Folding@home at Supercomputing 2007
FAH will have a presence at Supercomputing 2007 in several places. Stanford University has a booth and FAH will be pretty prominently displayed there. Also, we’re hoping to have a…
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What is entropy?
Today, I’ll start a new series of posts, where I talk about some of the concepts important for how FAH works, and also highlighted in our recent youtube posts. Entropy…
Read moreTeam 0 (anonymous team) goes over 2^31 (2 billion) points
The anonymous team went over 2^31 points (over 2 billion) last night. That’s a lot of points. When we wrote our scripts some years ago, we didn’t expect to reach…
Read moreFAH on YouTube — "talklets" about the science behind Folding@home
We’ve been working with two high school teachers (David Paynter and Aminah Bilal) to give a full introduction to Folding@home for those with little or no science background. We’ve made…
Read moreOpenMM
We’ve done a lot of code development in FAH, using FAH’s power to make advances in the science of how molecules are simulated. We are working now to give these…
Read moreFAH and Open source
We’ve recently written a new FAQ to talk about FAH and open source (see https://foldingathome.org/English/FAQ-OpenSource ). The basic jist of the FAQ is that if someone would like to understand…
Read moreStanford net down
The Stanford net is down. We are working with Stanford IT to get FAH back up as soon as possible. We’ll give an update as we know more. UPDATE: We’re…
Read morePaper highlight: Paper #52
I’ll start highlighting some of our key results from FAH in this blog. I’ll start with our most recent paper (paper #52 Control of Membrane Fusion Mechanism by Lipid Composition:…
Read moreCheck out our FAQ's
We’ve been working hard to update our FAQ’s. We’ve gotten a great deal of help from many people both within the Pande group and outside. 7im (FAH forum moderator) has…
Read moreThoughts on passing a petaflop
As many of you have heard, we’ve passed a petaflop in performance for FAH. A petaflop is 1 million-billion floating point operations per second, i.e. 10^15 operations per second or…
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