Grid Computing @ Firepear
Grid
Published: 2025-12-03

We believe in the power of science and a knowledge-based approach to life in general. So we’re proud to be a part of several community grid computing projects which work to solve open problems in medicine, environmental science, astrophysics, and mathematics.

Project stats

Project Points Compute Time WUs Team status
Folding@Home 6.365B+ 19_000+ Active
Asteroids@Home 1.812M 324d 16:40:28 4_418 Inactive
DENIS@Home 7.190M 20y 348d 20:10:07 161_851 Inactive
Einstein@Home 51.519M 16y 300d 22:05:48 49_401 Inactive
GPUGrid 142.21M 1y 160d 07:56:25 6_865 Inactive
Milkyway@Home 26.712M 28y 71d 21:15:33 82_835 Inactive
Rosetta@Home 6.145M 13y 118d 07:54:14 15_428 Inactive
WCG 1.046B 420y 302d 17:17:44 1_532_109 Inactive

A WU is a “workunit”; a packet of computational tasks sent by the project and returned when complete.

Folding At Home

In late 2025 we returned to Folding@Home, initially on a part-time basis but it didn’t take long to start folding 24/7 again. Our fleet is physically smaller now, but newer hardware does a lot of work.

Machine CPU Thds RAM GPU
hausbox Ryzen 9900X 24 32G RTX 5050
node00 Ryzen 9950X3D 32 32G RTX 4070
nodeff Ryzen 9900X 24 32G RX 9060 XT

World Community Grid

From 06 December 2017 until 02 April 2024 we were active in WCG’s many subprojects. Starting with a single dual-core machine, we would eventually build up to a peak of six machines and 96 cores/192 threads crunching for WCG.

Eventually however, we stepped away and focused solely on FAH. These are our final WGC subproject stats:

Subproject CPU Time WUs
Africa Rainfall Project 23y 120d 09:20:14 14_997
FightAIDS@Home 2 10y 352d 12:24:47 30_648
Help Stop TB 193d 20:29:34 443
Mapping Cancer Markers 265y 204d 01:26:35 845_169
Microbiome Immunity Project 35y 265d 01:39:46 222_779
OpenPandemics 63y 174d 07:31:10 256_870
OpenZika 7y 290d 04:23:01 65_778
Outsmart Ebola Together 3y 101d 15:01:33 9_312
Smash Childhood Cancer 8y 354d 09:42:35 84_741
Beta testing 70d 07:18:29 1_372

Fleet upcycling

We maximize the utility of our fleet by turning upgraded parts into new machines that we give to people who can use them to do even more good work.

  • Tracking fleet stats was the impetus behind Gnatwren, a small metrics aggregator

Archived

  • We developed the Homefarm fleet orchestration suite
  • We created the Greenhouse multi-machine chassis
  • For testing Homefarm on ARM CPUs, we created Greenroom

Team news

For more in-depth information on computing milestones and plans, check out our most recent updates.