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We've been working to fix two issues with GPU clients in FAH.  Here's an update: 1) There was an issue with NVIDIA clients with G80 GPUs getting stuck in a…

We've been seeing donor reports of WU assignment issues for GPUs (WU's intended only for G80 GPUs going to Fermi and Kepler).  We finished an AS patch yesterday, gave it…

The  unified GPU/SMP benchmarking scheme will be rolled out today on FAH. All the future GPU projects would now be benchmarked using the new scheme. Most of the existing GPU…

Guest post from Dr. Gregory Bowman, UC Berkeley Ken Dill, a long-standing leader in protein folding, just published a beautiful review article about progress in the field.  The main point…

We have been updating our internal accounting of stats for FLOPs for FAH.  The major revamp has come from a better handling of the difference between a CPU and a…

One of our servers (VSP12) which runs multiple virtual servers (VSP12a through g) will be take down for maintenance in the afternoon (Nov 20,  around 1:00 pm) and is planned…

Today, FAH is the featured article on Wikipedia.  We mentioned this earlier, but here's the snapshot.  Thanks to everyone who've contributed to making this possible!

For several years, we have worked closely with Sony to bring Folding@home to the PS3.  We're excited about what we've been able to do.  Since the PS3 started folding in…

The current benchmarking calculations for SMP and GPU projects are performed on different machines since originally the SMP cores could not perform the calculations that the GPUs cores could and vice…

Guest post from Profs Kasson and Shirts, UVA and Mr. Coffland A new version of Gromacs (4.6) is coming, and we’re working to bring it to Folding@home.  The new code…