Irregular 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…
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Major 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…
Read moreUpdate on Power PC OSX support
We have been going through various shortages for Power PC OSX WUs, due to the new cores not supporting PPC machines. While we expect that we may have new PPC…
Read moreGPU2 core auto-upgrade planned for Monday Jan 4, 2010
Happy New Year! We're starting out the new year with a planned auto-core upgrade for GPU core 11. This is planned to happen Monday morning Stanford time. This will bring…
Read moreOptimizations to stats web pages
In preparation for the migration to the new stats db, we have been doing some profiling on the stats db to see where we can get the most speed up.…
Read moreMachine went down last night, affecting others. Reset this morning.
A machine went down last night, which brought down vspg1, vspg1v, and vspg1v2 (these are all different virtual interfaces on the same physical server). Our admins (working during the holidays…
Read moreRelease of new Protomol (Core B4) WUs
As announced some time ago we have been working on a new core (Protomol core B4), and it has been looking good in QA so we have started to release…
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