Folding@home

Join Stanford University in a distributed computing effort to understand and cure protein-folding related diseases

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What is Protein Folding?

Folding@home Proteins are essential biological workhorses — but before they carry out their functions, they assemble themselves, or fold.

Folding@home Protein mis-folding can lead to serious consequences — including the development of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and many Cancers.  more »

News and Announcements

We've got the new hardware in place, set up, OS installed, and we're now working on getting new WU's run out of them. We are embarking on a series of three "100,000 job super-projects" — this will be over several different project numbers, but look for lots of new proteins.
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June 4, 2007

Update on collection server upgrades

We've got a new plan for how we handle collection servers. instead of having a single CS for all of FAH, we will move towards having many CS's (likely 3-4 to start). This will be a big help as a single CS got severely overloaded. We've already set up a 2nd CS and redirected some new WU's over there. If that looks good, we'll move more aggressively to set up more. We're taking it a bit slow as we had to update to 64-bit server hardware and that's lead to some changes that we need to test before a big CS rollout.

Statistics

TFLOPS 750 Active CPUs 207,540 Total CPUs 2,248,835 Trillions of Floating Point Operations Per Second

Top Teams

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How does Folding@home Work?

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