Folding@home

Chrome Web Store

by pandelab

v1.0.1 Updated Feb 24, 2014 24.58KiB

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Our goal is to solve massive computational problems related to protein folding research. The problems require so many calculations, we ask people to donate their unused computer power to help us crunch some of the numbers. Servers at Stanford University deliver individual “work units” to thousands of computers around the world. Each of these work units is a small piece of a massive problem. When a computer finishes a work unit, it sends the results back to Stanford and gets a new work unit. Stanford’s computers then stitch together all the results to solve bigger problems. Proteins are the elementary machines inside every cell that we rely on to keep us alive and healthy. They assemble themselves by “folding.” When proteins misfold, there can be serious health consequences. If we better understand protein misfolding we can design drugs and therapies to combat these illnesses.

Reviews (8 cached)

Last 12 months

★☆☆☆☆2020-11-23

Tony Brown

Shutdown in June 2019. Once installed - don't bother - you get a web page that states: "NaCl Web Client Shutdown Notice Folding@home is alive and well but our NaCl Web client has been shutdown permanently as of June, 2019. The NaCl client made it possible to run Folding@home in a Chrome Web browser. Development of this software was performed by Joseph Coffland of Cauldron Development LLC and was funded by the Hong Kong University Science & Technology. During it's 6 year lifespan, the NaCl client contributed 48 million Folding@home work units towards the study of human diseases. This represents a contribution of roughly 1.3 million CPU days. Our decision to retire the NaCl client was due to a combination of Google deprecating NaCl and infrastructure upgrades at Folding@home which would have required extra effort to continue to support the NaCl folding client. We appreciate your contribution to Folding@home. To continue folding, please install our Desktop App"

★☆☆☆☆2020-04-08

Jonathan Langevin

Discontinued, app should be removed from the chrome store...

★☆☆☆☆2020-04-01

BJ Jongejan

The NaCl client has shut down making this completely useless.

★☆☆☆☆2020-03-23

Idea Hamster

No longer functional. Should be removed from the chrome web sotre. Went offline nearly a year ago.

★☆☆☆☆2015-01-13

Ng Ek Ngee

doesn't seem to support any other Chromium based browsers.

★☆☆☆☆2014-08-29

James Liedy

won't download work assignment

★★☆☆☆2016-05-05

Doesn't work on one of the more popular Chromebooks, the Toshiba 2. Nacl enabled and everything, you get nothing.

★★★☆☆2015-03-04

Eric Skala

Really not sure if this is working or not... keeps saying it's re-downloading software into web broswer and re-requesting work unit. I'm using Chrome OS. I have the desktop version for Windows and it works great there, I hope I could also contribute using the broswer on this Chromebook etc.