We have two papers (one that just came out in PNAS and one that's about to come out in Physical Review Letters -- papers #74 and #75 on our papers list) that we're particularly excited about. They represent some key...

One of our concerns at Folding@home is the reliability of returned results - when you run on hundreds of thousands of machines around the world, in diverse environments, it's virtually guaranteed that some machines will be faulty. We've long advocated...

Although it was expected within two weeks, some information about the forthcoming GTS 450 has already begun to leak. A site published a test video (since removed) of a model of the card from Asus. From the review, we can see that this card is very similar in terms of the size to the GTX460, but it only requires a single PCIe power connector. Power consumpti […]

Launched in 1998 with the K6-2, AMD intended the 3DNow instruction set to compete with Intel's SSE, which powered the Pentium 3. 3DNow! accelerates the calculation of floating point numbers using the FPU, as opposed to MMX which only works for integers using the ALU. Like SSE it is an SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) instruction set allowing th […]

The 8 cores (16 threads) of Nehalem-EX (Xeon 7500 series) are not sufficient, we hear you say? Intel has come to your rescue, unveiling its Eagleton series of processors based on the Westmere architecture, which have 10 cores capable of executing 20 threads simultaneously. These processors are manufactured on a 32nm process and can only be used in motherboa […]

Yu-Shan Lin has released a large set of projects (nearly 70) to advmethods for the classic uniprocessor client. They are project series 10820-10834, 10840-10854, and 10861-10901 served from the server at 171.64.122.84. These projects use the regular Gromacs core (Core 78) and simulate a complete monomer of the amyloid beta (Abeta) at different times, with d […]

After several long months of waiting, primarily due to the difficulty of acquiring an EVGA SR2 motherboard in Europe, our long-delayed test of the Xeon L5640 processors is complete. They are tested alongside two X5560s for comparison. This is the start of a new category of tests for us: the first CPU test we have done, and the first tests utilising the SMP2 […]