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Research: CANCER Folding Project #12913

Project #12913 overview

Project Summary AI Beta

Proteins are made up of chains that fold into specific shapes. Sometimes, changes in the protein's code can mess up this folding, causing diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. This project looks at how different changes affect how proteins fold to help us understand and predict these problems.
Automated summary; simplified and may not be fully accurate.

Project team

Manager(s)
Diego Kleiman
Institution
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Work unit

Atoms
13,564
Core
0x22
Status
Public
Source material

Official Project Description

Protein misfolding occurs when a peptide cannot fold into its native structure.

Mutations in the protein sequence may cause alterations of the native folded conformation, leading to diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's.

Understanding protein misfolding as a function of mutations is currently one of the biggest challenges in the biological sciences.

We aim to systematically study folding rates of diverse mutated proteins to better understand and predict folding dynamics.

Performance data

Hardware Performance for Project 12913

Compare community-sampled Folding@Home output for the GPUs and CPUs processing this project.

Data as of Sunday, 02 August 2026 22:08:15

GPU PPD Averages

Rank
Project
Model Name
Folding@Home Identifier
Make
Brand
GPU
Model
PPD
Average
Points WU
Average
WUs Day
Average
WU Time
Average
1 GeForce RTX 2070 Rev. A
TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070 Rev. A]
Nvidia TU106 3,008,578 189,119 15.91 1 hrs 31 mins
2 GeForce RTX 2070
TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070]
Nvidia TU106 2,954,380 184,838 15.98 1 hrs 30 mins
3 GeForce RTX 2060 12GB
TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 12GB]
Nvidia TU106 2,496,515 174,875 14.28 1 hrs 41 mins
4 GeForce RTX 2060
TU104 [GeForce RTX 2060]
Nvidia TU104 2,239,618 168,553 13.29 1 hrs 48 mins
5 GeForce RTX 2060
TU106 [Geforce RTX 2060]
Nvidia TU106 2,143,945 55,734 38.47 0 hrs 37 mins
6 GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
GA107 [GeForce RTX 3050 8GB]
Nvidia GA107 1,858,182 157,882 11.77 2 hrs 2 mins
7 GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER]
Nvidia TU116 1,639,794 150,138 10.92 2 hrs 12 mins
8 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
GP104 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB]
Nvidia GP104 937,860 127,019 7.38 3 hrs 15 mins
9 GeForce GTX 1650
TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650]
Nvidia TU117 884,823 123,675 7.15 3 hrs 21 mins
10 P106-100
GP106 [P106-100]
Nvidia GP106 865,973 123,730 7.00 3 hrs 26 mins
11 Quadro P3200 Mobile
GP104GLM [Quadro P3200 Mobile]
Nvidia GP104GLM 831,374 78,813 10.55 2 hrs 17 mins
12 GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] 3935
Nvidia GP106 729,468 100,917 7.23 3 hrs 19 mins
13 GeForce GTX 980
GM204 [GeForce GTX 980] 4612
Nvidia GM204 688,506 113,839 6.05 3 hrs 58 mins
14 Quadro T1000 Mobile
TU117GLM [Quadro T1000 Mobile]
Nvidia TU117GLM 654,329 31,000 21.11 1 hrs 8 mins
15 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] 4372
Nvidia GP106 560,801 31,000 18.09 1 hrs 20 mins
16 GeForce GTX 970
GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] 3494
Nvidia GM204 458,721 45,935 9.99 2 hrs 24 mins
17 Quadro P2200
GP106GL [Quadro P2200]
Nvidia GP106GL 417,105 101,085 4.13 5 hrs 49 mins
18 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] 2138
Nvidia GP107 349,603 92,210 3.79 6 hrs 20 mins
19 GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile
GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile]
Nvidia GP107M 278,287 84,156 3.31 7 hrs 15 mins
20 GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q
GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q]
Nvidia GP107M 227,057 81,298 2.79 8 hrs 36 mins
21 GeForce GTX 1050 LP
GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 LP] 1862
Nvidia GP107 212,984 72,161 2.95 8 hrs 8 mins
22 Quadro P620
GP107GL [Quadro P620]
Nvidia GP107GL 145,299 68,220 2.13 11 hrs 16 mins
23 GeForce MX150
GP107M [GeForce MX150]
Nvidia GP107M 138,289 66,510 2.08 11 hrs 33 mins
24 GeForce GT 1030
GP108 [GeForce GT 1030]
Nvidia GP108 88,378 64,365 1.37 17 hrs 29 mins
25 GeForce GT 710
GK208B [GeForce GT 710] 366
Nvidia GK208B 13,899 31,000 0.45 53 hrs 32 mins
26 Quadro NVS 510
GK107 [Quadro NVS 510]
Nvidia GK107 8,263 31,000 0.27 90 hrs 2 mins