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F@H gets a donated flash storage array

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Traxan

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Some of you may remember how Folding@Home was so overwhelmed with results after participation blew up that their servers couldn't send out new workloads because all they could do was write to disk. Well, enterprise flash storage array vendor has come to F@H's aid with a donated flash array. They discuss it here:

blog.purestorage.com

Supercomputing Powerhouse Folding@home Runs on FlashBlade

Pure VP Matt Burr sat down with Dr. Greg Bowman to learn more about how Folding@home is harnessing computing power to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases.
blog.purestorage.com blog.purestorage.com
 
Thanks for this link; interesting interview, although it doesn't go into technical details. But this donation may be a quite effective one for the project overall.
 
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