June 23, 2009
The GPUGRID.net project just awarded its 2 billionth credit! This means that in totat you donated around a sextillion (10^21) floating point operations, which we used to compute approximately 1 millisecond of simulated trajectories in total. Congratulations to all volunteers!

June 19, 2009
We have updated to the latest server software. Also now the minimum required driver version is enforced to be at least 180.

June 15, 2009
We have +2,000 WU in queue to be crunched waiting for you guys! Actually, and that's for real, the publication on the SH2 system may be able to drop off finally after these results. Not only these, but Ignasi is defending his Masters thesis this Friday and would be delighted to show these results (properly credited of course). Many thanks in advance!

June 5, 2009
The VPH project, in which GPUGRID participates, has been in the news. 'The Times' reported today that the use of animal experiments could be replaced by research on "virtual human beings" and tests on banks of living cells within a generation, following a series of talks given at the Cheltenham Science Festival on June 4th 2009. More information here.

May 28, 2009
We are glad to announce the publication of our application, ACEMD, in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. For more information: Journal link and pdf.

May 26, 2009
GPUGRID participates to the VPH-NoE (www.vph-noe.eu), the EU-supported Network of Excellence for the Virtual Physiological Human. The VPH NoE initiative supports European research in biomedical modelling and simulation of the human body. It will improve our ability to predict, diagnose and treat disease, and have a dramatic impact on the future of healthcare. For more information check the VPH official site

May 22, 2009
We've recently sent hundreds of new batches of workunits. There's a long queue of them waiting to be downloaded. Come and get yours!

May 13, 2009
The GPUGRID project is featured in "Science wikinomics", a paper in the latest EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Reports, which discusses the philosophy of distributed scientific computing in the "wiki" scientific workplace. Article link

May 7, 2009
GPUGRID is now accepting donations from users who want to contribute further. We do accept either hardware or monetary donations. Monetary donations have a minimum of 1 Euro and can be done using a Credit/Debit card or via Bank Transfer. Many thanks to all of you considering a donation.

April 28, 2009
Yesterday we had to cancel several WU due to an emergency related to inherited problems from Easter's blackout and our efforts to improve our in-house developed submission system. In addition, the fact that the output of such cancellations wasthe same to that the 'redundant results' lead to some confusion between these two states. The GPUGRID team appologizes for any credit lost in the case of the emergency cancellations but reminds again its users that NO CREDIT NEITHER COMPUTING TIME is lost in the case of common redundancy in results. We refer to this post and this one for information information. Thank you very much for your patience.

April 24, 2009
So we are submitting new WUs corresponding to a brand new experiment. We are starting to investigate the structural and dynamical properties of HIV viral proteins in order to help understand how at a molecular level, the virus becomes infectious. We will soon update the science section for it.

April 14, 2009
We suffered a network failure during these Easter holidays that couldn't be fixed until today. We are getting back to normality now. Thanks for your patience.

April 10, 2009
Da GPUGRID vogliamo esprimere la nostra piu' sincera partecipazione a questo triste giorno di lutto nazionale in Italia per le vittime del terremoto. GDF. (http://www.repubblica.it)

April 3, 2009
We have just submitted a new batch of workunits which improve further the accuracy of the free energy calculations.

March 27, 2009
We just reached a 1 billion (1,000,000,000) total credits! Many thanks to all volunteers.

March 20, 2009
More New WUs are out! We didn't want you to start spring with no new stuff to crunch. Have a nice weekend!

March 18, 2009
We are giving away new workunits for the SH2 system (see Science page for more info). These are similar simulations but with different ligands as the computing protocol we've been applying for the last months seems to do pretty well. We are very excited about it. Thanks to all who make it possible!

March 12, 2009
We have updated the server software. The problems of HTTP errors have been solved as well.

January 30, 2009
New applications for Windows and Linux released. CPU usage is now close to zero, so that you can keep crunching other CPU projects as before while also using the GPUs in your machine.

December 17, 2008
GPU computing finally takes off in BOINC with GPUGRID, SETI@Home and Einstein@Home. Read today's NVIDIA press release 'NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace Of Scientific Research'.

December 11, 2008
Please upgrade to version 6.4.5 to have a correct estimation of elapsed time.

November 27, 2008
We have created a new resource section which contains project brochures and t-shirt graphics and divulgation material.

November 12, 2008
We have uploaded the new website with improved design and usability. Users can also choose between black (geek) and white (zen) styles. Try it out.

October 29, 2008
BOINC release 6.3.19 is now the suggested version for GPU users. Please update following the link from www.gpugrid.net.

October 24, 2008
The multiscalelab is pleased to announce its new video channel on vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/user862246. We have uploaded a sample video of a simulation (more news soon) and a screencast on how to connect a GPU to the project using Vista. We want to remind as well, that we are already present on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/multiscalelab

October 20, 2008
The new application for Linux and Windows are now 25% faster on GTX200 Nvidia cards. We are now officially supporting Windows 32 and 64, XP and Vista.

September 29, 2008
A note featuring PS3GRID/GPUGRID has appeared on the September 12 issue of Science. Thanks to all volunteers for their contribution to the continuos growth of this project. Full text is at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/long/321/5895/1425b

September 12, 2008
We have uploaded a new GPU application version for Linux with practically zero CPU usage.

September 6, 2008
In the past few days PS3GRID-GPUGRID project reached and passed the 1,000,000 RAC per day. A computational milestone for the project ever reached before.

August 26, 2008
We had a network outage during Sunday due to electrical works. All normal now.

August 26, 2008
We have uploaded new applications compatible with CUDA 2.0 and latest Nvidia drivers (177.xx). Please reset project in order to get the right latest files.

August 20, 2008
ALL LINUX users of the GPU application should update to boinc version 6.3.8. Link available from www.gpugrid.net.

August 20, 2008
ALL LINUX users of the GPU application should update to boinc version 6.3.8. Link available from www.gpugrid.net.

August 5, 2008
The impact of accelerator processors for high-throughput molecular modeling and simulation, in press Drug Discovery Today (2008).

July 17, 2008
Finally GPU computing on BOINC! After delivering BOINC on Playstation last year, we are happy to announce that from today we are are able to distribute workunits on Nvidia GPUs. PS3grid.net and the new website GPUGRID.net go along to create a large infrastructure for biomolecular simulations. To run GPU workunits simply follow the instructions on the website. Apart from us, this was made possible by a strong collaboration with BOINC developers and in particular David Anderson at Berkeley and Stefan and Keith from the BOINC community, already moderators at ps3grid. We also want to thank Nvidia for their important support.

July 17, 2008
Come and visit us at our booth at the ESOF08 event taking place in Barcelona this Friday. http://www.esof2008.org.

July 9, 2008
PS3GRID announces a collaboration with Sony Computer Entertainment Spain which donated to the project 20 Playstation3 to build a PS3 cluster and funds to support a Master student project. The PS3 cluster will be presented at the European Science Open Forum, 18 July 2008 in Barcelona, http://www.esof2008.org. Photos of the cluster and the PS3GRID showcase will be made available after the event.

May 21, 2008
PS3GRID updated to the lastest server release.

May 9, 2008
The first set of numerical experiments run on ps3grid.net produced 5,000 trajectories, 4 microseconds of simulated time, over 200 years of CPU time with a daily output of 100 ns and few GBytes, two orders of magnitude closer to single-molecule pulling experiments. Thanks to all volunteers for this effort.

April 10, 2008
PS3GRID forums have been slightly reorganized to improve the usability.

March 31, 2008
Server is up again after PRBB server room maintainance.

March 28, 2008
The master url of the project has changed to the simpler http://www.ps3grid.net. Previous master url will still work, although the boinc client will notify that you should use the new one.

March 27, 2008
Tomorrow Friday, there will be a general shutdown in the PRBB server room which will affect ps3grid.net. The server will remain down for approximatevely 4 hours. Everything should get back to normal after the server is booted again.

March 3, 2008
An article featuring boinc.cat and ps3grid has just appeared in a Spanish newspaper.

Febrary 26, 2008
We have released a new batch of workunits for a second set of molecular experiments.

Febrary 11, 2008
We have released an updated version of the ps3grid live pendrive compatible with firmware version 2.10.

Febrary 7, 2008
We are upgrading the disk space on the ps3grid server. It might be down for short periods today.

Febrary 1, 2008
We are looking for photos of PS3GRID users with their PS3(s) for a Spanish national magazine. If you wish to appear follow this thread in the forum .

January 22, 2008
PS3GRID may be down at times today for a server update.

December 14, 2007
PS3GRID new server is now in place. Everything seemed to have worked smoothly.

December 14, 2007
PS3GRID moved to the new server. The server will remain mostly down for tests until Dec 14 at 1PM, Barcelona.

December 13, 2007
PS3GRID will move to a new server. The move will take place between today and tomorrow. During the DNS propagation the server may appear unreachable from your location.

December 3, 2007
PS3GRID Live usb reported in the Catalan newspaper LaVanguardia.

November 19, 2007
PS3GRID Live usb has been downloaded 115 times in just 5 days.

November 14, 2007
PS3GRID has just relased a new usb pen drive image called PS3GRID live to start BOINC/Linux within minutes on a PlayStation 3.

November 10, 2007
University network returned to normal acitivity.

November 10, 2007
PS3GRID project has been updated to the latest BOINC version.

November 4, 2007
PS3GRID project is up.

October 30, 2007
A new version of the PS3GRID BOINC client is available for download. This version has better support for IBM CELL blades. Playstation 3 users do not need to upgrade.

October 22, 2007
PhD studentiship at PS3GRID.NET: Medium-throughput Modelling of Protein-Ligand Interactions Using Distributed Computing

October 20, 2007
Read about PS3GRID.NET in this new document uploaded on PS3GRID.NET.

October 8, 2007
A 40Gb PS3 version will be available from next month in Europe and elsewhere (not north America) at a discounted price. Read more

September 3, 2007
Next Monday September 10 at 12:00 seminar Volunteer Computing in Biomedicine by D. Anderson, at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. All welcome.

August 28, 2007
The Barcelona Biomedical Research Park and PS3GRID featured on the national Italian television. Click here to watch (in Italian).

August 22, 2007
A chapter on PS3GRID will appear in the book 'Distributed & Grid Computing - Science Made Transparent for Everyone. Principles, Applications and Supporting Communities'.

August 13, 2007
Many thanks to toma01 for the Japanese translation and to Miquel P. for the Catalan and Spanish ones.

August 1, 2007
A new large batch of workunits is available. The first set of new work is already out.

July 23, 2007
PS3GRID website is now also available in Spanish and Japanese. Other translations to follow.

July 18, 2007
Seminar title Volunteer Computing in Biomedicine by D. Anderson, September 10 at 12:00 at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. All welcome.

July 16, 2007
We are online now. The problem occurred is fixed and will be solved completely in the next days.

July 14, 2007
We are experiencing problems with the database due to an other webserver hosted on the server. Unlikely that we can fix it before Monday.

July 12, 2007
A new release of the PlayStation 3 BOINC client with an easier installation and execution script is now downloadable from PS3GRID.

July 9, 2007
In USA Sony cuts PlayStation3 price by 100 dollars. Hopefully the same will happen in Europe.

July 6, 2007
PS3GRID has a new website professionally designed by mantis.cat. Many thanks to them and Dani.

June 24, 2007
The first results computed for the PS3GRID project will be presented at the international symposium of biomedical informatics, 26-27 June Barcelona.

June 19, 2007
Today server will be down at times for software upgrade.

June 16, 2007
PS3GRID volunteers are translating the website in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Japanese.

June 13, 2007
Thanks to Krunchin-Keith for the new PS3GRID favicon and congratulations for the top user ranking.

June 13, 2007
New work is now available.

June 11, 2007
Beta Users have successfully created over 50 molecular trajectories for something equivalent to over 632 days (1.7 years) of CPU-time on a PC.

June 8, 2007
We are looking for translators in French, German, Italian, Japanese and other major languages. Please contact ps3grid@gmail.com if you wish to help.

June 5, 2007
Project skin images are now showing in the client. Thanks to Dani at boinc.cat.

May 29, 2007
Further workunits are available.

May 26, 2007
First workunits for 1875 credits are being distributed.

May 12, 2007
PS3GRID enters BETA testing phase. If you own a PlayStation3 and wish to participate, please write to ps3grid@gmail.com

May 9, 2007
An article on the journal Avui on BOINC and ps3grid

May 4, 2007
Article on the journal Innovation on ps3grid

May 3, 2007
Watch the news program on the ps3grid project on TV3

April 25, 2007
Listen to the interview of G. De Fabritiis on the use of the Cell processor for scientific computing.

April 23, 2007
Beta testing on PS3GRID will be starting in a couple of weeks

March 2, 2007
Performance of the Cell processor for biomolecular simulations

February 13, 2007
PlayStation3 serving scientists -Catalan press-

February 10, 2007
Potential of the PlayStation 3 for scientist projects development -Spanish press-

February 10, 2007
Potential of the PlayStation 3 for scientist projects development (on-line version) -Spanish press-

Febrary 1, 2007
PS3GRID.NET started its website