How your PC can help combat coronavirus (for real)

You can donate your computer's processing power to help develop therapies for the coronavirus.



What you need to know


Folding@Home is joining several other researchers in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Folding@Home utilizes the processing power of people's PCs who agree to donate their PC's unused power.
The joint effort works to "accelerate the open science effort to develop new life-saving therapies."


Folding@Home announced that it's joining the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) today. The organization asks people to donate their PC processing power to compute solutions to complex problems, including issues related to the spread of the coronavirus. Folding@Home states that the donated computational resources will go to researchers who are "working to advance our understanding of the structures of potential drug targets for 2019-nCoV."

Folding@Home asks people to donate their computer processing power through the Folding@Home program. The combined processi...