Folding@home

3 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Vijay Pande · said 14 times in 7 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Pandey: Folding@home commands 40 petaflops across 400,000 computers
“So we have about 40 petaflops, and As a mixture of 400,000 computers and a whole bunch of GPUs.”
Vijay Pande Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 36:26 a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Pandey: Folding@home was among the earliest applications running on GPUs
“And we went through this again, when GPUs came out, we actually were some of the first applications on GPUs Even before programming languages existed on GPUs.”
Vijay Pande Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:51 a16z Podcast | The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cordova: Folding@home algorithm became the primary method for protein folding
“And the interesting thing about that, at least my recollection of it, is that No one thought that algorithm would work. It didn't look anything like the previous algorithms except that it was also doing some kind of chemistry that was interesting. And then the…”
Jeff Cordova Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:24 a16z Podcast | The Cloud Atlas to Real Quantum Computing
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