Folding@home turns your computer's idle power into a global supercomputer for biomedical research. Free. Safe. Easy.
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Device-days of compute donated in the last 24h
We're fighting real diseases.
It takes about a minute.
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Download
Pick your platform — Windows, macOS, or Linux. One click.
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Install
Run the installer. No account required to start. Open source.
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Fold
Your computer downloads a small piece of a real research simulation, runs it in the background, and returns the result. You earn points. Repeat.
Real science. Real progress.
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World's first exaflop computing system, April 2020 — bigger than the top 500 supercomputers combined.
500+
Peer-reviewed publications produced by Folding@home since launch in October 2000.
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One of the longest-running distributed computing projects on Earth — and still going.
Led by Dr. Greg Bowman and the Folding@home Consortium — a network of academic labs across the globe.
Your computer can do this today.
Free. Open source. Backed by 25 years of peer-reviewed research.