{"id":13923,"date":"2020-03-20T22:15:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/?p=13923"},"modified":"2020-03-20T22:21:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T22:21:55","slug":"origin-pc-joins-foldinghome-research-efforts-using-gaming-pc-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/origin-pc-joins-foldinghome-research-efforts-using-gaming-pc-power\/","title":{"rendered":"ORIGIN PC Joins Folding@Home Research Efforts Using Gaming PC Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ORIGIN PC&nbsp;and CORSAIR&nbsp;are&nbsp;putting out a call to action to all PC gamers and PC users around the world to join&nbsp;Folding@Home&nbsp;to help accelerate the research of COVID-19.&nbsp;Folding@Home&nbsp;works&nbsp;by simulating the dynamics of&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;proteins to aid in the discovery of potentially druggable pockets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;computing&nbsp;efforts, ORIGIN PC&nbsp;and&nbsp;CORSAIR&nbsp;are&nbsp;raising awareness of the program and created a team to&nbsp;support&nbsp;Folding@Home.&nbsp;ORIGIN PC&nbsp;and&nbsp;CORSAIR&nbsp;employees are contributing their own PC power to the&nbsp;cause&nbsp;and encourage gamers to do the same if they&nbsp;can.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ORIGIN PC team is giving customers the option to have the&nbsp;Folding@Home&nbsp;application preinstalled on their ORIGIN PC system&nbsp;before&nbsp;shipping.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome of the most powerful equipment that the general public has access to&nbsp;is&nbsp;gaming PCs.&nbsp;Let\u2019s all donate some of that power and put our high-performance PCs to work,\u201d said Kevin&nbsp;Wasielewksi, ORIGIN PC CEO and&nbsp;co-founder. \u201cHigh-performance gaming PCs are capable of performing a lot of operations very quickly, which makes them perfect&nbsp;for running&nbsp;the many operations required to simulate the complex environments inside human cells.&nbsp;ORIGIN PC is supporting&nbsp;Folding@Home,&nbsp;and we are asking that you do too. Please join our&nbsp;Folding@Home&nbsp;team and donate unused PC power to accelerate the research of COVID-19.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can join the ORIGIN PC&nbsp;Folding@Home&nbsp;team here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Uq19Dm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Uq19Dm<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about&nbsp;how you can help&nbsp;Folding@Home&nbsp;visit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/foldingathome.org\/2020\/03\/15\/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/foldingathome.org\/2020\/03\/15\/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN PC&nbsp;and CORSAIR&nbsp;are&nbsp;putting out a call to action to all PC gamers and PC users around the world to join&nbsp;Folding@Home&nbsp;to help accelerate the research of COVID-19.&nbsp;Folding@Home&nbsp;works&nbsp;by simulating the dynamics of&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;proteins to aid in the discovery of potentially druggable pockets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":13924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1244],"class_list":["post-13923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-best-gaming-desktop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.originpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}