Stanford Web server issues
Looks like the stanford main web servers (including those which host the main university page foldingathome.org ) are down or very slow. We've filed a ticket. Note that the stats…
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Please do not access folding stats with scripts
Our main stats web server is being hit with a denial of service-like attack from several machines. They are accessing cgi-bin urls multiple times per second per IP, which is…
Read moreFAH-Addict: http://www.fah-addict.net/
toTOW, one of the moderators from the FoldingForum.org community has helped to found a new web site related to Folding@home: FAH-addict. This site has been great about giving the latest…
Read moreStats db update complete
We're done with the bulk of our initial update to new hardware. We'll be doing some more work in the future to build up some additional capacity, namely hopefully getting…
Read moreStats db migration in progress
We've talked about this for some time, but now's the time to start the migration to the new stats db hardware. We are doing it now and everything looks ok…
Read moreIrregular stats update schedule
Over the weekend, we've had trouble with cron on the server which initiates stats updates. This doesn't affect that stats data itself (past, present, or future), just the initiation of…
Read moreMajor power outage at Stanford
The electrical power is out at most Stanford buildings as of 5:20 this morning (Tuesday, Jan 19). SHC Engineering and Maintenance reports that the Stanford Cogen power plant (the power…
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 moreImportant update on my post on OpenCL
Just an update on my blog post. I want to make it clear that we're seeing problems in both of our ATI and NVIDIA GPU OpenCL implementations for OpenMM. Maybe…
Read moreSome more details on the GPU3 core, regarding OpenCL
Here is an update and some more details on the third generation GPU core. As I stated before, this core is built on OpenMM, which brings the science further along…
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