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We often have to make difficult decisions on what hardware to support in the future, including adding new platforms or removing existing ones.  Removing existing platforms always leads to a…

Guest post from Dr. Gregory Bowman, University of California, Berkeley One objective of the Folding@home project is to provide insight into general protein folding mechanisms that hold across a variety…

Today, we have a guest post by Team MaximumPC.  Two new work unit servers have been funded by the Folding@home (FAH) community in memory of Gordon T. Smitheman and his…

As also announced on OpenMM/Folding@home programmer Yutong "proteneer" Zhao's web site, we are happy to announce that Folding@Home Core 17 has entered Beta. Externally, you probably won’t notice too much…

OpenMM is a key part of Folding@home, powering its GPU cores.  You can learn more about OpenMM at its youtube page, which includes technical videos on how you can incorporate…

Biophysical Journal announced their "Best of 2012" paper collection.  We were excited that one of our papers was included.  That work, "Protein Folding is Mechanistically Robust" investigates how key aspects…

Folding@home has historically been an extremely powerful computing resource, hitting many major computing milestones.  For example, we were awarded a Guinness World Record for being the first to reach a…

Guest post from Dr. Greg Bowman, University of California, Berkeley   Markov state models (MSMs) are a powerful approach for investigating the dynamics of proteins and other biomolecules. The Folding@home…