I don’t usually post about philanthropy because quite frankly, recognition is worthless to me (
), but I’ve been doing something I thought others might want to join as well.
It’s called volunteer computing, where research institutes and universities split some of their computational workload among thousands of volunteers whose systems process the data using spare CPU that otherwise goes unused. For example, the University of Toronto might run a project to get volunteers to help process protein folding simulations for Alzheimer’s research.
It’s super easy to set up and very customizable. You control how much CPU it uses and whether you want the GPU involved too (I don’t, to save wearing it down), and the whole process takes place in the background automatically. There are research projects relating to cancer, ebola, arthritis, COVID-19, but also non-medical ones like mathematics, astrophysics and climate prediction.
So if you’d like to contribute to the next decade’s scientific understanding, using processing power that sits idle on your system, then maybe look up volunteer computing and we can contribute together 
P.S. Don’t worry if your system is a 15-year old potato, I tested mapping cancer markers on such a thing and even running 10% CPU still got the job done 
Disclaimer: Make sure it’s a reputable one, there are botnets out there. BOINC, Folding@home and SETI@home are all worth looking into, but I won’t give a recommendation because this wouldn’t be an appropriate for me to advise what people download to their systems.
The one under Dulles? The ones at Harry Reid International look like the monorail Gordon Freeman rides at the opening of Half Life 
I shall indeed 