March 2020 - MMNTech

PC gamers join to make world’s most powerful supercomputer to stop COVID

MMNTechMarch 25, 2020March 25, 202005 mins

Washington University’s Folding@Home project has reached 1.5 exaFLOPs in processing power. Making in the fastest distributed computing project, and indeed the fastest computer in the world. The recent jump in performance is largely thanks to the PC gaming community, who have volunteered en mass for the medical research project in order to find a treatment…

EB Games has lost their mind: will keep stores open during pandemic [UPDATED]

MMNTechMarch 20, 2020March 25, 202005 mins

UPDATE: GameStop and EB will now be closing stores after all to comply with rules closing non-essential businesses. GameStop, and its Canadian subsidiary EB Games, have announced plans to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite many jurisdictions asking non-essential retailers to close. In an internal leaked memo, the company went as far as to…