Case Study
Crowdsourced Supercomputing
The Folding@home distributed computing project has created an exascale supercomputer — and is putting it to work in the fight against COVID-19 and other diseases. Crowdsourced Supercomputing Solutions at a glance Business needs Scientific Research | United States Folding@home draws on the collective processing power of more than a million client systems to support data- and compute-intensive scientific simulations. • Highly heterogeneous environment • Globally distributed computing using client PCs • On-premises and cloud servers • Unlocking the secrets of COVID-19 and other diseases • Enabling the visualization of complex protein dynamics • Making massive amounts of compute available to scientists • Showcasing the power of a global community Business results With a surge in partici