I know there are a lot of threads on this topic, but I don't think any have really touched on using our PCs to assist. Here's a potential way to help while we all practice some social distancing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/fhb5e4/coronavirus_specific_gpu_projects_are_now/
I've taken the liberty of setting up a group for Pinside (@Robin, please let me know if that's not cool). I don't know if there's any sort of real incentives for doing so, but I figured making a bit of a game out of it may help. If any incentives are attributed to me (I used my email to sign up), I'll commit to sending 100% of those back to the cause.
Group Number: 240505
Password: Pinball2theRescue!!!
Very basically, the client will run in the background and help to crunch calculations with your PCs unused resources. There are settings so you can choose to only have it run while the PC is idle.
It's also worth noting that there are efforts to assist in other disease prevention, including cancer and parkinsons. I'd love to see us use our sense of community to contribute to other efforts after this is all over.
Note: It looks like the "any disease" selection is currently what's being used for Corona.
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