Just underneath a month in the past, I put out the decision: AnandTech’s readers had been wanted as soon as extra to defend the dignity of the location in essentially the most nerdy of contests: a Folding@Home race.
The distributed computing platform has been round for over a decade now, and it has taken on a brand new life because the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has shut down a major a part of society. In mild of the now world pandemic, the venture has turned its eyes to attempting to simulate the virus and potential remedy avenues for it, with a purpose to hopefully pace up the event of a remedy. A job that has been met with nice enthusiasm from the general public, because the mixed energy of the Folding@Home venture has not too long ago surpassed 2.Four ExaFLOPS, making it over an order of magnitude extra highly effective than any supercomputer on this planet.
Overall, the venture’s coronavirus analysis has come not a second too quickly, as many people discover ourselves primarily confined to our properties. And, after greater than a month of this, we’re all beginning to go greater than a bit of mad. So mad, the truth is, that AnandTech and Tom’s Hardware agreed to race one another over a 4 week interval to see who might contribute essentially the most to the Folding@Home venture.
Those 4 weeks are lastly up, and I’m proud to report that Team AnandTech has emerged victorious, defeating our loyal opposition by over a billion factors. It was, maybe, by no means too shut of a race, however I additionally know that the Tom’s Hardware readership (and its management) isn’t one to underestimated. So whereas Team AnandTech can take this second to take pleasure in a victory lap in defeating its favourite punching bag for the third time in a row, it was a hard-fought race on either side, and finally all of it went to a great trigger.
| Folding@Home Race Results | |||
| Team | Points | ||
| Team AnandTech | 5,513,255,966 | ||
| Tom’s Hardware | 4,419,576,007 | ||
As all the time, I’d prefer to thank the AnandTech readers who chipped in to assist with this race, in addition to the Team AnandTech members who provided their very own computing energy, in addition to contributing to the stats monitoring and different capabilities wanted to host a correct race. To say that AnandTech couldn’t have carried out it with out all of you is an understatement, and that is finally your victory.
Meanwhile, though we’re nonetheless not out of our house fairly but, hopefully the mixed 9.9 billion factors price of labor accomplished by Team AnandTech and Tom’s Hardware will get us one step nearer to growing efficient therapies for COVID, and getting the whole lot at the very least a bit of bit again to regular.
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