Meet FAH team member Dr. Peter Kasson
Dr. Peter Kasson, MD, PhD has been working in the group for almost two years. Peter’s interests are in the area of lipid vesicle fusion, a process relevant for many…
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How FAH works: Markov State Models
This post may get a little technical, but I wanted to start a new set of posts describing the inner workings of Folding@home. To say FAH is complex is in…
Read moreMeet FAH team member Del Lucent
Del Lucent has been with the group for 3 years and has been working to understand how proteins fold in vivo (i.e. how they fold in cells and how that…
Read moreSAMPL challenge
Developing and applying new methods for computational drug design has become a major thrust for FAH as our methods have matured and developed. It’s become useful to test just how…
Read moreForum down — back up now
The folding-comunity forum is down. This is run by donors, so we can’t do anything directly to get it working (it’s not our hardware, servers, etc), but I’ve forwarded the…
Read moreMeet FAH team member Guha Jayachandran
There are about 20 people in the Pande Group right now and I’ll try to go through each of them to tell you a little more about them. I’ll go…
Read morePost petaflop
We’ve all been very excited about the great turnout of FAH donors over the last few days, allowing FAH to go over a petaflop. The PS3’s have been cranking out…
Read moreNew team for GPU core work
With V Vishal leaving (now known as Dr. Vishal), we’ve brought on new people to work on GPU core work. In particular, we have two of our strongest programmers working…
Read moreCrossing the petaflop barrier
It looked like we’ve just crossed over a petaflop, some time last night. This is something we’ve been expecting for a while, due to the great performance that comes from…
Read moreNew PS3 version results looking very nice scientifically
It’s still early, but the newest PS3 version (1.3) is looking very nice scientifically. While the key science upgrades in 1.3 are very much behind the scenes, they are going…
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