From their website: Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. It brings together citizen scientists who volunteer to run simulations of protein dynamics on their personal computers. Insights from this data are helping scientists to better understand biology, and providing new opportunities for developing therapeutics.
Folding@Home generated a significant uptick in popularity and computing power by the normieverse due to the Coronavirus Outbreak of 2020 to develop the synthetic spike protien genome in the Coronavirus Gene Therapy Treatment by Pfizer and Moderna.
Folding@Home has (at date of writing) three packages for x64 GNU/Linux (Debian), but only one for x86 (again, Debian). Other GNU/Linux system prebuilt packages exist, however these three packages are the fahclient, fahcontrol, and fahviewer. While the client itself requires no major dependencies, the controller and client require Gnome Libs, and by extension D-Bus.