COVID-19 computing project now faster than top 500 supercomputers combined

Folding@home, a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics which is working to combat coronavirus, is now at ~2.4 exaFLOPS, faster than top 500 supercomputers combined. Instead of one supercomputer, the US-based project splits complex problems across thousands of home computers. Volunteers around the world run these chunks of simulation on their personal computers.