Distributed Computing · Disease Research
Your computer.
Curing cancer
while you sleep.
Folding@home uses idle computing power from volunteers worldwide to simulate protein folding — the key to unlocking treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, and more. It costs you nothing but electricity.
12.9
Native petaFLOPS of compute
20+
Years of citizen science
#1
First exascale computer ever
$0
Cost to donate compute
// recent breakthroughs
Real science.
Real results.
This isn't theoretical. Folding@home's distributed network has produced peer-reviewed research that's changing medicine right now.
Heart Disease Drug Repurposed
FAH helped identify that a diabetes drug could treat heart disease, laying groundwork for new cardiovascular therapies.
COVID-19 Antivirals
During the pandemic, FAH became the world's first exascale computer and revealed cryptic binding sites in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
KRAS Cancer Research
Currently targeting KRAS mutations — among the most common drivers of lung, pancreatic, and colorectal cancers.
Ebola & Filoviruses
Ongoing work developing strategies to combat Ebola and related filoviruses through molecular simulation.
// how to contribute
Two ways
to make an impact.
Whether you have spare computing power or spare change, there's a way to contribute to this research.
01
Donate your compute
Download the free Folding@home client. It runs quietly in the background, using your idle CPU/GPU to run protein simulations. Free. Anonymous. Powerful.
02
Donate money
Fund new servers, software development, and infrastructure. Donations go directly to the Folding@home Foundation — a registered nonprofit. Tax deductible.
The cure might run
on your machine.
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