Folding At Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top Supercomputers, Combined

Moderatorbot broke the headline.

Should be: "Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers, Combined"

Why is it comparing against the linpack performance of supercomputers? The folding@home network wouldn't even come close to Summit on that benchmark. Its internode communication latency is measured in full seconds.

Rookie mistake: It's not just about the FLOPS, the interconnect matters too.

There is a reason why everyone builds super computers in a large local cluster. It's so they can have a high-bandwidth low-latency interconnect between all of the compute. The second you need to shuffle partial data results between compute nodes, you have to pay the latency hop. Interconnect quality is often a huge bottleneck, ignore it at your peril.