INDIANAPOLIS–Computers in Indiana are being used to help find solutions for the coronavirus. Inside Indiana Business reports the supercomputer at Butler University is now part of a sharing system called the Folding@Home Project.

The project, based at Washington University in St. Louis, uses supercomputers all over the world to try to develop drugs that could kill the virus.

“With our suspension of classes on campus and doing everything online, our supercomputing facilities are being underutilized,” said compter science Prof. Joseph Sorenson. “So we thought well why not use these with the Folding@home project and let them use our machines to maybe come up with something that will help everybody?”

Sorenson said when the computer at Butler is idle, or partly idle, the Folding@home computers give it a task or data to process.

Sorenson said you could sign up to share your personal computer at home, which could help conduct simulations in the background while it’s idle.

You can read more about the Butler supercomputer project here.