News Coronavirus Researchers Get Access to 16 Supercomputers

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The White House started a COVID-19 High-Performance Computing Consortium, giving researchers access to 330PF of raw performance.

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At the time Folding@Home had a combined power of 470 PetaFLOPS and was thus still beating the power made available by the COVID-19 HPC Consortium.

That implies all those systems were getting utilized for folding, particularly for coronavirus-related tasks, though from the sound it only a relatively small portion of them were getting used for that at any given time, and many were sitting idle waiting for work to be done, since the back-end wasn't able to supply that many systems with data.