Volunteers create world's fastest supercomputer to combat coronavirus
by Alex Hern Technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#525Z2)
Participants 'folding proteins' on home PCs, a task that could prove instrumental in tackling disease
The world's fastest supercomputer has been created from volunteers loaning spare time on their home PCs to fold proteins, a scientific task that could prove instrumental in the fight against the coronavirus.
According to Folding@Home, the organisation that runs the distributed computing effort, the combined power of the network broke 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second - or one "exaflop" - on 25 March.
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