Recent talk of results from Folding@home
Donors are often curious to hear about recent results. While one can read our papers, listed on our web site, those are fairly technical and intended for a biological or…
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Folding@home 10th anniversary
It’s with great pleasure that I announce that today is Folding@home’s official tenth anniversary. It’s been an amazing 10 years, especially in terms of what we’ve collectively been able to…
Read moreTwo new key results
We have two papers (one that just came out in PNAS and one that's about to come out in Physical Review Letters — papers #74 and #75 on our papers…
Read morePaper #72: Major new result from Folding@home: simulation of the millisecond timescale
Simulating protein folding on the millisecond timescale has been a major challenge for many years. When we started Folding@home, our first goal was to break the microsecond barrier. This barrier…
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 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 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…
Read moreNew FAH results on possible new Alzheimer's drug presented
This is very preliminary news, but something I'm very, very excited about, so I'll give some advance news. On Tuesday, we presented our results regarding new possible drugs (small molecule…
Read moreFolding@home/PS3 wins "gold" award at the Good Design Award competition
We're happy to announce that the PS3 client for Folding@home has won a prestigious design award: The PS3's Folding@home service has nabbed a prestigious Good Design Award, AKA "G-Mark." Since…
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