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Folding@home is NOT stateless! You need to have persistent storage, or you will be putting more load on the servers, and cause some other problems (that I will not detail here) as well. There is more about persistent storage written in the container README - https://github.com/foldingathome/containe...

On a related note, it was 11 years ago yesterday (Oct 22nd, 1999) when Vijay and I met, and we started this whole mess.

Time sure goes by in a hurry doesn't it.

Heh, it's been such a looong time since we started...

Keep in mind that an iPhone, and certainly a current laptop, may be more powerful then a CPU from that era. So the overall benefit may not be enough to justify heating up the room with an ancient computer.

*chuckles* As awesome as we are here ;) the Nobels go toward fundamental breakthroughs in the sciences. Both distributed computing and the physics behind folding are old hat, so while the results are impressive and numerous, this isn't really of that category - just LOTS of it. Now if there was an a...

Cloud computing is just the new marketing term for what we've been doing forever. I've been doing it for 20 years, and I'm just a newb compated to some people I know. We're all eagerly awaiting a new term. Bu ti's always good that scientists are getting access to more toys, no matter what marketing ...

Hrm, I'll ponder this for S@h... Facebook in general pisses me off a great deal, but then I'm older then their demographic and care about things like privacy... hahah

This happened a couple times to people back in my distributed.net days, not to mention a couple phone calls in the middle of the night with people thinking they had a virus since I was on the DNS entry. When we tell you NOT to put something on work/friends machines without permission, we mean it. Th...

10 years ago today (Oct 22, 1999) I met a new Stanford chemistry professor at a meeting with a VC. He was barely finished moving into his office, didn't event have students yet, and wanted to do protein folding research using computational methods - still considered a fringe idea at the time. He was...

The first stage of Storage@home is now launching. Please visit the Storage@home forum for the FAQ and instructions.

The installation of process is more involved then that of Folding@home, requiring some computer savvy, so please read the FAQ+Instructions posts before you begin.

Yea, let us know so we can tell people that have this problem they need to use Squid version X or better, since I'm sure they will fix the bug quickly now that Tear sent them a bug report, and it should be a fast fix. On this end I made some code changes, but they wont be rolled out for at least a w...

Nice work tear

I think the main issue on the Mac side is that people are just not buying the Mac Pro desktops we need for folding anymore, they buy laptops and iPhones. And I doubt the iPhone will be a great 24/7 folding platform any time soon

S@h will start with the standard Windows, Linux, and OS X. The tools it's built on are completely portable, but the compute part will be limited to what the cores support, which is unlikely to go past Win/OSX/Linux.

They are by any practical benchmark about the same.

For the small proteins we often use, nVidia is faster. For large proteins they should be about the same again.

Not a very satisfying answer I know. Intel and AMD are just about the same too.