F@H Code Development Update

Here are some code development updates on some important client/cores from Dr. Vijay!

~ GPU core: we’ve got the GPU core running in house and we found and fixed some bugs in our Q&A stage. We’re now continuing Q&A to see if we find any more bugs. Right now, the GPU core is running on all new ATI cards, so we’re excited to roll it out. We are using CAL now (ATI’s hardware abstraction layer) and that seems to make life a lot easier, and also should make running a GPU client a lot easier from the point of view of donors, as the driver issues and complexities should now be resolved. We are still looking into an NVIDIA client. The NVIDIA GPUs are very different to program, so a port isn’t a simple thing to do. We are looking into this, though.

~ SMP core: right now, SMP on Linux and OSX is behaving fairly well, whereas Windows is giving some issues. This is perhaps not a surprise, since the SMP code must use MPI, which has its origins on UNIX and is a newcomer to Windows. We have been working with Windows MPI developers to improve the situation, but they tell us this isn’t a simple fix. Since we are in the business of studying proteins, not writing MPI libraries for Windows, we will wait until the MPI experts improve the Windows MPI before we make any claims of improvement there.

Finally, beta clients will be expiring soon (in Feb 08′ I believe), and we are in the process of Q&A for new clients. We will also extend the expiration deadlines in the future clients to give some more time, and since the clients are appearing to be maturing.

F@H stats updater for iGoogle

Due to some others request, I’ve also made a EOC F@H personal stats updater for iGoogle!

It works the same as my other two F@H personal stats feeder (Vista Sidebar & Yahoo Widget).

You can grab this gadget from HERE. And if you have any question, you can post it in this support thread too.

Hope you’ll like it!

F@H planned outage today!

Quote from F@H Blog: “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.  We are on minimal staff right now due to the holidays, but we’ll do all we can to keep FAH going.  Roughly about 40% of the FAH work servers will be affected during the outage, but the AS, stats, web page, etc will all be up.”

Merry X’mas & Happy New Year!

We wish every folder will have a very merry x’mas and a higher production year!!

Oh, what’s your folding goal for 2008?!

PS3 F@H version 1.3 is out!

SONY had just released a new F@H client for it’s PS3 console. You will need to download the latest firmware v2.1 in order to run the new F@H client tho!

There are several new feature for the new F@H client, it included auto or pre-set system shut down (nice for those who want to have the PS3 finished the current WU and then shut down itself at night!), and new user selectable background music (I honestly don’t see the point of this……?!).

Read more at Playstation Blog…..

Tips for new folders

New to F@H?  Needs some help with SMP client?  Check out this thread at the forum!

Now, Folding on AMD Phenom too!

Just in!  We now also has some folding number from the newest AMD Phenom quad core CPU!!  Check it out!!

Welcome to our new members!

Welcome to our new members in November!

BenScoobert
nitteo
TurtleShell
Hatchiroku8616
DO
SeraphNox
=-Anon-_
Zenei
baditude_df
X-JuIcEd-X
xX~EXCELSIOR~Xx
Marritza
Knight_2k1
uS_Ryune
SeraphGrey
Robin
BenF_
GekigangarV
Turtle_Shell
Valkillmore
Anaxagoras1986
=-Adelphia83-_(www.overclockers.com)
=-Ninja
Sylvain
Man77
otherstuf
kenken32r
=-__MoW__-Assasin
=VG=RaZoR
eddy.gilbert1
FUKZOOO.
nippy
suncute
JollySwagman

Member Spotlight #77

Want to know a little more ’bout one of our newest power folder, Flexy? Ever wonder what he has under his belt for 40,000+ppd?? We finally have him under the spotlight!!! Go check it out!!

New Folding Forum!

“New forum

We’ve created a new forum at http://foldingforum.org/ . The plan is for this one to be a temporary forum, until we can get the old one back up. However, we’ll keep it around to serve as a temporary forum when the main one goes down. The only caveat is that you’ll have to re-register (sorry). However, the FAH team and Mods are already set up there, so we’re ready to welcome your posts. Sorry to take so long with this — many people (esp Bruce, Py, WW and some other mods and FAH team members) have been working hard behind the scenes to make this all possible.

I think we have a plan which will work long term. This backup forum will always be there, and if needed, it could become the primary forum if we can’t get the main one back up.”

Folding on QX9650!

Ever wondering how’s the newest Penyrn core fold?  Check out this QX9650 @ 4+GHz folding thread!!

F@H Stats update every 2 hours now!

Stanford had just announced that the F@H site stats will be updated every 2 hours instead of hourly!

Also, they mentioned trying to make their stats page more “high performance(?)”.  And if everything looks fine, they might bring back the simultaneous database access during the update time too.

We’ll see if this will have any impact/error to all the 3rd party stats page (EOC, [H], Kakao, etc.)…..