Folding @ Home, F @ H or FAH for short, has set a new record in the fight against the disease COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Meanwhile, users from all over the world are taking the initiative over 2.4 exaflops computing power to disposal.
The aggregate computing power of the community even exceeds the performance of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world, as can be seen from a tweet from FAH:
With our collective power, we are now at ~ 2.4 exaFLOPS (faster than the top 500 supercomputers combined)! We complement supercomputers like IBM Summit, which runs short calculations using 1000s of GPUs at once, by spreading longer calculations around the world in smaller chunks! pic.twitter.com/fdUaXOcdFJ
– Folding @ home (@foldingathome) April 13, 2020
The most powerful supercomputer "Summ it"
By the way: The fastest German supercomputer is the »SuperMUC-NG« from the Leibniz data center in Garching. With 306,000 Intel Xeon cores, it manages around 19,500 TFLOPs.
How is Folding @ Home computing power?
According to official information, FAH can currently (as of April 14 in the morning) use almost 1.6 million processors a total of around 11.4 million computing cores To fall back on.
As retaining 113,000 AMD and 430,000 Nvidia GPUs. In total, this results in a computing power of 2,438,314 x86 TFLOPs – around 2.4 exaflops.
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How does FAH affect my PC?
What is Folding @ Home?
FAH was launched in 2000, long before the Corona crisis. The idea is to network computers worldwide, their to use unused capacity and to make the added computing power available to medical research – a kind of decentralized supercomputer.
Complex simulations such as protein folding or molecular dynamics are distributed across many computers.
The GameStarVs.Corona team (Team number 239199) is currently ranked 181st at FAH. If you want to support the team and above all the initiative, you can read our guide »Your gaming PC against Corona« to find out what needs to be done and what else there is for projects of this kind.
Coronavirus information and protections
The Federal Ministry of Health offers a comprehensive FAQ on coronavirus, as well as daily news and instructions on protection against infection. You can also reach the independent patient advice service on the following telephone number: 0800 011 77 22.
