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How COVID-19 made computing history
« on: April 16, 2020, 09:34 PM »
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The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer
Folding@Home had settled into a low-profile niche. Then came COVID-19.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/how-the-pandemic-revived-a-distributed-computing-project-and-made-history/





from Ars Technica, by way of CodeProject News
All children left unattended will be given a mocha and a puppy.

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