2.4 exaflops - good news15 Apr 2020 17:07
Better than Captain Tom?
'According to Folding@Home, the organisation that runs the distributed computing effort, the combined power of the network broke 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second – or one “exaflop” – on 25 March.
That made it six times more powerful than the current world’s fastest traditional supercomputer, the IBM Summit, which is used for scientific research at the US’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. By Monday, it had more than doubled that, hitting a new record of 2.4 exaflops, faster than the top 500 traditional supercomputers combined, thanks to almost 1 million new members of the network.'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/15/volunteers-create-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-to-combat-coronavirus