NVIDIA GPU memory checker
One of the members of the Folding@home team, Imran Haque, has developed a memory tester for GPUs. You can get a copy of it here: https://simtk.org/home/memtest/ and here's a brief…
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main AS down. We're looking into it.
The main AS is down. We are working on it right now. Assuming nothing serious comes up, it should be back up in an hour. I'll post updates as we…
Read morePower surge on campus — servers down
There was a pretty strange power surge today at about 3:45pm pacific time. Right now, it looks like it's affected some servers. Our sysadmins are working on it. In general,…
Read moreChange to stats updates to greatly increase update speed
In order to speed the stats updates, we've suspended the updates for the project WU counts. This does not affect WU counts or points, just the stats pages which tells…
Read moreFLOPS
There has been much interest in our stats page (osstats) detailing different OS's and the FLOPS they produce: https://stats.foldingathome.org/os We've been trying to come up with a way to standardize…
Read moreNew donation page
In addition to those donating computer time, we have been very grateful to people who have also donated funds to the Folding@home project. These funds have been important in purchasing…
Read moreNew paper #63: Accelerating Molecular Dynamic Simulation on Graphics Processing Units
We're happy to announce a new paper (#63 at https://foldingathome.org/English/Papers). This paper describes the code behind the Folding@home GPU clients, detailing how they work, how we achieved such a significant speed…
Read moreFolding@home passes the 5 petaflop mark
Based on our FLOP estimate (see https://stats.foldingathome.org/os), Folding@home has passed the 5 petaflop mark recently. To put it in context, traditional supercomputers have just broken the 1 petaflop mark, and even…
Read moreMain AS and stats down, ETA for fix 10am pacific time
The machine which handles the main assignment server (AS) and the stats update is currently down. We expect that this machine will be back up by 10am pacific time. Since…
Read moreNew paper #62: The predicted structure of the headpiece of the Huntingtin protein and its implications for Huntington's Disease
It's still early (since this paper was just accepted), but I wanted to give FAH donors a heads up on our work on Huntington's Disease aggregation, which is just about…
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