As many people are caught at dwelling nowadays and are slowly rapidly going mad, a few weeks in the past we kicked off a race of types with our loyal opposition, Tom’s Hardware. Challenging one another to place an finish to the very factor that’s conserving us at dwelling – the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 – we’ve been racing to see which crew can contribute probably the most work in direction of the Folding@Home undertaking’s coronavirus distributed computing analysis efforts. The standard undertaking has already handed an exaFLOP per second in compute efficiency because of Team AnandTech, Tom’s Hardware, and quite a few different contributors over the world, and there’s nonetheless a lot work to be finished for its necessary analysis duties.
Meanwhile, as we’re now at simply previous the half-way level in our four-week race, I wished to cease and take inventory of issues. To see how the standard Team Anandech was faring in opposition to the boastful brutes which might be the Tom’s Hardware crew. And after two weeks, it appears to be like like issues are developing nice for Team AnandTech.
Since the race began on March 18th, Team AnandTech has generated 2.45 billion factors in work for the Folding@Home undertaking. In the identical time interval, the Tom’s Hardware crew has generated a large, however not fairly as large 2 billion factors of labor. This has put Team AnandTech 445 million factors forward of Tom’s Hardware, or to place this when it comes to the continued fee, Team AnandTech has been handing over 1.2 factors’ price of labor for each level that Tom’s Hardware turns in. Which within the massive image, is definitely a quite shut race.
As such, with two weeks to go, this race is much from over. Our loyal competitors may nonetheless flip issues round, and so Team AnandTech can not relaxation on its laurels. That means we nonetheless want you! Both to assist Team AnandTech cross the end line, and to hopefully get out of our properties simply that a lot sooner.
So please cease by the AnandTech Distributed Computing discussion board to see how one can obtain the Folding@Home consumer and be part of Team AnandTech.
Ultimately this race is for enjoyable, but it surely’s additionally for a superb trigger. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a world-changing occasion, and, together with the fast medical dangers of the virus, the containment measures it requires are intense. The Folding@Home undertaking is engaged on a number of simulations to enhance humanity’s understanding of the virus and the illness it causes, with a objective of jump-starting new remedies and to convey the virus below management. It’s a worthy trigger, because of this I’d wish to encourage everybody to participate in what’s left of our race over the subsequent two weeks.
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