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Research: COVID-19 Folding Project #17207

Project #17207 overview

Project Summary AI Beta

This project simulates proteins of the COVID-19 virus to help scientists understand how it works and develop treatments. For the latest updates, check https://foldingathome.org/news/.
Automated summary; simplified and may not be fully accurate.

Project team

Manager(s)
Neha Vithani
Institution
Washington University in St. Louis

Work unit

Atoms
52,281
Core
GRO_A7
Status
Public
Performance data

Hardware Performance for Project 17207

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

Data as of Sunday, 02 August 2026 21:59:58

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 THREADRIPPER 3960X 24-CORE 48 16,591 796,368 AMD
2 RYZEN 9 3950X 16-CORE 32 18,009 576,288 AMD
3 RYZEN 9 3900XT 12-CORE 24 10,565 253,560 AMD
4 RYZEN 7 3700X 8-CORE 16 9,979 159,664 AMD
5 CORE I9-7940X CPU @ 3.10GHZ 28 4,825 135,100 Intel
6 RYZEN 5 3600 6-CORE 12 11,006 132,072 AMD
7 RYZEN THREADRIPPER 1920X 12-CORE 24 5,229 125,496 AMD
8 RYZEN 7 2700X EIGHT-CORE 16 5,714 91,424 AMD
9 XEON CPU E5-2620 V2 @ 2.10GHZ 24 2,715 65,160 Intel