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What will happen with the data generated by all these calculations?
After careful analysis, evaluation and interpretation, all results will be published in the public domain. The scientists' first goal is to improve the CrystalVision system to enable automated, accurate and fast crystallography image classification. This algorithm will then be deployed at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute to ensure that this public high-throughput crystallography screening facility will speed up crystallization of many disease-related proteins.
Right now, this project is looking for potential treatments for COVID-19. Will there be future phases of the project?
There's a good possibility that OpenPandemics may have additional phases. From what scientists have learned from past outbreaks, they expect pandemics caused by newly emerging pathogens to become more and more common. That's why the project is being designed to be rapidly deployed to fight future diseases–ideally before they reach a critical stage.
In order to help address future pandemics, researchers need access to swift and effective tools which can be deployed very early, as soon as a threatening disease is identified. Using the knowledge and data from looking for potential COVID-19 treatments, the researchers plan to create a software infrastructure to streamline the computational research process of finding potential treatments for other diseases. And, in keeping with World Community Grid's open data policy, they'll make their findings and these tools freely available to the scientific community.
What energy benefits are realized by performing these computations on World Community Grid?
By utilizing idle capacity on existing computing devices, you arguably avoid the energy associated with manufacturing the additional servers which would be deployed to perform the computations. This realizes energy and resource savings for the materials and processes required to manufacture the servers and components.
By utilizing the power of World Community Grid, simulations can be run which mitigate the need to use materials, equipment, and living systems to perform research activities. While laboratory research will still be required to derive environmental or health benefits in the society at large, the research activities can be more finely focused, minimizing the laboratory research required and thus the materials and energy required to do the work.
The net societal benefit of the use of World Community Grid far outweighs the minimal additional energy which may be drawn from the otherwise idle devices. The power of the grid enables researchers to complete computations in months instead of years and bring new, exciting innovations and solutions to health and environmental issues which affect our communities, our global neighbors and the environment.