Kameda Confectionery Co., Ltd., a major confectionery company, has announced that it will participate in the "New Coronavirus Protein Structure Analysis Project" to combat new coronavirus infectious diseases.The project is being carried out on a global scale with the participation of Stanford University and Washington University in St. Louis in the United States, and from Japan, the Central Medical Journal Publishing Association and Fujitsu Cloud Technologies have announced their participation.
According to Kameda Seika, the project will carry out a huge amount of calculations by collecting the surplus power of servers and personal computers owned by individuals and companies and turning them into virtual supercomputers.
Kameda Seika will provide the project with the part of the resources for web services that it owns that is in operation with the aim of improving the expandability and stability of the web services, and will cooperate with the analysis work.As a result, Kameda Seika's web service will not deteriorate in quality.
The Medical Central Magazine Publishing Association says that it will utilize the surplus capacity of high-spec machines that it has prepared for the version upgrade of the Web, and Fujitsu Cloud Technologies will utilize the unprovided resources of public cloud services that are secured in advance by forecasting demand. ..
reference:[Kameda Seika] Kameda Seika participates in Folding @ home, a distributed computing project for analyzing the new coronavirus (COVID-19) (PDF)
[Medical Central Magazine Publishing Association] Notice of participation in the protein structure analysis project for the new coronavirus
[Fujitsu Cloud Technologies] Participated in the new coronavirus protein structure analysis project utilizing unprovided resources
