Advise Wise, the later life sourcing platform for financial advisers, has joined forces with Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at speeding up scientific research for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
The partnership will allow Advise Wise to use its spare cloud processing power to support the project’s complex simulations, which are critical for understanding the mechanisms underlying these diseases.
Benjamin Wells, head of product and development at Advise Wise, said: “Our decision to collaborate with Folding@home reflects Advise Wise’s core values of innovation, social responsibility, and the pursuit of meaningful impact.
“By dedicating our spare cloud processing power to this vital research, we are taking a proactive stance in the fight against some of the most challenging and prevalent diseases of our time. We believe that through collective effort and technology, we can drive significant breakthroughs in medical research.”
He added: “This initiative is part of our corporate social responsibility agenda that we proudly launched a couple of years ago with our environmental commitment campaign where each month, we plant a tree for every KFI requested through Advise Wise. We are sure this is another small step in the right direction, to have a better impact on our community.”
Gregory Bowman, director of Folding@home, added: “Thanks to everyone at Advise Wise for contributing to Folding@home.
“One of our aims is to make it easy for individuals and organisations to contribute computing power to advance biomedical research, and we hope that others will be inspired to follow Advise Wise’s lead in contributing unused cloud resources to enable our research.”
