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Research: IMMUNOGLOBULIN Folding Project #17240

Project #17240 overview

Project Summary AI Beta

Proteins do lots of important jobs in our bodies. Scientists are making computer models of special proteins called immunoglobulins to see how they work. The project relates to using these models to teach a computer how to design new immunoglobulins that can target specific things in the body, like helping fight diseases.
Automated summary; simplified and may not be fully accurate.

Project team

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

Work unit

Atoms
20,154
Core
GRO_A8
Status
Public
Source material

Official Project Description

Proteins come in all shapes and sizes and contain different chemical properties.

This variety allows them to have an extraordinary diversity of functions from helping your muscles contract to breaking down the food you eat to helping with the copying of your genetic code.

Given the versatility of proteins in nature, people have become interested in designing new proteins to carry out new functions.

In particular, people have been interested in designing new immunoglobulin proteins, as these proteins are good at identifying and binding to specific target proteins, which can be used to modulate the function of an existing system in your body.

In this project, we are simulating a large variety of single-domain immunoglobulin proteins then using the resulting data to train an AI algorithm to design new immunoglobulin proteins!.

Performance data

Hardware Performance for Project 17240

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

Data as of Sunday, 02 August 2026 21:59:34

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 9 3950X 16-CORE 32 28,554 913,728 AMD
2 RYZEN 7 5800X 8-CORE 16 39,211 627,376 AMD
3 CORE I9-10900X CPU @ 3.70GHZ 20 16,336 326,720 Intel
4 RYZEN 7 3800X 8-CORE 16 17,416 278,656 AMD
5 CORE I7-9700KF CPU @ 3.60GHZ 8 33,433 267,464 Intel
6 CORE I7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHZ 12 18,309 219,708 Intel
7 CORE I7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHZ 8 26,229 209,832 Intel
8 CORE I7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHZ 16 10,672 170,752 Intel
9 RYZEN 5 3600 6-CORE 12 11,437 137,244 AMD
10 RYZEN THREADRIPPER 1920X 12-CORE 24 4,949 118,776 AMD
11 CORE I7-8705G CPU @ 3.10GHZ 8 10,825 86,600 Intel
12 11TH GEN CORE I5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHZ 8 7,285 58,280 Intel
13 XEON W-10855M CPU @ 2.80GHZ 12 4,411 52,932 Intel
14 CORE I5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHZ 4 11,695 46,780 Intel
15 CORE I7-4770HQ CPU @ 2.20GHZ 8 5,592 44,736 Intel
16 RYZEN 5 2600 SIX-CORE 12 3,625 43,500 AMD
17 CORE I5-7600 CPU @ 3.50GHZ 4 10,769 43,076 Intel
18 CORE I3-6100 CPU @ 3.70GHZ 4 10,442 41,768 Intel
19 CORE I7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHZ 8 4,749 37,992 Intel
20 RYZEN 7 2700X EIGHT-CORE 16 2,282 36,512 AMD
21 RYZEN 3 3200G 4 7,363 29,452 AMD
22 CORE I5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHZ 4 6,028 24,112 Intel
23 CORE I3-6006U CPU @ 2.00GHZ 4 3,087 12,348 Intel