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END Covid-19! Fund FULLTime PCs & StanfordU'sFolding@Home
YOU can help END Corona/Covid-19. Two(2)options:
1. Run Stanford U’s https://stats.FoldingAtHome.org/team/266085 
or 2.
Help Fund http://2020cures.com  to do it via www.TontosRoadHouse.com 
(an Activist restaurant that Funds Activists, esp. w/ Native American issues)
so we can build out a LOT of computers
to do this FASTER
& we eat a (lot) of electricity for you.
& deal with the tech headaches.

We’re also spinning this off into a nonprofit,
to convert/upgrade recently retired PC’s & servers,
put on Linux, to run faster than Windows.

So- what IS this?
Distributed Computing:
Folding@home breaks BIG data projects into (4 - 48hr) - week-long jobs, to a GIANT network of normal PCs:
F@H uses extra computer time (screen savers or slow backgrounds) on millions of PC’s.
There are far fewer FULL-Time/dedicated PC’s.
i.e.:
Our group has only been doing this for a few days
& we’re
52,699 of 253903 FoldingAtHome.org/team/266085 

We have some geeky topics to cover, so.... if you want to jump down to the donation link, at ANY time, we (&  my other gents' wives!) perfectly understand!

Stanford’s FoldingAtHome
stared out in Our geek year of y2k: 2000.

Want to specify what type of disease your money goes towards?
Want to see the range of diseases F@H’s been running for 20 years?
Cancers(mult. vectors)
Alzheimer’s
Huntington’s
Parkinson’s
&
almost more than 8 seasons of House(!)
https://foldingathome.org/news/ 

What kind of people are associated w/ Stanford?
Mae Jemison(Professor, Astronaut, Physicist, the first Black woman in space), Astronaut Sally Ride (We need more women examples for girls!)
President Herbert Hoover, Elon Musk, Google's Sergey Brin, Reid Hoffman,
Tiger Woods, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr)


Heads up folks!
1918 pandemic lasted
Jan.1918- Dec.1920. 36 months. 3 years.
Want a vaccine FASTER?

Reminder:
675,000 US Deaths (1918 pandemic)
1918 US population 103 million
2020 US population 331 million
500 million people (one-third of the world’s population) became infected
50 million deaths worldwide
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm 

AminoAcids->Proteins->Protein folding
Light waves are TOO big (imagine that!) to see at atomic/molecular level:
So F@H does computer atomic-level simulations of protein folding & interaction for thousands of variations, at EVERY option
looking for weaknesses/solutions.

COVID-19 Small Molecule Screening Simulations Running On Full Speed https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/30/new-covid-19-small-molecule-screening-simulations-are-running-on-full-foldinghome/ 


How to see the near invisible world: DNA animations:
Drew Berry is (THE) name in this field

1918,Sept.WW2 Victory Parade That Spread Death in Philadelphia (12,000 dead in 6 weeks) In 72 hours ALL beds 31 hospitals were filled.
( :Jan 1918-Dec 1920)
__?_-
1. https://daily.jstor.org/the-1918-parade-that-spread-death-in-philadelphia/ 


Here’s the kicker:
There are currently 30+ (known) stains of Covid-19, 8 of which are aggressive.
At this time we don’t know how many vaccines are necessary.

"If Covid-19 acts like other coronaviruses, “it likely isn’t going to be a long duration of immunity,” Dr. Fauci, said. “When you look at the history of coronaviruses, the common coronaviruses that cause the common cold, the reports in the literature are that the
durability of immunity that’s protective ranges from three to six months to almost always less than a year. That’s not a lot of durability and protection.”
(Then
you need to create a NEW vaccine. From scratch.
ex: There are NOW 30+ (known) strains of Corona, 8 are dangerous.
Mult vaccines may be needed. JUST for (this) batch of 8.
"Herd immunity" gets uglier to survive for waves 2 & 3 ( & ??? )

And ANNUALLY
(or sooner) how many extra will be mandatory,
as this,
like virii of this classification evolves. Often a few major times / year.
When things are SMALL like this, Nature evolves a LOT faster, by survival of the fittest to get by our immune system.
By mainly mis-copy errors.


Coronadeath,Turns "lungs into glass" (Warren, OH) Kevin Harris w/ Morning Express with Robin Meade (You may want to pause after 3 or 4 min.)


224 F@H Disease Results to Date:
https://foldingathome.org/papers-results/


Why aren’t a LOT of these being done by the average Joe?
Well, FULL-Time, these can EAT older PC’s & laptops.
You’ll see on our page that some as simply NOT producing very well.
some need a lot of new parts.
And only 2 old servers are (really) churning WorkUnits.
https://stats.FoldingAtHome.org/team/266085 
A couple of
old rigs are overheating & shutting down so often,
so many times a day, that they’re being retired... elsewhere.
I will NEVER
shotgun a PC we can hand down to a kid.
But old parts, that aren’t even worth turning into kid projects...
Let’s talk =)


When March... went wild, we were running in our Activist restaurant’s build-out phase.
& we have extra PC’s sitting idle.
& we’re farmers turned geeks.
ie:
I’m an olde farmer turned IT admin geek
(started w/ DOS 3.3 & Novell NetWare 3.10).
My farming thrifty repair background,
lets me find CPU/GPU(processor) upgrades
& tricks that are headaches & nightmares for... younger IT folk. (Whippersnappers!)
I’m training a new generation of tech geeks, so THIS is perfect!


So again,
We’re also spinning this off into a nonprofit,
to convert old PC’s,
put on Linux, to run faster than Windows
(& a LOT more stable, with less headaches)
replace compatible GPU's/ CPU’s w/ more processors per chip,
going from 1,2,4, per chip, to 6,8, to 16, 28 or 32.
Whatever the motherboard socket types & architecture will let us get away with, for a reasonable price-point.
That’s where the headaches come in, because...
they’d just prefer you bought a whole new system.
So they don’t make this easy.

That also means
have to change out cooling systems;
upgrading the right memory,
replace HD’s w/ SSD’s
And, everything has a starting point,
that needs help.


What happens when vaccines are figured out?
A. Great question!
B. Viruses do NOT stop evolving.
one we CAN live with is the common cold. evolves like crazy, but just a nuisance.
Some we had to stomp out. Polio. Small Pox. Measles.
But with easier International travel,
stomping new bugs out like the old days,
is No-where near as easy.

ALSO, that’s why out society will be slowly shifting to nanotechnology;
WW2 Manhattan project physicists Richard Feynman proposed near-atomic level machines to add to our immune systems: If nature can build it, why can’t we?
For a guy that Einstein liked to argue new ideas with,
merits some extra attention.
Esp. since he was on the Challenger Space Shuttle tragedy investigation team.
Now,
At that small of a scale, electricity jumps wire lines. a LOT.
It goes into clockmaker skills, modernized.
We’ll
be creating another nonprofit for that,
to help get kids in HS & MS into fields like nanotech.

But FIRST! Let’s get this off the ground.


Computers working 24/7 at FULL load capacity..
some don’t fare so well...
Often parts replacements will do the job;
or gut & replace everything except the frame & power button(!)


We run Linux (mostly the Mint fork of Ubuntu/Debian)
www.LinuxMint.com
Installation is straightforward:
https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/installation-guides/linux/command-line-options/
Make sure
you find the setting for Covid
(not the 20+ other projects concurrently running)
OR,
again, you can toss a donation our way
to put a LOT of rigs up
& eat a (lot) of electricity.

Oh, yes:
We’re surprised which of our archived rigs are SLOW as a snail in January.
But
on the plus side,
Tontos’ workload now ranks
53,936 of 253,900



As this builds in scale,
this project gets it’s own building.
(And heat other buildings in the winter).
And Ohio allows “free” solar incentives.
Wind & batteries... that’s where farm backgrounds help (note: LONG before power lines were run to farms in the 1930’40’s, we were using a diversity of windmill electric generators/systems…)


This is where we both tango:
Asking for funding:
Some as we start up
& we hope you’ll like what you see
& you’ll come aback later
& donate some more.

Also, we’ll be gearing up that HS & MS science education nonprofit we were talking about.
So, instead of PBS/NPR donor drives talking you to death
(I miss www.CarTalk.com  -the Click & Clack brothers are still available online!)

Here’s some suggestions below.
10/25/50/100/250/1,000/10,000/ 50,000 (write in Your budget’s price: Farmer <-to-> Gov. Scale...)

Thanks kindly, folks!
Here’s looking at you!
(& to many, many cures to come, with your funding us!)
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