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Research: COVID-19 Folding Project #14828

Project #14828 overview

Project Summary AI Beta

Folding@home is using computers to simulate proteins from the COVID-19 virus. This helps scientists understand how these proteins work and find potential drug targets. The project focuses on the main protease, a key enzyme in the virus's life cycle. Stay up-to-date at https://foldingathome.org/news/
Automated summary; simplified and may not be fully accurate.

Project team

Manager(s)
Prof. Vincent Voelz
Institution
Temple University

Work unit

Atoms
55,625
Core
0xa7
Status
Public
Source material

Official Project Description

CORONAVIRUS PROJECT These projects are part of Folding@home’s efforts to assist researchers around the world taking up the global fight against COVID-19.

At the time of release, this is the latest news update: https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/10/covid19-update/ These projects are CPU projects to simulate COVID-19 proteins to learn about their dynamics and function.

These supplement high-priority GPU projects of the main protease as well as the COVID-19 receptor binding domains.

All can be considered potential drug targets. Please stay tuned to https://foldingathome.org/news/ for more current updates. ALL of these projects are Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 main protease in complex with a potential inhibitor: series project number ------- ------- 72_RL 14800
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Performance data

Hardware Performance for Project 14828

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

Data as of Sunday, 02 August 2026 22:06:22

CPU PPD Averages Beta

Rank
Project
CPU Model Logical
Processors (LP)
PPD-PLP
AVG PPD per 1 LP
ALL LP-PPD
(Estimated)
Make
1 RYZEN 5 3600 6-CORE 12 10,781 129,372 AMD
2 CORE I7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHZ 16 6,639 106,224 Intel
3 CORE I5-6600K CPU @ 3.50GHZ 4 6,873 27,492 Intel