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Last updated on September 18, 2006

 

2006

FEATURED ARTICLES

HOME computers aid disease fight
BBC News - London,England,UK
They are signed up to Folding@Home, a global network of computer users. ... Folding@Home was set up four years ago by scientists at Stanford University in the US. ...

PlayStation's serious side: Fighting disease

CNN International - USA
... Sony worked with Stanford University's Folding@home project to harness the PS3's technology to help study how proteins are formed in the human body and how ...

PS3 Client for Folding@Home Debuts, ATI GPU Version Soon

Slashdot
"Stanford's Folding@Home project is reporting that Sony debuted a Folding@Home client for the PlayStation 3 today in Germany.


Folding@Home ready for PS3, with GPU version making progress
HEXUS.net, UK 
Distributed computing operation Folding@Home, a hugely popular molecular simulation project, yesterday announced a client version for the Cell processor found ...

Folding@Home On ATi GPUs

Hard OCP - Plano,TX,USA
Stanford’s Folding@Home project has just announced support for ATi GPUs by the end of September. This means that those of you ...

Folding@Home with your PS3 and ATI cards
Geek.com - USA
For some background, the Folding@Home project is a non-profit project run by Stanford University that seeks to understand the nature of protein folding by ...
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PlayStation 3 to join Folding@Home for Cure@PS3
engadget - Santa Monica,CA,USA
... that PlayStation 3s will be able to participate in Cure@PS3, making gamers' consoles massively parallelized computing nodes for the Folding@Home project. ...

Folding@home embraces Playstation 3
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
THE DISTRIBUTED computing network designed to study protein folding and protein folding disease, Folding@home, has announced plans to launch a service on the ...
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PlayStation 3 to Help Cure Cancer
IGN, CA 
August 24, 2006 - Back when Ken Kutagari said we'd want to work extra hours to afford a PlayStation 3, a lot of people took some offence to the idea that they ...

PS3 Helps Protein Study
Game Daily, CA 
Yes, you read that correctly. Come see what can be done with the Cell's down cycles. by David Radd. Today, Folding@Home announced ...

Help cure cancer with your PS3
Joystiq, CA 
File this under "strange but true." In conjunction with Stanford University's Folding@home project, PlayStation 3 owners who leave their consoles connected to ..

Filed under: None
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
There was a recent posting to the Folding@home web site announcing the availability of a client for the Sony Playstation 3. This caught my eye as a potential ...

Folding on your PS3 & ATi GPU
Overclockers Club - Birmingham,AL,USA
Slashdot - "Stanford's Folding@Home project is reporting that Sony debuted a Folding@Home client for the PlayStation 3 today in Germany. ...

PlayStation 3 to Help Cure Cancer
Moneycontrol Tech Blog - Mumbai,MH,India
And that’s exactly why Sony will participate in the Folding@home project making your PS3 a “massively parallelized computing node” for the Folding@Home ...

Folding@Home for ATI R5xx Series in the near future
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA
NVIDIA GPUs are currently unsupported at the time as the Folding@Home project has been concentrating its efforts on ATI GPUs as the ATI GPUs perform ...
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PS3 Distributed Computing Project Announced
Gamasutra - San Francisco,CA,USA
... from Leland Stanford Junior University have announced the that it has reached an agreement with Sony to enable the Folding@Home distributed computing project ...

PC users come to aid of scientists

Baltimore Sun - United States
... translates into publications.". Few know that better than Vijay Pande, professor of chemistry at Stanford University. Six years ago ...

Computers collaborate on research
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... One that doesn't is Foldinghome, run out of Stanford University. (The Web site is Folding.Stanford.edu.) The project, says Vijay Pande, a professor in ...

Tech shot for
Hindustan Times - India
... Prof Vijay Pande's group at Stanford University is approaching this problem by making thousands of house-hold computers work together using an approach ...

IBM's full-court supercomputer press
CNET News.com - United States
... discovery. "People simulate spacecraft and bridges," said Stanford University professor Vijay Pande. "Why not simulate ourselves?". ...

Technical Adviser
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... Most, but not all, distributed-computing projects use Boinc software. One that doesn't is Folding@home, run out of Stanford University. ...

Microsoft gets it.
Extreme Tech - USA
... Michael Muchmore takes a look at volunteer computing projects, such as SETI@home and Folding@home, and asks the question: Do they do any good? ...

Nano World: Nanotubes as drug-delivery vehicles
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... The researchers employed the resources of the distributed computing project known as Folding@Home, which relies on the computing power donated by some 200,000 ...

MozillaZine Folding@Home Team Completes 10 Million Points
MozillaZine - USA
Folding@Home is a project based on the distributed computing model, and aims to find a cure for diseases related to protein folding. ...

Win a Treo on Engadget Mobile or a Tokyo Flash watch by Folding ...
engadget - Santa Monica,CA,USA
... Just head over there and enter, why don't you? Also, if you're down with using your computer for a good cause, check out our Folding@home team. ...

 

2005

How Gamers Can Help Cure Cancer
Wired News - USA
... So began Folding@Home, an internet brain child from Stanford University. Folding@Home's mission was to create a system that would ...

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: Grassroots Supercomputing
Science Magazine (subscription) - USA
... Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A year after SETI@home's debut, Pande's research group released a program called Folding@home. After developing ...

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: Grid Sport: Competitive Crunching
Science Magazine (subscription) - USA
... once. Without the competition, "it wouldn't be as much fun," says Tim, a member of Team Anandtech who crunches for Folding@home. ...

Rants & Raves
Wired News - USA
... Nice article on folding, but you forgot to mention that people can help in the folding process by downloading the Folding@home client ("Folded Proteins Get ...

Xbox 360 To Cure Cancer?
XboxAddict.com, Canada - Jun 20, 2005
... So began Folding@Home, an internet brain child from Stanford University. Folding@Home’s mission was to create a system that would ...

Distributed Computing on Next Gen Consoles
Slashdot - Jun 19, 2005
The article goes on to discuss SETI@home, distributed.net, and Folding@Home." From the article: "The next generation of console gaming is going to see a huge ...

Now Gamers Can Help the Fight Against Cancer
GameSHOUT - Jun 16, 2005
... Stanford University began a project called Folding@home, the mission of which is to create a system that would study how proteins "fold." Why proteins? ...

Working the spin machine
p2pnet.net, Canada - Jun 30, 2005
... mind, either. Seti @ Home and Standford's Folding @ Home are just two projects which could be integrated into a p2p application. We ...

Improve Your Image
American Scientist - USA
... to detect gravitational waves (Einstein@home) and running models of global climate-change prediction (climateprediction.net) and protein folding (Folding@home ...

Easy, Fast, Cheap Way to Generate CPU Load?
Slashdot - USA
... The noise! There are ports for pretty much everything. Run seti@home, folding@home, and distributed.net all at once. ... Or protein folding@home, or SETI... ...

At-home computing puts idle PCs to scientific use
Detroit Free Press - USA
... Home computers simulate how the microscopic particles will travel through a 17-mile-long circular tunnel. . Folding@home: This program studies the myriad ...

REPORT FROM SILICON VALLEY/ Google shows it's more than just ...
Daily Yomiuri - Tokyo,Japan
... For example, one of the first selected programs is known as Folding@home, which is a nonprofit research project coordinated through Stanford University, just a ...

a New SETI@home-Inspired Venture
The Planetary Society - Pasadena,CA,USA
... The most famous of these was folding@home, a Stanford University-based project investigating patterns of protein folding, which published its first scientific ...

 

2004

Website of the Week Archive
Voice of America - USA
... Folding@Home (August 21, 2004) -- Biomedical researchers at Stanford University harness the power of 160,000 computers around the world in a process called ...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... So are many biotech applications, such as the Folding@Home project. The effort links thousands of volunteers' PCs over the Internet to study gene proteins. ...

InFold updated for Folding@Home
MacWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
AppleScript Studio developer Zach Weigand on Friday updated InFold, an application that displays information about your current Folding@home unit, to version ...

Technovators awards for 15 Indians
Sify - Delhi,India
... Sangeeta Hatia (University of California San Diego), Ravi Kamath (Harvard Medical School student/ MGH resident), Vijay Pande (Stanford University) and Vamsi ...
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IBM Sponsors Humanitarian Grid Computing Project
Slashdot - USA
... For those of you who don't know Stanford's project, called Folding@Home [berkeley.edu], uses computer cycles to observe and find out more about how proteins ...

Protein energy profiles offer clues about amyloids
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA
... said Vijay Pande, assistant professor chemistry and of structural biology at Stanford University and founder of the Folding@Home distributed computing project. ...

Your PC Can Contribute With Google Compute
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
Google has teamed with Folding@home for their first project. This research organization is non-profit and based at Stanford University. ...

RESEARCHERS establish national center for biological simulations
Stanford Report - USA
... Khatib, Adrian Lew, Ron Fedkiw, Pat Hanrahan and Jean-Claude Latombe and biomedical computation core researchers Michael Levitt, Vijay Pande, Charles Taylor ...

HOME computers aid disease fight
BBC News - London,England,UK
They are signed up to Folding@Home, a global network of computer users. ... Folding@Home was set up four years ago by scientists at Stanford University in the US. ...

Biologists think bigger
EMBO Reports has a nice article about distributed computing and its impact on biology.

2003

9/12/2003 New York Times
The New York Times published an article about Folding@Home, BOINC, and the possibilities of distributed computing. See the link here.


8/4/2003 HHMI article
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (which funds Folding@Home via funding for Chris Snow and Bojan Zagrovic) wrote an article about FAH http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/pdf/june2003/Behind.pdf

Der Spiegel article
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,220093,00.html

 

2002

Folding@Home's major results published in Nature (October 2002)

This major result will be published in the journal Nature. The Nature editors have deemed our work sufficiently important to be placed for Advance Online Publication (AOP) on www.nature.com on 20 October at 1900 London time / 1400 US Eastern time. At that time, you can access the paper from http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature01160

There seems to be some problem with the link below. You can go to Nature's AOP here. You can check out a quick summary at Google here. Some others are summarized below:

Stanford gives distributed computing an A
Globetechnology.com, Canada - 29 minutes ago
... over the job of calculating the rate of folding in the molecule to some 200000
PCs connected through a distributed computing project known as Folding@home ...

Computer screensavers solve protein puzzle
Independent Online, South Africa - 1 hour ago
... Pande's project, dubbed Folding@home, assembled 200 000 volunteers, who each downloaded a programme which swung into action after their computer had been idle ...

Stanford gives distributed computing an A
BusinessWeek - 2 hours ago
... over the job of calculating the rate of folding in the molecule to some 200000 PCs connected through a distributed computing project known as Folding@home ...

Distributed computing gets top marks
ZDNet, UK - 2 hours ago
... over the job of calculating the rate of folding in the molecule to some 200000 PCs connected through a distributed computing project known as Folding@home ...

Stanford gives "A" to distributed computing
ZDNet - 3 hours ago
... over the job of calculating the rate of folding in the molecule to some 200000 PCs connected through a distributed computing project known as Folding@home ...

Stanford gives distributed computing an A

CNET News.com - 4 hours ago
... over the job of calculating the rate of folding in the molecule to some 200000 PCs connected through a distributed computing project known as Folding@home ...

Folding@home Scientists Report First Distributed Computing ...
Science Daily 
... Two years ago, Pande launched Folding@home - a distributed computing project that so far has enlisted the aid of more than 200000 PC owners, whose ...

Folding@Home Reports Success
Slashdot 
msheppard writes "This Article describes how the folding@home distributed computing project is reporting that they used the data processed on client machines ...

Spare computer capacity pays dividends
BBC, UK 
... extraterrestrial life. The success has been achieved by the Folding@home project, run by scientists at Stanford University in the US. It ...

Scientists claim distributed computing success
Ananova, UK 
... scientists were able to simulate part of the complex folding process of a typical protein molecule using 30000 personal computers linked to the Folding@Home ...

First distributed computing success
SABC News, South Africa
... Two years ago, Pande launched Folding@home -- a distributed computing project that so far has enlisted the aid of more than 200 000 PC owners, whose ...

Stories of modern science . . . from UPI
United Press International 
... analyze the images, the researchers divided the work among more than 30000 volunteer computers distributed around the world using a program called folding@home ...

Science Report
San Francisco Chronicle, CA 
... Folding@home, the brainchild of Stanford biophysics Professor Vijay Pende, similarly parcels out the protein folding computations among 43000 active PC- owning ...

Donated computer power unfolds complex shape of proteins
CBC News, Canada 
... Jakob disease. The Folding@home project imitates the computing search for extraterrestrial life, called SETI@home. Using people's ...

Computer simulation yields disease insight
United Press International 
... His group developed a program called folding@home, which divides up the vast amounts of calculations for studying protein folding and distributes it to ...

Together PCs forecast fold
Nature.com, UK 
... origami goes wrong. The Folding@home project uses the collective power of many idle PCs to rival a supercomputer's might. The same ...

Computer simulation yields disease insight
Washington Times, DC
... His group developed a program called folding@home, which divides up the vast amounts of calculations for studying protein folding and distributes it to ...

Virtual proteins unravel real puzzles
MSNBC
Scientists hope simulation will point the way to fight diseases

Folding@Home's partnership with Google (March 2002)

 

Folding@Home 2.0, Partnership with Intel, and results from Folding@Home 1.x

 

2001

Stanford Magazine Interview

 

2000

Launch of Folding@Home 1.x



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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