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COVID-19 computing project now faster than top 500 supercomputers combined
short by Pragya Swastik / on Wednesday, 15 April, 2020
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.
read more at Hindustan Times