Tag Archives: folding@home

Folding@Home continues to make headlines around the world about its rapid progress. In mid-March, it was reported that the university project from Stanford was faster than the 7 fastest supercomputers in the world combined. A week later Folding@Home reached one exaFLOP of computing power. Now the project is closing in on 2.5 exaFLOPS …

It hasn't even been a full week since Folding@Home announced that it had reached 470 petaFLOPs of computing power – more than the 7 most powerful supercomputers in the world, combined. Now the project originating from Stanford University has reached another milestone: one exaFLOP. Try to let that sink in a …

The Stanford University project Folding@Home has come a long way since its release in the year 2000. In 2012, it was reported that the project was expected to soon surpass 6 PetaFLOPS. Now Folding@Home is seeing a wave of donations – in form of computing power – and has already reached more …

There's been a lot of coverage around the Corona/COVID-19 virus in the last few weeks, with significant ramifications for everybody, not just in the hardware industry. Now Folding@Home is giving people a chance to donate their computing power to fight the Corona/COVID-19 virus. Whatever hardware you are using, high-end or low-end, …

Since we published an article on Folding@Home in January, the KitGuru team managed by Andrew, otherwise known as ‘LimeyGeorge’, has managed to climb in the official rankings thanks to the support of the kind folks who donate their time and PC resources to a great cause. With a little more help …

Long-term KitGuru readers from the early 2010s will remember that we used to have our own forum. While that section of the website is on hiatus for now, the KitGuru Folding@Home team is actually still going. Andrew, otherwise known as ‘LimeyGeorge' reached out to us this week to let us …

Sony and Stanford University have announced that at the end of October, PS3 consoles will lose their support for the protein folding project, Folding@home, ending a five year relationship, as the Life With PlayStation section is removed from the PS3 dashboard. While some have expressed dismay that they will no …

Back in January 2008, Intel posed a question to scientists, “What would you do with a million quad core processors?”  While no one is offering to deliver and install a million chips to a single destination, the idea of a huge, distributed computing system has appeal. Folding@Home project is set …

KitGuru started a folding@home team only a few months ago, and we are already in the top 500 sites, at position 347 as I write this. This meteoric rise to fame has been possible thanks to our active community who devote a lot of time into ensuring the momentum continues. …