Items tagged with folding@home

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 28, 2020

Thanks To Folding@home Volunteers, Targets For A COVID-19 Cure May Have Been Identified

Finding a cure and developing a vaccine to neutralize COVID-19 is key to saving potentially millions of lives, and getting back to life as we once knew it. That is easier said than done, of course. There is some encouraging news on that front, however, as efforts by the Folding@home project has identified a possible... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Jul 28, 2020

Folding@home Gains Raspberry Pi And Android Arm64 Support For COVID-19 Research

Scientists and researchers are hard at work trying to fully understand the deadly COVID-19 virus and slow its spread, as well as develop a vaccine. You don't have to be a scientist to help in the effort, though. Distributed computing projects like Folding@home and Rosetta@home have both joined in the fight against the... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Wed, Apr 15, 2020

Folding@home Tops World's Fastest Supercomputer With 2.4 ExaFLOPS For COVID-19 Research

The number of people actively participating in the Folding@home distributed computing project has ballooned over the past month, and that has been a boon for research into COVID-19/coronavirus. When we last visited Folding@home, the project had surpassed the 1 exaFLOP barrier, making the collective faster than even... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 26, 2020

Folding@home Storms Into ExaFLOP Territory As PC Warriors Battle COVID-19

Just a few days ago, the Folding@home distributed computing project had reached 470 petaFLOPS of cumulative compute power, topping out the output of the seven fastest supercomputers in the world. And now? Thanks to a continued surge in activity from users joining the fight against the coronavirus pandemic... Read more...

by Brittany Goetting - Sun, Mar 22, 2020

Folding@home Flexes 470 PetaFLOPS Compute, Surpassing Top Supercomputers In COVID-19 Research Push

The Folding@home network has been working hard to defeat COVID-19 (coronavirus). This battle has caused the network to pass some interesting milestones as result of renewed interest in folding for a cure or vaccine. The Folding@home network now boasts 470 PetaFLOPS of compute power and is more powerful than the... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Sat, Mar 14, 2020

NVIDIA Calls On PC Gamers To Put GPUs To Work Battling Coronavirus, How To Join PC Master Race Or HotHardware

Earlier this week, we told you about Stanford University's Folding@home project, which is now providing CPU-based projects and workloads that you can use for COVID-19 (coronavirus) folding to battle the pandemic disease. Plenty of enthusiasts are open to using their spare CPU cycles for a good cause, and interest has... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 12, 2020

Folding@Home Needs Your CPU Cycles To Help Researchers Battle Deadly Coronavirus

As the coronavirus continues to spread, Standford University's Folding@home project announced that CPU-based protein folding COVID-19 jobs are headed to the distributed computing client. For those who wish to do so, this means they can donate their unused CPU cycles to potentially critical research into the... Read more...