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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by bestboy on Saturday March 14, 2020 @09:34AM (#22575152)
Reddit's r/COVID19[1] has gathered big teams for Folding@Home and Rosetta@Home to crowd-source computing power against COVID19.

The F@H team COVID19@REDDIT[2] has ID 236269, if you are interested to join.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19

[2] https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&...

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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by dunefox on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:28AM (#22575517)
Where does it say that they're actually using the compute for COVID-19?
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Re:Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to w... by bestboy on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:11AM (#22575838)
They have an announcement on their web site[1] and on twitter[2].

Also the web client shows information about the executing tasks (e.g. [3][4]). The COVID19 tasks are prioritized and will be executed when you keep the target settings of the client at default ("Any").

[1] https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update

[2] https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1238568504200253442

[3] https://apps.foldingathome.org/project?p=11749

[4] https://apps.foldingathome.org/project?p=14329

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