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We're happy to announce a new paper (#63 at http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Papers). This paper describes the code behind the Folding@home GPU clients, detailing how they work, how we achieved such a significant speed up on GPUs, and other implementation details. For those... (...)

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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 equipment (eg servers) or services (eg professional programmers) that are... (...)

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There has been much interest in our stats page (osstats) detailing different OS's and the FLOPS they produce: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats We've been trying to come up with a way to standardize these numbers so that they can be more easily compared... (...)

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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 donors how many WUs they have contributed to each project.... (...)

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There was a pretty strange power surge today at about 3:45pm pacific time. Right now, it looks like it's affected some servers. Our sysadmins are working on it. In general, most of FAH is up and running fine, but we... (...)

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The main AS is down. We are working on it right now. Assuming nothing serious comes up, it should be back up in an hour. I'll post updates as we know them. The stats update is on hold until this... (...)

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One of the members of the Folding@home team, Imran Haque, has developed a memory tester for GPUs. You can get a copy of it here: https://simtk.org/home/memtest/ and here's a brief description: MemtestG80 is a software-based tester to test for "soft... (...)

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One of the members of the Folding@home team, Imran Haque, has developed a memory tester for GPUs. You can find my original post on it here. We've now moved it to its own download page and included some more text... (...)

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There is going to be some major maintenance at Stanford on Monday May 18 in the morning (Pacific time). Most of FAH will be up, but right now, the stats web site looks like it will be down. Also, it... (...)

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Our planned shutdown today is going onward as planned. We hope to have the main systems migrated, except for the stats db (which will be down) and the stats web pages. The main web pages, work servers, and AS's should... (...)

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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 a reasonable fix for now, so we're going to turn... (...)

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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 - some work servers without work But there are two remaining... (...)

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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 out to IT support to deal with this issue. If... (...)

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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 client), MSMbuilder (the software used to parallelize calculations... (...)

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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 are attempting a rescue disk fsck this morning). Two more... (...)

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