Folding@Home Reaches Exascale: 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 Operations Per Second for COVID-19

[Andrew]

Folding@home has announced that cumulative compute performance of systems participating in the project has exceeded 1.5 ExaFLOPS, or 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second. The level of performance currently available from Folding@home participants is by an order of magnitude higher than that of the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

 

Right now, cumulative performance of active CPUs and GPUs (which have returned Work Units within the last 50 days) participating in the Folding@home project exceeds 1,5 ExaFLOPS, which is 10 times faster than performance of IBM’s Summit supercomputer benchmarked for 148.6 PetaFLOPS. To get there, Folding@Home had to employ 4.63 million CPU cores as well as nearly 430 thousand GPUs. Considering the nature of distributed computing, not all CPU cores and GPUs are online at all times, so performance available for Folding@home projects varies depending on availability of hardware.

 

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[ENTERPRISE]

Holy crap, that is some serious horsepower....you cannot deny that people are coming together to fight this thing which is great !

[Andrew]

Yeah, that news article about it reaching 470 petaflops the other day really helped because it did jump an extra 1000 petaflops in a few days.

[ENTERPRISE]

Yeah, that news article about it reaching 470 petaflops the other day really helped because it did jump an extra 1000 petaflops in a few days.

 

I have to say it....but can it play Crysis !

 

 

[Andrew]

 

I have to say it....but can it play Crysis !

 

 

Funny you should mention that. https://extremehw.net/forum/industry-news/rumour-mill/4811-crytek-is-hinting-at-a-remastered-version-of-crysis

[Alex]

Now if only I could get some WUs to my 1080 Ti instead of my 1030

 

My 1030 has been getting WUs non-stop.

[ENTERPRISE]

Now if only I could get some WUs to my 1080 Ti instead of my 1030

 

My 1030 has been getting WUs non-stop.

 

I just need more POWAH. Unfortunately I do not have access to other powerful systems other than my own. I could pop it on the work server but it would be CPU only.