{"id":2483,"date":"2020-06-12T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2020-06-12T19:52:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T23:52:22","slug":"spare-computing-during-a-crisis-helping-to-fight-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"Spare Computing During a Crisis.. Helping to Fight the Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered a distributed computing project for COVID-19 DNA research called Rosetta@Home\u00a0 (\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foldforcovid.io\/\">https:\/\/foldforcovid.io\/<\/a> ).\u00a0 Having 8 Raspberry Pis which are lying dormant after I completed a project with them, I decided to put them online as workers.<\/p>\n<p>For security precautions, I decided to create a segmented guest network on my router for the Pis to operate on: a standard precaution I use.\u00a0 The software for the Raspberry Pi&#8217;s is well-written, and even provides a status web page on the localhost to monitor its progress, and even whether it is active.<\/p>\n<p>There are some places which have enormous computing power available, serving no purpose during the COVID related shutdowns: the Miami planetarium is a prime example. They have donated their server&#8217;s CPU time to the project until they re-open.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Washington posted some interesting cost comparisons for this project.\u00a0 The cost of distributing the work to the community of spare computers on the internet is about $122,000 versus hosting on Amazon AWS at $175 million.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked in the open software community, which I love, I am really happy to see the influence the open computing can have on a project like this.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got a raspberry pi (or a unused laptop or desktop computer) laying around, check the site out on how to contribute to the project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered a distributed computing project for COVID-19 DNA research called Rosetta@Home\u00a0 (\u00a0https:\/\/foldforcovid.io\/ ).\u00a0 Having 8 Raspberry Pis which are lying dormant after I completed a project with them, I decided to put them online as workers. For security precautions, I decided to create a segmented guest network on my router for the Pis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19,21,28,20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-non-technicalthoughts","category-politics-and-public-policy","category-just-on-my-mind","category-technologynetworking","category-technologythoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}