One of the more common question I get asked is how we do our client/server/core programming and backend system administration. Also, others were curious about updates on various core projects.…
Read moreSeveral people haven been pushing me to blog more, but it's hard for me to find the time, especially since I'm often sitting in meetings all day long with various…
Read moreWe've had a rough night with GPU servers. One has been down hard over the day yesterday (it crashed hard and now can't find its / partition — the admins…
Read moreNext week, we will be having a Molecular Dynamics (MD) workshop (see http://simbios.stanford.edu/calendar.htm for details) for three main pieces of Folding@home-related software, namely OpenMM (the GPU acceleration code behind the FAH GPU…
Read moreWe are seeing the network getting worse right now, especially for the GPU assignment server (eg traceroute to it and other machines on related networks are failing). We have tickets…
Read moreWe have had some issues with the GPU assignment server (AS) migration to new hardware. Several issues have been resolved, including – issues with ATI GPU client work assignments –…
Read moreWe hit a few snags with bringing back one of the servers, so we've left the stats update down until we could resolve the problem. It looks like we have…
Read moreOur planned shutdown today is going onward as planned. We hope to have the main systems migrated, except for the stats db (which will be down) and the stats web…
Read moreThere is going to be some major maintenance at Stanford on Monday May 18 in the morning (Pacific time). Most of FAH will be up, but right now, the stats…
Read moreOne of the members of the Folding@home team, Imran Haque, has developed a memory tester for GPUs. You can find my original post on it here. We've now moved it…
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