10 Years
While it's not directly a major milestone for FAH, it's something very relevant for me: July 1 was my 10th year anniversary at Stanford. It's amazing that 10 years has…
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Two servers down: vspg2 and vspg2v
Maintenance is under way on these machines. Looks like a PDU went down during a equipment move today and the redundant power did not kick in right. Hopefully this will…
Read moreHistory of Supercomputers
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!
Read moreHow does FAH code development and sysadmin get done?
One of the more common question I get asked is how we do our client/server/core programming and backend system administration. Also, others were curious about updates on various core projects.…
Read moreMy twitter experiment
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…
Read moreGPU server issues
We've had a rough night with GPU servers. One has been down hard over the day yesterday (it crashed hard and now can't find its / partition — the admins…
Read moreMD Workshop
Next week, we will be having a Molecular Dynamics (MD) workshop (see http://simbios.stanford.edu/calendar.htm for details) for three main pieces of Folding@home-related software, namely OpenMM (the GPU acceleration code behind the FAH GPU…
Read moreNetwork issues arising
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…
Read moreIssues with GPU AS migration
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 –…
Read morePlanned shutdown today: update
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…
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