How FAH works: Folding on streaming processors (GPU's and PS3)
One of the critical issues in computer science right now is the limits to how fast a single CPU can calculate. While Moore’s law is still going strong in a…
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Meet FAH team member Dr. Peter Kasson
Dr. Peter Kasson, MD, PhD has been working in the group for almost two years. Peter’s interests are in the area of lipid vesicle fusion, a process relevant for many…
Read moreHow FAH works: Markov State Models
This post may get a little technical, but I wanted to start a new set of posts describing the inner workings of Folding@home. To say FAH is complex is in…
Read moreMeet FAH team member Del Lucent
Del Lucent has been with the group for 3 years and has been working to understand how proteins fold in vivo (i.e. how they fold in cells and how that…
Read moreSAMPL challenge
Developing and applying new methods for computational drug design has become a major thrust for FAH as our methods have matured and developed. It’s become useful to test just how…
Read moreForum down — back up now
The folding-comunity forum is down. This is run by donors, so we can’t do anything directly to get it working (it’s not our hardware, servers, etc), but I’ve forwarded the…
Read moreFolding for PS3
Through a collaboration with Sony, folding was made available for PlayStation 3 users via a new client. Folding@home for PS3 was available until November 6, 2012.
Read moreA Guiness World Record
Guinness World Records recognized Folding@home and its users as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world.
Read moreMeet FAH team member Guha Jayachandran
There are about 20 people in the Pande Group right now and I’ll try to go through each of them to tell you a little more about them. I’ll go…
Read morePost petaflop
We’ve all been very excited about the great turnout of FAH donors over the last few days, allowing FAH to go over a petaflop. The PS3’s have been cranking out…
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