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Many of you may already be aware of this as it has been running for many years and has also recently been in the technology press.
An academic distributed computing project called folding@home uses your PC while it's not doing anything else to run protein folding simulations in order to find potential treatments for various diseases (cancer, alzheimers, huntingdons etc.). They have now added simulations for COVID-19 treatments and are asking for as much computing help as they can get in order to speed the path to a treatment that could save lives.
The client runs quietly on your PC in the background essentially as a screensaver app and when your PC isn't doing anything else then it retrieves simulation 'packets' called work units and uses your CPU or GPU to analyze them and return the results. If you aren't already running this tool then please consider it for any PC's you may have (gaming PC's are brilliant for this as the GPU's can chew through work units far faster than a CPU.
Once you have installed the client a web control page will open in your browser which will allow you to control when the client works and when it's idle and it will show you how far it has gotten through it's current work unit and how many you have completed. You can also specify which research you want to contribute to, selecting 'any disease' will include COVID-19 research, it may well get it's own category soon.
Your computer could be the one that discovers the cure to this global crisis.
#EDIT: Spelling and project selection info.
Ah what the heck, I used to do SETI back in the day then folded for a while, can't do any harm (especially if you've got the heating on anyway)
Looks like they're currently suffering server overload issues, only seems to be dispensing cpu WUs