Update on outage – FAH has been up as of Sunday, stats back on line now
Here's our (I think) last update on this recent outage. This was a major disaster at Stanford affecting the whole campus and I'm grateful for our team coming in on…
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Network issue at Stanford
The whole Stanford campus is having a major issue due to the lack of chilled water on campus. This is causing issues for many of our servers in different server…
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We have a network issue at Stanford in one of our data centers. We are working on it now. Update: Everything is back up now.
Read moreReports of issue with the Stanford medical school network: Updated
We just received notice that the School of Medicine has scheduled an emergency network downtime Tonight between 5-6 pm (pacific time). Network engineers expect end users to experience a single,…
Read moreReports of issue with the Stanford medical school network
Several of the FAH servers are located at Stanford Medical School. The Stanford School of Medicine Networks have reported outages last night (Thursday, Nov 17, 7:50-9:18 pm, pacific time) and…
Read moreRecent video about Folding@home from the Stanford News Service
The Stanford News Service recently came by to do a video for Folding@home. Here it is:
Read morePlanned changes to "Big Advanced" (BA) projects, effective January 16, 2012
Big Advanced (BA) is an experimental type of Folding@home WUs intended for the most powerful machines in FAH. However, as time goes on, technology advances, and the characteristics associated with…
Read moreDonor Advisory Board (DAB)
We've been working to make the behind the scenes tasks of Folding@home better communicated with FAH donors. In the last few months, there have been many recent changes, including making…
Read moreNot getting SMP WUs? Here’s a fix.
We’ve been getting reports that donors can’t get SMP WU’s. There are plenty of SMP WUs, but they require client v6.34 (or later). The servers that can handle the older…
Read moreComparison between FAH and Anton's approaches
Right now, the two most powerful supercomputers for studying protein folding are Folding@home and a very impressive special purpose computer from DE Shaw Researched, called ANTON. We’re often been asked “how…
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