How is the Folding@Home team planning to improve the FAH reputation, and make the project reach more new potential contributors?
By reputation I mean, that many people don't know or even wanna believe, that volunteer computing projects are possivle, and in many online groups where I've shared the project, they treat it as spam, and don't take it seriously, which is devastating.
Don't know what it will take to make FAH more mainstream, to IT and regular people alike? Like is it working with schools, research centers, educational instituations, or what?
Improving FAH reputation and reach, how?
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Re: Improving FAH reputation and reach, how?
Being but an humble folder myself, I have no particular insight into what the "team" may be doing about this, but a summary can easily be found at PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36945779/ , which says in part:
Review Biophys J . 2023 Jul 25;122(14):2852-2863. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.03.028. Epub 2023 Mar 21.
Folding@home: Achievements from over 20 years of citizen science herald the exascale era
Vincent A Voelz 1 , Vijay S Pande 2 , Gregory R Bowman 3
Simulations of biomolecules have enormous potential to inform our understanding of biology but require extremely demanding calculations. For over 20 years, the Folding@home distributed computing project has pioneered a massively parallel approach to biomolecular simulation, harnessing the resources of citizen scientists across the globe. Here, we summarize the scientific and technical advances this perspective has enabled.