CRITICALSTART’s TEAMARES Research Is Aiding Global Fight Against COVID-19
What does a computer virus have in common with the Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Plenty, believe it or not, as technology can be used to help solve both.
The TEAMARES research team has found that our hash cracker Cthulhu can be used to run computer simulations that mimic the same complex protein folding that occurs in viruses. We’re sharing our findings with [email protected] to simulate how the virus behaves – data that we hope can be used by doctors and healthcare professionals to develop potential vaccines.
[email protected] is a project established to assist researchers around the world to take up the fight against COVID-19. It leverages complex algorithms to simulate protein folding in order to examine diseases such as COVID-19. This project allows people with laptops or even complex GPU machines to provide computing power to help provide those protein folding simulations.
Similar to cryptocurrency mining, people who are not medical experts are able to leverage their own expertise to help solve global issues such as COVID-19. With the help of Cthulhu, TEAMARES has been processing jobs straight from [email protected] on our CPU and GPU processing power. [email protected] then takes that data to help in researching viruses.
We’re hoping our participation in this project will help medical professionals across the globe find a cure. For more information, visit foldingathome.org, and be sure to follow us on Twitter @CRITICALSTART and @TeamAresSec, or via our LinkedIn and Facebook channels to stay up to date as the situation unfolds.
Director of Professional Services
As the Director of Professional Services, Quentin leads the offensive and defensive security teams known as TEAMARES. He is an experienced security professional with expertise in security analysis, physical security, risk assessment, and penetration testing. Quentin’s diverse background is built from a variety of staff and leadership positions in IT, with specific experience in threat and vulnerability management, penetration testing, network operations, process improvement, standards development and interoperability testing.
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