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Coronavirus pushes Folding@Home’s crowdsourced molecular science to exaflop levels

Coronavirus pushes Folding@Home’s crowdsourced molecular science to exaflop levels

TechCrunch Industry News · TechCrunch

March 30, 20207m 37s

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The long-running Folding@Home program to crowdsource the enormously complex task of solving molecular interactions has hit a major milestone as thousands of new users sign up to put their computers to work. The network now comprises an "exaflop" of computing power: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second.

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