Important Note: We just changed our update schedule to every hour due to Stanford doing the same. The update timer will be wrong for a while (it's still running on the 3-hour schedule).

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Xtreme CPU aims to further Stanford's research on complex diseases through contributions of protein folding simulations, as well as raise the public awareness on the Folding at Home project through friendly competitions with other folding teams.

 

Latest News - 

Stanford has recently released Extra Long SMP Work Units (EL WU's) to open beta testing. These require a native Linux installation, but can get 30,000 points per day on a single Intel Core i7. That's the equivalent of about two Nvidia GTX295s! If you have questions, feel free to visit the XCPUs folding forum and ask!

UPDATE:  Thanks to the dedication of various members of the Folding@home community, methods have been discovered that allow EL WU's to be run in a virtual environment.  Various methods exist, one created by XCPU's own brentpresley can be found here:  LINK    To get around having to pay for the software, simply subsitute Sun's VirtualBox application for the Parallels application utilized.

An additional method was adapted from the EVGA forum by XCPU's user SirRobbin4ever, that utilizes VMware Player 3.0 instead:  LINK


Leganfuh smashes the 100,000,000 point mark!

You read that right;  Leganfuh has ecclipsed the 100 million point mark!  Leganfuh is currently ranked 11th in the world, and is on track to re-gain his spot within the Top 10 in mere months after being temporarily displaced by the impressive work by AtlasFolder of team Hunt-Dis.  On behalf of everyone on the XCPUs.com Folding@home team, we would like to honor him for his outstanding, and on-going, contribution.  Well done!

 

What is Folding at Home?

Folding at home, or F@H for short, is a distributed computing research project conducted by Stanford University. The objective of the project is to study the folding and misfolding of proteins, and how such misfolding can cause complex diseases such as Alzheimer's and Cancer.

 Using a program compiled by Stanford, you can help to further this project, and find a cure to those diseases.

 

 

How can I contribute?

 

You can contribute by lending your computer when it is idle.  Simply follow our guides below, and start contributing!

  • For single core PCs - Single Core Client
  • For dual, quad, or octocore PCs - SMP Setup Guide
  • For recent Nvidia / ATI graphics cards - GPU2 Setup Guide

For more information on Stanford's Folding at Home project, please visit our FAQ