(Small print: I'm posting this in a personal capacity -- please don't contact Milan Digital Audio for support or advice as a result of this, and please only use this if you feel you have a sufficient level of computer/technically experience -- it's moderately technical -- thanks. I also have no relationship with the Folding@Home project.)
Since lots of Hauptwerk users have powerful computers that spend plenty of time idle when not being played, and since the Coronavirus pandemic is something that's likely to be a big issue for many Hauptwerk users around the world, if you have a PC or Mac that's connected to the Internet then you might perhaps consider running Folding@Home on it when Hauptwerk isn't running, so that the computer's spare processing power can be used to help scientists in the quest to develop drugs for Coronavirus/COVID-19.
This article give a quick overview, and has simple instructions for how to run it on a macOS (but the process is the same on Windows, except of course that the FAHControl application is accessed via the Windows Start Menu, instead of the macOS /Applications folder):
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-yo ... ronavirus/
Notes:
- Folding@Home can only be used if your computer has a permanent Internet connection.
- Please see the article ( https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-yo ... ronavirus/ ) for the detailed instructions.
- Please make sure that you *pause* then exit Folding@Home (FAHControl) whenever actually using Hauptwerk, to avoid risk of audio glitches in Hauptwerk. (Once you've launched FAHControl, unless you specifically pause it first, it will keep running in the background, even if you exit FAHControl. Hence once it's running you specifically need to pause it before exiting.)
I've been running FAHControl on both my Mac and Windows 10 computers for the past few days whenever I'm not using Hauptwerk.
Since lots of Hauptwerk users have powerful computers that spend plenty of time idle when not being played, and since the Coronavirus pandemic is something that's likely to be a big issue for many Hauptwerk users around the world, if you have a PC or Mac that's connected to the Internet then you might perhaps consider running Folding@Home on it when Hauptwerk isn't running, so that the computer's spare processing power can be used to help scientists in the quest to develop drugs for Coronavirus/COVID-19.
This article give a quick overview, and has simple instructions for how to run it on a macOS (but the process is the same on Windows, except of course that the FAHControl application is accessed via the Windows Start Menu, instead of the macOS /Applications folder):
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-yo ... ronavirus/
Folding@home ( https://foldingathome.org/ ) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics.
In addition to cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's, Folding@home has announced that it is tackling a disease that has been dominating the headlines: COVID-19.
The project is joining researchers around the world who are working to better understand the Coronavirus to accelerate the open science effort to develop new life-saving therapies.
By downloading Folding@Home on your Mac, you can donate your unused computational resources to the Folding@home Consortium, where researchers are working to advance our understanding of the structures of potential drug targets for COVID-19 that could aid in the design of new therapies.
Help us in the fight against COVID-19! Download the app at: https://foldingathome.org/start-folding/
Notes:
- Folding@Home can only be used if your computer has a permanent Internet connection.
- Please see the article ( https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-yo ... ronavirus/ ) for the detailed instructions.
- Please make sure that you *pause* then exit Folding@Home (FAHControl) whenever actually using Hauptwerk, to avoid risk of audio glitches in Hauptwerk. (Once you've launched FAHControl, unless you specifically pause it first, it will keep running in the background, even if you exit FAHControl. Hence once it's running you specifically need to pause it before exiting.)
I've been running FAHControl on both my Mac and Windows 10 computers for the past few days whenever I'm not using Hauptwerk.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.