News from stanford .. gromacs and servers:

[NASsoccer]

taken from the news section...

8/16/2002 New servers online

We've added some new servers (.108, .109, .119). They should help the network load. We've also moved our servers to be directly off of Stanford's main backbone. That should help as well. This is good timing, since F@H continues to grow, and has broken the 40,000 active CPU point recently.

you can't beat that news. more servers = better for the project :) and it is sweet to know about the 40v000 actives :D

8/17/2002 Issues with the Gromacs WUs

There have been some issues with the Gromacs WUs. Most notably for users with AMD K6's as well as users who restart the cores frequently. Guha has figured out fixes for each of the problems and new Gro cores should roll out Monday or Tueday

good to know, so be on the look out for the new core and hopefully Guha has worked out most of the bugs !

FOLD ON
NAS

[NASsoccer]

i can't remember if this was posted before or not but check this out:

http://folding.stanford.edu/awards.html

MIT names Prof Vijay Pande among todays top 100 innovators. To learn more, see the MIT site (http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/tr100_0602.asp).

here is the link to the pdf this was taken from -=here=- (http://www.technologyreview.com/pdfs/tr100_lo_0602.pdf)

If scientists understood how the body’s proteins folded, they could better battle diseases like Alzheimer’s. But analyzing a protein’s trillions of possible folding steps is daunting, even for a supercomputer. In 1999
Vijay Pande, a professor of chemistry and structural biology at Stanford University, wrote algorithms that enable thousands of isolated computers to calculate tiny portions of a folding sequence and combine their solutions. The pragmatic Pande then sought advice from distributed-computing entrepreneur Adam Beberg (a former TR100 honoree) on how to integrate his code into a screen saver that PC users could download. Dubbed “Folding@home,” the software makes calculations any time the PC’s screen saver is running and reports the results to Pande’s computer. Since the project’s October 2000 debut, some 75,000 volunteers worldwide have helped simulate, for the first time, the complete folding behavior of five important proteins. Born in Trinidad to Indian parents, Pande is now using distributed computing to map the final folded structures of the proteins.On any given day, 35,000 PCs are providing the computing power.

[Matthew1001]

He certainly deserves it. I would have read the .pdf but it is too larger for me and my 56k modem to put up with.

[portorock]

Yeah he does. Hey Vijay, if you can hear me, have a :beer: on me:D