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Re:Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home by mehrdadn on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:53PM (#22659075)
I feel like the question was just trying to see how much computation would help, rather than whether the chips are actually capable of doing it.
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Re:Help Take the Fight to COVID-19 with BOINC and Folding@Home by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @09:10PM (#22660369)
It's a reasonable question, but it's hard to evaluate the processing power of those chips because of how very specific those circuits are.
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