PiTime.net is dedicated to distributed computing. The primary focus is on the Folding@Home Project and BOINC.
Instead of sitting idle, a machine here spends its spare cycles simulating how proteins fold and misfold — the molecular machinery behind Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and many cancers — alongside BOINC projects spanning astronomy, climate modelling and mathematics. Every completed work unit goes back to the researchers who asked for it.
Pulled straight from the Folding@home statistics API and refreshed on the server every half hour.
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Folding@home is the primary focus. BOINC fills in the rest of the schedule with everything from pulsar searches to climate models.
A distributed molecular-dynamics project run out of academic labs. Your machine simulates the way a protein folds — atom by atom, femtosecond by femtosecond — and returns the trajectory so researchers can study the shapes that drive disease. Work units are small, the client is unattended, and results are credited to the team.
Get the F@h client →The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing — a single client that can attach to dozens of independent research projects. Split time between Einstein@Home's gravitational-wave and pulsar searches, Rosetta@home's protein design, World Community Grid's disease work, or number-theory projects hunting primes. You choose the science; BOINC schedules it.
Get the BOINC client →The client runs in the background at low priority and yields when you need the machine.
Download Folding@home or BOINC for Windows, macOS or Linux. Both install like any other application and start with sensible defaults.
Enter team number 53269 and pick a donor name. Anything you complete from then on is credited to PiTime as well as to you personally.
Work units download, compute, and upload on their own. Cap the CPU or GPU share, pause on battery, or schedule it for overnight only — it's all in the client settings.
Add the team number in your Folding@home client's identity settings and your points start landing on the board above. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to pay; the only cost is electricity you were mostly spending anyway.