Contributing to Scientific Discovery

Physics & Astronomy

Einstein@Home searches for gravitational waves and spinning neutron stars using data from LIGO and radio telescopes. LHC@home assists CERN with particle physics simulations for the Large Hadron Collider. Asteroids@home computes rotation models for asteroids from photometric survey data. gaia@home processes data from ESA's Gaia space observatory to classify stars and other celestial objects. SPACIOUS@home runs astrophysics simulations studying stellar structure and evolution.

Biology & Medicine

Rosetta@home predicts protein structures and designs new proteins to fight diseases. Work on this platform contributed to COVID-19 research. DENIS@home studies the electrical activity of the heart to aid understanding of cardiac disease. RNA World investigates the origins of life by analyzing RNA molecules and their self-replicating properties. GPUGrid.net runs molecular dynamics simulations of proteins using GPU computing. World Community Grid runs humanitarian research on diseases, clean energy, and environmental challenges under the Krembil Research Institute.

Climate & Environment

climateprediction.net runs the world's largest climate modeling experiment, simulating thousands of possible climate futures to improve prediction accuracy and bound uncertainty in climate science. Radioactive@Home builds a distributed map of background radiation levels using sensors attached to volunteers' computers — crowd-sourced environmental monitoring.

Mathematics

Amicable Numbers searches for large amicable number pairs — a pursuit in pure number theory with a history going back to ancient Greece. NumberFields@home computes tables of number fields, contributing to algebraic number theory research. NFS@Home performs integer factorization using the Number Field Sieve. yoyo@home runs a variety of mathematical and cryptographic computations. PrimeGrid searches for large prime numbers, including world-record primes of several types. LODA searches for short programs computing integer sequences, contributing to the OEIS. Ramanujan Machine searches for new conjectures relating fundamental constants like π and e.

Network & Infrastructure Science

iThena.Measurements performs active network measurements to map and analyze the structure and performance of the global internet — research that directly relates to how infrastructure like ours participates in distributed systems.

BOINC Central

BOINC Central is the platform's own benchmark and validation project, helping improve BOINC's credit system and performance benchmarking across diverse hardware configurations.

What is Folding@Home?

Folding@home (F@H) is a distributed computing project that simulates protein dynamics — the process by which proteins fold into the shapes that determine their biological function. Misfolded proteins are implicated in diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, and many others.

The project has contributed to research on COVID-19 therapeutic targets, Huntington's disease, and numerous other conditions. At peak mobilization during the pandemic, it briefly became the world's most powerful distributed computing system.

The Emerald Valley F@H Team

We run Folding@home on dedicated compute nodes, registered under The Emerald Valley Network team. F@H runs continuously on dedicated resources and complements our BOINC contributions, which cycle across diverse projects on a schedule.

If you use the network, you're part of it — and that means you're welcome to just join the team. This is the only Folding@home team in Eugene, and as far as we know, one of the only ones in the Willamette Valley outside of Corvallis (OSU). Your computer contributes in the background while you go about your day. No expertise required.