Monday, March 23rd 2020
Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Seven Top Supercomputers Combined - Join TPU!
This one here is another shot in the arm when it comes to faith in humanity. Folding@Home, the distributed computing project where users can donate their spare CPU and GPU cycles for a given cause, has hit an absolute bonkers milestone. According to Greg Bowman, Director of Folding@home, the network has reached a peak compute power amounting to some 470 petaFLOPS - more than double that of the world's current supercomputing record holder, the Summit supercomputer, which dishes out 200 peak petaFLOPS. Folding@Home's 470 Petaflops means users donating their spare cycles are delivering more computing power than that which is available in the world's top 7 supercomputers combined.
After some slight service outages where users weren't getting any work units due to the increased number of donors over the last few days, the computing service now seems to be running at full steam ahead. Remember that you can select the causes for which you are donating your computing power: whether cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington, or Parkinson's disease, as well as some other non-selectable projects.The latest threat to be added to the computing list for Folding@home, however, is the current SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that's currently running through the world with the same ease as a bushfire. If you want to donate your spare cycles, it's easy: just go to the Folding@Home web page, download the installer for your system of choice, and voila. While you're at it, remember to fold aggregated to the TPU team, if you so wish: we're currently 37# in the world, but have plans for complete world domination. You just have to input 50711 as your team ID. This is a way to donate efforts to cure various diseases affecting humanity that's at the reach of a few computer clicks - and the associated power cost with these computations.
Source:
Greg Bowman @ Twitter
After some slight service outages where users weren't getting any work units due to the increased number of donors over the last few days, the computing service now seems to be running at full steam ahead. Remember that you can select the causes for which you are donating your computing power: whether cancer, Alzheimer's, Huntington, or Parkinson's disease, as well as some other non-selectable projects.The latest threat to be added to the computing list for Folding@home, however, is the current SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that's currently running through the world with the same ease as a bushfire. If you want to donate your spare cycles, it's easy: just go to the Folding@Home web page, download the installer for your system of choice, and voila. While you're at it, remember to fold aggregated to the TPU team, if you so wish: we're currently 37# in the world, but have plans for complete world domination. You just have to input 50711 as your team ID. This is a way to donate efforts to cure various diseases affecting humanity that's at the reach of a few computer clicks - and the associated power cost with these computations.
22 Comments on Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Seven Top Supercomputers Combined - Join TPU!
Waiting on more units
waiting.......
(Edited to show team change)
Thank you for all the new entrants for team TPU, it's great to have you onboard for something so selfless as this. :rockout::rockout::lovetpu::lovetpu:
My name is Phill, I do the FAH and WCG Pie charts every day and I must say it's become rather busy of late!! :)
Any problems please find you way over to the FAH and WCG sections.. Everyone here is brilliantly nice and will do their best to help in whatever way possible :) See you in the top 10 soon ;)
That is what I am currently running, have only had other projects in there beforehand, hence the numbers still low.
Stay safe everyone.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/tpus-f-h-team.13038/post-4231758
I quoted you because your a fine example of humanity clearly :)
Nice that a load of people in bedrooms beat every nation to an exoflop of compute isn't it,, , beat all 103 top ten together never mind top ten.
www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/folding-at-home-breaks-exaflop-barrier-fight-coronavirus-covid-19