Brief unplanned outage
There was a brief, unplanned network outage. There was an unintentional network outage caused by maintenance this morning from about 7:30 to 7:50 AM. Ironically, the work we were performing…
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Importance of software and data integrity
The scientific code underlying our research has a lot of dials and switches. It can be very tempting to play with those switches to optimize the calculations. However, many of…
Read moreA new type of work unit
We are preparing for the public release of a new work unit category: extra-large advanced methods work units. Some background information is provided below; we'll update this thread with more details as…
Read moreupdated windows SMP client — expiration extended until July 4, 2010
For those running the windows SMP client, I just wanted to remind donors that the previous client expires today and that an update has been available for a few days.…
Read more10 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…
Read moreTwo 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…
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