FiB 27: Folding@Home at 1.3 Petaflops

Steve Gibson joins me in interviewing a true visionary of biotechnology: Dr. Vijay Pande. Dr. Pande is the creator and Director of Folding@Home, the world's largest distributed computing project (Stanford University) that seeks to address some of the most difficult problems in biology. It is indeed a pretty amazing story: Sony PS3s are the largest component of the world's fastest computer, running approximately 3x faster than IBM's Blue Gene/L. And, the largest computations are being performed to simulate biology at the atomic level... Join Leo's folding team!!! Leo's Team Links: Folding@Home Science Stats Host: Marc Pelletier Co-Host: Steve Gibson Guest: Vijay S. Pande This episode of Futures in Biotech was sponsored by Invitrogen. Save 15% on selected High Fidelity PCR enzymes with the purchase of a Zero Blunt TOPO cloning kit, and other selected TOPO kits. See TOPO ZeroBackground high fidelity. Quote RTPCWU for US or RTPCWC for Canada when ordering. Thanks to CacheFly for providing the bandwidth for this netcast. Also, thanks to Philippe Pelletier and Will Hall for the great opening and closing themes.