Remember UC Berkeley’s distributed computing project BOINC (Berkley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) which allows people from anywhere in the world voluntarily lend the compute power of their PCs to help solve scientific and mathematical problems related to environment.
Now, a Stanford University project Folding@Home is leveraging power of crowdsourced PCs to understand how coronavirus proteins work in order to develop a vaccine to fight it.
Similarly, UC Berkeley has started a project called Rosetta@home to help researchers analyse coronavirus protein. This project is based on BOINC, and already has a network almost 100,000 host devices (PCs and smartphones) across 151 countries, capable of offering an estimated 1.26 Petaflops