Not long ago, we wrote that the Folding@Home distributed computing initiative now has a total computing power of 1,5 exaflops - this is more than the theoretical maximum of the El Capitan supercomputer, which will not be put into operation until 2023. Folding@Home is now joined by users with an additional 900 petaflops of computing power.
Now the initiative is not only 15 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputer IBM Summit (148,6 petaflops) from the Top 500 rating, but also more powerful than all supercomputers in this rating combined. We are talking about a total performance of 2,4 quintillion or 2,4 Γ 1018 operations per second.
βThanks to our collective power, we have achieved approximately 2,4 exaflops (faster than the world's top 500 supercomputers combined)! We complement supercomputers like IBM Summit, which performs short calculations using thousands of GPUs simultaneously, distributing longer calculations around the world in small chunks!β - Folding@Home tweeted on this occasion.
Researchers are scrambling to create more simulations to run as the increase in computing power due to the call to help fight the new coronavirus has exceeded all expectations.
Those wishing to join Folding@Home and donate some of their system power can download the client . It's an easy way to contribute to the largest computational research project in the treatment of disease. As part of the initiative, we recall that important simulations are being conducted to find a way to treat COVID-19 and other diseases.
Source: 3dnews.ru