Baker Tilly WM contributes towards research to find a cure for COVID-19

The Digital Technology and Risk Group in conjunction with our Information Technology team at  Baker Tilly WM has contributed compute resources towards a project led by Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine that focuses on coronavirus research.

Folding@home is a project focused on disease research. The problems they are solving require many computer calculations – and this is where the Baker Tilly WM team stepped in to contribute its computing resources to help run simulations.

Viruses, such as the coronavirus, have proteins that they use to suppress our immune systems and reproduce themselves. To help tackle coronavirus, the folding@home project team aims “to understand how these viral proteins work and how we can design therapeutics to stop them.” The team states that there are numerous experimental methods for determining protein structures and “the structures we can’t see experimentally may be the key to discovering a new therapeutic.” The collective power, of all contributors is at ~2.4 exaFLOPS (faster than the top 500 supercomputers combined)!

While Baker Tilly WM’s contribution is but a very small part of the amazing work already accomplished by the folding@home team and resources dedicated globally towards the understanding and fight against COVID-19 and other diseases, the Baker Tilly WM team is pleased to be able to contribute towards this worthwhile initiative.

To learn more about this project and how to help, visit https://foldingathome.org/covid19/. For the latest information on COVID-19 in regards to Canadian businesses, refer to our COVID-19 resource center.

Baker Tilly WM also applaud and THANK our frontline workers who have done so much and continue to sacrifice to help the fight against this pandemic.