Change to stats updates to greatly increase update speed
In order to speed the stats updates, we've suspended the updates for the project WU counts. This does not affect WU counts or points, just the stats pages which tells…
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New donation page
In addition to those donating computer time, we have been very grateful to people who have also donated funds to the Folding@home project. These funds have been important in purchasing…
Read moreNew paper #63: Accelerating Molecular Dynamic Simulation on Graphics Processing Units
We're happy to announce a new paper (#63 at https://foldingathome.org/English/Papers). This paper describes the code behind the Folding@home GPU clients, detailing how they work, how we achieved such a significant speed…
Read moreFolding@home passes the 5 petaflop mark
Based on our FLOP estimate (see https://stats.foldingathome.org/os), Folding@home has passed the 5 petaflop mark recently. To put it in context, traditional supercomputers have just broken the 1 petaflop mark, and even…
Read moreMain AS and stats down, ETA for fix 10am pacific time
The machine which handles the main assignment server (AS) and the stats update is currently down. We expect that this machine will be back up by 10am pacific time. Since…
Read moreNew paper #62: The predicted structure of the headpiece of the Huntingtin protein and its implications for Huntington's Disease
It's still early (since this paper was just accepted), but I wanted to give FAH donors a heads up on our work on Huntington's Disease aggregation, which is just about…
Read moreAS code change
We’ve made a code change in the two main assignment servers (assign1.foldingathome.org & assign2.foldingathome.org) to handle a potential problem people have been having with getting through firewalls. For those who…
Read moreFolding@home talk at PARC today, 4pm
Today (January 8, 2008) at 4pm, I'll be giving a talk at PARC, giving an update about Folding@home. If anyone is local to the Palo Alto area, you can be…
Read moreOpenMM workshop — @ Stanford Feb 12, 13
I've talked about OpenMM before — it's the library we're releasing to allow other scientists to take advantage of the great speed up found in our GPU code. We're now…
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