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Folding@Home reaches one exaFLOP

It hasn't even been a full week since Folding@Home announced that it had reached 470 petaFLOPs of computing power – more than the 7 most powerful supercomputers in the world, combined. Now the project originating from Stanford University has reached another milestone: one exaFLOP. Try to let that sink in a …

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Put your CPU and GPU in use against the COVID-19 virus

There's been a lot of coverage around the Corona/COVID-19 virus in the last few weeks, with significant ramifications for everybody, not just in the hardware industry. Now Folding@Home is giving people a chance to donate their computing power to fight the Corona/COVID-19 virus. Whatever hardware you are using, high-end or low-end, …

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Sony to drop PS3 Folding@home support

Folding@home

Sony and Stanford University have announced that at the end of October, PS3 consoles will lose their support for the protein folding project, Folding@home, ending a five year relationship, as the Life With PlayStation section is removed from the PS3 dashboard. While some have expressed dismay that they will no …

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Folding@Home set to pass 6 PetaFLOPS

Back in January 2008, Intel posed a question to scientists, “What would you do with a million quad core processors?”  While no one is offering to deliver and install a million chips to a single destination, the idea of a huge, distributed computing system has appeal. Folding@Home project is set …

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KitGuru folders walk away with big prizes

KitGuru started a folding@home team only a few months ago, and we are already in the top 500 sites, at position 347 as I write this. This meteoric rise to fame has been possible thanks to our active community who devote a lot of time into ensuring the momentum continues. …

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