Space-filling rendering of a folded protein

You have the power
to help cure disease.

Folding@home turns your computer's idle power into a global supercomputer for biomedical research. Free. Safe. Easy.

Start folding How it works

Lifetime contributors

Teams folding together

Device-days of compute donated in the last 24h

We're fighting real diseases.

Cancer

Our work on BRCA1 revealed new therapeutic strategies to combat breast cancer.

COVID-19

During COVID-19 we hit 2.43 exaflops, the first computing system in history to cross that threshold, and helped identify a potential new antiviral in animal testing.

Alzheimer's

Our work on ApoE is uncovering the mechanism of the most common cause of dementia.

Ebola

We've found new ways to thwart Ebola by identifying transient "cryptic-pockets" in the virus protein that other methods had missed.

It takes about a minute.

Download

Pick your platform — Windows, macOS, or Linux. One click.

Install

Run the installer. No account required to start. Open source.

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.

Get the installer

Real science. Real progress.

2.43

exaflops

World's first exaflop computing system, April 2020 — bigger than the top 500 supercomputers combined.

500+

papers

Peer-reviewed publications produced by Folding@home since launch in October 2000.

25+

years

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.

Already a power user?

Bring your GPU. Join a team or start one. Climb the leaderboard. Folding@home has supported competitive teams since 2000, with full stats, project transparency, and an open client.

Your computer can do this today.

Free. Open source. Backed by 25 years of peer-reviewed research.