The British School of Bahrain (BSB) is joining the global bid to find a vaccine for Covid-19 by contributing to the Folding@home (FAH) project – the biggest supercomputer on earth, the GDN reported today.
The school is using its powerful ICT suites to join the global distributing computing platform to help scientists and researchers understand how the protein that makes up the Covid-19 virus works.
Proteins are the key component of the virus and understanding this part of it informs how the virus functions.
FAH has become one of the world’s largest supercomputers and this power is being used in the search for a vaccine.
BSB senior school academic deputy head Adrian White initiated the ambitious idea of joining the project.
“The world is working together to fight Covid-19, and BSB is keen to do its part within the global struggle,” said BSB’s IT head Mahesh Maniyeri.
“We have over 300 computers on campus, which are currently not being used during the school’s closure, and realised that this is a great opportunity for BSB to contribute to FAH’s search for a new vaccine.”
