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I've talked about our work with our second generation SMP client (dubbed SMP2).  The goals were to make it work much more simply and easier for donors, namely by getting…

There has been an ATI WU shortage over the last few days.  We have been working on it during the week, but there have been some unusual circumstances involved this…

With Folding@home (FAH), we have the computer power to tackle challenging problems involved with protein folding.  One of the interesting folding-related problems has to do with how proteins (and their…

One key SMP server is down (vspg9), which brings down all of its associated interfaces (vspg9a, vspg9b).  This is making us very short on SMP WUs.  We are actively working…

We've been working on the WU shortage issue and have some positive items to report. First, we have greatly improved the AS logic so it uses more information about the…

We're low on jobs for machines w/o SSE capabilities.  We are working to fix this. By the way, I often get asked "how come FAH can get low on jobs?"…

One machine (vsp08) and its interfaces (vsp08a, vsp08b, vsp08c) is down.  Our sysadmins have been notified.  Their response is slower on the weekends, so this may have to wait until…

We needed to take one physical server down, but that takes down several interfaces, including vsp07, vsp07v, vsp07b, vsp17, vsp17v, vsp22, vsp22v The machine is fscking now, so it may take a few hours for it…

We had some WU shortages over the weekend, but for the most part handled the biggest demands.  However, we still have shortages for certain types of WUs, especially for pre-v6…

We have been working behind the scenes to optimize the Folding@home GPU client for the new NVIDIA GTX 4xx hardware.  So far, it's been going well with us hitting some…