Folding @ home already has more than 1 exaFLOP of potency to fight coronavirus

The coronavirus is generating a major problem worldwide, with more than half a million infected and more than 20.000 deaths. Everyone is turning to find a possible cure for this pandemic. The Folding @ home project looking for cures for serious diseases are now focusing on the pandemic. A project that has managed to break the 1 exaFLOP barrier.

Folding @ home is a project that has been running for a long time and is based on distributed computing. Users perform different calculations on different data packages. These days there are even many gamers who give up their systems to find a possible cure for the pandemic. Even large companies like AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA are pumping in computing power.

More than 1 exaFLOP to find a cure against coronavirus

To put it in context, 1 exaFLOP has a power of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second. That means a computing power that exceeds the 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world added. Even from Folding @ home they highlight that the power of the system is 10 times higher than the IBM Summit, the most powerful supercomputer in the world today.

We must remember that at the beginning of the week the Folding @ home project had reached the Power of 470 PetaFLOP. After this point, it seems that hundreds of anonymous users have turned to this project that seeks to stop the world curve. In less than a week, computing power has doubled, which is an unprecedented milestone.

There are many who are giving up a part of the computing power of their systems, including the gamer community. But there are also people giving up the power of their Workstations or simply their laptops. Any contribution, however 'ridiculous' it may seem, is a great help in this complex battle against the coronavirus. And remember, stay home, that helps a lot too.