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We have been pretty busy with new cores for FAH and I wanted to give donors an update. 1) SMP2: Gromacs and Desmond. Much effort has gone into our "SMP2" project, the codename for the second generation SMP client. The... (...)

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We've ordered a new class of servers which should make a big impact on FAH server load, and also allow us to release several new big projects with more WUs. We're very excited about this since we've been limited by... (...)

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There has been a lot of work on updating the Protomol core to bring it in line with the other cores in Folding@home. I'm happy to say that a lot of progress has been made and it's looking much better.... (...)

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There was a problem with the stats server over the night. We got to it first thing in the morning (around 6:30am pacific time), but it looks like a few stats updates were missed. The missed data is backed up... (...)

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We will be adding one new field to the psummary web pages (eg, http://fah-web.stanford.edu/psummary.html) to include a new part of FAH stats. We will give more info soon, but for now, please note the additional column on the far right.... (...)

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We're running a stats recredit from Nov 12. Sorry for the delay in getting this going. (...)

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We are excited to announce progress in our testing of new SMP2 cores. These cores use threads-based parallelization instead of MPI and, we hope, should be much more robust than our first-generation SMP cores. The SMP2 cores are currently in... (...)

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We're seeing some issues with the main http://folding.stanford.edu web page. We have some ideas, but it's late here (11pm pacific time), so we'll have to wait for IT to get in to work in the morning to get a fix... (...)

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I'm at NIH today for the IMAG meeting on the Impact of Modeling on Biomedical Research. IMAG stands for the Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group and it constitutes all of the science major funding agencies in the US (NIH, NSF,... (...)

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We have made some changes to the psummary generation scripts so that they can support the v5 servers and in general fix some bugs. This is a complete, clean rewrite of a very, very old script (10 year old perl... (...)

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As announced some time ago we have been working on a new core (Protomol core B4), and it has been looking good in QA so we have started to release Promol core WUs more broadly. We have a preliminary Protomol... (...)

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A machine went down last night, which brought down vspg1, vspg1v, and vspg1v2 (these are all different virtual interfaces on the same physical server). Our admins (working during the holidays -- thanks to them for their hard work) reset the... (...)

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In preparation for the migration to the new stats db, we have been doing some profiling on the stats db to see where we can get the most speed up. We have found a few items that we're working on... (...)

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Happy New Year! We're starting out the new year with a planned auto-core upgrade for GPU core 11. This is planned to happen Monday morning Stanford time. This will bring the GPU core to version 1.31, which has many improvements.... (...)

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We have been going through various shortages for Power PC OSX WUs, due to the new cores not supporting PPC machines. While we expect that we may have new PPC WUs in the future, we want to give a heads... (...)

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