Vijay Pande: "...the best is yet to come!"

[Leonardo]

A message Vijay Pande: We've got some really exciting new projects and new results that will be announced in the Fall -- the best is yet to come! :)


For those of you who don't know, Dr. Pande, Stanford University directs the "Pande Group" the scientists and programmers who run the Folding@Home project. He is also the founder of Folding. His message I posted here was a PM reply he sent to me that I thought I'd share with my Team 93 teammates. I had PMed him at the Folding@Home Support Forum (http://forum.folding-community.org/index.php).

So if you think Folding has become a little less exciting than before....just wait!

[profdlp]

Sounds enticing. :)

[WuGgaRoO]

hmmm.... i dont like the sound of this... :)

[Leonardo]

Folding@Home has turned into one of the most promising research programs dealing with degenerative diseases ever. The number of CPUs processing the molecule models is producing data that scientists just ten years ago could only have dreamed of. This program has amazing potential. Every person who contributes to this program, even though all you may be doing is installing one little program is a significant contributor is doing all of mankind a good deed. If there ever was an easy, real, legitimate feel-good project, this is it.

[Donut]

I'm waiting,:bigggrin:

Though I must admit, the news is causing me to speculate a little. Timeless Gromacs? They were supposed to be released, but I haven't seen them yet. The return of the QMD (QMD 2)? I also thought I read about the possibility of some WUs that were absolutly HUGE compared to anything that has been done so far (a month or better to complete on a fast machine.)

[edcentric]

Maybe a new core that will use two CPU cores, or maybe 4.