those that make use of everyday mass consumption devices, take advantage of the use of virtualized, parallel and GPU-based applications, mainly in benefit of humanity.

Mesh Computing Projects: Introduction

For example and as a reference, we can mention a well-known Open Source Mesh Computing initiative, of which we published more than 6 months ago, called BOINC, of which we write and the following is worth quoting:

"BOINC is a software created, hosted and sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, since 2002, with funding primarily from the US National Science Foundation. So your Official website is hosted on your domain. Which has allowed the software, its source code, its documentation and development to be accessible to the entire community interested in a project of this magnitude.".

"BOINC is used in many voluntary computing projects, many of which are associated with scientific research, public and / or private, mostly carried out by and in universities and research laboratories. Projects to which, many times anyone can join to participate at any time".

Mesh Computing Projects: Content

Mesh Computing Projects

Folding @ home

Folding @ home is a Open Source Mesh Computing Project focused on disease research. Therefore, it makes use of distributed computing resources to find the cures for them. His research focuses on the folding of proteins. This project was developed and is operated by the Pande Laboratory in the Stanford University.

Since, proteins assemble themselves by folding over the body of cells, and when they are misfolded, there can be serious consequences for a person's health. In short, it focuses on protein folding simulation relevant to disease and other molecular dynamics.

To this end, the project provides a cross-platform program (Windows, MacOS and Linux), LLAMADA FAH. In the case of free and open Operating Systems, it offers the program through 3 installation files (in .deb and .rpm format), and an easy Installation guide to contribute our available computing resources for such a valuable contribution in favor of humanity.

"FAH is built from several open source instruments, namely Gromacs (http://www.gromacs.org), TINKER (http://dasher.wustl.edu), and AMBER (http: // ambermd. org /) for the MD and MPICH packages for the MPI (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/). If you are interested in checking these codes, you should feel free to download and check them.". Official website - section Faq - Opensource

And finally now Folding @ home has come together to bring its valuable experience and knowledge to contribute in the fight against COVID.-19. And you can see all your current contribution, on your site at GitHub.

Rosetta @ home

Rosetta @ home is a Open Source Mesh Computing Project focused on the prediction and / or determination of three-dimensional shapes of proteins, to assist in research focused on achieving the cure of some of the main human diseases. This project is part of the BOINC.

"We believe that we are getting closer and closer to accurately predicting and designing protein complexes and structures, one of the holy bones of computer biology. But in order to demonstrate this, we need an immense amount of computing resources, an amount greater than what the largest supercomputers in the world can offer. This is only possible through a joint effort of volunteers like you.". Official website - section What is Rosetta @ home?

Refering to fight against COVID-19, Rosetta @ home has already been used to help accurately predict the atomic-scale structure of an important protein in the Coronavirus 19weeks before it could be measured in the laboratory. Whereas now, the knowledge gained from studying this viral protein is now being used to guide the design of new vaccines and antiviral drugs.

To view, obtain, install and join this valuable effort from BOINC y Rosetta @ home, you can access the following links: Source code y Installation and use guide.

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Conclusion

We hope this "useful little post" about these 2 projects «Computación en malla» created to support the work of creating solutions against diseases, and now against pandemic current of year 2020, that is, the «Pandemia del COVID-19 (Coronavirus 19)», which are «Folding@home y Rosetta@home», is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».

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  1.   pmoya said

    Hello,
    Let's see if people cheer up… I've been using my computer for a long time (not mobile). I leave here an article that I published on the same topic, I hope that someone will be inspired to join the cause;

    https://pmoya-in-the-web.gitlab.io/post/2020-06-01-combate-el-covid-19-con-tu-ordenador/

    1.    Linux PostInstall said

      Greetings Pmoya! Thank you for your comment and contribution.