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Here's an interesting link on the history of supercomputers, with a nice bit about Folding@home: http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3073/ I particularly like the old pictures, such as this one!

Several people haven been pushing me to blog more, but it's hard for me to find the time, especially since I'm often sitting in meetings all day long with various…

We are seeing the network getting worse right now, especially for the GPU assignment server (eg traceroute to it and other machines on related networks are failing).  We have tickets…

We have had some issues with the GPU assignment server (AS) migration to new hardware.  Several issues have been resolved, including  – issues with ATI GPU client work assignments –…

We hit a few snags with bringing back one of the servers, so we've left the stats update down until we could resolve the problem.  It looks like we have…

Our planned shutdown today is going onward as planned.  We hope to have the main systems migrated, except for the stats db (which will be down) and the stats web…

There is going to be some major maintenance at Stanford on Monday May 18 in the morning (Pacific time).  Most of FAH will be up, but right now, the stats…

One of the members of the Folding@home team, Imran Haque, has developed a memory tester for GPUs.  You can find my original post on it here. We've now moved it…

One of the members of the Folding@home team, Imran Haque, has developed a memory tester for GPUs.  You can get a copy of it here: https://simtk.org/home/memtest/ and here's a brief…

The main AS is down.  We are working on it right now.  Assuming nothing serious comes up, it should be back up in an hour.  I'll post updates as we…