Planned power outage Saturday
There will be a planned power outage in one of our server rooms on this Saturday, starting in the morning (8am PST) and lasting likely until 5pm PST. This affects…
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Random thoughts on the superbowl and statistics
Being an avid fan of the NFL, I do read a lot of the articles about the upcoming big game, such as this one http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs07/news/story?id=3208171 This one caught my eye…
Read moreNetxplorateur
Folding@home has been honored as a Netxplorateur in France (see http://www.netxplorateur.org/ for details). This award has been given to FAH based on our work in developing a distributed computing network…
Read moreUpdate on new GPU core
Several people have been curious about any news regarding a new GPU client/core. We hit a few snags and then hit the holiday break, but the team is back now. …
Read moreMisc GPU comments
People have been asking a couple of questions about the new GPU’s. A few added notes: we will support the 2xxx and 3xxx class ATI cards ATI’s CAL *may* support…
Read moreForum service last night
Our hosting company did service on our server last night (pacific time). The fix involved a new IP address for our forum (same url of course). Our data center has…
Read moreBinding of a ligand (small molecule drug) to proteins
Today, I’m going to post a nice summary of one major facet of FAH, the study of protein-ligand binding. This issue is critical for computational drug design, and brings together…
Read moreFrontiers in Biotechnology inverview
Frontiers in Biotech is a radio interview show. Some time ago I recorded an interview with them and it’s now available. You can hear it at http://twit.tv/fib27 . I’ve put…
Read moreOutage over, servers going back up
The power is back at our server room that had to go down. The critical servers are back up and we’ll bring the rest up later tonight or tomorrow (it’s…
Read morePlanned power outage tomorrow (12/27)
One of our server rooms will be undergoing a planned power outage on December 27, starting in the morning pacific time. We expect the outage to last about 5 hours. …
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