Download the Folding@home software
To join the Folding@home public distributed computing effort, simply click on a download link below appropriate for your computer's operating system. Review the notes for help in deciding what type of client (console, graphical, or screensaver) to run and in choosing a user name if any (certain characters are reserved).
How do I choose a username? To check if a name is already being used, use this search tool.
Type your name above (where it says "YourName") to see if that user name is already being used. You can also choose not to have a username and just donate your CPU time anonymously (user name = anonymous).
You can choose any name you like, as long as it contains only letters or numbers (to insert a space, you can use the underscore "_" character). If you choose your email address as your username, we will NOT print your full email address. Instead, just the part before the @ sign will be used in any stats listing, etc.
Please download one of the clients listed below:
| Windows 2000/XP/Vista Graphical client | 5.03 | 
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| a820f3db9363611ee6494b4c489a94cb |
| Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista text-only console (with built-in Windows-service-install option) | 5.04 |
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| 51268b890d4e35437667ae6186640158 |
Other available clients
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| Linux Console (x86) and BSD | 5.04 | 
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| 1316853b439d25a4a56adf82fcd953db |
| Linux (x86-64 bit, only) SMP client console version | 6.02 beta1 |
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| 40139afb263bb0df77129842215e51e6 |
| Macintosh | |||||
| Mac OS X (Intel) SMP OS X 10.4+ | 6.10 beta2 | 
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| 3fe841c6f6972b6fdbbde8433374921e 2008-03-04, Expires 2008-08-02 |
| Mac OS X (Intel) SMP OS X 10.4+ | 6.02 beta *console only* |
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| e5ff935037463278963e55a3acec7af0 Jan 31, 2008, Expires 2008-08-02 |
| Mac OS X Graphical client (PPC) | 5.02 | 
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| 58ed1cc5df0d7984312600247cacaea3 |
| Mac OS X (PPC) OS X 10.3+ | 6.01 Beta2 |
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| bf5db7e6e349faf8302e434a6c0c9fda 2008-02-03, Expires 2008-08-02 |
| Mac OS X Screensaver (PPC) | 5.02 |
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| 535bbba586e86e16bef7abc34e78faa0 |
| Mac OS X Text console (PPC) | 5.02 |
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| b322a18b95c227f49ee38c4623d1c488 |
| PLAYSTATION3 | |||||
| Playstation 3 | 1.3.1 | 
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| N/A |
What are the different types of clients? The Consoles run in the background and are launched from a terminal window (command line), to which they output text messages about the simulation's progress. The Graphical client runs in the background and has a graphics window available that allows you to see the protein being simulated. The screensaver runs just like any other screensaver, except that it also runs our calculation in the background.
Beta clients: We often release clients early for donors to beta test. These beta versions likely have some rough edges, but we expect that they should work reasonably well for all donors. See the respective installation instructions for more details of known bugs for each of the beta versions.
Last Updated on January 24, 2008, at 12:06 PM