SAN FRANCISCO : Not just above the Earth, efforts are underway beneath the sea to search for a Covid-19 vaccine as an experimental Microsoft data centre in Scotlands Orkney Islands is processing workloads for a global, distributed computing project to understand the viral proteins that cause the disease and design therapeutics to stop them.Distributed computing projects harness otherwise idle computer processing power to perform specific tasks for big science research.
Ongoing projects include efforts to understand climate change, map cancer markers and fight infectious disease.The Folding@home distributed computing project was launched in October 2000 to simulate protein dynamics.How proteins chains of amino acids fold into structures.