Your Mac Can Help Find a Coronavirus Vaccine

Your Mac Can Help Find the Coronavirus Vaccine

One of the recurring news in recent weeks, unfortunately, is not being the new 14-inch Mac they say Apple is going to release. The recurring news is the outbreak of Coronavirus or COVID-19 that although it is not especially lethal if is becoming a disease that worries and much. The goal is to find a vaccine as soon as possible that eliminates the effects of the disease and thus be able to reduce mortality to very low levels.

Folding @ Home has joined in this search for the vaccine and for this it needs your Mac. What you really need is a part of your power to involve you in a project where several scientists can work to achieve positive results as soon as possible.

Folding @ Home needs your Mac to stop the spread of the coronavirus

Folding @ Home is a project designed to use the resources of personal computers. Relevant simulations on diseases and other molecular dynamics are carried out in order to improve the investigations. Within this project there are several areas of study and research and now the search for a vaccine against Coronavirus is joining.

All you have to do is download the program that they themselves have developed. After you have configured it, our Mac will serve alongside thousands of others (estimated to be a million in total) to speed up simulations and investigations. The data obtained will be disseminated quickly and openly, as part of a scientific collaboration. Multiple laboratories from around the world are involved. In this way, researchers have new tools to unlock new opportunities to develop drugs and vaccines.

In order to share your Mac, you should know that you need a 64-bit Mac (Core 2 Duo or later) with macOS 10.6 or later. Some easy qualities, available to almost anyone with a Mac. You can choose that the application works always or only when it is turned on, taking into account that it uses the resources that are not being used at that moment. This way it will slow down a bit, but not too much to prevent your day to day.


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