Glimmer of hope

[Ploaf]

For all of you who are tired of the servers going down then there is some news from Standford regarding the 2.0 client.
I won't type it out but here are a few links to the Yahoo Folding group where the info can be found.

Caching-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/folding-at-home/message/5473

A note about the problem with the servers crashing-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/folding-at-home/message/5437

note- I hope that if the problem is with the older client that they just have everyone upgrade as quickly as possible or make the clients work off of separate servers.

Link to a comment about a link to a story about a new technique for folding proteins -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/folding-at-home/message/5419

Concerns about speed, functions of the 2.0 client and Vijay's quick answer-
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/folding-at-home/message/5407

[William]

looks good.

[Stanman]

Great find. :)
I thought this part diserved posting other than linking with some of the proxy problems going around. :rolleyes:

> > We've made a huge number of changes to 2.0 and the
> > old betas will
> > soon be incompatible (that ok since they also have
> > expired). We'll
> > release a new 2.0 beta today (hopefully). This new
> > release revamps
> > the networking (should go through all firewalls
> > now), redoes the
> > scientific part (2x faster), has better
> > security/data-integreity
> > checking, and some other goodies.

[WillysNut]

Thanks for taking the time to look this stuff up Ploaf. That is the kind of positive energy that scares certain other members. Looks as though better WU's lay on the horizion :).

[Ploaf]

Hope so. The one that really made me want to post that was the mention of caching ability which should help increase the number of folders and help to keep things rolling even when there are server problems or when a machine can't be connected to the net 24/7. The 2.0 client is finally becoming a reality. Now let's hope that it works. :p

[Allan Nielsen]

It really sounds like the new client will ease our lives! Thank you for digging all this info up! :)

[robjustice]

Greatwork.... I checked I did not see 2.0 yet, but as soon as its out I will download it.

[Ploaf]

Yeah. It's not out just yet. It's being tested and the kinks are being worked out. I think it was crashing for a few folks. Not sure. Just glad that the testing has finally begun.

[AmbientFiction]

This looks very good now lets hope that it comes out very soon