When Millions of Idle Computers Changed Everything
In March 2020, as the world locked down and scientists scrambled to understand a terrifying new virus, a distributed computing project called Folding@home issued an...
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In March 2020, as the world locked down and scientists scrambled to understand a terrifying new virus, a distributed computing project called Folding@home issued an urgent call: donate your computer's idle processing power to help us study COVID-19. The response was staggering. Within weeks, millions of ordinary home computers — laptops on kitchen tables, gaming rigs in teenagers' bedrooms, office machines sitting dark — joined the network.…
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