Futures in Biotech

Show from Thu Dec 27 21:12:23 CST 2007

Futures in Biotech 27: Folding@Home at 1.3 Petaflops

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Guest: Dr. Vijay S. Pande, Director of Folding@Home and Associate Professor of Chemistry and of Structural Biology, Stanford University

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...

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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.

Running time: 56:01