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Research: POLYMERASE Folding Project #16754

Project #16754 overview

Project Summary AI Beta

This project uses computer simulations to study how bacteria work. One part looks at how antibiotics affect a key bacterial protein. The other part explores how special proteins help other proteins fold correctly.
Automated summary; simplified and may not be fully accurate.

Project team

Manager(s)
Prof. Xuhui Huang
Institution
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Work unit

Atoms
330,136
Core
OPENMM_22
Status
Beta
Source material

Official Project Description

This series of GPU projects to simulation the Bacterial RNA Polymerase.

16700,16701: Simulation of E.

coli RNA Polymerase Trigger Loop folding, the target for antibiotics (CBR compounds). 16750-16755: Simulation of folding of client proteins with a chaperone Hsp70.

Performance data

Hardware Performance for Project 16754

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

Data as of Friday, 14 August 2026 15:35:51

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 3090
GA102 [GeForce RTX 3090]
Nvidia GA102 8,251,451 395,666 20.85 1 hrs 9 mins
2 GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate
GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Lite Hash Rate]
Nvidia GA104 4,984,555 345,095 14.44 1 hrs 40 mins
3 GeForce RTX 2060
TU104 [GeForce RTX 2060]
Nvidia TU104 1,128,950 219,659 5.14 4 hrs 40 mins
4 GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q
TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q]
Nvidia TU117M 653,557 176,247 3.71 6 hrs 28 mins