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Folding@Home - Hacking Coronavirus and other Diseases through Crowd Computing
Banque Heritage joins the project helping scientists around the world fight diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's and COVID-19.
You may have heard of crowdfunding, but you are probably not aware of crowd computing.
After the New Corona Virus started spreading beyond its ground zero in China it received its name COVID-19 and qualified as a pandemic. This is when Folding@Home, a project dedicated to aiding global research on diseases like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and a variety of forms of cancer, turned its efforts to fighting this new virus. Essentially, the proteins in the Coronavirus suppress our immune system and help it reproduce itself. By doing research on these proteins and understanding their structure therapeutics can be developed to help cure patients and potentially save many lives.
Banque Heritage has been looking for ways to contribute to the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and found Folding@Home to be a great project we want to participate in. Not only has Folding@Home been around for close to 20 years, it has also reached exaflop capacity – that is 1’000’000’000’000’000’000 floating point operations per second – giving it more computing power than the world’s greatest supercomputers. The concept is simple: When you are not using your computer’s full computing power, you lend it to the project that uses it to run simulations of folding proteins. When we considered joining, our IT department put together spare hardware and set up an independent infrastructure, completely disconnected from the Bank – ensuring security and allowing it to operate at maximum capacity.
Our “Herit@GE” team is proud to be a part of the research helping scientists worldwide fight various diseases.
June 11, 2020
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The Future of Agriculture in SwitzerlandThe Swiss Farmer - a history of perpetual change and the continuous demand for fair prices
July 02, 2020
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BKW AG: The Future of the Power Sector - Interview with Dr. S. ThomaFrom "Berner Energieversorge" (power supply of the Canton of Berne) to an internationally operating corporation within a mere seven years. Dr. Suzanne Thoma talks about strategic developments, new technologies and the topic of supply dependability.
June 25, 2020
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Gamaya - Smart Thinking in AgricultureAnalyzing entire plantations for weed or disease infestation in a short time, with the use of a drone, a hyperspectral camera and a lot of software. Igor Ivanov, co-founder of Gamaya talks to us in an interview about the great potential behind it.
June 18, 2020