Folding @ Home relies on the power of the masses with resounding success: how Toms hardware reported, the collected computing power of the network is now 470 PetaFLOPS.
This is twice the performance of the world's fastest supercomputer Summit and even exceeds the computing power of the world's seven largest supercomputers combined.
Folding @ Home has more than 27 million CPU cores
Folding @ Home's performance currently corresponds to one Equivalent to 27,433,824 of the currently most powerful CPU coreswhich are used in said supercomputers.
This computing power is backed by a 1,200 percent increase in voluntary participants in Folding @ Home over the past few weeks, in which more than 400,000 new users have registered for the program.
Among other things, the network is used by researchers to determine the movements and forms of proteins that are related to the coronavirus. The previous result Program director Greg Bowman recently shared on Twitter:
As promised, here is our first glimpse of the # COVID19 spike protein (aka the demogorgon) in action, courtesy of @foldingathome . More to come! pic.twitter.com/iD2crCMHcX
– Greg Bowman (@drGregBowman) March 16, 2020
Folding @ Home's computing power allows researchers to understand the movements of the protein and how it binds to the human ACE2 receptor. This knowledge can help develop an antibody against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
GameStar team in the top 500
If you would like to participate in Folding @ Home yourself, you can do so by GameStar community organized group to join:
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Folding @ home: GameStarVsCorona is among the top 500 of 240,000 teams
The GameStar team has now collected more than 250 million points and is among the top 500 in the world! You can also find more information about Folding @ Home in our detailed FAQ article.
