COVID-19 is still the worldwide real threat, medical officer around the globe are fighting hard to rescue life. Instead of letting our PC to do nothing about it, I would want to bring up this program back alive, we can now help to find cure for the threat. Folding@home by Stanford University announced they are taking up the fight against COVID-19. Detailed articles are listed as following:
1.) Help Cure Coronavirus with Your PC's Leftover Processing Power
2.) FOLDING@HOME TAKES UP THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 / 2019-NCOV
3.) World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Fights Coronavirus, Unleashing Supercomputer Horsepower Against 2019-nCov.
4.) FOLDING@HOME UPDATE ON SARS-COV-2 (10 MAR 2020)
5.) Nvidia Wants Gamers to Fight COVID-19
6.) NVIDIA GeForce Twitter Status
7.) CORONAVIRUS – WHAT WE’RE DOING AND HOW YOU CAN HELP IN SIMPLE TERMS
8.) TheStar ~ Covid-19: Crowdsourced virtual supercomputer revs up virus research (Credit to: Human Nature)
9.) Coronavirus Researchers Get Access to 16 Supercomputers
10.) Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers, Combined. The fight against coronavirus goes nuclear.
11.) Folding@Home Network Breaks the ExaFLOP Barrier In Fight Against Coronavirus, Power from the people.
12.) NEW COVID-19 SMALL MOLECULE SCREENING SIMULATIONS ARE RUNNING ON FULL FOLDING@HOME!
13.) CAPTURING THE COVID-19 DEMOGORGON (AKA SPIKE) IN ACTION
14.) AMD and Nvidia Join Supercomputer-Powered Fight Against Coronavirus
15.) Radeon RX Twitter Status
16.) Using Your AMD Powered System to Help Researchers in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases
17.) Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined
18.) Folding@Home Now Has Dedicated Coronavirus Research Option
19.) NEW SIMULATIONS TO SEARCH FOR COVID-19 TREATMENT VIA REPURPOSING EXISTING NTP ANALOG DRUGS THAT TARGET VIRAL RNA REPLICATION
20.) NEW FOLDING@HOME SOFTWARE WITH THE OPTION TO PRIORITIZE COVID-19 PROJECTS
21.) Together we are Even More Powerful: GPU folding gets a powerup with NVIDIA CUDA support!

(Credit to: goldfries)


What is Folding@home?
Folding@home is a distributed computing program launch by Stanford University since the year 2000, aimed to study the folding of protein to find causes and cure for multiple diseases. The simulation of protein folding is a very computational heavy task. Instead of getting gigantic cost supercomputer, they distributed this program to the volunteers around the world to donate their PC resources to help. In return, donor will receive points for ranking purpose. [Folding@home Homepage]

Where shall I start?
Folding@home clients are available for download from their official website: [START FOLDING (Windows Client)][START FOLDING (Others Client)]

Installation guides: [Installation Guide (Windows Client)][Installation Guide (Others Client)]


Setup Identity:
Name: For name, you can use any unique name to represent yourself, or a common name to remain anonymous.

Team: For team, you can fold for anonymous team, or join a team around the world. I would like to invite you all to join our country team, Folding@Malaysia, Team Number: 2999.

Passkey: Passkey is not a must, but I highly recommended you all to get one for yourself. Passkey is a unique key that identified it's you when two or more person uses the exact same name. In addition, using a Passkey granted you bonus point. All you need to do is fold 10 work unit with your Name & Passkey. After that, you will start to receive bonus point on your following work unit. [Passkey FAQ]

You can get your Passkey here: [Get F@H Passkey]
Note: The passkey request form is case sensitive. You will need an email for it, so don't lost your email.

You would have some control on the web control user interface:


User interface for advanced user:



More about energy efficient folding: [Green Folding@home]

Where could I find my contribution statistics?
You could find our country team summary statistics here: [Folding@Malaysia]

You can also put a statistics image on your signature: [Signature Image Guide]

Here is one of my customization for example:


Check here for more colourful customization examples with code: [Signature Image Examples]


Things to know before start folding:
1.) This is a beta program, you might encounter bugs, hang, restart, or even BSOD while folding. Don't panic, if you find your PC is not stable for it, just stop it.
2.) Since it uses your idle CPU, or GPU, or both CPU & GPU resources, it can heat up your PC, and raise your electricity bill.
3.) It might not necessary to get a work unit related to COVID-19 for you, but other diseases. In other word, you were still contributing your effort towards other diseases.

It's all about volunteering. Okay, don't get discourage, we have member folding strong here (our team is generating 9M points per day (PPD), when I'm writing this post). You are welcome to reply this thread if you have any question or facing any problem. Please share this news among your PC hardware enthusiast member to join force. Happy folding, thank you.



This post has been edited by saturn85: Dec 9 2022, 04:58 AM

Yeah, bro kherel77, life is getting harder. Ya, I notice it as well. For now, please select "any disease" according to the main article.

Source: [FOLDING@HOME TAKES UP THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 / 2019-NCOV]

I guess you might still getting random work unit, but certainly there is a chance to get something related to the new threat.

World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Fights Coronavirus, Unleashing Supercomputer Horsepower Against 2019-nCov.

Fold strong.

Welcome everyone.

Do you use a passkey?

FOLDING@HOME UPDATE ON SARS-COV-2 (10 MAR 2020)

First post is updated with:

List of Current COVID-19 Projects (Updated on 28.04.2020) [[FAQ] SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) projects]



This post has been edited by saturn85: Apr 28 2020, 07:57 PM

Nvidia Wants Gamers to Fight COVID-19

NVIDIA GeForce Twitter Status

Nvidia owner, show your folding power. Join us and our friends at Folding@Malaysia in supporting Folding@home and donating unused GPU computing power to fight against COVID-19!

Welcome everyone.

Ya, the weather is very hot these days.

I also don't know where is the F@H forum goes.

95'c, I guess it is not recommended to run folding on it.

Welcome and folding strong everyone.

Bro x800, get a passkey if possible.





Do you have any screenshot or log file on the problem?

I'm not sure about this, but I believe the native F@h client work best instead of going through BOINC platform.

Any information from the log tab? Do you removed the whole folder while uninstalling? Do you open the FAHControl through a shortcut or somewhere else?

So it's deleted.

Glad to hear that, and passkey is bound to email.

The responses from worldwide seem really overwhelming from their Twitter status.

https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1239673282565214208

https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1239673285375332358

https://twitter.com/foldingathome/status/1239264870111105024

Strong PPD there.

Welcome everyone and folding strong.



Good enough.

Yes, can.

Since the issue is mentioned, we would want to follow a greener route and fold efficiently.

Refer to the following blog if anyone is interested to know and get some idea from the author on how to fold greener.

Green Folding@Home ~ Energy Efficient Computing

(Credit to: goldfries)

This post has been edited by saturn85: Mar 28 2020, 09:26 PM

Beware of the phishing email that pretend itself as Folding@home.

RedLine Info-Stealing Malware Spread by Fake Folding@home Phishing Email, Scammers take advantage of a good thing

Welcome and glad to hear that. Probably ran out of work unit for awhile.



Nice one.

Probably need more cooling in long run.



The response worldwide is overwhelming, frequently ran out of work unit.
About the passkey, is your old client files still around?


It can be roughly estimated from the hardware that run folding. Let's take a GTX 1060 rated at 120W for example. When you fire up GPU folding on it at full load, additional 120W is drew from PSU. (Assumed it really draw 120W power at full load. In real scenario, power draw can be different.) And let's assumed your PSU is rated at 80% efficiency, when it supply the additional 120W into the PC component, additional 150W is drew from the wall electric socket. Let's assumed you run folding 6 hours everyday, a total of 180 hours in one month. 150W x 180 hours = 27kWh, so additional 27kWh of electricity on folding. Let's assumed the 27kWh hit the [201-300kWh] range which cost 33.40 sen/kWh, 27 x RM0.334 = RM9.10.

RM9.10, so this figure is the rough estimation that impact your electricity bill.

This post has been edited by saturn85: Mar 23 2020, 04:23 PM

You are welcome.

Glad to hear that, good PPD there, fold strong.