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| Volunteers create the world's fastest supercomputer to fight Corona |
Volunteers can develop the world's fastest "supercomputer" and spend their spare time on computers to restore their proteins. This scientific mission can be effective against newly emerging coronaviruses.
According to Folding @ Home, an organization that runs distributed computing, the combined strength of its volunteer network reached 1,000,000 million operations per second (Xavloop) on March 25.
It's six times better than IBM Summit, the world's fastest traditional supercomputer used for scientific research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States.
By Monday, network functionality had more than doubled, thanks to the powerful mix of nearly 5 million supercomputers worldwide and thanks to nearly a million new members, a new record of 2.4xflob on the network had been updated.
This breakthrough reflects a major breakthrough in support of the Folding @ Home project. Supporters run a small portion of the program on a home computer, then the program downloads and performs small tasks to determine the physical structure of the protein.
All complex proteins consist of one or more amino acid sequences and fold in a complex but predictable way to form a three-dimensional shape. By applying these predictable rules, even home computers can perform arithmetic operations to restore proteins, and when millions of home computers run the program at the same time, the entire network can far outperform traditional supercomputers.
In March of last year, Folding @ Home announced a number of new tasks related to the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19), which could be used to simulate the dynamic changes in the proteins that make up Sars-CoV-2, the pathogen virus research, there is a new development in the treatment of Diseases.
It should be noted that the Folding @ Home project appeared in the previous boom period in 2007 when Sony supported the project on the PlayStation 3 platform, which increased the network processing power. However, as interest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies increased, the organization was affected by the use of computing power for mining. However, the project saw new growth in early March, a few days before the announcement of a focus on the Covid 19 virus. SETIhome, the market leader in distributed computing, was stopped.
Since 1999, SETI @ home has been sending radio telescope data to computers all over the world and analyzing the data for signs of life outside of Earth. But last month, researchers completed the program, saying they were analyzing "all the data we need" for the foreseeable future.