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How to Start Folding with Folding@home

You can start folding in about a minute: download the installer for Windows, macOS, or Linux from foldingathome.org, run it, and …

Is Folding@home Legitimate and Scientifically Productive?

Yes, by the measures that matter for a distributed computing project: peer-reviewed output, verifiable scale, and institutional l…

What Diseases Does Folding@home Research?

Folding@home directs its distributed computing power at a specific set of diseases, and the project's own site names four with co…

How Does Folding@home Work on My Computer?

Folding@home turns your computer's idle power into part of a global supercomputer for biomedical research. You download a small c…

What Is Folding@home?

Folding@home is a distributed computing project that turns your computer's idle processing power into part of a global supercompu…