At SAND we have been practising social distancing and working from home where possible to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. However, we also recognise the significant processing power we possess as predominantly computing based geophysics company.
In light of this, we are dedicating idle resources within our processing computers to the Folding@Home distributed computing simulations of COVID-19 protein dynamics. You can learn more about their specific COVID-19 project here:
https://foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/foldinghome-takes-up-the-fight-against-covid-19-2019-ncov/
As of March 20th 2020 this network has grown from 98.7 petaFLOPS of combined processing power to a whopping 470+ petaFLOPS.
As an industry we are well armed to help contribute towards this effort, so would implore everyone to dedicate any resources they can spare to this cause.
https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
And please if you can, stay at home!
Update: Following the publication of this post we have been approached by rehab4addiction.co.uk with A guide about guarding mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.