Category: Folding@Home

Folding@home has historically been an extremely powerful computing resource. And in 2013, we exceeded the 10 PetaFLOPs barrier.

Huang Lab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is a part of the Folding@home Consortium. They started two projects researching misfolding connected to Type 2 Diabetes.

We celebrated Folding@home’s 10 year anniversary.

We started a pilot project on Malaria, building off methods used for our work on Chagas Disease.

We started a pilot project on Chagas Disease, which is a major disease in Latin America.

We presented our results regarding new possible drugs to fight Alzheimer’s Disease at a Stanford University meeting organized by the NIH Roadmap Nanomedicine center.

During this year we published our first work on some of the molecular interactions that occur during the initial stages of viral infection, and how they can impact current antivirus…

Through a collaboration with Sony, folding was made available for PlayStation 3 users via a new client. Folding@home for PS3 was available until November 6, 2012.

Guinness World Records recognized Folding@home and its users as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world.

The first papers on Folding@home results in regards to Huntington’s Disease were submitted.