Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers, Combined
The fight against coronavirus goes nuclear
By Paul Alcorn
 
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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

That is really fantastic news.  It will likely go much higher as new servers are brought online.  I know that hardly any of us (or other teams) have been running close to capacity for a while...

It's only gotten craizer.
 
March 21st: Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers, Combined reported 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.
 
March 26th, today: Folding@Home Was Just Getting Started - ExaFLOP Barrier Breached as Network Achieves 1.5 ExaFLOP Performance reported 1.5 ExaFLOPS
 
A 3x increase in five days!!!

ExaFLOPS

A 1 exaFLOPS (EFLOPS) computer system is capable of performing one quintillion (10¹⁸) floating-point operations per second. The rate 1 EFLOPS is equivalent to 1,000 PFLOPS. To match what a 1 EFLOPS computer system can do in just one second, you'd have to perform one calculation every second for 31,688,765,000 years.
 
An exabyte is equal to one quintillion (one thousand quadrillion) bytes, or 1,000 PB. To hold 1 EB, you would need about 212,765,958 single-sided DVDs (a stack that's about 255.3 kilometers, or 158.65 miles, tall).