I wonder how SiDock (distributed computing) compares with supercomputing

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Message 2009 - Posted: 25 Feb 2023, 20:44:22 UTC

Seems like they (Ohio’s University of Toledo) may be doing vaguely similar research, but with a very expensive computer cluster:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/23/petaflops_covid/
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Message 2010 - Posted: 26 Feb 2023, 8:14:51 UTC - in response to Message 2009.  

With widespread participation distributed computing can do much more than all supercomputers from TOP500 list. :)
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Message 2013 - Posted: 26 Feb 2023, 10:58:40 UTC - in response to Message 2010.  

With widespread participation distributed computing can do much more than all supercomputers from TOP500 list. :)

In principle, maybe. In practice, it comes nowhere close. (The TOP500 (4,864,000 TFlop/s) can do in 4 minutes what SiDock@home (36 TFlop/s) does in 1 year.)

David Anderson analyses this missed opportunity at length in his BOINC in Retrospect. (TL;DR: Needs more promotion, understanding, trust, …)
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Message 2014 - Posted: 26 Feb 2023, 13:33:44 UTC - in response to Message 2013.  

Significant part of nominal TOP500 performance related to GPUs. Adding results of benchmarks for GPUs and for CPUs in one "bag" is not good thing, I think.

And, of course,
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