Check out this plot (also on our stats page). We see that over time, FAH has added about 40,000 active processors each year since FAH was released (in October 2000).
This graph doesn't talk about FLOPS, which have gone up dramatically faster, due to the advanced clients in FAH (SMP, PS3, and GPU clients). The FLOPS has gone up much faster, and we expect it to grow even more.
Note that these are *active* CPU's, not total "devices" or anything like that. Many projects like to list the total number of machines that have ever run the software (even briefly), whereas the numbers here are very different -- they are the number of machines which have recently returned results (and are thus "active").
We look forward to continuing growth in FAH, as we try to make FAH better and better than before.
The stats page didn't work for me :(
Posted by: WhiteWolf11 | October 12, 2007 at 07:16 AM
How can we get more information about progress / results of FAH? it´s important to understand (and tell friends) about the achievements and benefits of this application / method...
Posted by: Thomas | October 15, 2007 at 12:46 AM
I totally agree with Thomas, in addition to
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/FAQ-diseases.html
there should be several blog-like pages for the different diseases/topics, newest achievments first.
They should explain the scientific results and the progress based on more and better clients/active users in a very easy way.
So people would more easily see that it's well wort to participate because everyone can help to achieve important research results to fight some of the worst diseases, for a better future for ourselves and our children.
Posted by: Rene Leonhardt | October 17, 2007 at 11:54 PM