Here’s where you start making your connection to the hundreds of volunteers that keep Folding@home running and the hundreds of thousands that donate their unused computing power to make it the world’s largest distributed super computer.
Dig in, get the help you need, and when you’re ready, offer your own expertise and support. We need it!
Start here for help and news
These pages and the forum are maintained by members of the folding community from around the world. You can learn more about the people involved with our project.
FAQs
You’ll find a large library of Frequently Asked Questions lower on this page.
Installation Guides
If you need help or have questions about installing the software read the Installation Guides.
Support Forum
A very active forum with helpful moderators, the Folding@home Support Forum is the place to find additional help and answers.
Blog
Active donors keep up to date through Folding News, our blog.
A quick history
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Index
General Topics
- Main FAQ (Start Here!)
- Short summary of what FAH does and how it works
- Press FAQ – for journalists writing about FAH
- Folding@home article on Wikipedia
- Quick Guide to FAH V7
FAQs on FAH Software
FAQs on Specific Topics
- Science behind FAH
- Diseases Studied
- Points
- Passkey (for security and bonus points)
- FLOPS
- Simulations – how FAH’s simulations work
- Best Practices
- Rules and Policies (including Privacy policy)
- Open Source
- Uninstall
FAH Platforms
- High Performance
- SMP for Multi-core CPUs (SMP cores a1-a5)
- GPU2 for Graphics Processing Units (core 16)
- GPU3 for Graphics Processing Units (core 15)
- PlayStation3 (PS3) (retired)
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Last Updated on July 16, 2013, at 10:41 AM
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