Coronavirus got its new opponent. The world’s fastest computer brought into action from volunteers. Volunteers loaning spare time on there home PCs to fold proteins, A scientific piece of work that could demonstrate instrumental in the fight against coronavirus.
According to Folding@Home, the organization that manages the distributed computing effort, the combined power of the network broke 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second – or “exaflop” – on March 25.
This feature made it six times more powerful than the world’s fastest traditional supercomputer. Until now IBM summit used as scientific research at Oak ridge national laboratory in the united states. Monday it had more than double, reaching a new record of 2.4 exaflops. The above information states that it is faster than 500 traditional supercomputer combinations. Thus, 1 million new members of the network are appreciated.
The breakthrough reflects a huge spike in support for the Folding @ Home project. Patron runs a simple piece of software on their home computer.
which then downloads and runs small tasks to help determine the physical structure of proteins.