Processing beyond the PFLOP

Below is the article posted by the Folding@Home Director, Professor Vijay Pande. I thought it was very interesting what this means to the project as a whole. Also, I am excited to hear the results from publications. November 02, 2007 Thoughts on passing a petaflop

Team Update

Our Folding at Home Team continues to make great progress! – Our team has folded for over 4,000,000 points! – We are ranked 260 out of 83,950 teams in the world. A.K.A, we are in the TOP 0.3% of all teams! – We currently have

Ohio Solar Tour – My report for 2007

What a great tour! There was so much information packed into one day! Where do I start? We started at Owens Community College at 9:00am. There was a great turnout. I would guess about 100 people, up from past years I heard. We had three

Ohio Solar Tour

Coming up next weekend is the annual Ohio Solar Tour. This tour highlights the alternative power options for the State of Ohio. Here is a message on the Green Energy Ohio website, www.greenenergyohio.org. “Encompassing sustainable features beyond solar energy, the statewide event features self-guided, guided

Randy Pausch’s last lecture

Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, gave his last lecture this week, and it’s getting a lot of attention. He talked to Diane Sawyer today on “Good Morning America” about the inspirational talk. (ABC News) I caught the last 5 minutes of

Race This Sunday

Well it’s time again! Time for another SCCA Autocross this weekend sponsored locally by NWOR. The event runs from about 11:00am until around 4:00pm, Sunday September 2nd. Sorry ghost riders, I will not be driving this race. The Subie desperately needs new tires and it

Welcome new team member

I am happy to announce a new member to our Folding at Home team, jeffhex. Jeff is a friend and fellow computer geek. He has a blog which can be found at http://hexblog.blogspot.com/ Welcome jeffhex!

299

299 of 77145 In truly amazing fashion our team has gone below the 300 mark for all teams across the entire world! Wow! We are ranked as 0.3% of all teams in the world. Again I have to Thank everyone who is participating in this

School time

After a break from College I have signed up for a couple classes this Fall. A Business 101 class (easy) and Art class on vector graphics (fun). I definitely want to ease back into college life.

Name that Sunset!

Can you guess where this sunset was taken? Get the full details of this photo here This image was taken where no human has set foot! This is a sunset from the planet Mars. The spectacular image was taken by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.

The Coffee Gallery – Grand Openning

The Coffee Gallery – Grand Opening Today, July 13th 2007 A friend, and co-worker, Nick, along with his wife, Kim, have realized a true American dream. They have opened their own business, a gourmet coffee house. They have worked very hard remodeling and updating the

T Plus 365 days

I cannot believe that it has been 1 year since the launch of STS-121! Happy Anniversary. Photo of our special pass to view the launch, on-site! Photo of Atch by Phideux Photo of Phideux by Atch Close-up view of STS-121 seconds after liftoff. Photo by

2,000,000 Points for_xk9!

Another amazing milestone reached! Team for_xk9 has just folded for over 2,000,000 points! I applaud everyone on our team for their contributions and interest in this worth while project. Thank You! In short, Folding@Home is a piece of software you can run on your computer

LAN Party Photos

Here are some photos from the LAN party. Special Thanks to Phideux for the great shots. Photos totally slipped my mind! Duh!           Again, Thanks to everyone who showed up.

Welcome Home Crew members of Expedition 14

Today two members of the Expedition 14, returned to earth. Congratulations on a successful mission and safe return. Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (Captain, USN) Mikhail Tyurin Russian Cosmonaut Also, congratulations to Sunita (Suni) Williams for completing the Boston Marathon while on the International Space Station. “Williams

Live On Air

It’s LAN Party time! All done! Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoyed my first experiment with a live broadcast. Thanks to everyone who helped me learn that it wasn’t working at first, and for letting me know I got it fixed. Though we were short

LAN Party Time

It’s LAN Party time! Stay tuned to www.atch.net for the first ever live broadcast of the LAN Party! The broadcast is set to begin around 8:00pm EDT. LAN Party – Basement Camera LAN Party – Living Room Camera

Welcome New Folders!

I’m pleased to welcome two new members to our team! nburtscher is a close family friend who I’ve known almost his whole life. Welcome Nate! In addition to folding for a cure, Nate is also a firefighter and paramedic. He does his good deeds everyday!