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Title: How to Use Your Mac to Help the Fight Against Coronavirus Post by: HCK on March 12, 2020, 04:05:09 pm How to Use Your Mac to Help the Fight Against Coronavirus
(https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2020/03/folding@home.jpg)Folding@home (https://foldingathome.org) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. In addition to cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's, Folding@home has announced (https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/) that it is tackling a disease that has been dominating the headlines: COVID-19. The project is joining researchers around the world who are working to better understand the Coronavirus to accelerate the open science effort to develop new life-saving therapies. By downloading Folding@Home on your Mac, you can donate your unused computational resources to the Folding@home Consortium, where researchers are working to advance our understanding of the structures of potential drug targets for COVID-19 that could aid in the design of new therapies. <center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Help us in the fight against COVID-19! Download the app at: https://t.co/andJ4PDzVl (https://t.co/andJ4PDzVl) #Coronavirus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Coronavirus?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) #2019nCov (https://twitter.com/hashtag/2019nCov?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) #COVID19 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) #SARSCoV2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SARSCoV2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) https://t.co/BSmiV8phh1 (https://t.co/BSmiV8phh1)</p>— Folding@home (@foldingathome) February 27, 2020 (https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1233150565347016706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center> The following steps show you how to get started with the Mac app. Before you install the Folding@home client, be aware that it can consume a lot of CPU cycles, so depending on what you use your Mac for, you may be better off running it only during times when your Mac is otherwise idle. <ol><li>Open a browser tab and visit https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/ (https://foldingathome.org/start-folding).</li> <li>Click on <strong>fah-installer_7.5.1_x86_64.mpkg.zip</strong> link to download the Folding@Home installer. (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2020/03/help-fight-covid-19-mac.jpg) <li>Run the installer and enter your admin user name and password when prompted. </li> <li>When the installer has completed, ignore the webpage that it opens for now, and launch the <strong>FAHControl</strong> app from the <strong>Applications/Folding@home</strong> folder. (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2020/03/help-fight-covid-19-mac-1.jpg) <li>You'll see a prompt warning you that the client hasn't been assigned an identity. Click <strong>Fold Anonymously</strong> or <strong>Configure Identity</strong>. The latter option ensures that the points you earn will be credited to you, but you'll need to enter a username. (You can also join a team – MacRumors' Team ID is 3446.) (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2020/03/help-fight-covid-19-mac-2.jpg) <li>To ensure your CPU cycles are contributing to COVID-19, click the <strong>Configure</strong> button, then select the <strong>Advanced</strong> tab and choose <strong>Any</strong> in the <strong>Cause Preference</strong> dropdown menu. (The project is prioritizing coronavirus among the Any category.) (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2020/03/help-fight-covid-19-mac-3.jpg) <li>Click <strong>Save</strong>.</li></ol> You can view a visual representation of the molecules your Mac is analyzing in real time by clicking the <strong>Viewer</strong> button. You can also access the web client at https://client.foldingathome.org (https://client.foldingathome.org) for a better visual rendering. (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2020/03/how-to-fight-covid-19-mac-3.jpg) Since this is a power-hungry endeavor, the Folding@home client will automatically pause whenever your Mac laptop switches to battery power. 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