<p>The Computing for COVID DigitalOcean Marketplace App is a way for anyone (no tech skills required) to fire up a cloud computer that immediately starts crunching data to help scientists find proteins for the treatment of COVID-19. Costs start at $15/mo for the compute power at DigitalOcean.</p>
<p>This allows you to support researchers at the University of Washington&#39;s <a href="https://www.bakerlab.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Baker Lab</a> in their computational requirements as part of their <a href="https://www.ipd.uw.edu/coronavirus/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Coronavirus response</a>.</p>
<p>Once you’ve installed the droplet, it starts up, attaches itself to the <a href="https://boinc.bakerlab.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Rosetta@Home</a> project as part of the <a href="https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=20117" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Computing for COVID team</a>, and immediately starts to download work to be done.</p>
<h2 id="setup">Setup</h2>
<ul>
<li>Follow these <a href="https://computingforcovid.io/setup" rel="noopener" target="_blank">detailed setup instructions</a> to set up the droplet. We recommend opening the <a href="https://computingforcovid.io/setup" rel="noopener" target="_blank">link</a> in a separate browser tab as you go through the process.</li>
<li>If you don’t have a DigitalOcean account, sign up using <a href="https://m.do.co/c/5fb69d9c62e4" rel="noopener" target="_blank">this link</a> to get a $100 credit</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="questions">Questions?</h2>
<p>Send email to <a href="mailto:help@computingforcovid.io" rel="noopener" target="_blank">help@computingforcovid.io</a> and we&#39;ll do our best to help out. You can also <a href="https://github.com/ten7/computing-for-covid/issues/new" rel="noopener" target="_blank">create an issue</a> in the Github repo.</p>
<h2 id="open-source">Open source</h2>
<p>The app is built using <a href="https://github.com/digitalocean/marketplace-partners" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Packer scripts</a> from DigitalOcean as a starting point. The scripts configure an Ubuntu 18.04 droplet with <code>boinc</code> that automatically attaches itself to the Rosetta@home project.</p>
<p>Build scripts are in the <code>/packer</code> directory: <a href="https://github.com/ten7/computing-for-covid/tree/master/packer" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/ten7/computing-for-covid/tree/master/packer</a>.</p>
<p>View everything at <a href="https://github.com/ten7/computing-for-covid" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/ten7/computing-for-covid</a></p>
<h2 id="built-with-love-by-ten7">Built with love by TEN7</h2>
<p>This <a href="http://t7.io/cfc" rel="noopener" target="_blank">DigitalOcean Marketplace app</a> was built by <a href="https://ten7.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">TEN7</a>. We create and care for Drupal-powered websites.</p>

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A droplet with boinc installed ready to fight COVID-19.