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Folding@home

Folding@home Leverages FlashBlade to Help Cure Diseases

Folding@home harnesses the power of personal compute by partnering with Pure Storage to fight Coronavirus.

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Summary

The distributed computing project leverages Pure Storage FlashBlade to drive the research and science needed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases, including COVID-19.

Industry

Technology

GEO

North America

Use Cases

Accelerate Core Applications
Active Real-time Analytics & AI

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Partnership

Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo Discusses the Importance of Folding@home

A COVID-19 survivor himself, Giancarlo addresses his experience and the role of Folding@home in the fight for a cure.

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Results

Business Transformation

Massively scale storage capacity and arm scientists with additional resources needed to quickly find a vaccine.

IT Transformation

Quickly reassemble countless tiny files from over 4 million devices worldwide to help identify patterns and test potential treatments.

“By separating our capacity from compute, we’re able to get more out of our compute resources, which gives us the ability to ask questions at an unprecedented scale,” said Greg Bowman, Director, Folding@home. “It’s as if FlashBlade was purpose built for the Folding@home mission.”

Greg Bowman, Director

Folding@home

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