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…
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Two 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 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…
Read moreGPU2 open beta going well
The GPU2 code beta test is going well so far. While there are some issues to deal with, it looks like this client is significantly easier to use than GPU1. …
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