Hey Meraki Community! Are you looking for more ways to help fight COVID-19? If so, I would like to formally invite you to join The Cisco Meraki Folding@Home Team! As you might imagine, scientists across the globe are actively fighting a battle to develop a treatment for COVID-19 as quickly as possible. And it turns out that people in the networking/computer/software world (you) are in a prime position to help with this battle. A major hurdle for researchers trying to defeat COVID-19 (and several other illnesses for that matter) is access to computer power; running analysis and simulations on complex proteins takes a lot of time and computational resources that limit researchers' ability to make progress with their work. Folding@Home is an organization that allows you to donate CPU/GPU cycles on your own computers/servers to run portions of these simulations for these researchers and speed up results. By crowdsourcing processing power, researchers can complete simulations that would take days to weeks in just a couple hours. If you have access to gaming computers, servers and/or even just a home PC and you are interested in joining, you can get started by following THIS link. Once you set up the F@H client, you can choose to contribute anonymously, join the Cisco Meraki Team (Team #243108), the Cisco Systems Team (Team #1115) or start your own team with friends/colleagues! The Cisco Meraki team was created about a month ago and in that time, we have already broken into the top 1000 highest contributing teams in the world! If you are want to track our progress (or yours if you join the team) you can use the below links: Team global standings Individual standings within the team For more information regarding Folding@Home, please see useful links below: Folding@Home FAQ Creating a User and Joining a Team Folding@Home Reaches exaFLOP of computer power
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