Folding@Home began in October 2000 in the lab of Dr. Vijay Pande at Stanford University. Since 2019, the project has been in the hands of Dr. Gregory Bowman, a former Pande Lab graduate student. In addition to the numerous scientists who have worked on the project over the years, F@h has been supported by thousands of dedicated volunteers who have enabled outstanding scientific research and computational achievements.
Project Timeline
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Public launch
We released our software to the public and very soon after we had thousands of computers donating otherwise unused computer power.
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Antibiotics
We started work on our first paper with results from our ribosome simulations, within the field of antibiotics. Professor Vijay Pande also presented ribosome results both at a protein folding…
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Alzheimer’s Disease
The first paper from the Pande Lab on Folding@home and Alzheimer’s Disease was submitted. In addition, Folding@home researchers Vishal Vaidyanathan and Nick Kelley presented the latest of our results on…
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Cancer and P53
The first work on cancer and p53 were published. We also expanded Folding@home’s p53 work to other related systems.
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Our first work on collagen mutations connected to Osteogenesis Imperfecta was accepted for publication.
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Parkinson’s Disease
We started a pilot study on Parkinson’s Disease, and started to look for further funding to continue our work in the area.
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Huntington’s Disease
The first papers on Folding@home results in regards to Huntington’s Disease were submitted.
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A Guiness World Record
Guinness World Records recognized Folding@home and its users as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world.
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Folding for PS3
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.
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Viral diseases
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…
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Alzheimer’s Disease
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.
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Chagas Disease
We started a pilot project on Chagas Disease, which is a major disease in Latin America.
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Malaria
We started a pilot project on Malaria, building off methods used for our work on Chagas Disease.
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Ten years of folding
We celebrated Folding@home’s 10 year anniversary.
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Diabetes
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.
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A significant milestone – 10 PetaFLOPs
Folding@home has historically been an extremely powerful computing resource. And in 2013, we exceeded the 10 PetaFLOPs barrier.
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Folding for Chrome
Through a collaboration with Google, Huang Lab and Pande Lab we announced a first open beta test of our FAH client for Google Chrome that allows you to fold directly…
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A significant milestone – 40 PetaFLOPs
We reached a major milestone by breaking the 40-PetaFLOPs barrier.
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Folding for Android
In collaboration with Sony, we brought Folding@home to Sony Mobile phones. During the months that followed the mobile application was made available with broader Android support.
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A significant milestone – 100 PetaFLOPs
A lot of progress has been made in the last few years and we broke yet another barrier when we exceeded 100 PetaFLOPs.
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Together we are Even More Powerful: GPU folding gets a powerup with NVIDIA CUDA support!
Folding@home adds CUDA support to give NVIDIA GPUs big boosts in speed!
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New software release!
We’re delighted to announce the full release of our new client software! We named this release “Bastet” after the Ancient Egyptian goddess associated with protection from disease. You can download…
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