Category: Folding@Home

  • Folding@Home: How to check your progress

    Once you start folding you will want to check on your contribution and see how you’re faring compared to other volunteers – one of the most popular ways of checking your stats is through the Extreme Overclocking website:   http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/   On the left-hand side you can see a name search field; put your username…

  • What is Folding @ Home?

    Do you leave your computer on 24/7? Want to contribute to research into how diseases like Parkinsons, Huntingtons and some types of cancer occur?   Folding @ Home is a distributed computing project which uses people’s spare computer cycles to study the way proteins form in an attempt to understand how that process goes wrong,…