One of the FAH's server room down, 4am – 6am pacific time
Our network provider has scheduled a maintenance window for 4:00 AM to 6:00 AM, PST, on January 31 for one of our primary server rooms. Access to parts of Folding@home…
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PS3 server update
We’ve been trying various server-side changes to improve the PS3 situation and have been in close contact with Sony. We have some ideas which we will be implementing. So far,…
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Our FAH servers for PS3’s are getting hit pretty hard right now. We are looking into whether this is a client problem (failure to backoff correctly during high loads) or…
Read moreUpdate for assign2 assignment server
We’re updating the hardware of our backup assignment server. The switch over to the new hardware should occur today. Note that this involves a DNS change and so we expect…
Read moreserver room power outage over, back online
That server room that went down is back up and Del and Dan got all of the servers back up (no small feat). We have the servers running FAH, but…
Read moreCode development updates
Here are some code development updates on some important client/cores GPU core: we’ve got the GPU core running in house and we found and fixed some bugs in our QA…
Read morePlanned power outage Saturday
There will be a planned power outage in one of our server rooms on this Saturday, starting in the morning (8am PST) and lasting likely until 5pm PST. This affects…
Read moreRandom thoughts on the superbowl and statistics
Being an avid fan of the NFL, I do read a lot of the articles about the upcoming big game, such as this one http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs07/news/story?id=3208171 This one caught my eye…
Read moreNetxplorateur
Folding@home has been honored as a Netxplorateur in France (see http://www.netxplorateur.org/ for details). This award has been given to FAH based on our work in developing a distributed computing network…
Read moreUpdate on new GPU core
Several people have been curious about any news regarding a new GPU client/core. We hit a few snags and then hit the holiday break, but the team is back now. …
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