Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers, CombinedThe fight against coronavirus goes nuclear
By
Paul Alcorn (excerpt)
Propelled by average enthusiasts in their shared quest to defeat COVID-19, the Folding@Home network is now pushing out 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. To put that in perspective, that's twice as fast as Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, making the network faster than any known supercomputer. It's also faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world,
combined. It's impressive that the Folding@Home network is now more than twice as powerful as Summit's 149 PetaFLOPS of sustained output:
ORNL announced two weeks ago that Summit had also joined the coronavirus fight and has already found 77 different small-molecule drug compounds that might be useful to fight the virus. Summit employs 220,800 CPU cores, 188,416,000 CUDA cores, 9.2PB of memory, and 250PB of mixed NVRAM/storage for the task.
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Keeping up the good fight & Fold on
I know FaH has may issues with their servers ... but we can be part of the solution, in spite of those obstacles